National Republican., 1878-01-14
PERSONAL.


Az Elmira barber has to use an car trum.
pet
Hos. W. L. SMITH, of Louisiana, is at Will
ards.
GEORGE CLARK and his wife have returned
from abroad.
Mn. LAWRENCE BARRETT appears in Rich
mOnd, Va, this week.
NEW linen handkcrchicfs for gentlemen re-
semble checker-boards.
THE wife Of John r. Raymond is reported
seriously i'll in New York.
TRICKETr, Australia's champion oarsman,
stands six feet three and a-half
Hos. L. 7. WATSON and wife, from Pennsyl.
vania, are registered at Wizards.
Ex.TRE,suRER KAMESA. of Hoboken, is a
detaultcr to the amount of $4,000,
JOSEPH SWEET, the oldest citizen of Provi.
dencc, has just died, aged ninety-dvc.
Dr.. ECCLEsToN, of Newark, n. j., has de-
clincd the Episcopate of West Virginia.
| A SAN FRASCrsco young boy stabbed his
mother because breakfast wasn't ready
SOME one advises Mr.. Lord to lecture. Per-
haps Mrs. Hicks will save him the trouble
Mrs. WADDINGToS, wife of the new
Foreign Minister Of France, is an American.
| TWENTY-FIVE years ago Josh Billings was
an auctioneer in a country town In New Jer-
sey.
| SHERIDAN SHOOK Is going to bring out q
panorama of the Holy Land at Gilmore's gar
den.
CHARLFs DARWIN Is about to receive tho
degree of LII. d. from the University of Cam
bridge.
Mr.. MCCtLLoUGH denies all the rumors re-
lative to the bad condition of his California
theatre.
Hon. d. W. LOCKWOOD of the Buffalo Dis
trict, and lady arrived at tho Riggs House
yesterday.
Ex.MAyoR JoHx scREvES, of Savannah,
Georgia, is registered at the New York Hotel,
New York
OSE THOUSAND polygamous marriages took
place in Utah in lS7s.-Er. This is the loyalty
of the Saints.
MGR. EYRE, who now acts Us Roman Cath
Ole Archbishop of Glasgow, expects to receive
a Cardinals hat.
HENRY WARD BEECHER has donated s. O0C
to Plymouth Church for the benefit of the
church charities.
MANAGER HARRY PALMER has gone to til,
Arkansas Hot Springs, and Manager Henry c
Jarrett to Europe.
Mr.. J. WESLEY SMITH, Of the Albany Argus
with his wife and daughter, have sailed on
voyage to Europe.
BERTHA VoN HrLLERN, the pedestrienne
will soon give an exhibition of her walking
abilities in this city.
MoDJEsKAs success has surpassed all expec
tatiOns, and her engagement at the Fiftl
Avenue has been extended.
GENERAL LYsANDER FLAGG and MI
Stephen A. jerks, of Rhode Island, are spend
4 ing few days at the Capital
v Mrs. ABRAHAM VAN BUREN. whose husban,
q was the eldest son of Martin Van Buren,. die,
in New York OH the 29th ult.
II l. II, I.
Roscberry a dOwery valued in round number
+ at f2OOOOO, or 81 ,OO0, 900 year.
s Ex.SEcRETARY RoBEsoS and Senator Blaine
= have returned from the Hot Springs, Ark,
very much improved in health.
f DR.. PRIME, the editor of the New Yorl
- Observer, is now in Rome with his daughters
. Mrs. Stoddard and Miss Prime.
Mr.. J. II. RATHBoSE, founder of the order
of knights of Pythias, has been lccturing IL
= Baltimore on True Pythianism.'
$ J. STEELE MACKAYE, author of "Won a
s Last" running gat Wallack's, New York, is lik,
r ly to receive some $4,000 from it.
4 GRAST-ed that you know who will be the mex
q President What of itp We are busy Ulysst
y U. $. alone will your We apologize.l
y COLONEL PEAY, of San Antonio Texas, ha
j. shipped two carloads Of ponies to Englant
70 where they will be used ~ polo ponies
n Miss CARRIE GOLDSMITH, Of Richmond,
l. paying her Washington friends visit. Mi
II Carrie is graceful blonde Of the auburn typ
>. JOHN RUSSELL YoUSG, the European co
a respondent of the Hrrdid, is very i'll in Lor
- don, and 1t Is feared he has paralysis Of tn
brain.
GENERAL GEORGE D. MCCLELLAN will b
naugurated Governor of New Jersey on II
at 10Th instant. Tho demonstration will DO yer
u imposing.
MURPHY, the apostle of total abstinence,
u to be with us on the eth instant. Those VIII
do not join previous to that will be calie
ic "Murphyites."
n, THE Detroit Free Press sets up Ann
Iy Domni as the oldest woman In existenC
at when II knows that Ann o. Mundi Is two
~ three centuries her senior.
Hon. CHARLES NJ. SHELLEY, member fro
e. the Selma (Ala.J district, has returned to Il
re- city. lilo was detained at home by the scriol
In illness of his youngest child.
it THE King of Sweden is poet. He h
nc been writing the libretto to q musical work
three parts composed by Mr.. llallstrOm, al
called Souvenirs from Upsala."
, ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS lecturcd at the Aca
!. " emy of Music, Baltimore, on the 18th, for Il
- benefit of the poor. His subject was "Tl
% Necessity and Dignity Of Labor"
MARY HOLIDAY, of Howick, Can, COZ
10 mitted suicide. Liking two importunate sui
ht ors equally, she engaged herself TO both, al
ed was unable to keep her word with either.
e. THE oldest royal princess in Europe is Car