National Republican., 1878-09-09
PERSONAL.

/ fbHN"N u
MRs. TILToN's approaching book will be
half calf.
CIrrNtN EADs sails for Europe day after
| Tomorrow.
COLONEL G. L. GILLrsPTE, L. s. A., is at the
Ebhit. House.
MEs. ScoTr-SrDDoNs proposes giving read.
/ ings this season.
p. NJ. PErtT, of Pincy Point, Nd, Is stopping
at the Riggs House.
Hon G. NJ. SHELLEY, of Alabama, Is stop.
pin ut the Imperial.
Hon. J. $. WHITAKER, Of New Orleans, is a
guest at the Ebbitt House.
REV. W. USviCK, VI. A., of London, is regis.
tered at the Ebbitt House.
The infant child of Kate Southern, the
Georgia murderess, is dead.
SENATOR J. ". CoSovER, of Florida, Is Sc
journing at the Ebbitt House.
CHIS.CnIS is the name of Dennis Kearney
In Chihcse.-CiHcilndH Break fast Table
THE Hon. +. Downs, of Arkansas, q stalwart
Republican, is stopping at the st. James.
DAUGHTER Of brigham Young has become
an actress, under the name Of Cccile Grey.
WILLIAM =. WATSON, of Chicago, and F. r.
Fannessy, New York, arc at the Riggs House.
THE Confederate monument Just erected at
Danvillc, Va, was made by New York sculp-
tor.
IT Is said Mrs Crow, of Moundsvillc, Va,
hung herself without cause.-Neo Orleans Plea
yms.
WENDELL PHILLIPS will give few lectures
near home this season, but he Is too inilrm TO
travel.
MRs. MORTIMER COLLINS has finished
novel left incomplete by her husband entitled,
'iou Play Nc False"
SENATOR CAMERON, OF Pennsylvania, has
just returned to his home In Harrisburg, after
u visit to Ohio with his wife.
ASA GRAY, LID, of Cambridge, Mass, has
been elected q corresponding member Of the
French Academy of Sciences.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United
states Supreme Court is visiting Princeton
College, where he has II son studying.
NIRGISIA woman has just given birth to
her twentieth child. She belongs to the old re-
liable Xxx -Phiddelphid Herald.
Bishop SIMrsOS preached In the Opera
House at Virginia City, New, last week to an
audience that completely filled the build
| ing.
GOVERNOR VANCE Is to deliver his lecture
on The Scattered Nations" at Greensboro, on
the 18th, for the benefit Of the yellow fever
sufferers.
SPEAKER RANDALL has decided that he can.
ter VA fair. He hopes, however, to be a si-
lent spectator.
COLONEL ROBERT G.. INGERsoLL will deliver
the addresses at the Malone (N. " fair the
latter part of this month. He will also lecture
in that place Oh Some Mistakes of Noses"
JULIA WARD HOWE said at the woman's
rights meeting In Paris that the motto of the
women of France should be LiJeric. Eyaiiie,
Md'crRhc,' aud the suggestion was warmly
received.
THE managers of the Putnam County Fair
have engaged TIE Hon. Schuyler ColfIx TO de-
liver all address at lIenncpin. September 4 ,
and also to give them his lecture on Lincoln"
, in the evening.
MEMORIAL to Thomas Clarkson, the advo-
cate of the abolition of slavery, has been placed
in PlayIOrd Church, Ipswich, England. II con-
sists of marble medallion portrait, with au
appropriate inscription.
CHRISTINA ROssErTI, the English poet Is
an invalid aud reclusc. She has u pleasant
face, with prominent eyes and a fine head, and
| is said to be very industrious aud to have a
most amiablc disposition.
JOHN LATTA, Lieutenant. Governor Of Penn
sylvania, while attempting to alight from a
moving train, last week, broke his arm Just
above the elbow, and Is now supposed to he
suffering also from conclusion Of the brain.
MEMPHIS has reason to thank God for that
brotherhood of man" which speaks in tho
streams. of charity convCrging here from every
quarter of the land. Her debt to her sister
cities h. more than she cun repay. It Is the
debt which a manliowcs the hand: which
saves him from drowning. g.-Memphis 1rdLauche
Mdl.
MAJOR JOHS VI. CARSON chief of the New
York Times Washington bureau, has returned
to his post of duty. Mr.. Carson was the in
tcrviewcr to whose competent pen the public
Is indebted for the reproduction Of Senator
, WINDOWS exposition Of the blundcrs of Demo.
cratic Congressional legislation. The inter.
view Is one OF the most important campaign
documents of the period.