National Republican., 1878-09-02
PERSONAL.

PEHSON1I.
THE Cyprus ladies wear pants.
Rev. A. JACKSON is stopping at the Ebbft
House.
J. II. SIMPSON, of New York, is at the Riggs
House.
LIEUTENANT IT. LEAvY, U. s. A., is at the
st. James.
E. v. AGRAMoNTE, NJ. D., of Cuba, Is at the
Ebbitt House.
GOVERNOR HARTRASFT has gone Off to the
White Mountains.
W. o. sAvILLE, ESQ.,, of Baltimore, Is a guest
at the Riggs House.
b. c. YAScEy, of Georgia, Is stopping at the
National for n few days.
Hon. T. II. HERSDoS, of Mobile, Ala, is
quartered at the Imperial.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx has read his Bible
through twenty.one times.
Hon. Mr.. JoRGEssES, Of Petersburg, Va, Is
registered at the Riggs House.
Ex-UNrrED STATES TREASURER SPINNER is
engaged in raising watermelons.
THE Cockneys accuse Mr.. Z. A. Sothern of
having an appalling Yankee twang.
JAMES BEAsLEy, EsQ, of Liverpool, Eng
land, Is guest at the Riggs House.
Miss SARA JEwErT is at the Masconomo
House, Manchester, by tho sea, Mass.
Robert CLARKE and W. II. Adams, of Bal
timore, are registered at the Imperial.
SECRETARY THOMPSON will not return from
Indiana to Washington until Octoberl.
MEssRs. EDWARD STANLEY and Abe Hess, Of
Emersons Minstrels, are at the National.
J.J. JOHNSON has returned from his trip to
Saratoga, and is stopping at the Ebbitt House.
Miss DYAs has published card denying the
statement that she intends retiring from the
| stage.
Mr.. ROBERT MILLER and daughter, of Glas.
gov, Scotland, have apartments at the ST.
James
PROFESSOR EDWARD HoLroN, of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis is quartered at the st.
James.
COLONEL JAMES d. MATHEWS, of Oglethorpc
County, Ca, prominent citizen OF the State,
! is dead.
SENATOR GROVER, Of Oregon, will spend the
next three months at the house Of his father,
in Maine.
ToAQuIN CABALEIRo and Ramon Fernandez
Criadoy. Gomez, Of Cuba, are registered at the
Ebbitt House.
WILLIAM +. EARLE, ESQ.,, prominent
lawyer of South Carolina, Is registered at the
Ebbitt House.
J. Ii. BREMMERMAN, ESQ, prominent at
torney OF Burlington, Iowa, 10 sojOurning at
the Ebbitt House.
SENATOR VOORHEES, will be the orator at
the fair of the Virginia State Agricultural
Society this autumn.
Miss JEANETTE BENEFITS marriage to Mr..
Isaac Bell, of New York, will take place at
Newport on September 10.
GENERAL S. p. HErSTzLEMAN is visiting
Lancaster aud renewing old acquantances. He
Is native Of that county.
ONE hundred ladies and gentlemen of
indianapolis have taken a solemn pledge to
have their bodies cremated.
LIEUTENANT L. w. BRIDGE, U. S. N, and
II. l.. Maridine, Uniied States Coast Survey,
are sojourning at the Ebbitt House.
The estate Of tho late John Morrissey ID
now estimated at about $4,000. His gambling
palace at Saratoga is still kept up.
CLARA NORRIS engagement in st. Louis has
been cancelled on account of the yellow fever
She will shortly act In Philadelphia.
THE President has accepted au invitation tc
visit the Frederick County, Va, fair at Win
chester, In October, the duy to he fixed here
after
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES will now sec
"how it is herself. " English claimants tc
seven .cghts of her New Orleans property have
already appeared.
Mr. JOHN b. GouGu will begin his temper
ance campaign In England about Christina,
time. lie will hold his first meeting in Mr.
Spurgeons tabernacle.
DIR. ALEXANDER HARDcisTLE, of Caro!in,
County, Nd, who has 1900 peach-trees, will
realize, at q moderate calculation, $4,000 frou
his peach crop this season.
PRESIDENT HAYES owns a section Of land
near Bismarck, Dakota, aud the people about
there are anxious to have him visit them and
learn the value of his possessions.
Mrs. HICRs.LoRD occasionally rides In Cen.
tral Park, but her husband, the aged Thoma.
Lord, is now bed.ridden, aud 1t takes thre,
servants to put him in carriage.
GENERAL SHERIDAN and family have jus
left Mackinaw, having enjoyed its pure air io
, some weeks, with some OF their relatives ant
friends, among others Mr.. and Mrs. Fret
Grant.
THE case of Bishop McCoskery, now undel
consideration In the House of Bishops of tn,
Protestant Episcopal church, appears TO deman(
, more the attention Of physical than mental Of
moral experts
EX-MAYoR PRINCE. of Boston, was recent,
mistaken for q temperance lecturer. 1t 4
: noted by the Hub papers as remarkable oc
currencc for one of Its mayors to be suspected
of being temperate man.
DIR. LEOPOLD DAMRoscH, of Brooklyn, l
mentioned as the probable successor of Theo
, dore Thomas as conductor of the New Yorl
: Philharmonic Society, though DR.. Hans Vol
Bulow is the choice of many.
Ir is reported In theatrical circles that Mis-
Rose Massey has telegraphed to the surrogat
; of New York, protesting against the will o
the late Harry Montague, as she intends cou
testing it by proving that she was his Lawful
wife.
| Mr.. BEEcHER's frst lecture In San Fran
r cisco was attended by II large and brilliant au
= dienCe. Nearly every seat in the house ha,
been reserved, although the price charged wa
Sl.5O for single lecture, or So for the course
l four lectures.
D POLITIC1L NOTES.
t The badge of the South Carolina Democrac.
is a red shirt.