National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-26
Personal.

fog.
KELLY. of motor fame, Is hopeless bank
rupt.
Tom sooTr is president of fourteen corpora
tions.
IT is said that Don Pedro wrote the national
hymn Of Portugal.
THE now King Of Italy does not believe in
capital punishment.
GENERAL LoNGsrREET will make Georgia
his permanent home.
CARDINAL MCCLosKEY will reach Rome just
in time for Mardi Gras.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT Is at Monaco, the
famous gambling resort.
GEORGE CRuIKsHANK WINS buried at Kensal
Green, near Thackeray.
ROBERT OLIVE, defendant in au Indianapo-
lis divorce, Is eighty-fve.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH has turned the head Of
Boston with his toIioldnUs.
CHARLIE FRANCOIS DAUBrGNEY, the French
painter and engraver, is dead.
WHATS all this fuss about rheumatizing
silvcrg" asks Mrs. Darlington.
EMILE HoUILLfoS, Texas lawyer, is to be
hung for shooting another lawyer
GRACE GREENWOOD says the Chinese arc
not curse but a blessing to California.
GEORGE WRIGHT has signed to play with the
Boston Base Ball Club the coming season.
NEWMAN HALL is the bittcrest opponent in
the pulpit Of Disracli's anti Russian policy.
Hon. II. c. MCCoRMICK has gone to New
York, expecting to return here on Thursday.
DIR. II. L. Boswell, clerk of the Lewisburg
County Court, died last week of heart dis
case.
REV. DANIEL AUSTIN, of, Kittery, Me-. has
bequcathed 5000 to Harvard aud 5000 to
Dartmouth
Mr.. HENRY IRVING Is rehearsing Louis XL.,
a character in which his friends expect him to
make mark.
MAJOR WTLLIAMsoN's surveying party have
ascortained the height of Mount Hood, Orc
gon, to be II ,225 feet
THE Rev. W. p. Corbit, of Jersey City, says
that out Of every ten young women who dance
eight will drink wine.
PRINCE RUDOLF, heir apparent to the Aus
trian crown, is in London willing to play Ben
edick to England's Beatrice.
Ex-SEcRETARY WELLEs last literary work
was his paper on President Lincoln, which will
appear in the April atlantic.
THE Marquis of Hamilton, eldest son of the
Duke of Abcrcorn, took the Order of the
Garter to King Humbert Of Italy.
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs has purchased
one third interest in the Kimball House. At
lanta, Ga, paying therefor s3l 900.
DEACON F. +. BLOCK, of Presbyterian
church In Atlanta, Ga, has been suspended
for permitting a social dance at his residence
PROFESSOR SUMNER. of Yale, after critically
examining some of the boys stOry-papers, is
convinced that they arc extremely pcrnici-
Gus.
4 REPORT from Venezuela via Havana states
that Seniors Colina, Pulido, and Palncio are tho
prominent candidates for the next Presidential
election.
THE wife of Mr.. Bayard Taylor just ap-
pointed Minister to Berlin, was daughter of
Professor Hansen, the eminent German as
tronOmer
THE furniture Bazaine left behind him
when he escaped from lie Ste Marguerite has
been sold by auction at the door of the House
of Correction.
MIR. CHARLES Z. SMITH, one of the editors of
that staunch aud reliable old Wing and Repub-
lican paper, the Albany Erenimg Journal, l. at
the Ebbitt House.
ARcHDuKE RUDOLF eldest son of the En-,
pcror of Austria, Is the handsomest crown
| prince in Europe. lie was nineteen on the 2lst
| of last August.
! GENERAL f. W. WHITAKER, real estate agent
| 1881 Pennsylvania avenue, has recovered from
| his long aud serious Illness aud was seen oil
the street yesterday.
Secretary for ireland, in place of Sir Michael
| Hicks Beach who succeeded Lord Carnarvor
Us Colonial Secretary.
| THE only daughter of the arbiter of Europe
| the Countess Maria Won Bismarck is about ia
marry Count Lehrndorh, aide-de-camp to the
! Emperor of Germany.
| GOVERNOR II ,MPTON, OF South Carolina, Il
! Is said, will not sesk to enter the United States
Senate in place Of Patterson, but will be can
| didate for recollection.
| Mr.. WILLIAM BLACK is to contribute vol
ume on Oliver Goldsmith to Macmillan's Sc
RIGS Of English Men of Letters" which Mr.
John Morley will edit.
| p. T. BARSUM gives 1t rs his profound con
clusion, after ffty.oight years of agonizing eff
| fort, that mo one can cheat the Almighty
| aud Phineas ought to know.
JUSTICE J. Is. ID. CLARK, of Titusville Pa.
| was arrested few days ago fJf being drunk
aud disorcrly aud using improper languag,
before a ward clection-board.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, the wealthiest colorct
man In st, Louis, whose ambition WAS TO owl
the costlcst harbcr-shop in the World, is dead
| lie had S2OhOO insurance on his life.
Mr. BENAIAn GrRBs has given to Montrca
$4,000 worth of paintings and bronzcs, III tn,
nucleus of All art gallery. Albert Bicrstad
promises one of his finest paintings.
MEssRs...J. W. Fralick, Watts, Messincr an,
Ingorsoll, the United States Commission t,
the South American republics and Brazil, lief
Panama Tor Peru on the ninth instant
MARY COOPER, niece of the novelist, Fcni
more Cooper, has begun proceedings for d
| vOrCe against her husband, Charles AugustI
Thbaut, who, she alleges, fails to support her
Mr.. MACKEY, tho wealthy Californian, ha
bought baron" Albert Grants house in Lon
don, and is going there soon with his wife ant
daughter to take possession of his new home
Miss c. L. RANSOM bravely stood, knife il
hand, ready to cut her picture Of Pop ThOma
from its frame and hurl it from tho window
necessary to save 1t from the fire yesterday.
The Detroit Free Press describes in deta
how a woman gets into bed. And yct-Ur d
we mistakc-dd we not understandable
was it told us LOWS was not a married man
l-HdlCkeye.
Miss MINNIE HAUCK's success at Brusscl
is reported as increasing. Her latest appear
anee was In don Pasqualc," she singing Norm
in Italian while her comrades sang their part
in French.
J BEEcnER says in his newspaper that 9Th