National Republican., 1878-02-01
Personal.

| SENATOR j. B. CHAFFEE, oil Colorado, Is IN |
| New York. |
SIR EDWARD SHEPHERD GREASY, tho his
| toran Is dead.
WILL CARLETON Is going to lecture on "The
| Golden Horse"
Ex-senator SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsyl-
| vania, Is In the city.
Mr.. c. H. DENrsoS, of Bay City, Mich, Is at
tho National Hotel.
Mr.. CHILDs, of the Philadelphia Ledger,
cleared 100000 last year
SENATOR FRANCIS HERMAN Is at the Fifth
| Avenue Hotel, New York.
Ex.CoSGREssMAN PARSONS, of Ohio, was on
the floor of the House yesterday.
Mr.. DIoS BouCICAULT, the actor and author,
has engaged rooms at the Imperial Hotel.
| COMMISSIONER DENNIsoN has been confined
to the house for the past two days with cold.
| Hos. Adm THAyER Is the new president Of
the Massachusetts, Republican State committee.
The Kentucky Legislature is said to con-
tain one member who can neither read nor
write.
Miss LA CHAPELLE offers to walk from New
York to Chicago in four hundred and eighty
hours.
| A GEORGIA journal nominatcs General Rob-
Crt Toombs for the next Governor OF that
State.
GRACE GREENWOOD and her daughter are
I
spring
JAMES MCPHERSON, Clerk of the United
States Court In Georgia, died at Savannah, on
, Sunday.
, CARLYLE has sent an elegant ear-trumpet to
, his niece, MIS-. Ellis, of Mount Pleasant
Ontario.
Mr.. GEORGE RIDDLE, Is temporary instruc-
tor of elocution at Harvard, Professor Baxter
, being i'll.
, 10, nrppg,y;clr fla baa hee n
| arrested for marrying white man to black
, woman.
, Mr. RALrH WALDO EMERsoS's lecture in
the Old South Church, Boston, has again been
postponed.
CHARLES ZoM, a New York merchant, was
sued as IN indorser for q friend, and COM
@ | mitted suicide.
S JIG. FISHER, of West Point, at the mouth
= of Salt River, raised an orange that weighs
. | thirteen ounces.
JoHS COLLINS, one of the oldest locomotive
: engineers in the United States died near
u COvington Saturday.
A WAsHISGTON correspondent Of the Toledo
u Biddc says Miss Kellogg was once betrothed to
e Bierstadt, the artist.
Q 4 New HAMPSHIRE family, of husband
+; wife, and sevcn'chidrcn, are said to be living
q on three dollars per week.
~ RBv. DR.. OSBORNE L. SMITH, Of the Wcs-
| ltNHn Itulillt 'tiltSlc anu bllpiy NolltSt VA
u ford, Ga died few days ago.
II JOSEPH OscHLER, late of Brooklyn, left
n $1,000 Of his $4,000 for paying off the debt OIL
Is st. BenediCtus Church in that city.
II is reported that the friends of Genera
Lew Wallace are energctically presenting hin
n as a candidate for a foreign mission.
'r THE British Government have entered into
e a contract with Colonel Reynolds for the sup.
- ply of large number of telephones.
| n III
had been reversed, was accustomed to call tn,
Supreme judges his "fathcrsin-law."
Is WILLIAM SEXTON still remains the billiard
ID champion of America he having come out tn
- victor in tho New Orleans tournament.
: REV. II. J. RosE says that the Spanish peas
ant is truthful, kind. brothcrly, chivalrou:
Ut devoted, noble, religious, lazy, and dirty.
MATTHEW MCKEowS, of Parrsboro', N. S
is 101 years Of age Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, @
10 Pho nixville, Pa, will be 102 on the 29th.
N A YOUNG lady in Winneconne, Wis, refuse
In au offer of marriage on the ground that he
a father was not able to support q larger iamil,
1g WILLIAM f. SAVAGE has purchased tn
h, Home Journal the Catholic weekly paper
Detroit and will hereafter be its sole manage
HanAcE unn.t tuv's estate. which was /,
NJ ventoried at S2O6, 900 shortly after hts dealt
| yields little more than $4,000 on the final sc
~ temcnt.
at more at the age Of ninety-nine years and for
In months, has seen every President of I'll
ed United States.
MARY A. REYNOLDS, of Woonsockct, r
has recovered verdict of 5000 damag,
.ol | against Martin Clifford for breach of promi'
, Of marriage.
.i The mayor of Crawlorlvlle, Ind, has bee
, =" arrested by the chief of police while visiting
he house of bad rcputc, and the citizens dcman
ed his resignation.
ed Mrs. MARY VANDERBILT, who late :, die
OIL SlatqN Island, nurscd William II. ldc
bilt in his infancy She was seventy -eigl
all when she died.
ilv WHIrELAw REID has been unanimously +
"a elected editor of tho Tribune by the stocl
II" holders for another term OF five years, endiI
January, lHSJ.
hSGr CoLoNEL f. D. GRANT, it is said. intends
in live in San Francisco, where he has purchas,
les an interest in n grain-Clcanng machine, whit
we is already in full operation.
W" MRs. MACKENZIE, wife of the Canadii
Premier, has given two gold medals to a CIR
lon school at Ottawa, ms prizes for courses in
,I,. nestle economy any plain sewing.
'' TUE grandson Of an English baronct driy
'WS public hack in Buffalo, and can charge as e
lis brilliantly as if the pursuit had been follow
in by his family for untold generations.
lis ONE of Brooklyn's energetic pastors, t
TO Rev. Justin j. Fulton, of the Centennial Ba
,nr tist Church, has just received call to t
M w. Bowdoin-Squarc Baptist Church, Boston.
Dir. A. W. SNYTHE, formerly house surge
of the New Orleans Charity Hospital, has be
elected to the chair OF operative surgery in t
M Medical University at Nashville, Tenn.
ma Mr.. PARKER (LibcnD has been elect
no Member Of the House of Commons for the ci
all of Perth by 1851 majority. Mr.. Grant Il.
Ian cralJ has been elected for Leith by 3,lil II
Ia jority.
Wv The health Of DR.. Isaac Butt, Home Ri
c"N' " member Of the House Of Commons for Linn
the icS city is so bad that his attendance W
lme Parliament at any time this session is VI
hey doubtful
GORDON WRIGHT, of Laporte Ind, has j
had his infant child baptized with water fr
Of the River JOrdOn which he thoughtful
cir brought home with him from his wedding t
/, in the Holy Land.
cful Miss MAY BOwEgs u daughter of MIS- d.
=, !. Bowers vii make her first appearance ON
49, stage ON Friday evening, at tho New Pi
'ha' Theatre, brooklyn. On that occasion n
orth Bowers will play Ledh and her daughter Ma
ghts line.