National Republican., 1878-08-23
PERSONAL.

: DIR. PAUL GuNriiER, OF Belgium, is at the
Riggs House.
JAMES McARTHrR, of Chicago is at the
Ebbitt House.
+. b. LANE, of New York, Is registered at
tho Imperial.
Mr.. AND MRs. J.. T. LEAvITT, of New York,
are at Wormley's.
C\PTATN BrMToLD, Of England Is stopping
at the Ebbitt House.
THE Earl OF Dunraven Is visiting his prop
crty at Estes Park, Col.
T. CoTTER, ESQ, of Oxford, England, is a
guest at the Riggs House.
4. CowPER RANyARD, of England Is So
journing at the Ebbitt House.
JIM ANDERSON pcddles lightning-rods In
Washington PttsbuTg Leader.
Mn. f. W. HUssEY, of Oxford, England, Is
registered at the Riggs House.
REV. JosEpH Cook Is at Heidelberg, cram.
ming ON the German thcologians.
Z. p CHASE and wife and s. II. Weller, of
Chicago, are guests at the Imperial.
A Young man in Orange County Va, has
visited his sweetheart forty times in Ave
weeks.
LATER reports say that Gilmore's band has
been doing finely In Germany, and has an offer
to go to Russia.
BisHoP WILMER. of Alabama, arrived at
New York on Tuesday from Europe, in the
steamship Bothnia.
A. G. GooDALL, president Of the American
Bank-N0te Company, New York, is registered
at the Ebbitt House.
MRs. MARTnA RUSSELL died in Butler
County, Pa at the advanced age of one hun
drcd aud three years.
| FRANCIS MURPHY has been drawing greater
crowds than ever to hear his temperance dis
courses at Round Lake.
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on pressing invitation. He enters upon n
singing campaign there.
albert EDWARD. of England. has accepted
an honorary membership iu the Boston ancient
and honorable artillery.
The Chancellor of Delaware has decided
that dancing Is a violation of the morality of
tho Methodist Episcopal church.
| The new Governor-Gencral Of Canada is ex-
pectcd 10 make quite an extensive tour In the
Cnited States after he has been installed.
Mr. A. s. LYNCH, Chief Of Salary and Allow.
ancc Division, Post-O Office Department, has re-
tnrncd from q two weeks trip to Cape May.
GENERAL ID CEsNOLA, the Cyprus explorer,
Is preparing course OF free lectures on An
cient Art" rs seen In the light of his discov-
cries.
THE Hon. jeremiah $. Black Is making a
long visit to the Pacific coast. After stay OF
several weeks in San Francisco he has gone 10
san Jose.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR UNDERWOOD, OF
Kentucky, is famous in his State as a regular
subscriber to more than eighty different
newspapers.
CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURS, Of England, who
was one Of the Alabama Claims Commission
ers. Is seventy-six, and has been on tho bench
twenty-five years.
Rev. Mr.. VosBURGH, who was tried and &c
quilted on the charge Of poisoning his wife
has been requested 10 resign his pastorate in
Bergen, N. j., by his parishioners.
GENERAL PoPE shows no signs of the raw.
ages Of time. He is the same hale, fne-look
ing gentleman that he was sixteen years ago
when he first began to acquire fame.
The Rev. John Fagan of Williamsburg, died
on Sunday at the Roosevelt Hospital, in New
York, of alcoholism. Father Pagan had beer
suspended by Bishop Loughlin for intemper
ance.
JUDGE SANDFoRD, of the New York Supe
rior Court, was stricken with paralysis at tn,
Overlook House, In the Catskill Mountains, oil
Sunday last. His physicians think he will re
cover.
COLONEL J. p. CoLcoRp, the brilliant ST
Louis lawyer, who killed his mistress aud the'
shot himself on Saturday In u ft Of drunken
jealousy was one of Murphy's converts ant
earnest orators q short time ago.
Miss LILY DEAN, u variety actress Of Sal
Antonia Texas, has inherited Sl00,0OO. Th
, local press say they always knew that girl ha,
, talent and only wanted wider sphere to be
come second Charlotte Cushman.
!. Miss MARY W. STEERS, of Goshen, Va,
] deaf mute, but handsome and an heiress, re
: Gently eloped with John W. Michael, anothe
deaf mute. They fell In love with cac
: other at deaf dumb, aud blind institution.
CHARLES READE has sent manuscrip
play to Clara Morris for her consideration
, lie says IL she doesn't accept 1t she is Il men
:, dacious ignor anus, an unmitigated lOut, and
fractured idiot. Miss Morris is considerabl
. embarrassed d.-Ddnbary Ners.
GEORGE L. MowRY has been appointed in
Y tcrual revenue gauger for ArizOna B. NJ
Charles ii. Showman and c. VI. Wiliong IN
y ternal revenue storekeepcrs aud gaugers fU
Il the sixth district of North Carolina.
e MIR. j. l.. CRosLEY, of the great carpet 1rr
, of Halifax, Yorkshire, has had II microphOn
- placed IN tho pulpit of chapel umd cOnnccte
VI with his residence, II mile from the town, b
s wire lie heard the whole service except
n few words rendered indistinCt by the preachC
. disturbing the microphone.
e EUGESE J. BALL, a Hoosier, went to Wash
l. ington aud secured from the President an al
u pOintmont as consul ut Perth. lie was
a. OverjOycd at his success that he brought up q
= the Police Court before night and was fined :
y and costs Civil.service reform blushed, br
said nothing. JdurHoL
= LORD ROBBERY looks like a hoy, and
very modest in his manners, but in debate Ii
> can give hits quite as hard as some of his MOI
l. stulwart colleagues. lie has u humorous veil
!" which crops out now and then, and when i
4 warns up to his subject he shows cUnsidcrabI
- fire. His speeches are said to be well wort
10 listening to.
d THE report Of the accidental death of Mi
k McdOru Clark, the Wisconsin poet, Is receive
,s with some inCreduiity in Milwaukee. 81
% had gone To Wyoming Territory to visit 81
10 ter, aud, according to the report, was ridil
Il down dcclivity, when her horse stumble
= and fell, throwing her to the ground with sue
n violence that she was fatally injured. She WI
a writer OF Taste and ability, aud some of h,
l. poems were OF more than ordinary eXccllcnc
le c. REED, the successor Of John MOrrisscy
c the Saratoga sporting business, has sent Pres
l., dent Hayes two pups from the kaskar brcI
10 of dogs, the parent pair having been bred
10 the Jardin d'AcclimatiZatOn ut Paris. The
n arc nearly unknown in this country, and II
bs OF dull, woody black color, their hair droO
ing like llama's wool or rope curs over the
Z" round, agile bodies.
"a POLITICIL NOTES.
'e KEARNEY teaches swearing in one easy lC