National Republican., 1878-01-22
PERSONAL.
PROCTOR KNOTT Is not q Senator.
THuRLow WEED Is steadily improving.

PERSONAL.
PROCTOR KNOTT Is not Senator
THURLow WEED Is steadily improving.
TENNESSEE has female State librarian.
A REp.HAIREp girl described herself as a
glorifcd blonde.
THE Marriage Plate" is the title of Ouida's
forthcoming story.
MRs. d. 7. Bowers Is playing her "Third
Estate " this season.
JOIN DILLON, the Chicago comedian, has be.
come a hopeless drunkard.
WHEN Miss Won Hillern marries she will
walk right into husband.
NJ. LABouLAYE, son of the Senator, has been
appointed French Minister at Lisbon.
The Boston Bulletin thinks that Mrs. Hicks
has taken the name of the Lord in vain.
ILLINOIS now has 5000 teachers, and there
are 10000 pupils intrusted TO their care.
Mr.. JOHN S. CLARKE will favor Baltimore
| with special performance next Saturday.
DIR. HANS FoS BuLow regards Mile. Albani
| as "the most luminous vocal star Of the day"
REV. Z. Z. HiGBEE, d. d., has been elected
pastor Of the First Reformed Church, Lancas-
| ter.
CHAMoIs skin'suspcnders, stitched In bright
colors, are something new in gentlemen's
wear.
THE Pope has appointed Monsignor Pietro
| nuncio to BuonOs Ayres, Paraguay, and Uru-
quay.
THE Earl of Roscberry has purchased that
able and influential weekly, the London En-
dmincr.
Hon. EUGENE HALE of Maine, has been
cordially welcomed on the floor Of the House
from his recent illness.
Mr. GEORGE W. CARLTON, of the we'll
known New York publishing house, is visit
ing Mobile with his family.
| VIENNA prefers to worry along without
Adclina Patti this season rather than pay that
high-priccd young lady her figure.
WILL ID. EATON, dramatic editor of the Chi
| cago Times, has written u comedy, which Is to
be produced at McVicker's Theatre.
Miss SARA JEwErr. the actress, is also an
artist of much promise, = graceful and effective
writer, and a poet of genuine ability.
| Mr.. MoRRIssEy's condition is still very
| favorable. He was able to lie down yesterday.
All his friends are now hopeful of his recovery.
| MAJoR-GENERAL HANCOCK and Colonel W.
g. Mitchell, United States army, sailed from
New York for Galveston, Texas, on Saturday.
Mrs. FREMONT writes from Paris that the
French trials have resulted in giving General
| Fremont a complete release from all obliga-
tions.
in town near Dublin:
Here lies the body of John Mound,
Lost at sea and never found"
Hon. S. s. Cox by invitation Of the mem
bers of the Maryland Legislature, is to lecture
at Annapolis on Wednesday evening on Irish
Wit and Humor."
MEssRs HUGH A. MULLEN, editor and pro-
prictor of tfe Philadelphia Sunday World, and
Robert A. Welsh, of the Philadelphia Evening
Star, arc in the city.
Mr.. w. II. Bishop, the author of the ro-
nance "Detnold," now appearing in the A.
td'tic Monthly, is the editor of daily newspa-
per in Milwaukee, Wis
MRs. FRANK LESLIE will arrive in Washing
ton this afternoon, and will spend several days
here rs the guest Of Mrs Senator Conover, at
III Maryland avenue northeast.
Mn. JOHN RIDDLE, brother of Mrs. Colonel
Thomas 4. Scott, had his leg shattered by n
ball glancing from n target on Saturday, at
Erie. The limb had to be amputatcd above
the knee.
Mgs. ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER is trying
to organize party of women In this city TO
visit the capitals of the Southern States and
address the Legislatures the woman suf.
fragc question.
MADAME PAPPENHEIM has memorzed sew
cnty operas. She sings English with very
pure pronunciation, but can hardly make her
self understood in conversation. She admits
that she Is twenty nine.
| CARDS of invitation have been sent out by
thc olhtlllhu Mlnlster 10 celebrate the marriage
Of King Alfonso on the 2Id. His Majesty
Legation will be present in uniform. The
card IL surmounted with the coat-of-arms of
Spain.
GEORGE A. HOLLIS died in Baltimore on
Friday night at the age of eighty He COM
mandcd the slOOp-Of-war- CSane, at the bonn
bardment of Grcytown, Nicaragua in lS5l.
When the civil war broke out he entered the
Confederate service
MAYOR PIERCE, of Boston, gave formala
reception to the city officials on Wednesday
evening, and for the first time in Boston's his
tory the women members of the School Com
mittee and Board of Supervisors appeared
with the other dignitaries.
THE London Lancet says that out of every
hundred buried persons one living person Is
consigned to the tomb. Pretended spirits say
} that the greatest agony is frequently caused TO
the spirits of the dying and apparently dead
, by the immediate packing of the remains in
ice.
GENERAL W. W. LoRING who left the
United States army to join that of the Con
fcderates, and who is at present second in com
mand of the army of the Khedivc in Egypt,
has asked Senator Lamar, through friend, to
= introduce a bill to relieve his political dis.
, abilities
Q Mr. TIL HYATT, who was made somewhat
famous In 1853 by imprisonment for some four
! teen weeks in the old District jail for contempt
: OF the United States Senate, in refusing to an
swcr the questions of the John Brown raid
committee of which Hon. James NJ. Mason
5 was chairman, is spending a short time at the
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