National Republican., 1878-01-03


short, curly black hair, a rich DARK comlcxion
and deep blue eycsI -
Mrs wslLrAM GRrrrrriI, of Altoona, added
three to the population Of that city on Sunday
might've girls and boy.
The people of Troy, N. ", have reached a
point of Characterization where they refuse to
purchase Sunday papers.
Sir ii. q. ELLIOTT, recently British ambas-
sador at Constantinople, has been appointed
ambassador to Vienna.
PRor JAMES MARTIN, Of shelbyville, Ind,
has died leaving collection of 100000 beetles,
the largest In the country.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, the ex.Premier, Is au ex-
pert in trce.chopping. An American firm re-
| Gently sent him an ax to try.
ALBERT GraoTI, journalist and Conserva-
| tive, has been appointed n project of the Paris
police, to the general surprise.
ONE of the pretticst girls in London Is said
to be beggar. In this country pretty girls
don't go bcgging.-Giasoou Times.
| AccoRDISa to his custom Of late years, Sig
nor Verdi has taken up his residence at the
Doria Palace, Genoa, for the winter
TEXAS JACK was known in old times rs
John Omohundro, of Palmyra, Fluvanna
County, Va, from which he migrated.
THE Wilmington IN. c. Star says Archibald
Gordon, of Granville, in that State, Is the
father Of twenty-seven sons, by one wife.
| PIus TX. when young man, applied for ad-
mission to the Papal Guards. His health being
too delicate for service, he became priest.
GEN. GEORGE SHERIDAN, of Louisiana, has
agreed to deliver an address in Favor Of the
Morton monumental testimonial in fifty cities
GovERNoR-ELEcT BISHOP, Of Ohio, says the
report that he intended to resign the trustee
ship Of the Southern road is without founda-
| ton.
MILE DE REszKE has signed new engage
ment. with the director of the Paris Opera
House. Duration, one year; price, $1,000
| francs.
JAMES MURPHY, an inmate for years of the
| Hudson County IN. j. almshouse, was yes
terday notified that dying relative left him
$4,000.
THE London Gdsette announces that Sir II.
| g. Elliot, recently British Ambassador to Con-
stantinople, has been appointed Ambassador to
Vienna.
BILLY CossETT's baby Is the Christmas pres
ent that found its way to the National Hotel
1t is the delight Of the lady guests and admi-
ration Of Billy.
Hon. GEORGE WELLS Is the big farmer Of
Grundy County, In. He has 5000 acres under
cultivation, all enclosed by q fence twenty
miles long.
Mr.. JOHN B. TyTUs and Miss Mamie A.
Dckey have been suspended from fellowship
in the Baptist Church until the court settles
that little affair.
EX-DELEGATE ALBERT CARRINGToN, of
| Utah, one of the Twelve, and one of Brigham
YOungs executors, is u Nermonter, and grad
uate of Dartmouth.
A LITTLE girl, only fourteen years old, took
the prize of scholarship in the Conservatory
of Music, New York, in u list of nearly eight
hundred applicants.
| Nina T,t nyu Etp .traat
west, is receiving visit from her nieces, tho
beautiful and accomplished Misses Snowman
| from Breatherlsvillc. Nd
MANY actresses are afraid to play Dcsdemond
to Salvini's Oihoito. They are spprehensivc of
being smOthered outright, or at least of being
handled with realistic roughness.
SARAH BERNHARDT is killing herself with
! overwOrk. The satin-lncd colin which
| she keeps in her bOudoir is likely before
very long TO become useful as well as orna-
mental.
The Empress of Austria is said to have cured
! herself of consumption and become rosy and
| plump by first going to Madeira to gain strength
and then devOting herself to fox hunting in
England
IT is said that Mr. Archibald Forbes re-
ccived a dOuceur Of 1900 in addition to his
stipulated remuneration, from the proprictors
Of the Daily Ners on his recent return from the
seat of war
GAIT. W. l.. BRIDGES, superintendent of the
Moundsville penitentiary is prominent can
didatc for the position Of superintendent of the
United States prison at Washington CITY,
| Wheeling MteHigcHcer.
Mr.. SoUTHGATE, who was last summer at
the United States Saratoga, and Mr.. Ganvrin,
of the Albcmarle, are TO be the managers of
the new Windsor Hotel, at Montreal, to bo
opened next month.
TIE widow of Henry Timrod, the South
Carolina poet, whose poems, the "Odc to Peace"
Two Portraits" ''fhe Cotton Boil" &C., are
well and favorably known at the North, Is
seeking clcrkship in this city.
THE King OF Saxony has nominated Baron
Tauchnitz, of LEIPZIG, the well-known pub.
lisher,.to one of the very limited number OF life
peerages in the Upper Chamber of the Saxon
Parliament, vacant by recent death.