National Republican., 1878-01-12
Personal.
WORTH has 1900 assistants.


HARTFORD has pretty girls club
A SPANKING team-a pair Of young mothers.
DAILY has lost money even with jefferson as
q star.
THE Lent season comes later than usu II this
year
CARDINAL MANNING still suffers greatly
from bronchitis.
MRS. Hicks Is the author Of "That Husband
OF Mine"-of course.
JOHN b. GoUGH, IL Is stated, will soon begin
lecture tour In England.
In San Francisco the Roman Catholic Church
is stronger than all the Others.
SENATOR GORDON Is booked to deliver a
speech on civil service reform.
SECRETARY THOMPSON Is not expected TO
return before early next week.
HARVARD has received a beguest Of $40, 900
from Mrs. J. W. Sever. Of Boston.
SAVANNAH gave Miss Pomoroy tho most
fashionable ovation OF the season.
CHARLES THROW, of Milwaukee, suicided on
Saturday by hanging. Cause, illness.
A DUBUQUE woman met slander by hang
ing her marriage certificate on street-corner
lamp.
Mr.. PULLMAN, of palace-car fame, is build.
ing the cars for the Gilbert elevated railroad
in New York.
Mr.. TooLE has just been playing in a droll
little piece, in which he first appeared five
|and-twenty years ago.
II. r. FARNuM, formerly of the State Jour.
| nal, and later Of the Chicago Times, Is deliver
ing temper an % lectures.
SENSIBLE WOMEN have adopted the short
round skirt for walking. Trained dresses arc
only worn In the house.
Bishop wIGHTMAN, though three-score ant
ten, has presided over five annual conferences
in Texas In the last three months.
Extra Billy SMITH, Of Virginia, is In
the city on sh ort visit and receiving thu
hearty congratulations of his old friends.
Hon. JOSEPH II. RAISEY, member Of Con
grcss from South Carolina, has returned to ths
scene of his labors from brief viit home.
Mrs. +. S. CHANFRAU will appear in Char
| lotto, n. C., on the night Of the 18th, and Dan
| Bryant's minstrel troupe OH the night Of the
| 18th.
Mr. wITTES, q member ofthe Virginia Hous,
! Of Delegates, from Tazewell County, is th'
father of sixteen children, including five pair
| of twins.
IT is said that Winslow the Boston forger
recently visited three of his friends in tina
city, and that his hiding place Is not five hun
| dred miles away
| A CHICAGO Benedict wants TO know "wha
| will become Of mothers.n-law If Beecher'
potions about endless punishment are cor
rectT The heathcn
| A BIOGRAPHY of Lord Beaconsfeld Is nov
publishing 1T st. Petersburg. Tho first vol
umo contains $50 pages, but only carries tn
Premiers life down to 1916.
A NEW red-ribbon song-book is in press II
| Keokuk. The songs are compiled and mostl,
written by Miss Kate Harrington, author o
Centennial and Other Poems"
| Jt-naE RADrtpy nf WaahinUtnn n q
whose first wife was a sister of General Sher
man, is about to marry Miss Miller, younI
and attractive lady Globe Democrat.
JOHN II. VAN WoRMER formerly of tn
| Western Union telegraph office, in Utica an'
at Albany, has received the appointment 0
| private secretary to Senator Conkling.
A DALLAS (TExAs) lawyer fell desperatel,
in love with u star actress who recently Wis
tied that State, and tried to bribe a hote
waiter to let him take her meals up to he
| room.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, poet, has been respect
| fully remembered in his native city of Glas
Cow. A statue Of him In the quaint COSTUME
Of the Prince Regents time has just been I'M
veiled there.
COLONEL AND Mrs. GEORGE b. CORKHILL,
who have been spending the last five months
| in Europe, will be happy to see their friend
at Wizards Hotel where they will reside dur
ing the winter months.
PRESIDENT ELIOT says that the numbc
of students at Harvard College who spen
more than 81 500 a year is very small, and
considerable proportion of this small numbo
make absolutely no wrong or indiscrcet use O
their money.
Mr.. LARKIS J. MEADE has made a desigl
for Morton monument. II is to be of mar
BILE, crowned by colossal statue of Liberty
with profile Of Morton on the shaft of tn
monument and panel near the base repre-
senting the Governor sending troops to tn
war.
FRESH flowers are still regularly place
Up0r the graves of the Lees, at Lexington
Va and the students guard is still kept b,
side the Generals tomb General Lees otiic
is preserved just as he left It, The mausoleur
which Is to contain Valentines recumbeu
figure is soon to be begun.
"Thcrc was a sound of revelry" at Cor
gresham Swann's residence, in Baltimore, o
New Years Day. The family was all |
Washington, but negro damsel, who lived
an obscure quarter of the city, somehow oil
tanned an entrance and entertained he
friends of color in sumptuous style.
! THE doctors arc very much displeased over
| cOmDpttOr who is gradually stealing their be