National Republican., 1878-01-09
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CHARLEY Ross ID in McsaviHc now.
MrDDLErows hss an agthorcs s-Lulic Bsll

BARNuM says no Is sixty-eight. Well, he
"shows" It
M. @. BoysR, composer and actor, has mar
fcd Mile. Godillot. .'h
GArL HAMILTON yarns for q place In the
Cabinet chicago Tribms.
Miss RosE EYTINGE is said to be doing re-
well in the West.
ALFONSO FERRAs LA MARMoRA, q we'll
known Italian General, Is dead.
THE drop-curtain Is called so because gents
go out for drop while its down.
LORD RosEBERRY Is to marry Hannah, the
only daughter OF Baron Rothschild.
BrsHor Morris, of the Episcopal Church Of
Oregon, has been on visit TO Dover.
COMMISSIONERS DESSIsoS has returned to
the city and resumed his official duties.
w. II. ROWLAND, II stable-keepcr in jersey
CITY, has borrowed $4,000 and disappeared.
sorHERS played ut the Park Theatre, New
York, eighteen weeks and pocketcd $4,000.
CAPTAIN BoaARDus is seriously i'll in New
York from the effects Of his triumph in shoot
ing.
COLONEL WILLIAM D. wHIPPLE, United
States Army, is at the Gilsey House, New
York.
Ex-GovERNoR ANDREW G. CURTIN, Of
Pennsylvania, is at the st. James Hotel, New
York.
RoBERT BONNER can't be mistaken for
John except by a trick Of Ledger dc n,ain.-
Graphic. N| .. .'.. .
A MAN who had scolding wife being asked
what he did for living, replied that he kept
a bot-housc.
TITE Gewandhaus concerts at Leipsic are to
be moved to o new hall capable Of holding
1000 people.
We learn from statsticians that .the Amer
lean public use in paper collars eight tons of
paper daily"
GovERSoR GEARy's grave is the most ne
elected one in the magnificent cemetery at
Harrisburg, Pa. n....
The last accounts ofs Garibaldi arc very
pleasant lie is in excellent health aud the
brightest spirits.
I A PROVIDENCE woman whipped a saucy
tramp with an old Arctic shoe. She played
the rubber, and won.
UNITED STATES SENATOR s. J. KIRKwooD,
of Iowa, is IA relative of the Baltimore and Har-
ford County kirkwoods.
Rrccr, the composer of "Crispino Ia Do
mare" has just died at COncgliano, Italy, at
the age Of sixty-eight.
Hon. HrEsrER CLYMER has returned to
Washington, and resumed his labors on the
naval appropriation bill.
A BOsToN firm has just received an order
for $1,000 pairs of shoes, at ~ cents each, from
the Peruvian government.
Two bits worth of complexion" is the way
the Santa Barbara belle puts it Is she mean
ders into her favorite drugstore.
THE late J. Edgar Thompson, President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, left an estate csti-
mated in value at his death at = 100000.
SOME Of the lambs of Henry Ward Beecher's
flock are finding fault because he absents
himself from his clerical duties so much.
ALL New York is seeking after the Lord for
the first time.-EF. But the Hickites don't
seem bothered. Their faith is possession.
THEt town of Dresden, having come into pos
session of the library of DR.. Rietz, announces
the sale by auction of the entire collection.
LORD LYTToS, viceroy and Goyernor-Gen-
eral of India, is TO have the Grand Cross of
the Civil Division Of the Order of the Bath.
"wHAr number p q Nevada dry goods clerk
"Do you think fve only got ono legY she re-
torted.
Miss ANNA DICKINSON Is reported to be
writing q new playa comedy. She works
many hours every day upon II, and with great
| enthusiasm.
GEoRuG ELLIOT Is impolitely called by
| Swinburn IAN Amazon thrown sprawling over
| the crupper of her spawned and spur-galled
Pergasus" "
Mr. GEORGE WILKES, the veteran Journal
ist, so long associated with the Spirit Of The
Times, arrived from Europe in the Brittanic
last Monday.
Mr.. l. W. yoLK, of Chicago, has just COM
pleted the clay model Of thS statue of Stephen
4. Douglas The figure is said to be spirited
and majestic
| JUDGE j. VI. WoLwoRTH, OF Omaha; Hon
| Donald Mclean; Of Montreal, aud Hon. Z. X.
Hart, of New York, are sojourning at the
Riggs House.
REV. DIR. C. d. HARTRANFT, of New Bruins
wick, y. j., has been elected professor of Ec
clesiasticil History In the Hartford TheOlog
ical Institute.
Now somebody wants to know where
Noah's ark landed. AK Secretary Thompson
we don't pretend to be posted on naval mat
ters.-BostOH Post
EDWIN DE BARr, the well-known German
traveller who had explored for many years tn,
central regions Of Sahara, has died of fatigue
worn out by his voyages
CHARLES A. WHITE has been appointed
trustee of the estate in New Haven Of the Ma
tioual Capitol Insurance Company. Tn
bonds demanded are 100000.
REV. LEROY B. GAsroN, a well-knowi
Presbyterian clergyman of Memphis, Tenn,
dropped dead in the street at Helena, Ark.
a YESTERDAY, from heart disease.
committee of three now investigating the sub
ject of the New York State canals, for tn,
benefit or the Produce Exchange.
WHO was the select party of Philadelphian
who ran over here the other night for the rar,
luxury of terrapin supper at the Washing
ton Club? The fame Of that cook is world
wide.
Mr.. JOIN CHAMBERLAIN, u famous epicurt
has converted the Washington Club-Hous O
New York avenue into q quiet, choice, coz
restaurant, Of tho clubhouse style. Iii
friends are invited.
Ex-USITED STATES SENATOR TRUMA
SMITH, of Connecticut, now eighty-six yeai
old appeared in court at RoSbury, Conn, las
week, and argued an important case with hi
old vigor and conference.
Mr.. SCOTT RUSSELL, the builder of the Cryt
tai Palace at Sydenham has offered to CONVEX
the Coliseum at Rome intoa worlds fair build
ing at the trihing expense OF stretching owe
the top and putting in new benches.
A BROOKLYN girl who had supposed she ha
caught rich husband, found, upon inventor,
that he wore hired jewelry, owed for hi
clothes, was behind on his board, and that h
couldn't lend her five dollars to consult law
yer about divorce.
, The Pope cannot bear fire in his room
and to keep his hands warm has invented
pdiiettd, a hollow little ball of silver somewha
larger than au egg, which is filled with he
water, and which from time to time he roll
between his chilled palms.
Miss JosEPHINE A. STONE, a colored cir
9 who graduated from tho high school ut New
q port, w. this last summer took the gold pri2