National Republican., 1878-04-26
PERSONAL.

NEVER confde q secret to your relatives I;
blood will tell.
FRANKLIN sUMuERs, OF Rome, Italy, is at
the Imperial.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, of the Land
Office has gone to New York.
GENERAL THAYER, ,ex. Governor of Wyoming
Territory, will make his permanent residence
there.
JONI n. ALLEY, of Boston, Mass, arrived in
the city yesterday, and located at the Riggs
House.
THAT McCoskory scandal should be taken
cautiously. There may be o lecture advertise
ment In it.
COMMANDER BEARDsLEE, u. s. N, will
command the Lookout tho United States
Fish Commission vessel.
Mr.. W. NJ. MoRToS. Is acting Third Assist
ant fostmaster-Ge General, General Hazen hav-
ing gone East on business Of the Department.
Mrs. DICKENS and her sister, Mrs. Hogartb,
arc reported to have become reconciled. DOM
bey the man who would raise his voice against
it.-St. Louis Post
Hon. CHARLES FOSTER Is expected to return
from Fostoria, Ohio, on Monday next. Mrs.
Foster, who accompanied him, will not return
any moro this session.
q. WICKLIFFE YULEE, of Fernandina, Fla,
aud a sou of ex-United States Senator David
L. Yulee, Of the same State, arrived in the city
yesterday and is sojourning at the Riggs
House.
GENERAL Phil SHERIDAN Is again a father.
cincinnati Commercial. This item appears in
the personal columns Of the newspapers regu-
larly every week. The question Is how often
General Sheridan is u father.
| MRs. GAINES transferred 100000 worth of
her property to her lawyer Fellows, so that he
could go upon her appeal bond. The lawyer
declining to return the property, making out
a bill for services rendered to cover the
lamount, she has sued him.
How would Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines do for
the vacaut place on the Court Of Claims bonch ?
She has had experience in the business OF
claims and Is well versed in the law, and
would be no discrcdt to any other old ladies
there may DO on the bench.-CiHciaIldti En-
qHiror.
IT was said of Napoleon after his death that
not one Of the kings whose crowns he gave
had ever seen or sought his grave. So 1t can
be said of William NJ. Tweed, not one of the
men whose wealth and Offices aud hunors he
gave-not Hall, Hoffman, Tilden nor sey'
mour-attended his funeral.
Thirty odd years ago child was born in q
Welsh poorhouse. A few days ago, the charity
boy, since the hero of many strange adven'
lures and vicisSitudcs, dined with the Prince
Of Wales and received an ovation from the
Royal Geographical Society. Was there any
wilder romance than the life of Stanley?
WHEN Mrs. Grant was presented to the Pope
recently in Rome, she asked him to bless fol
her silver cross which her husband had given
her when they celebrated their silver wedding
ut Long Branch, in August, 1873. She said on
account Of it being her husbands gift on ths
twenty'hfth anniversary of their marriage
she felt 1t TO be particularly sacred, and
desired the Pope to bless it for her, which h,
did.
THE money received by John F. Mines fol
his account of the alleged interviews with
Senator Conkling will prove to be the mos,
prodtless and hardest earned money he evei
had in his life. There is not paper in the
country that does not condemn him, and tn,
Troy Times and other journals which are &C
quainted with him have no hesitation in Civ
ing passages in his life which are by no mean.
pleasant reading. He was formerly clergy
man, and his fall from grace has been both long
and deep. The Albany Express revives scan
dal about him in that city which tho pres.
would have be0n glad to forget. II Is sufi
cient to say that Mr. Mines was obliged, be
cause of 1t, to leave Albany rather suddenly
BWpdiO Express.
THE late Chief Justice Chase's mother once
bore her part in little comedy which wa.
almost Shakesperian. With her husband. sL,
was visiting two of his brothers, who were ais,
married Inc three gentlemen sitting and
talking together, made some playful wagers Oh
the sui ject Of their wives tempcrs, and agree,
to test them So, walking into the room whor,
the three ladies were seated at the iiresid
making caps, which at that time were fashion
able, the trial began. The first brother, altc
some sighting remarks concerning caps in
general, and his wile's handwork in particu
lar, commanded her to "thrOw 1t in the fire ;
Naturally, tho indignant lady paid small at
tention TO the order. The next brothers at
tempt met with the same result; but no soone
did the Chief Justices father command hi
wife to tosI the cap in the fire, than the cal
went into the flames; and in the most prompi
sweet and serene manner. 1t may, perhaps
be unnecessary TO add that, of the three hus
bands, ho was tho most thoroughly well man,
aged.