National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-07
PERSONAL.

Hon. JAMES II. HOPKINS Of Pittsburg, Pa,
is in the city.
FLORENCE MARRyATT's new novel is called
"A Little Stcpson"
Ex-srEAKER MAcKEY, of tho South Caro-.
lima House of Delegates, As in town.
Mr.. CowARDrS, of the Richmond Dispatch,
Is making brief visitto the Capital
CouRBET, the communist and artist, used to
drink thirty-fve glasses OF beer day.
Mrs. SENATOR WINDOW will not receive un.
til the second Thursday In this month.
Hon. B. +. WADE is slowly improving, and |
the prospect now is that how'll recover.
Miss HASuoS, sister Of the Canadian oars
man, can beat her brother in mile race.
EDWIN BooTH and Lawrence Barrett appear
In Boston simultaneously, on February 20.
You've Mr.. Joshua Montgomery Sears, of
Boston, pays taxes this year on 81, 1920.
catch me talking alta banquet hereafter
not much says Mark Twain. an eat!'
L. II. KNIGHT, tho deserted husband of
Akron, o., has not yet captured his fugitive
wife.
Miss ANNIE CoGGEsHALL dramatic writer
and reader, has arrived in the city for the
winter.
Mr.. c. D. HISS, manager of the Hess Opera
Company, is registered ut tho Grand Hotel,
Cincinnati Ohio.
"PHILLIP MARIA PETER WATSON was the
| full name Of the negro wife murderer executed
at Coyington, Ky.
Mr.. GREGoIRE DE WILLrAMov first secrc-
tary Of the Russian Legation, is at the Everett
House, New York.
Mr.. McyfcKER has peremptorily refused to
lease his theatre in Chicago for Sunday even.
ing entertainments.
FRIEND BEEcHEn," said Quaker to him.
''if there is no such place, how will thy good
intentions be utilined?"
THE author Of "Back-Log Studies" is me-
toned in the Spectator, of London, rs Sir
Charles Dudley Warner"
NISEry-sEyES young women in Wellesley
College are studying Greek, which, at present,
Is only an elective study.
The Rev. Washington GLADDEN. Is conducting
Sunday afternoon, a monthly magazine pub
lished in Springfield, Mass.
THE Rev. J. II. Harter. of Auburn, adver-
tises that he will perform marriage services
with ncatness and dispatch.
SUSAN DIcKIE, heiress Of an estate in New
York worth Sl,O08,0B0, is an inmate of tho
Bloomingdalc Insane Asylum.
JUDGE l.. c. NoRTHRuP, Of South Carilina,
acting United States attorney of the State is
in the city on official business.
MEssRs. JEwErT * Roof, who have been in
business together in Buffalo for IOrty-two
years, have dissolved partnership.
1HE proposed Denent performance john
Brougham at Wallack's Theatre has been post
= poned to a date not yet announced.
A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD girl in Pottsville, Pa,
mixed quantity of vinegar and soda and
drank 1t, and died from the effects.
Ex-GOvERSoR FENTOS has been for some
5 days at Orange, n. j., with his son in law,
:. Mr. Hcgeman, who is dangerously ILL.,
DIR. Lolita, IL venerable Frankfort, Ohio
physician, has married the daughter Of the
woman lie courted in his youthful days.
. Mr.. ADoLPHE Braun, the inventor OF
5 "Brann's Autotypes.' aud member of tn,
, French Legion of Honor, died at Paris few
:, weeks ago.
Mr.. b. J. LANG, the Organist of Boston, wa,
= thrown from sleigh in that city Monday
e and received a fracture Of the upper bone O
g the LETT arm.
=, On the Goth Of December Ristori celebrated
- her birthday in her palace at Rome. Til,
a children of Trastcyere gave her flowers in re-
G turn for candies.
A YOUNG MAN In Saline County. No. at
n tempted to kiss a pretty widow, when in thu
g scufiie she thrust finger into one of his eyes
d destroying the sight
re Rev. GEORGE MULLER, of Bristol, England
Il during his late visit to Salem, said that he Ia,
:, seen no scenery like that in tho Roanoke Val
" Icy since he left Switzerland
U WHEN Stanley was in Omaha, just ton year
- ago, no was a prOtilHy Ot gas, genius, ana con
ia gcnaity, and few landlords had the check T.
- present a bOard-bill to him.
JACOB NJ. JACOBS aged one hundred year
u and two months, died ut Oswego, n. Y. Mon
y day evening. He was in the United State
n naval service Of the war Of 1872.
4. The Lnsell Mass Seminary for YounI
:, Women instructs its pupils In drcsscuttini
;" and fitting. A school teacher in Boston get
le $500 year, good cutter 81 200.
To, A g
II has accepted an invitation to address the lit
=, crary societies of the University of Virginia OIL
u the evening of the 26th of June next
IL THE interest Of Mr.. J. A. Spaulding In tn
~ Worcester Daily Press has been purchased b
IN Messrs. l.. c. Corbin and L. NJ Rcwey, and tn
publication becomes two-cent paper.
3" CARDINAL MANNISG's refusal to permit tn
We Italians in London to celebrate a mass for til
Id late King of Italy has created some indigni
tv ton among the Roman Catholics Of England
Miss GENEvIEvE ROGERS and Miss Vio
Aiken offered ten dollars each to a squaw
OF Omaha to christcn her pappoose Gen1yieS
he Viola, but il was not that sort of a pappOOs
of GEORGE WAsHINGTON, Of Kentucky. pa,
"a fully struck mule with basket, aud II
y" mule playftiily struck back. The. children u
10 now negotiating with skeleton manuia
nj tureT.
PAUL LEONARD and his son, of the san
name, pensioners Of the war of 1872, and o.
is hu dred and seven and eighty five years oil
w. respectively, arc living together at St. Schola
m. tique, Ont.
nd A RECENT wedding at Williamsport Pa, h
, gloom cast over 1t by the discovery thu
NV through some unaccOuntable mistake,
The bridesmaid had been married instead of h
M, intended bride.
ifa DIR. o. W. HOLMES is busily engaged in p,
the pairing monograph on John Lothrop Motto
They were classmates at Harvard, and this
the only biography of the historian which
the likely to appear.
no. Mrs. CLEMENCE S. LozIER, a well.kno,
.t. New York physician, connected with soyeI
Wv, w, organizations, recently made an assignme
us for the benefit of her creditors and has nj
csi. been put into bankruptcy.
Bill EPH MORRIS aud Courtney are now squar,
ere booked for u race over the Hutton course nj
orr summer for II 900 a side An Associated Pr
~ dispatch received yesterday says Courtney |
W. agreed to Ephs stipuations.
Miss HANNAH DE RoTHscHILD, the
ING trOthed of Earl ROsebery, is very fair of h
.do, and complexion, and wears bright SIN
"o' Her charities magnificent and embri
'ry' nearly all sects and nationalities.
''e"' THE Emperor of Germany is the great
nay existing patron of the turf; the Empires,
L. shnl la, H.