National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. DEwAR the well-knoTn English bur
lesquc actor, Is dead.
GILMoREs Band sails in May The first
concert abroad will be given in Liverpool
A BENEFIT performance for Mrs Ben De Bar
is proposed of st. Louis
Mr.. W. MCMoNTRIL, of this city, is stopping
at the Coonnadc, Philadelphia.
SENATOR BARNUM of Connecticut, is at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
Hon. RICHARD c. McCoRMIcK left the city
for New York yesterday morning.
Mr.. WILLIAM STICKNEY is in New York
city, stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
FREEMAN, the historian, hates Disraeli as
certain parsonage is said to hate holy water.
Mr.. HENRy NEVILLE is said to be regarded
as one of the best lovers on the English stage.
MAX STRAKoscH is something over $4,000
ahead on his Kellogg AIRY Roze season thus
| far.
GOVERNOR Bishop issued his first pardon
Saturday 10 San Jose Breninger, of Akron,
Ohio.
Mr.. WILLIAM WINTER Is preporing an act
ing edition Of Hamlet" as played by Mr.
Booth.
STURGEON has been compelled to quit work
and go to the south of France to restore his
health.
Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE notes that there
is bust Of John Brown in the museum at
Geneva.
THY are now saying that Victor Emman-
uel, like Cavour, was killed by injudicous
bleeding.
MADAME MoDJEsKA is described as being
besides AN actress, a singer, u pianist, u
| linguist, and poet,
Hon. GEORGE II. HOPKINS, of Detroit, has
been elected chairman Of the Michigan Rcpub-
lican State Committee.
Mr.. LEWIS CARROLL, the author of that quaint
and pqnant book, Alice in Wonderland" Is
writing another volume.
ROBERT CAssADAY, Buffalo ticket agent
died suddenly at II meeting of the Railroad
Agents Association last night.
COLONEL WILLIAM Preston JOHNsoN's
Life" of his father, General Albert Sidney
johnson, will be published soon
THE Courier Of Rome states that Cardinal
Howard is to be created Archbishop OF Edin-
burgh and Primats Of Scotland.
Mr.. TEHNvsoN has several new poems al
most ready TO he put into print. One of then
is like the Northern Farmer" in style.
MAYOR CHARLES BUTLER, Of Biughamton
has acccded to request from leading citizen
of both parties to be a candidate for re-clec
ton.
THE most famous and one Of the most pow
erful Of modern Mussulmans Abdul Ghatur
hhhoohu VI swan ho' Ju'N N'N' ~ 'hS abe "
eighty.
Mr.. GEORGE ". Guilds, who is Il collecto
of all that is rare and curious, has some of TIN
most valuable manuscripts to be found IL
America.
1 SIX young ladies and six young gentlemen
will be phrenologically married at Gebhart'
tO-nigh .-DdgioH Democrat. Is that puttin
/ heads together
HENRY c. JARRETTs object in going +
! England is to produce Uncle Toms Cabin" il
London on o scale similar to his recent ventur
in Philadelphia.
REV. J. c. MILLER, president of SOule Uni
: versty, and formerly president Of Centenar
} College, of Louisiana died at Chappell Hill
, Texas, last week.
Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS has been indorsing
' colored man, Mr.. S. Minor, for president of
Southern college, in opposition to sewers
white candidates.
EDWARD NEWMAN, of Philadelphia, sho
himself fatally Saturday night, while con
d versing with his wife, an actress, in a room !
/ the Desoto House, New York. lie abondone