National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-11
THE CABINET OF THE UNITED STATES MINT
By ELizABErH II. JOHNSON. J. D. Lippincott q
PERSONAL.

DON PEDRO is reforming the civil service of
Brazil.
THE Australians are gazing dumbfounded at
Soldene.
JAMES IowrHEn not to be chief secretary
CHARLES L. GnrrN, ESQ, of Missouri, is at
the Arlington.
SECRETARY EvARTs was sixty years old on
Wednesday last
Mr.. LORD will not be put on trial for being
rich until the l4th inst.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON, of New York. never
offers wine TO his guests.
Mr. SIDNEY LANIER is going to write
poem on the fall Of Plovna.
COMMISSIONER BRYAN is still confined TO his
residence with heavy cold.
Hon. JoHN MoRRIssEy's health is improv-
ing every day--so he says.
E. p. HAMMOND, the evangelist, commenced
work last week at GAINESVILLE.
President CHAMBERLAIN, of Bowdoin Col
lege has been i'll for several weeks.
PoE's origninal Ms of his poem, "The
Bells is owned by lady in Lowell,
PROFESSOR PETERS has discovered still an
other planet of the tenth magnitude.
CoLoSEL CHARLEs THOMAS, of st. Louis, is
on visit to his old home, Washington.
Mrs. ELLEN HOWARD died Friday ut 1893
Spring street. New York, aged 100 years.
The release of Tweed h again being pressed
with the Attorney-General Of New York.
LADY CoLERrpGE, wifeof the Lord Chief
Justice of Common Pleas Of England, is dead.
THE match between Courtney aud Trickett,
the Australian oarsman, is not likely to take
place.
REV. A. J. BoSsALL, of Erie, has q call to
become the pastor of the Rochester baptist
! Church.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, will soon wed
the adopted daughter of the late Senator
Grimes.
! RICHARD BELL, convicted of the murder Of
McGilvey, in Mercer County, Pa, has been
pardoned.
Mr.. A. G. WoRTHINGToN, of this city, Is
registered at the Washington House, Phila.
dclphia. Pa.
ExPnD1ss GS%hS feF esaa, e % S
gerously ill.
CHRISTOPHER BRUTs, the Buffalo church.
rObber, has been sentenced to fifteen years IN
Auburn prison.
THE author of Back Log Studies" is men,
toned in the Spectator, Of London, as "Sir
Dudley Warner"
An Italian, named Arnaco, was arrested in
New York on Friday for selling boy. He
sofa tue DOy lOr Sl,O.
GREGORY XVI. used to kick a little mdoe
Of locomotive around his room, crying, "In
vention of the DEVIL"
BARNUM says that if he could have anoth c,
half hours talk with Moody and Sankey h,
knows he could convert them.
THE Emperor William of Germany has pre-
sentcd the New York German Society will
$3.50 in gold in aid of the society.
FIFTY per cent Of the marriages celebrated
last year in Italy were between people neithe
of whom could write their names.
GEORGE ROBINSON, clerk of the Superior
) Court Of Baltimore city Nd, died suddenl,
last Friday morning Of heart disease.
GILMoRE's Congress of Beauty" will con
vene at New York on the 18th instant, an,
he has advertised for 900 members.
PROFESSOR NEwCoMB is to DO elected
member of the Royal Society of Britain. II
will be the second American admitted.
The body of Victor Emmanuel was immerse
for twelve hours in a strong solution Of corro
sive sublimatc previous to being embalmed.
! CowAHsvILLE, ONT, boasts of bride VIII
3, was recently led TO the altar for the fourt
/, time, and who is not over eighteen years
age.
THIRTY years ago Percy r. Pyne entere
Moses TaylOrs Counting-roOm in New Yorl
and is now the representative Of at grea
firm.
A. OAKEY HALL will make his first appea,
ance In court, after his return from Europe |
q q New York, to-day, as counsel for an allegc
: silk thief.
l. WHILE Mr.. Bcccher was lecturing In Chi
cago on THE Wastes and Burdens of Huma
It Life" a sneak thief stole his Oyercoat froI
= The wating-rOOm.
s. LTErTENANT GovERNER DoRsHEIMER ,
:. New York, celebrated his fOrty-sixth Dirt
@ day with levcc, at Congress Hall Albany, \
Y, on Tuesday last.
Dir. J. b. GOODMAN Philadelphia phys
I clan, poisoned himself in Greenwood Gem,
d terry, Trenton, last October. His identity hf
just been established
n AARON EARL and his wife, Of Chester, VI
a cighty-iOur and seventy eight years odd r,
- spectivcly, celebrated their sixticth narrias
. anniversary several weeks aro.
e We regret to announce that Mr.. George
y Burch, late Mayor of Lynchburg, was on We
ie tcrday placed under restraint to await c!
A animation into his mental condition, which
~ expected to be had to-day. For some tin
~ past his mind has been considered unsettled :.
70 LyuchJHrg lirpiniaH. 5h.
he Mr.. W. Il. Chandier's Letter.