National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-02-24
PERSONAL.

ADELINA PATTI has a seulskin sacque worth
$1,000.
Hon. JAMES H. HOPKINS of Pittsburg, is at the
Ebbitt House.
A sIxTY.YEAR.oLD negro woman in Caswcll, N.
c. has had twins.
COLONEL THOMAS A. SCOTT and family have gone
on trip up the Nile.
GOVERNOR c. II. INGERsoLL, of Connecticut Is
booked at the Arlington.
HoN. HoRATIo G. FISHER, of Pennsylvania, Is q
guest at the Ebbitt House.
COLONEL G. NJ, TERRELL of San Antonio Texas is
stopping at the Ebbitt House
WALT WHITMAN, the Good Gray Poet" who has
been quite Ill, has recovered.
GENERAL SHERMAN will start on a trip to the Pa
ciiic coast about the list of April.
THE widow of the late Senator Wade Is now sew
cnty and is said TO be rapidly failing.
LEoNG Vow, Chinese actor plays at the Chi
nese theatre at San Francisco for 5000 year.
BERTHA YoS HILLEGN, as the protcGe of two
wealthy ladies, is pursuing her studies at Boston.
BEN BUTLER has declined the invitation to ad.
dress the Boston Irish societies on st. Patrcks Day
Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG has sold her coun-
try home Clarehurst, near Cold Spring, OH the
Hudson.
GENERAL ALBERT PIKE denies the report that he
is organizing the Society of the Cactus" for Next
can veterans.
MRs. HICKS. LORD, once more widow, Is going
to Europe in the spring Look out for young hus-
band this time.
BEN BUFFERS annual income from money invest.
cd in stocks and bonds at Lowell, Masa is rated in
the tax list at $40 900.
THE Rt Rev. +. c. Fabrc, d. D. bishop of Mon
trea, has prohibited female singers In the choir of
his diocese after June |.
THEY are saying that Mrs. scot-sddons owes
her beauty 10 her descent from Hlndoo prince
one OF the Kings of Delhi.
Mr.. HARRY PEAKEs is now the first bass Of the
Hes. Abbott English Opera Company, and is re-
newing all his old successes
SOME profanc thief stole Governor Bishops watch
and loose change from his room in hotel In Co.
lumbus, Ohio, while he slept.
FREDERICK r. PEARSON, United States navy; Mrs
q. Nj. Sanders of Connecticut, and n. &. Sears of
Kansas, are guests at the Riggs House,
UNITED STATES SENAToR-ELEoT, late Governor
Houston, of Alabama, Is said to resemble Henry
Clay both in phisique aud eoquence.
WHEN Ex-Governor Fenton's daughter was pre-
sented at the Vatican last month the Pope CON
ycrsed Auenty in the English tongue.
Mr.. JOSEPH JEFFERSON thinks of creating now
character i'll a play found for him by BoLccault
many years ago, called the Parish Clerk"
JonS STEPHENSON who built the first street car,
is still alive, and has seen nearly four hundred
street railways established In this country
$. ", r. CoSGER, and Z, Il. Robinson, Of New York ;
John a. Loring, Of Boston James Archer and vii.
liam J. Fay, orColorado nre stopping at Wormley's
THE family Of Lieutenant Benner, The yellow
tevermartyr VIII receive from the New York Cham
bcr OF Commerce interest amounting to 500 year.
Mr.. HENRY LEE, son-hl-law Of Senator John
ston and brother of General EitZ Lee had his leg
badly crushed by the fall his horse at Abingdon
last week
SENATOR MCCREERYs ideal of perfect bliss is said
TO be TO sit under u tree in his Kentucky home
on summers afternoon and watch little niggcrs
play marbles
DE, ENoCu PoND, of Bangor, Me- Congregation
allst though eghtyseyen years old, still writes
sermons aud essays. He has been an ordained
minister sXty-tOur years.
RECENTLY when young Mann was married at
Troy, his father presented him with SlOOOOG; and
last ial when he was elected TO the New York Leg
stature, his father gave him another 100000.
AN Alabama child Weighing nfly.eight pounds "a
| said To be composed of ftty pounds of head and
| eight pounds of body and limbs, and to have very
bright mind and remarkably rctentiye memory.
| A DAUGHTER OF the late Brigham Young was
asked recently In Washington how she had been
treated at the Capital. Her reply was: (" BY Mem.
bem Of Congress and the press very well, but by
TIE venerable eX-Uned states Senator Truman
! Smith, of Stamford Conn, now eighty years old
| argued for two hours on law case at Woodbury.
| Conn., the other day, with all his ancient fire, and
decidedly worsted his opponent.
THE Rev. o. u. rockingham has decided to re.
tire from the charge of the Independent Liberal
| Church on account Of i'll health and has sent i'm
his resignation TO the trustees. lie will preach un.
til May /, and will then so abroad for Year
THE women lawyers of the United states arc
well editor Of the Chicago LegH NcCsi Miss Phoebe
Cozzens, Of Missouri; Mrs. Foster of Iowa, Miss
Goodell, OF Wisconsin, and Mrs. Eoltz, of San
| Francisco,
GENERAL GRANT, II is related by Miss Hooper
was asked what were his sensations whom ht
stepped ont upon the platform of am English rail
way station and saw before him sea Of human
faces gathered merely to gaze at him. MADAM
he replied 81 felt as though were one OF them"
TuEnice but naughty beauty, Dickie Lingard has
brought q libel suit against the Bridgeport Conn
Standard for criticisiny Our Wives" and the de-
iense proposes TO make the troupe play the piece
precisely as presented on the boards before Tho
Jury. The bold'heads are now cultiyating the good
win of the sheriff.
| prppEspNTATtvE guAtIg of 9,utb 1o,,it,,
learning that the daughter of his former master
in great destitution, arranged in the most deli
cate manner with dealers In Charleston for hel
comfortable provision lie also obtained the an
, ponment of naval cadet vt Annapolis for the son
OF one Of the be3lknown families In South Caro-
lima
CARDISAL CULLEN died IN q condition of almost
apostolic poverty Six thousand pounds sterling