National Republican., 1878-05-03

where he will be happy - administss 70 ths
comfort Of his friends from Washington.
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLoao and her
mother, Mr.. John r. Raymond and Hrs. Ray.
mond, and Mr.. J. c. Williamson have enraGed
passage for Europe on tho 18th Of next June.
MRs. BrLvA A. LocKwooD, the lady lawyer
Of Washington, is fifty years Of age, has prac.
ticed four years, ands realized 10000, and
makes Ave times M much az q Treasury clcrk
Francis d. MouLToN, Of Brooklyn, made
somewhat famous by the Beecher-Tilton scan
dial, made an argument before the Ways and
Means Committee yesterday In favor Of the
abolition Of the duty on salt.
AMONG the callers at the White House yes
terday were the Secretary Of War Senators
Ingalls,, Mitchell, and Allison; Representa-
tivcs Dwight, Townsend, Ward, Landers, Dun.
nell, Cain, Ittner, aud Phillips.
Mr.. J. HoPLEY, editor of the Buoyrus
(Ohio) Journal, Is In the city, after sixtcoa
years absence, and Is loud in his encomiuins
of its beautiful appearance and the wonderful
change which has been made during that time.
ONE of the Philadelphia reporters says:
Mrs. Hayes was elegantly but plainly attired
in black silk, relieved by bright flower," and
in rich and elaborately made white silk"
Too much claret-punch.-Bo'ion Post.
SENATOR DoN CAMERON has six children.
The eldest lisa handsome girl of twenty zone,
whose stepmother will be nineteen. Miss
Cameron owns farm In her own right, and
manages the business successfully herself She
is very fond Of Miss sherman, and fsvors the
| marriage.
COLONEL THOMAS J. WILSON, late oftbe ed
itorial staff Of the San has assumed the man
aging editorship Of tho Moraiag Herald. Mr..
W. b. Hazleton, managing editor Of the Ga
seite, resigned his position some days ago TO
| join the stat of the Sun, aud he has been sue.
cceded By Mr.. John Cockerili, Of the Washing.
ton Post.
| CREswELL, which was 2. NJ. O., is president
Of the Citizens National Bank OF Washington.
His uncle LETT him 81 ,ODD, 900, u fortune which
has been doubled by lucky investments and rs
he received = good lee rs attorney OF the Gov
crnment before the Court Of Alabama Claims,
and has been well paid rs one OF the Freed
mems bank commissioners, bc cannot be
called poor man.
GENERAL JOHN PoPE, who commanded the
Union forces ut the second battle of Bull Run,
wbers II is charged that General Fitz John
Porter WAS guilty of misconduct, says In pri-
vate letter, that he thinks that the inquiry
| recently ordered il Only Just to General POr-
ter, aud that he should be allowed to have the
action OF the court-martial examined in the
light Of the new evidence which he expects to
present.
GENERAL WILLIAM r. SHERMAN went "a
Annapolis wednesday, accompanied by his
daughter, and was received at the Naval Acad-
cmy with military salute of seventeen
guns. At half.past four p. m. he reviewed
and Inspected the battalion of cadets Lieu.
tenant John Z. Solcy commanding, in infan.
try aud skirmish drill, aud last night attended
the officers hop in uniform. General Sher.
man aud daughter were the guests of Admir-,
Rodgers and they returned to Washington
yesterday
THE wife Of Senator Dorsey Is the very, alb
solutey, positively handsOmest woman in
Washington. gushing correspondent de-
scribrs her a. radiant brunette, with large
: clear, brown eyes, and Eiannevs-such man
ncrs She Is abriiliant conversation list
takes an active interest IN politics, was born ai
Obcrlin. o., has husband who owns n 1000
acre shcel,-unchc in New Mexico, aud spent
last summer there with him, riding thirty
miles n day on horseback, aud at night
cooking for six men.
r Miss SAWYER, daughter of ex-senator Saw
Z yer, and authoress OF the novel, Aud Lanl
Syne," about to be issued by Hurd, Houghton
Osgood 4 Co., is at the Arlington. The fricnd
and admirers Of the young lady regret he
short stay in town, but sho isen route from til,
South to Baston, where she will PERSONAL
. suprintend the bringing out of her book som'
time this month. Aud Lang Sync" Is pro
nUunCcd unusually clever by the critics VIII,
= have seen the advance sheets. This will b
the authors edition, and already hosts o
WashlngtOnians are subscribers IUr seyera
copies each assuring the young lady of fnan
cial as well as literary success
: LoUIs J. JENNINGS, formerly editor of tn,
. New York 1im,s, and now of the .Iondor
Week, has begun suit in the United State
u Circuit Court for the southern district of New
York to recover from the New York Ererin
C Express Association, Erastus Brooks, Augustu
Schvll aud John Kelly, $50 600 for mnliciousl
causing to be published in the Ersaing Eyprcs,
IL Oh the 9th of March last, an article deiniuin,
d his character. The portion of the article whicl
= Jennings alleges 10 DO libellous is rs follows:
i wa notorious that Mr.. George Jones cuckue
editor .satd George ZONES being one Of the editor
If and propriet0rs OF the New York Times as afore
said and by the tern, cockney editor meaning tn
r plAlutih was IN the habit of beating his Young an
II delicate wife, after her money was exhausted b
" him and after lie had pawned her jewcry. II wa
: notorious that the snid ooekney editor meaning III
plaintif gave checks oil banks where lie had
a, things
II Two school girls from Ohio met again 1
Philadelphia last week after the interval O
year., in which each had arrived at especia
e distinction. One was Mrs. Hayes, who wa
II received at the Wonan's Medical College b
Al the other, who witS her former sChoolfellOw
now Professor OF Chemistry and Dean Of tn
&c Faculty, Miss Rachel Bodlcy. From this
may easily be understood that there was
n special interest in the welcome which the We
;, mans College extended to the wife of til
u President, and which was fully expressed /
d Miss Bodlcy's graceful introduction of Mn
IN Hayes to the faculty and pupils. Mrs. Haye
as Lucy Webb, was a graduate Of the Wcsleya
College, the first chartered college for the edr
IS cation OF women IN the United States, 20 thl
ID her schooliellow might well say, In presentin
n the students aud alumne Of the WOman's Co
!. lege: Your visit affords us each, persouall!
ic great pleasure but still greater pleasure We've
as an expression of the interest you feel In til
vs higher education Of women. The problem ,
the professional education Of women is beiu
VI wrought out successfully in our commodiol
ii college building which you have just il
spected, and in the adjoining hospital, and "
-. rejoice that you aud the distinguished ladi,
y OF your party are witnesses of the same t,
n day."-Phitddelphid Ledger.
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