National Republican., 1878-08-26
PERSONAL.
GENERAL scHESCK is In Troy.


CONGRESSMAN WILLIS Is at Saratoga.
JESSE POMERoY made q saw and nearly cut
his way out of prison.
Mrs. BARNEY WILLIAMS has no intention of
returning to the stage.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER begins his home
engagement October q.
Miss ANNA c. BRACKET is suggested for the
presidency of Nassar College.
Miss HANNAH BoGGs. of Fremont, Ohio Is
the future Mrs. Webb c. Hayes.
BENJAMIN +. TAYLOR, the poet, Is rusticat-
ing among the Thousand Islands.
REAR-ADMIRAL JOIN RODGERS, U. s. n, Is
at the Filth Avenue Hotel, New York.
FRANCIS MURPHY's brother James, of Hart
ford, has taken to lecturing on temperance.
JouSNY STEEL (Coal-Oil Johnny Is now
cerking in a grocery store at Deunison, Iowa
PRESIDENT GILMAN, Of the Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore, has spent the summer at
Amherst, Mass.
COLONEL AMOS WEBSTER, Register of Wills,
has returned to the city aud resumed his OH.
ca functions.
COLONEL john W. FoRSEY will return from
Europe in the autumn and resume charge of
tho Philadelphia Press.
AMONG the passengers on the Vile do Paris,
which arrived last week, was Mrs. Alice Oates,
tho opera -boutfe singer.
SENATOR BRucE, of Mississippi, will go to
| housekeeping In Washington when he returns
from his European toIr.
THE monument over the grave Of President
Jefferson will be after design of which he
was himself the author.
At Bath (Me.) recently, young couple
were introduced. engaged, married, and di-
vorced all within week.
Hon. RANDALL L. gibson, member Of Con.
4 Ia /, ,I,n. q.
tinental," Nangansett Pier
IsAAC Brown, an octogenarian, of Jefferson
County, Ala, has plOwed tho same field fol
| sixty-two successive years.
Miss FLORA, the second daughter of the
| millionaire, Senator Sharon, has made hei
/ debut in California society.
A YOUNG lady of Peru has introduced q
| startling novelty in elOpements, having run
away with two of her lovers.
CuIEF-JusTIcE MORRISON r. WAITE ar
rived at the st. Nicholas Hotel, New York
last Saturday from Washington.
Mr.. liEPwoRTH DIXON is going to Cyprus
and will give his impressions of the island IL
letters to several English papers.
EN.CoLLECToR SIMMONS of Boston, will
speak on temperance at the Sterling junction
| Mass camp'meeting September 8.
THE man who saw Washington Is with u
yet. His name Is James Boyd, his age ninety
six, and his residence Brook County, Va.
Mr.. STEPHENS will slip into Congress any
how, thinks the Pittsburg Telegraph, unlcs
the Capitol is surrounded by mosquito bar.
4 WILKES COUNTY, Ga, reverend held
negro girl so long under water while baptizinI
her, that when he raised her the spirit ha'
fled.
4 COMMISSION Is about TO be formed for tn
purpose Of removing the remains of Rpssin
rnt Paris a the l'hurph nf Santa l'rnpa
Florence.
TIE Hon. jeremiah s. Black is making
long visit to the Pacific Coast After stay o
several weeks in San Francisco ho has gOn
to San Jose.
"JULLEE WILL HOVE" was the way an en-
thuSiastic Russian correspondent at the Pari
WOman's Rights Congress got Mrs. Julia War
llOwCs name.
A SON of United States Senator Christiancy
of Michigan, was fined 50 the other morning
in the Chicago police court on the charge O
drunk aud disordcrly.
Rosa BoSHEUR begins to show signs o
ageing. Her hair is becoming quite gray
though still pentiful but her frank ant
charming manner remains.
GRIswoLD ROGERS, of Mantle, Conn, dis
tingushed Us the man who courted his wifi
for iiity-hve years, has just been granted I
pension for services in the war Of 1872.
SENATOR T. W. FERRY, of Michigan Con
gresham Thomas Ewing, Of Ohio; aud ex
, Congressman j. NJ. Ashley and family, o
Toledo, are stopping at Parkers, Boston, Mass
EX.GovERNoR PADELToRD, of Rhode Island
J who suffered from stroke Of paralysis tn
, other day, Is still very low, though conscious
| But slight hopes arc entertained of his re
cOyery.
The Saratoga correspondent of the Louis
vile COurier.JOWndl says that the marriage o
Commodore {. X. Garrison and Miss Randall
of St. Louis, will take place early next Sep
,, tembcr.
AMONG the surgeons decorated by tn,
Sultan for their devotion in attending to tn
wounded during the late war are DR.. Kirk
) = patrick, of Canada, aud DIR. King, of Sal
, Francisco.
! -HE Hon. Jacob Tome of Port Deposit
Nd aud Colonel Jacob Slllade, of Williams
, port, have purchased Of Mr.. ii. T. Sallade tn