National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-05
PERSONAL.

AIMEE has a six months engagement IN Rio
Janciro.
JOSH BILLINGS lCctured at Peoria Thursday
evening.
SERGEANT GATES Is carrying bricks in
Chicago
JOSEPH HrLDEBRANDE, the German philoso-
phcr, is dead.
TIE Earl of Rosehcrry has bought the Lon
don Examiner.
CAELoTrA PATTI is recovering from pain
full surgical operation.
MADAME JAHAUsCuEE says New Orleans is
not good place for high art.
Mr.. MARTIN MILNoRE, the clever Boston
sculptor, Is about 10 visit Rome.
YouSG ladies like naval officers because they
belong TO the uarry-time service.
SENAToR-ELEcT GRooME, of Maryland,
weighs two hundred and fifty pounds.
The night clerk of the Grand. Pacific Hotel,
Chicago, Mr.. John Hickey, left $4,000.
GEORGE FRANCIS Tram calls Newark, N.
j., "the peanut centre of the universe
Mr.. MOODY is engaged to commence revival
services at New Haven, Conn, March 10.
THE Governor of California receives the
highest salary among GoyernOs-S9,000.
The American biographical Society has
elected Earl Duierin an honorary member.
STEPHEN SPELMAN, All thor of the Geo.
graphical Distribution of Mammals" is dead
A WEALTHY citizen of Elkhorn, Wis, aged
sixty-fivc, has just married girl Of twenty
years.
ME- THEODORE ROOSEVELT of New York
| who has been quite ILL., is on the road to ~.
cOvery.
| GENERAL JOsEPH>E. JOHNSTON Is talked OF
| for Congressman from the Third District OF
| Virginia.
NJ JAssEN a Paris astronomer has Oh.
tanned pictures of the sun fifteen inches in
diameter.
"DArr to do right" and "Be good to your
self" are the mOttOs of DR.. Reynolds, the rcd
| ribbonite.
LYDIA THOMPSON hasn't left the stage af
ter all. She has Ienudc her youth and started
out again.
LOUIS AUGusTE MoREAUx, a historical
painter of the French school, died last month
ut Rio Janeiro.
GENERAL YouSG, of Georgia, has been ap
pointed to represent the Cotton States at tn,
Paris Exposition.
THE death is announced in London Of the
famous accoucheur DR.. James Blundell, at tn,
age of cighty.scvcn.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH has accepted
the British Colonial Sccretaryship, in place oil
CarnarvOn, resigned
Won lIILLERS enjoys attentions from he
own sex well enough, but ''she hates awiully
to have women kiss her."
A VERDICT is expected in the hntoneli case
at Rome, uuiayorabo to the alleged daughte
of the Countess lambertini.
BRowN CoBLE, negro preacher, has beci
sentenced to be hanged in franklin County
Tenn, March II, for murder.
PROFESSOR PECK, who is connected with
| sol in Y V
for severely whipping pupil.
5 CAPTAIN JAMES b. EADs has been Rppointe,
D by the President one Of the honorary commits
sioners to the Paris Exposition.
HESRY b. RICE, brother Of Florence Rice
) mime. Rccil, has gone mad, and will be sen
TO the Kalamazoo Insane Asylum.
ALBANI is now the favOrite songstress q
Paris. At recent performance of Lucia" a
e the ltaliuns she received eight recalls.
/ REV. EDWARD FITZGERALD, Catholic bshO
of Little Rock, has commenced the erection q
a magnificent cathedral in that city.
COLONEL ROBERT NJ. DOUGLAS. Unite
States Marshal of the Western District
: North Carolina, is at the Ebbitt House.
= IT is a little singular that Murphy is tn
. name Of the California Senator who has iu,
, introduced u general water bill at Sacramento
Y HIGHLANDER, the Dickens of Germany,
= has received from single publisher durin
a the past twenty'six years the sum Of $4,000
A. BosToN bachelor is said to own u Dire
= coat which he has loaned on twenty three o,
: casions to As many bridegrOoms to get marie
c in.
i COLONEL THOMAS b. KEoGH, chairman
/. the Republican State Committee of Mort
@ Carolina,,is spending few days in Washing
ton.
DU CHAILLU saw chief in Africa who la
three hundred wives, and yet all the clothir
: that they wore didn't cost him three cents
o year
0 Mrs. OLIPHANTs new novel, within Il
h Precincts" finds its scene in the ncighborhoC
/, of Windsor Castle, near which the author +
sides
MADAME THEIRS has recovered from Il
Z measles aud, with kindness which may n
!. be appreciated, gave them to her sister, NIL
II Dosne.
PRIVATE CoRBETT, the Fort HamiltC
soldier, having failed in his love suit, has
: gun big lawsuit against the young lady
father.
Is WHEN Lord Abingdon expects a royal viz
,s he puts his female servants in dresses and ri
bons to match the rooms 10 which they a
y attached.
/ INa hearing before committee Of Il
S, Maine Legislature, Neal Dow dsnounc'