National Republican., 1880-09-14
PERSONdL.

MAST has made fortune Of 500 900 by his
pencil.
CArrArN A. A. sEMMEs is to command tho
Washington navy.yard.
SIN EDWARD THoRNTov will roluru about
the middle Of November
SECRETARY SHERMAN has returned Il
Washington and was at his desk vest rday.
Ex.TREAsuRER JoHN G. NEW has made
bet of $1,000 that Indiana will go republican,
Mr.. A. NJ. CLAPP ofTHE NATIONAL REPUB,
LICAN has gone on visit to Buffalo, his old
home.
COMMISSIONER MORGAN reports that hii
health is improving at the Arkansas HoI
Springs.
.sRcnErARY scuURz left Fort Bnford, OAK,
Sunday morning and WIS expected at Bis
marck last night,
Mr.. CHARLES t. WnELrLEY ' absent In
Maine where he went to look aflor the elcc'
! tiou in that state.
| COLONEL j. A. FARDEN Of Alabama Is at
| the lmperisl. lie goes TO Indiana to speak
for the republican ticket
| JouN A. CurHBERT Of Mobile. Als., is 101
years old, still practices law and Is tho Oldest
living eN.momber OF congress.
! SENATOR BEN HILL, In letter 10 Senator
Eiton of Connecticut, denies that he is suf
fering from cancer on the tongue.
THE president has recognized Mr.. John
Perrepont Edwards as consul OF hor Britannia
majesty at the city OF n cw York.
QUEEN Victoria never attends naval or
military reviews because her headaches do not
permit her 10 abide the sound Of II cannon.
SECRETARY SHERMAN will not do any more
cam paign speaking. Ho is pretty confident
that Indiana is to be counted for Garfield.
A PRIZE of forty acres of land Il offered TO
the couple who will bc married In trout OF
the grand stand at the Michigan state fair.
ATTORNEY. GENERAL DEvENs returned to
Washin gton yesterday. but remained only n
few hours and left again for Mass'chusctts.
THE ponc has appropriated 100000 for
com netc aud splendid edition of the works OF
st. Thomas Aquinas, his favorite philosopher.
PogrMAsrER GENERAL VI AYNARD and Gen.
! cral Whitaker will address tho republicans
| Of Alexandria on Wednesday evening ncxt
| GENERAL BrRpows. the hero Of Candahar,
who has brilliantly retrieved tho glory
of British arms in ACghauistau, is an Irish.
man.
Mrs CHRISTIAN XANDER returned from
| Germany yesterday, whore she had been 10
place her son at the conservatory of music al
Stuttgart.
Mn VicToR DRuMMoND, charge d'affairs Of
the British legation, leaves Newport 10 day
for trip up the Hudson before returning TO
Washington.
MIR. II. J. ITANFoRD, who has hccn head
clerk in the railway mail service for some time
past has been appointed superintendent of tho
register division IN the city postofce. Mr.
lIanford Is Il gentleman of substantial char
acter.
PRESIDENT HAYES and Neal Dow have noses
so rubcund as TO suggest doop potations, aud
| yet both are temperance men. 1t is singu-
| lar inscrutahility OF providence that two such
eminent apostles should keep up liquor signs
| when tho bar is dry.
FRANK GAssAwAY ('Derrick DOdd"), in
| addition TO being the humo rst Of the Pacific
| clas.--a sort of second edition OF Mark Twain
has since his rescuing friend from drown
ing in Clear lake. invented n life-proacrying
arrangement (patent applied for) by which y
man can walk tho water as on land, which
he calls the "aquapede." The versatile Frank
is 10 be congratulated on his many accom-
| pliShments
Ex-Governor II. II. WELLS, formerly
| United States di strict attorney for this Dis
! trct, returned home last Saturday night fIom
an extended trip TO California ana tho Sand
wich islands, very much improved in health
aud appearance. During his absence hc has
| Travelled over IL 900 miles and seen all tho
| sights within ra ngc of his travels. lie will
now settle down and resume the practice of
his profession.
Mr. o. B. FRorHINGuAM has retired from
the work in which he has been best known.
In a letter to The IHdcr he says: 81 have finally
relnquisled my post and abandoned my pro-
ts.iam; neither platform nor pulpit will know
nc again. This resolution is due to no con-
sidcuiou of health. My health is satisfactory
Its good as it ever will bc-good enough, But
| want more leisure than the ministry affords
Tor the pursuit of certain lines of thought
which have interested me since | have been
in Europe, and the life Of man of letters will
he more satisfactory TO me. Ia another career
| can be ms useful as in tAc old one, perhaps
more 50. My absence will be prolonged year
more, in order that the pulf may he wider be-
tween my past and my future. Then | hopo
b. come back better than new"