National Republican., 1878-09-13
PERSONAL.

Mr.. STURGEON is i'll again and unable to
preach.
Hon. T. b. ELRINs, of Santa Fc, Is at tho
Riggs House.
d. AMEs, ESQ.,. of Deadwood. d. T., is guest
at the St. James.
SIGSoR r. ABECCo. of Emerson's Minstrols
looks like Ben. Butler.
L. WoRrHINGToS, wife, and daughter are
stopping at Wormley's.
Hos. q. W. HAzELToS, of Wisconsin, Is
stopping at the National.
JoHS GAuGEE, of London, England, is reg
lstcrcd at the Riggs House.
COLONEL W. 7. TIsDELL and family, of New
York, are at the Riggs House.
DAM w, u hoathen Chinee, has opened a
wash-house at Tuscurora, Nevada.
THE workmen are busily engaged on Cen
eral Lees msusoleum in Lexington.
LAWRENCE BARRETT began his fall season
at Milwaukee ~ Richelieu, last week.
MR.. VASDES BossCHE, Charge d'Affaires,
Belgium. Is sojourning at Wormley's
THOMAS PERRY and Joseph r. Addicks, U.
s. N. are anchored at the Ebbitt House.
Ex-LIEUrESAST-GovEg KELLY, of
Florida, has been stricken with paralysis.
JUDGE ROBERTS. the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Texas, is au Episcopalian.
JOHN McCULLoUGH, the tragedian, is forty
one years OF age, and was born In ireland.
DIR. d. DUKwoRTH and Mr.. II. Z. Dobson,
| Of England, are guests at the Arlington Hotel
Ex-Governor JEwELL's detroit leather fac.
tory has been destroyed by fire. The loss
was about $4,000.
p. II. MCMAsroR, of New York; c. F.
Rocker and wife, of Indiana, and J. c. Payne
Of Philadelphia, are stopping at the Arlington
| Hotel.
Phil J. REApE, Lieutenant B. d. Spilman,
Captain William NJ. Spilmau and Ed. q. Spill.
man, U. =. A., arc quartered at the Ebbitt
| House.
AT the recent meeting In st. Louis of tho
American Society for the Advancement of Sci.
once DIR. c. +. Rand, of this city, was elected q
member.
THERE is nothing mean about George Fran
els Train. Yesterday ho tolegmphed 10 the
Treasury Department to send 100000 imme.
diately TO the suffering South.
JAMES ASH died at Mount Vernon, Ohio,
Monday. lie was 100 years aud 8 months
old was born in Ireland and emigrated to
America about fifty years ago,
IDA LEWIS, the old lighthouse keepers
daughter, who Is sometime called the Amer.
lean Grace Darling, has baby to spank. She
uses slipper instead Of her iaYOrite oar.
MADAME RIsTORI Is now In Paris, organ.
| iZing company with which she will proceed
] to South America and come up through the
| United States by the end of the winter
sTHE old Slate Rock at Providence, whore
! landed Roger Williams In 1910, has been
blasted with Wow to raising portion OF
1t to the present grade of the laud for an eli.
during monument.
OVER twenty miles OF blue ribbon consumed
and 223, 900 signatures to the total abstinence
pledge arc the results which John W. Drew,
OF Concord, n. H., reports after eight months
Of work in Iowa.
EX GOVERNOR ESGLIsII, of New Haven
was visited bya tramp the other day who
begged for an old pair Of shoes, and after re.
ceivng them returned in an hour or two and
asked fOr twenty cents to pay for getting thom
mundcd.
THE Rev. Augustus TOplady, author of tho
favorite hymn Rock Of Ages" was rector of
Br0adhembury, in Deyonshire. Often, instead
oil going TO bed, he would put ON his surploe,
go out OF doors, and, thus attirod, walk for
hours in tho night singing hymns
SENATOR SHARON call his rosy little wifo's
entertainment that fato shampeter" For
that fate shampeter' the cards were printed
"Hon. William Sharon requests" &C., aud II
Is said that tho bluff I'D millionaire got into
a towering passion whom one Of them caught
his eyes
BISHOP ELDER, who has recently been ap.
pointed CONdlutOr Bishop of California, was
absent from Mississippi when the yellow fever