National Republican., 1878-01-04
LERSONILI

GEN. MApTINEz CANPos. arrived at Havana,
Cuba, Sunday.
SECRETARY THOMPSON has gono to Indiana
on weeks visit.
JOSEPH JAaUEs Is spoken of as candidate
for Mayor Of Knoxville.
COMMISSIONER PHELPS left the city yester-
day for q brief visit North
A LIFE-sIzE bust of Tilton is being cut in
marble for his daughters.
Miss KATE FIELD is now a regular contrib
utOr to the London Times.
YOUNG lady in Madison, Ind, is eating
thirty quals in thirty days.
Mr.. ]. W. TRUMAN, .as Of HAs most promi-
nent citizens Of Macon, is dead.
Mr.. G. S. BINGHAM, of this city, Is stopping
at the Coonnade, Philadelphia.
SALvINI, the actor, likes America. OF
Americans he likes Longfellow best.
Mrs. SwIssHELM is opposed to all bifurcated
garments for either sex. Oh Jane
CHARLES DICKENS thought that Mrs. Stowe
had diseased appetite for notoriety.
JENNIE JUNE speaks of harmony in a mince-
pie. There is discord after II Is eaten.
THE American Newspaper Reporter calls Ann
Eliza one Of the horrors of Mormonism.
ONLY five female Treasury clerks have
thus far succeeded in marrying Congressman.
MARY BUTLER died atWychling, Kent, Eng.
about the middle of December, at the age of
l03
VIRGINIA farmers are to meet at Halifax to
consider the agricultural interests Of that
State.
COLONEL STEINBERGER will demand s., ,OOO,-
900 from Great Britain for its treatment of him
at Samoa.
THE Richings- Bernard Opera Company
have run short of funds in San Francisco and
suspended.
Mr.. JOHN CLAMpITr, formerly of this city,
but now of Chicago, H., Is making a visit to
the Capital.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY conducted a
matchmaking at Providence, R. l., on New
| Years Eve.
Ir is said that Senator John Morrisseys life
would be jeOpardizcd by his soon returning
from the South.
| CAPTAIN W. Il BRAGG refuses to be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernOr of Alabama.
THE French Academy of Moral Sciences has
elected Ralph Waldo Emerson To be one of its
foreign associates.
MANY of the Kentucky bellies, ii is said are
known by the number of mules and barrels of
whisky they own.
A ASABBATH-sCHoOL scholar was asked what
Adam lost when he fell, and replied, " ] sup
pose II was his balance"
GEORGE y. hElD retlfeu yesterday from the
management Of the Binghampton Republican
on account of his health.
CONGRESSMAN WHITTHoRNE is said to be
aspiring to the Democratic Gubernatorial
nomination in Tennessee.
Mrs. HANNAH J. DAVIS, of Allegan, Mich
recently wilcd TO the Baptist Institute OF
Nashville the sum Of $1,000.
Mr.. Henry W. LoNGFELLOw has been
elected corresponding member of the Royal
Spanish Academy Of Madrid
COLONEL JOHN DONOVAN thinks the Mem
phis AraldHchr is surdSo land him in soft
cushioned chair in Congress.
W. W. CALKINs Of Chicago, has presented
to tho Davenport lowa) Academy of sciences
a valuable gift Of hcrbariums.
Hon. 5. W. WADDELL, of North Carolina
has prepared lecture on "Thc two great
Americans Morse and Maury"
The baby-show swindlors, who victimzet
200 Chicago mothers, have attacked New Or
: leans with encouraging success.
5 E. P. BossELLY, an old resident Of Bclleville
= Ont, dropped dead while speaking at tn
municipal nominations Monday.
EMILE LAMBINET, On eminent French land
scapo painter, died yesterday at the age Q
Q seventy years Ho was q native Of Versailles