National Republican., 1878-04-20
Personal.

GENERAL SHERMAN has returned from st.
Louis
THE Postmaster General will return to-
morrow night from his Southern tour.
Mr.. J. r. UProS. Chief Clerk of the Trea-
sury Department,h has returned from New York.
JUSTICE HARLAN Of the United States su.
preme Court, called upon the President yes
terday.
Hon. d. W. c. WHEELER, of New York, is
at the Arlington; also Lyman Elmore, the
distinguished railroad lawyer.
REPRESENTATIVES CALDWELL and Free
man and half n dozen others of the Havana
postal party returned to this city yesterday.
JOHN ROACH, ESQ, Of steamship building
notoriety, paid a flying visit to Washington
Yesterday. and returned TO New York last
night.
Hon. WILLIAM q. LIE Due, Commissioner of
Agriculture, accompanied by ex-senator RAM
scy, of Minnesota, called upon the President
yesterday.
GENERAL THOMAS c. BRADY. Second Assist
ant Postmaster General, represented the Post
Office Department at the Cabinet meeting yes
terday.
THE Burlington Hartcye says: DIR. Mary
Walker yearns for a hen with spurs four inches
long. Don't Think of the state Of the hus-
bands legs in the morning.
AMONG the callers at the White House yes-
terday were Justice Harlan, Representatives
Goode, Dwight, Stairin and Peddie. and Will
liam Stokes Boydwayn, OF jacksonville, Fla.
THE female ex-slave in Ohio, who brought
an action to recover damages from her captOr,
who resold her into slavery has recovered
$500. 1t Is Improbable that it will form pre-
cedcnt for many similar suits.
| EDISON with his phonograph, held posses
sion of the room of the Assistant Secretary OF
/ hn In liam rtr mt nu
| for an hour or two. and edifed the crowd Of
clerks-inale aud female--with the wOnderous
! power Of that instrument
IT'S a somewhat mysterious circumstance
that just as Mrs. Tilton's new confession sees
the light, Frank Moulton and Bessie Turner
both appear in Albany-Moulton as n visitor
to the assembly, and Miss Turner under the
name Of Beta Avery in the Leland Opera
House.-.llbday Times.
DIR. TYNDALL Is suffering from overwork
He has been id for some time past, but re.
fused to admit 1t. At last he has yielded to
his physicians orders aud gone off for a
months rest, during which he and his wife
occupy Mr.. Tennysons house on the Isle OF
Wight.
THERE is one redeeming feature about
polygamy. The fact is vouched for by compe'
tent authority, being no other than the frac
tonal wife of q pOlygamous Mormon, This
Of q plurality Of wives by saying that, under
that system she always knows that her hus'
band Is at home, h!ddelphid Tele
graph.
COLONEL ISGERsoLL has written a charac
teristic letter to contradict the report pub
lshed in the Chicago Taes that he had failed
to settle his board bill at Providence Hotel
Mr.. Ingersoll says This is an orthodox lie
The truth is minister hailing from Chicago
probably a correspondent Of the Tmes-'an
swered' me in Providence, and then ran away
without pay ing his bills The doing Of sucl
things Is so common on the part Of peripateti
evangelists that my name, | suppose, wa
substituted to make the story seem wonderful
pay my own bills. ! am not a believer in vicar
iOus atOnement."
SENATOR RANDOLPH is warm friend o
General Fitz.John Porter, his fellow townsman
Among the recent nominations by the Presi
dent was one of Thomas Smith, Of Ohio, to be
Paymaster in the United States Army. Smitl
was ono Of the principal witnesses agans
Porter. The nomination coming before tn
committee, of whichs Mr.. Randolph is n mem
Der, that gentleman, it is reported, declIneI
to vote on it, as while he did not altogethe
favor the appointment, his adverse vote nigh
be misconstrued as influenced by his friondshi
for General Porter.