National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-03-15
PERSONAL.

Hos; CHARLES E. HOOKER, Of. Mississippi is at
Wormlcys.
Mn SIDNEY BARRETT, Of Boston, is booked at
WOrmleys.
JUDGE +. II. uoAR, of Massachusetts,, Is stopping
nt NOrnleyS.
-, Hos II. BsBEE JR, of Florida, is guest at the
Ebbitt House.
w: EYnER, of Bordeaux, France, is sojourning at
the Ebbt House.
GENERAL JoHN T. AvEnlLE, of st. Paul, is booked
at the Riggs House.
Az American named Livingstone drives Il four
teen horse team In Florence.
G. WEST, ESQ., leading banker of Pttsburg, Pa,
Is quartcred at the st. James.
fORSEY's Progress states that there are forty
women doctors In Philadelphia.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says Anna Dickinson Is
the Wendell Phillips of her sex.
CAroUI is to receive $4,000 and expenses for his
six months season In the United States.
COLONEL SCHUYLER CROsBY, our Consul at Flor.
once, drew prize In the Partisan lottery.
Mn. HAvERLY has leased New York theatre.
lie is the emperor of theatrical managers.
EN-uNTED STATES SENATOR MERRIMoS has re.
sumcd the practice of law in Raleigh, N. G.
BRICK PoMERoY, who is on the lecture path, had
an audience OF thirty people nj Titusvillc, Pa.
IT is said that new life Of General Butler will
soon be issued by Boston publishing house.
1IASNlBAL HAMl1g. of Maine. is the oldest United
states Senator having passed his SEVENTEEN birth
day.
PASTALEoNT. the famous baritone, is thirtynine
Italy.
FATHER RYAN, the poet priest, is very i'll at his
nome, in Mobile, from partial paralysis OF the
throat,
THE Chicago Inter. ocean had set Its mind on a
match between susan Il. Anthony and Carl
sChurz.
MONTICELLO, the Virginia country seat of Thomas
Jefferson, will be sold at sheirfs sale on the 10th
instant.
LESTER wALLACK will act three weeks in San
Francl lsco next June for $4,000. contract has
been signed
COLONEL MAPLEsoN will sail with Her Mniesty's
Opera Company" in the City OF Chester on the 9TH
of next month.
Miss LvINGA GooDELL and Miss Angie King have
Jancsyilic, is'''p Wis. 'O' ''' p'''''' VI III" 1T
THE fullest United States Senators are Conklne,
| Cockrell aud salisbury, each measuring sex feet
| three IN his boots.
Hos. JAMES oBRlrH, of New York, ex.Consrcss-
man Hewitts successor. arrived in town yesterday
| and registered at Wizards.
CLARK MILLS, the sculptor, is at the Hampton
Normal school, near Fortress Monroe taking casts
of the heads of Indian students.
| PRESIDENT Polk was II stern temperance man,
but lie used to have wine served at his State DIM
ners although he never tasted 1t himself
! A MOTION in favor of female suffrage was voted
down last week in the British House of Com
mons by u vote Of of lO5 yeas to 2l7 nays.
STERLING B; roNEr, prominent young lawyer
of Louisville Ky. has been retained by the com.
| planant In the case OF Oliver VS.. Cameron.
| CoSGREssMAN-ELECr RUSSELL, of Massachusetts,
will occupy General Buffers dwelling on Capitol
| Hill during the coming session of Congress.
THE champion producer in the United States is a
Mrs. Miller, Of Portland Oregon, who, on the 2Oh
of last month, gave birth to her twentieth child
Hos. WILLIAM A. RUSSELL. General Buffers sue
cessor in Congress, arrived in the city yesterday
and with his wife is stopping at the Riggs House.
WE drank last year 100000 gallons more beer,
aud G,j2O.00O gallons less spirituons liquors than in
1871. We, in this connection, refers to the Amer-
| can people
CoMNoDonE F. A. PARKER, superintendent of the
N.
Spcctor \. l.. Gibson, of Annapolis, Nd are guests
at Wormlcys.
ALrHouGT Popes do not dance, Cardinals attend
balls, and their Emncnccs Nina, Chig and How.
ard. lately attended one given by the Spanish AM
baSsadOr TO the Vatican.
~ HoSs. MILES Ross, of New Jersey A: NJ; Bliss,
New York; G. NJ. Shelley, Alabama; 4. G.. Phister,
Kentucky, and W. $. Dickinson, New jersey ar.
rived at Wiards yesterday.
PATTI and Nicolini were hissed off the stage at
Naples few nights ago for unduly cutting "Rigo
letto" There came near being riot, ana the man
ager had to refund the money
| CONFEDERATE Decoration Duy will be celebrated
with great ceremony Mt Winchester June next,
when $1,000 monument over Sl5 unknown SOL
diers graves Will be dedicated.
FRANK J. BOWMAN, Il brilliant but unscrupulous
lawyer of st. Louis, has just had his sentence of
disbarment for unproieSsional conduct confirmed
by the highest court of the State.
| QUITE Il scandal has been caused in Paris by
the, expulsion from the Washington (Amercan)
Club in that city of two gentlemen who are said to
have made themselves very Objectionable.
THE following members of the Forty-slxth Con.
greSs registered at the Metropolitan yesterday A.
L. Forsyth Illinois; A. j. Warner, Ohio, and w. II.
Kitchen and NJ. W. Ransom, North Carolina.
THE man who married whole family lives in
Traverse County, Michigan. His first wife died and
married the mother Of his two former wives.
THE following members of Congress arrived at
the Riggs House yesterday William a. Newell
New Jersey; Benton Mcmillan, Tennessee; John
5. Williams, Kentucky, and Leopold Morse, Boston.
go WEST, young man." The san Francisco
Post says the female property owners of Alameda
and santa Clara Counties pay taxes on sO,DOOOOO of
their possessions Many of these ladies are young
and handsome.
Miss FRANCES f. WILLARD, a young lady of Chi,
eago, wants to hold office under the State of Hi.
nois She has applied for the cerkship of the
State Board of Charities, and she is in fair way OF
getting it, too
IIoNs. j. II. MCPHERSON, of New York; John
Francis Herman. New York; Augustus Schell New
York George II. Pondleton and family, Ohio, and
Joseph Mason, New York, are booked at the Ar
llngtOn.
THE National register contained thenames of the
following new Congressional arrivals yesterday: j.
IL. Erins, south Carolina f. Hereford West Nlr'
II. FELTON,, Georgia; T.. J.. Henkle Maryland and
W. Call and h. II. NJ Davidson Florida
ADA CAyESDIsH, the English actress is seriously
i'll with bronchitis which threatens quick con.
sumption. She was TO begin an engagement at tho
Broadway Theatre on Monday, but her physician
! forbids her to act again this season She was moi
in good health when she came to America and q
visit TO San Francisco aggravated her disease.
1T is stated that further proceedings are about tC
, be begun In the French courts with view to en-
able AdelinO Patti, the MarquiSe dc CNux, TO annu
her marriage, In French law divorce Is not recog
ni2ed in any circumstances; but II marriage may
be declared null and void il any rrcguarity can
be proved in the manner In which II was celebrated
MIR. CoLPAX tells the following story of Preslden
Lincoln: On one occasion during the war hl
was Closeted with three generals, when Genera
Tom Thumb was announced. Turning from the
business OF the interview, the President gave in
! structons for the immediate admission of The
r dwarf. ON the laters entrance Mr. Lincoln turned
his back on the three generals, and aer greeting
his new visitor, held him in conversation for sew
eral minutes, much to the chagrin of the officers
! On the dwarfs departure one of the generals ven
+ tured to remark that Tom Thumb was very small
D man, whereupOn the President replied: "My gen
1 erals, judged by the results, are considerably
smaller