National Republican., 1878-04-22
PERSONAL.

HoS. FREDERICK WATTS, of Carlisle, Pa, is
at the Ebbitt.
ADJUTANT. GENERAL TOWNSEND is taking
music lessons.
Mt ATKINS, of Tennessee, is recovering
from his recent illness.
EX XREPREsENTATIvEs SHELDON and Sy-
phcr, of Louisiana, were in town yesterday.
Ex-senator CRAGIN, of tho Hot Springs
Commission, will return to Arkansas soon.
Hos. J. =. TAM, a prominent Democrat of
lOwa,is in the city, registered at the Imperial.
Hon. CHARLES q. WILLIAMS, of Wisconsin.
Is detained from his seat in the House by
illness.
COLONEL VAIL, superintendent of the rail-
way mail service, Is expected home from Now
York this morning.
COLONEL FREDERICK VAN VLIET, Third
Cavalry, is here on leave, visiting his brother
General Stewart Van Vliet, at No. SO Fif-
tecnth street. He will leave for Paris In June.
Miss KITTY ORD, the niece of General L. o.
c. Ord, who is to be married. Wednesday morn
ing, at San Antonio, Texas, Is q cousin of Mrs
Sheridan, the wife of Lieutcnant.Gc Gcnaral
sheridan.
NORMAN WIZARD, ESQ.,, whom army and
navy officers irrcverently designate as the
great gun-buster,' has returned from his two
| years visit to China and Japan, aud was at the
Navy Department last Friday
THERE are rumOrs that Mr.. Charles Il. Dow
will succeed Mr.. Lamphore MS assistant ap.
pOintment clerk of the Treasury Department,
| Mr. j.. being promoted to tho position of ap-
pointment clerk, rice T. G. II. Smith, resigned
| to accept q paymastership In the army.
Miss MINNIE FRYE will take the part of
| Thercss in the play of Secret Service" to be
given by the Thalian Club tomorrow evening
The young lady to whom the part was as
signed being unable to appear, Miss Frye Is
Obliged to take it, having only three days for
| preparation.
GENERAL THOMAS L. RossER, now OF Min
nesota, is in the city. lie was the Confederate
| friend land class-mate at West Point whom
the late General Custer 80 gallantly saluted in
| the presence OF their respective commands
that morning in the valley before he drove
him all day and took his artillery.
Hon. ALONzo BELL, Assistant Secretary of
| tho Interior, has returned from Yonkcrs, n. Y,
and resumed his duties at the Department.
| Mr.. Bell had been invited to Yonkers by its
| citizens to deliver his admirable lecture on
! Human Probabilities" Yonkers Is Mr. Bells
old home. 1t was there, nineteen years ago, that
| Mr. b. made his maiden effort as a lecturer, and
| in his late audience there were number who
/ had heard the lecture of nineteen years before
BY the SOnkers press we learn that Mr.. b., at
| his recent visit, had quite an ovation, A dep.
! utatiOn Of its leading citizens, with the mayor
and council at their head, met him at the de-
| pot and escorted him to the Getty House. On
Wednesday, the 18th inst, at Washburn Hail.
these officials, with other distinguished citi-
zens, occupied the platform with Mr.. b., and q
large and intelligent audience appauded the
delivery of the lecture. During his stay his
quarters at the hotel were crowded by old
friends and Others wishing to make his &C.
quaintance and do him honor. In tho even
ing Mr. b. was serenaded by tho TeutOnia
Singing Society an organization Of great merit
and responded in neat address. Truly,
prophet hath some honor in his own country