National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1878-02-15

Mr.. Roberts died few ycars ago, almost q
ceutenrian. -
sMn. DAVID BrDwxrI, well known in con.
nection with the, New Orleans Academy Of
Music Is dangerously III in that city.
MAURICE d. wIcKsRsHAM, Just confirmed
as postmaster at Mobile, is Pennsylvania,
and brother Of Hon. J. p. Wickersham, Of
Lancaster County.
Hon. SAMUEL CURREY, probably the oldest
member of the Rhode Island bar, was stric ken
with paralysis on Sunday, and remains In a
critical condition.
THE only daughter Of the arbitcr Of Europe,
| tho Countess Maria Won Bismarck, Is about to
marry Count Lehrndorf, aid-de-camp to the
Emperor Of Germany.
Rev. WALTER WILLIAMS, formerly Of Lees
burg. Na and more recently OF Georgetown,
succeeds Rev. DIR. Tying as rector Of st.
Georges Church, New York.
REV. JOSEPH Cook has been made an homo
| mry member Of the Victoria Institute or
Philosophical Society Of Great Britain, of which
the Earl Of Shaftesbury Is president.
At New Haven the other night the entire
faculty at Yale Callege, professors and students
| attended aud paid tribute TO the splendid
acting of Miss Rose Eytingc as Cleopatra.
WILLIAM WRIT HENRY, grandson of Pat
rick Henry. and W. II. 7. Lee, son Of Robert
L. are among the strongest advocates Of
State honesty in the Virginia Legislature.
OK the evening of the 2lst instant Mr.. and
Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, Of Philadelphia, will
give dinner party to Lieutenant General and
Mrs. Sheridan, followed by dancing reception.
CHARLES HULL has been arrested In Bing-
hamton, charged with having wives in New
York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. There
are thirty-hve States and ton Territories yet to
hear from.
REv. FREDERICK BRADIN, resident canon Of
Wells Cathedral, England since 1912, has re.
Gently celebrated his hundredth birthday.
He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford,
In 1900.
A DAUGHTER Of Judge Hilton Is soon to be
married to Horace RUSSELL esq, Of New York.
Curious enough, the new residence OF the bride
and groom will DO next door to Mr.. Joseph
Seligman.
THE death Is announced Of Rev. Samuel
Chase, d. D., Jubilee College, Ill. He was
born In Landon, N. Y, In 1909, and was a
prominent clergyman In the Protestant Epis-
copal Church
The American Art Committee has selected
Mr.. J. Maitland Armstrong, formerly United
States consul at Rome, to be superintendent
Of the American department Of fine arts at the
Paris Exhibition.
FATHER O'REILLy, pastor of the Church Of
the Annunciation, Shenandoah, Pa, recently
denounced in his pulpit the Emerald Bene.
fetal Society as being not Catholic aud not in
tlle interest Of peace and order.
Mr.. WIN. +. Copy, known on the boards as
Buffalo Bill" has removed his residence from
| Rochester to North Platte, Nebraska, and Is
| henceiorth TO devote his life to cattle-raising
and the excitement of the plains.
Mr.. C. Il. LEBos, president Of the Middle
sex County Bank, of Middlesex, Conn, an old
and wealthy citizen, died suddenly last Tues
day. He was apparently in good health. and
while At dinner was attacked with apoplexy.
The deceased was about sixty-fve years old.
PAULINE MARKHAM says she never knew
| Governor Scott, OF South Carolina, although
she may have been introduced to him.
Her husband, McMahan, says he intends
to horsewhip Mr.. Dana, of the New York san
which first published the story of the alleged
intimacy between Pauline and Scott, If he can
ever find him.