National Republican., 1878-07-13
Personal.

VI. C. MCDONALD is visiting Philadelphia,
Pa.
Hos. JONI HuauEs, of Michigan, Is at the
Ebbitt.
LYMAN ARMS, U. s. N, is quartercd at tho
Imperial.
CHARLES WHITTIER, of Boston, is stopping
at the Ebbitt.
JAMES GORDON BENEFITS polo ponies have
arrived from Europe.
+. J. WksrLAKE, Of Addison, N. Y, is stop
ping at the Imperial
G.. Q. KLHcxNER, Of Cambridge, Nd, is a
guest at the Imperial.
GENERAL II. q. WRIGHT, U. s. A., registered
at the Ebbitt yesterday.
J. L. MCFARLAND and r. II Hunt, of New
York. arc at the Imperial.
BRYANT never read Swinburne. because he
thought his works indecent.
A. b. STouGHros aud wife are among the
recent arrivals ut York Beach.
Hon. DoS CAMERON aud wife arc at tho
Stockton House, Cape May, N J.
Rev. FRANCIS BEDFORD and Miss F. II. Rcd
fortl, OF Silloth Rectory, arc guests at the Eb-
bitt.
W. b. SHAW, JR, +. Shaw, and A. P. Shaw,
Of this city, have registered at Congress Hall,
Cape May, ~.
HENRY J. BYRON, author Of "Our BOYS" has
already received $4,000 royalty upon its
heightened performance in London.
SWALLOWING a piece Of ice restored the
speech Of Miss May Fower, Of Edinburg, Ind,
lost after sickness several months ago.
CAPTAIN SANDER, of the American navy,
died suddenly Of fheart-disease while boating Oh
the River Avon, near Warwick. England.
OS the day before Queen Mercedes died
,.,..a
the palace by letter or telegram or in person.
REv. $. V. LEECu, of tho Jackson Square NJ.
Z. Church, Baltimore, intends making a visit
to Europe on three months leave Of absence.
IT has been said that Americans cat twice rs
much salt rs the English. That is because
they are too fresh when youns.-NcT Orleans
Ficay1ne.
Mis- CHARLES CARTWRIGHT. Of Lucas town.
ship, Johnson County, according to the Iowa
| City Republican, Is u third cousin of George
Washington.
PROFESSOR HENRY EDWARDS, of California,
has collection Of 100000 bugs which cost
sl2,OOh, not estimating the labor Of twenty
five years.
cratic leader of the New Hampshire House,
has failed. His liabilities arc probably over
100000 assets nothing.
| FANNY DAVENPORT has arrived In London
to study the part Of Oiiria, an adaptation OF
Goldsmith's "Yicar of Wakefield" which she
intcuds producing in this country next season.
| PERHAPS IL is impossible successfully to do.
fend General Howard from the charge of say.
ing his prayers, but II Is quite certain that he
is fighter, every inch Of him.-Cincinndii
Times.
GILMORE Is ina dilemma The French gov.
| ernmcnt will not allow his band to play at tho
| Paris Exhibition in unifnrn, anl mana nf thn
sixty y-fve members have provided themselves
with dress coats.
GENERAL y. A. DOUGLAS has recovered his
health. It's his design to go to Chicago next
fall to practice law and take up his residence
among the scenes Of his illusttious fathers
greatest political trumphs
Mr.. T. b. TAYLOR, familiarly known In
Washington as Buckle" editor of the Cum.
bcrland AHcgdnidn, was taken suddenly i'll
while at work in his office last Wednesday
and suffered considerably during the ensuing
night and next day.
JOAQUIN MILLER's new poem, which will be
out IN september, Is called Songs of PARKWAY
Lands" 1t Is one Of Mr.. Miller's peculiarities
as poet that he always lays his scenes in
lands 80 far away that nobody has ever been
there, aud then his Imagination rcvcls.
SEVERAL papers are repeating the Chicago
Journals silly story that Mr.. Justice Harlan
has sold his residence here aud will make Chi
cago his home. II must DO = rare thing for
Supreme Court Judge to express himself a
pleased with Chicago. (Ey.) Com
mtrcjdi.
THE Rev, b. Cronin, president of Trinit,
College has addressed call to Mrs. Pollocl
and daughter, principals Of the Kindergarten
Normal Institute, Of this city, to come and Ice
ture to a class Of two hundred Southern teach
( ers on the subject OF the kindergarten system
of instruction, what are its Objects and IL
benefits to childhood. They left last nigh
with the expectation of returning within
| fortnight.