National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-03-09
PERSONAL.


and be friendly.
CARDINAL MANNING has issued an cdict |
against female singers.
Mr.. II. S. DALE of Chicago, left this city for |
his home this morning.
JAMES BAyARD TAYLOR, Minister TO Ger |
many, arrived in the city yesterday.
Mr. MrLLAIs Is painting picture of Lucy
Ashton and the Master Of Ravenswood.
COLONEL FoRNEY admires the "finc, hearty,
clear elocution" Of the Prince Of Wales.
CAPTAIN BoaARDus has n boy Of thirteen
who shoots better than most professionals.
Miss SouTHwIcK expects to establish her
New England cabin at the Paris Exposition.
GEORGE MURRAY won first place in the Mon
treal Snow-shoe Clubs annual stccple-chase.
Mr.. 4. +. HARMON, of Brooklyn, Is one of
the handsomest gentlemen at Wizards Hotel.
QUEEN VIcroRtA is about to make an addi-
ton to her Balmoral estate, at cost Of SiS5, 600
MARSHAL GRAY, Of Baltimore, was among
the audience at tho trial OF Curtis in the
Criminal Court.
Ex-GovERNoR HOWARD goes to Paris as as
sstant commissioner in place Of George Corliss,
declined.
MARRIAGE is becoming fashionable among
the Catholic priests of Germany, the civil law
protecting them.
MORGAN MARA, a well-known resident Of
| Syracuse, committed suicide by drowning
| himself in the canal.
EX-SENATOR JAMES r. DooLTTTLR Is lectur-
ing In Wisconsin upon Russia, the Coming
Power Of the Old World"
SENIOR Don ENRIQUE MUNrz, editor Of the
Spanish government organ in New York, has
mysteriousy disappeared.
MARY KESEALLY is only seventeen years
old, yet she has been arrested eleven times for
drunkenness in Fall River
! KADER BIdGs, one Of Norfolk's most emf
nent and cnterprising citizens, lawyers, aud
merchants, died last Thursday.
WILL U. LAKE was refused the privilege Of
attempting to walk 800 miles in 800 hours by
the authorities of Memphis, Tenn.
Ex-Governor BULLOCK, of Georgia, Is in
the city. His old friends are congratulating
him on his clean bill OF health from Georgia
court
COLONEL NORTON, founder Of the Military
Academy for boys in the West, which has been
so highly successful, Is in the city, at Will
lard's.
Dir. PEABODY, of Harvard College, recon-
mends the students to read the Bible moro and
Stop novels less, If they would have good Eng
lish style.
IT is said that a lineal descendant Of tho
Dutch statesman, ambassador, and poet, Jacob
Cats, who lived two centuries ago, now dwclls
in Pittsburg.
GEORGE MULLER, the English philanthro-
pst and evangelist, who labored some weeks
in this city so acCeptably last winter, Is preach
ing in Florida.
Mrs. BROOKS is anxious to exhibit a full
length model "Ioanthe" in butter, at the Paris
Exposition. No American exhibit will attract
more attention.
The Oldest Catholic probate since the death
of Pope Plus IN is Monseigneur Feron, Bishop
of Clcrmont. He has been forty-fve years
in the cpiscopncy.
THE cstate'of Thomas Hunt, who was con-
sdcred the richest man in Brooklyn. has
shrunk S2OOO,0OO in fifteen years by the de-
, probation Of real estate.
ISAAC COOPER, the last survivor of the crew
of the Shannon, the British frigate that fought
the Chesapeake, has just died in England at
the age of cighty-six.
Mrs. COLONEL MAY, wife of the celebrated
I Silent Man of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany, has left her Northern home, proposing
TO spend several months in Florida.
Mr. W. 5. GILBERT, many of whose plays
are charming poems, appeared as harlequin
: in u recent performance in London, tho Other
: actors being nearly all titled people.
= Mr.. LABoucHERE wonders what the feel
ings of the Duke Of Argyle were when he saw
: | Lord LOrne's name among those forming tn,
government majority on tho war credit.
/. HANK MONK the hero of the familiar story
# about Horace Greeley aud the California stag
Q coach, lives near Carson, Nevada. lie la
It grown quiet and religious in his old age.
Mr.. MACXEY, the bonanza king. has bOugh
e the KcnsingtOn mansion of tho nOtoriOu
II Baron Grant, the largest priyates dwelling il
Z London, which cost the builder S3,1OOOO0
Mn. c. f. Porter is a young colOred maj
e living in Hartford, who is credited with re
Il markablc natural ability for painting and
q good art education. His studio is full G
sketches.
AT the funeral of the late Larz Anderson
Z of Cincinnati, there was seen u thing bot
y touching and beautiful; eight Of his nine son
1, tcndcry bore their old father to his last rest
- ing-placc.
~ WINNoNA BRIDGES, who was married fc'
II days ago to Will Shire, son of Mrs. MAI
I, liyamS is singing at n variety hall over tn
10 Rhine, Cincinnati, under the name Of Winnon
Mccarthy.
WILLIAM PAvITT. of st. Paul, on being Al
N rested for branding his unruly sons tongu
TO with a hot iron, said things had come to
f pretty pass when parent could not discplin
his own children.
," COUNT creole, son of the deceased Coun
Gabrielle Mastai, brother of Plus TX, and h
1t four children, are the principal heirs OF I'll
p late Popcs enormous fortune. Count ErcOl
= Mastai lives in Milan, Italy.
- JULES VERNE is ono of the most succcssfI
u stOry-writtrS, in the pecuniary sense, livini
II, His works are translated into every European
rs language, and he seems to have been clevc
"a enough to secure paying arrangements
y, PRESIDENT NOAH PORTER, of Yale Collcg,
III has written sketch of the life and ministr
it of his father, the Rev. Noah Porter, d. D., ,
Pennington, Conn, who was pastor of til
= Congregational Church of that town for fort
years.
IT. THE London Truth announces that Mr.
lis Hicks Lord has written over to England thi
w she wishes her servants and her horses
\ await her arrival and therefore supposcs tia
!" before long the British world of fashion wi
o. see her again in London.
to Mr.. l.. W. Cor, one Of the members of I'll
Id Connecticut Senate, allowed himself to |
=, elected with the odd provision that whenev,
:" his business demanded his time he should |
III given leave Of absence. lie has accordingl
il withdrawn from the Senate aud will sail {,
Europe in II few days.
rs Who shall Rule Bulgaria?
his The future sovereign Of Bulgaria is the su
m jcct of much speculation at present. Ono
er the candidates for the now throne appears
nv be Prince Bogordcs, who was educated