National Republican., 1880-06-26
PERSONAL.

THE president returned to the city yester-
day.
Hon. SIMON b. CoSovER is registered at
Willard's.
WILLIAM L. CHANDLER is at the Fifth
avenue hotel, New York.
SECRETARY RAMSEY aud Colonel Barr leave
tomorrow for Minnesota.
Hon. STANLEY MATTHEWS OF Cincinnati
is registered at the Riggs house.
G-A-R-F-1-E Ids; H-A-N.C-o-C.K-7. Thus
we again have the old count of u.
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS of Illinois is vi sit
ing relatives among the Berkshire hills.
GENERAL DUNN, General Mcdowell and
Secretary Ramsey will inspect the military
prison at Fort Leavenworth on the 9th of
July.
SARAH BERNHARDT on one Saturday rec
Gently played twice and rehearsed once
during which she changed her toilet nineteen
times
HON. JAY A. HUBBELL, chairman of the
national republican committee, is in town
and contemplates remaining here during the
presidential campaign.
Q. G. BOWEN, q prominent South Carolina
| politician, twice member of congress from
the Charleston district, died in New York on
| Wednesday. He was sheriff of Charest on
county ut tho time Of his death
|
night, but is always the first man in his office
in the morning. He owns n large number of
| Inexpensive horses and drives great deal.
He has always saved his letters and has one
| OF the largest collections in the world. He
and his brother, the general, have always
been as loving as sweethearts, and his letters
from the general are in three large volumes.
Some of these letters cover forty pages each.
| COLONEL JOEL w. Robson, of Fayette
| y MT dol 10 nni f.at,
Texas, is one of the three boys who, in 1886,
after the battle of San Jacinto, captured the
Mexican general and president, Santa Anna,
which practically settled the fate of Mexican
domination in Texas and opened the way for
the Independence Of the republic and ulti-
matey for its annexation to the United States.
He visits the north for the hrst time and
leaves Texas for the first time in thirty years
| EDWARD A. TURPIN died at his residence,
in Philadelphia, on Tuesday afternoon. He
was born in Virginia in 1904, and was gradu-
ated from the academic aud law departments
Of Pennsylvania university in the same class
with Jefferson Davis and Ex-Governor Jones
OF Iowa. He read law with his kinsman, John
]. Crittenden, but abandoned its practice
while quite young to engage in steamboating.
In 1912 he introduced steam navigation into
South America, after which he was appointed
United States minister at Venezuela by Presi-
dent Buchanan. He was the author of the ex-
istng treaty between that country and the
United States
REV. EDWARD w. BLYDEN, D. D., the Liber-
ian minister extraordinary at the court of st.
James, who has been in this country for three
or four weeks us delegate to the general as
sembly of the presbyterian church at Madi-
son, Wis, is visiting this city, and is a guest
at Wormley's hotel. DIR. Blyden is consid-
cred one of the most eminent scholars of his
race, and his writings have been favorably
commented upon by critics both in England
and America. Tomorrow morning at IL
o'clock he will preach at the Fifteenth-street
presbyterian church. Those who desire tc
hear this distinguished negro should avail
themselves of this opportunity.