National Republican., 1878-08-12
PERSONAL.

DANIEL PRATT is out Of jail.
SENATOR DENNIS has goneato Los Angeles,
Cal.
Hon. F. SPRINGER, of Iowa, Is at the Riggs
House.
DAN RICE was Frustrated By the heat in
Nevada.
C. C. WILSON, of Panama, is guest ct the
Imperial
SENATOR Bruce says that he will not move
ont of Mississippi.
Mrs. BOWERS is playing in Colorado, whore
she Is a great favoritc,
U. GRANT, JR.. is visiting Hon. Thomas
c. Acton, at Saybrook.
b. e. wooLF is writing q nsw play for Mr..
and J. W. Mrs. Florence.
LYMAN ARMS aud +. Plunkett, U. s. N, are
registered at the Imperial
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, the British Minis
ter, has returned to the city.
Edison will, IN day or SO, leave San Fran.
cisco for the Yosemite Falls.
SENATOR BLAINE is sitting for his portrait
to Willard, the Boston artist.
NJ. DE GfRARDIS, journalist, was the pro.
poser of the Paris Exposition.
JOIN A. ELMoRE, a prominent Mobile law
yer and politician, died Friday.
W. II. PLEAsASTs, of the United States
Coast Survey, is ut the Imperial.
Mrs. JOHN HoEy, the once popular actress,
is at the Grand Union, Saratoga.
The irrpressiblo Sam Bard has turned his
attention to temperance lecturing
Miss ANNA DICKINSON is going to Philadcl-
phia, there to take up the pen again.
A PENSACOLA belle charged photographer
with putting too much mouth on her.
THE Rev. Joseph Cook Is building house at
| rliH Gaat Grnva 7 .a1fn rhamnlnip
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvESs will leave this
city next Thursday for protracted absence.
CHARLES oCoSoR is nearly eighty, and hal
formally retired from the practice of the law.
b. MAcAULEY, supported by o dramatic
company, will begin his starring tour in Sep
| tember.
JOHN T. FORD, Of Baltimore, has secured
the right to perform the American opera boun,
"Pippins."
ED. c. YOUNG has accepted position fo
next season as business manager OF the Minor
Duclos troupe.
CONGRESSMAN MARTIN !. TOWNSEND ha
gone to Inspect and spend q short season on hi
Iowa plantation.
CAPTAIN MAYSE REID, who used to writ.
so many exciting stories for boys, Is raisini
sheep iu England.
THE death Is announced, In his eighty -sev
cHtn year, Vi L. n. NOpAoI VI VII
University Of Leipsic.
Miss ADA CAvESDIsH Is to be the first sta
at tho Broadway Theatre, New York, openinl
the season September 0.
SECRETARY EvARrs will turn farmer for tn,
remainder Of the summer. Hehas gone TO hi
farm, near Windsor. VT
EX-SECRETARY CHANDLER Is visiting hi
on.in-law, Congressman Eugene Hale, at th
home of the latter in Ellsworth, Ne.
GENERAL HENRY NJ. HoYT, the Republica
candidate for Governor Of Pennsylvania,
staying at Avon Springs, New York.
Mr. JAMES T. FIELD Is entertaining Pro
fessor Longfellow at his summer villa, o.
Thunderbolt Hills, in Now Hampshire.
JEFF DAVIS and General Alfred Cummin
were on Tuesday elected honorary member
of the Confederate Survivors Association.
PROFESSOR YOU'VE and his party of Prinot
ton students have been on q trip down tn
) Denver and Rio Grande road to Alamoea.
, THE Rev. George Dana Boardman, d. D
has again crossed the ocean. His present VI
cation will continue for about three months.
COLONEL CASEY, Superintendent Of Publ
Buildings and Grounds, will leave the city I,
day for the mountains, To be gone for sou
time.
AMONG those witnessing the polo game
Newport were Mrs. K. b. Hayes, Governt
Carroll, aud Mrs. and Miss McTayish, Of Balt
more.
THE hat worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at Ii
battle Of Austerlitz was sold in Paris last weel
Documents proving its genuineness accon
panied 1t.
: JUDGE Taft, of Ohio, who was Attorne.
1 General Of the United States during PresideI
I Grants administration, is visiting Senatt
Conkling.
SENATOR EusTIs, Of Louisiana, who h
!, been staying In Pittsfeld, Mass, has goi
y home for q few weeks. He will return
e September.
:. LADY CARRINGToN has surprised Englis
" fashionables by setting out on her honeymoC
tour. wearing for her travelling dress vel
4 simple print.
Il PRESIDENT R0RISs, of Colby University,
.o Waterville, Me-, was married on Wednesda
y In Boston, to Miss Cordelia L. Mott, Of Ne
Haven, Conn.
7 MRS. GORDON, of New York, the widow
= the inventor Of the celebrated Gordon prin
A ing press, Is among the guests stopping
. Glen Alpine Springs.
!. BISHOP LAFLEcuE, Of Three Rivers, Canad
" has ordered the ladies Of his congregation
abstain hereafter from weari ng the fashionab
II tight dresses in church.
= QUEEN MATILDA, the unquestioned sove
egn of all the American gypsies, is doad- s.
N will be buried in Dayton, Ohio. the latter pa
,e Of this month. with great pomp.
o Miss RAHE, q highly accomplished you
a lady, daughter of Henry Rahe, of Philad,
70 mia, was drowned In the Monongahela Riv,
70 opposite Braddock's Fields, on Thursday nigl
. "GLADsToSE's Overtime" is the name Of
/, penny toy which represents the late Premi
- of England US wood-cutter. The toy is Q
'' joying much popularity, and the maker is
the road TO fortune,
10 THE King of Hollands mistress, Emile Al
e. bre, Is about to return to the operatic sta
- The King is opposed to this step, but she 81
she wants money and he won't give her NJ
u SO she must work.
l. MRS. COCKERILL, of Ohio, widow of the Ii
J. General J. r. Cockerill, aud mother Of John