National Republican., 1880-09-18
FIFTY CENTS PER MONTH.
PERSONAL.

PRoFEssoRGREENER will go to Ohio to can
vass next week.
SECRETARY OF THE Nv. THOMPSON LOFT
for Indiana yesterday.
Hon. EPPA HUNTON Of Virginia registered
at the National last evening.
JEFF DAVIS has sent grapes and oranges 10
the fruit exhibition in st. Louis.
i. VI. GoTTHoLD, general agent Of Leavitt's
Specially company, is at the Imperial.
JUDGE LAWRENCE of the treasury DEPART
ment is going to his home in Ohio about tho
Goth instant.
PosTMAsTER.GENERAL MAYNARD contom.
plates making a campaign speech in Tcnmes-
sec next week.
MIR. =. II. CHR1sTMAN aHd family have re-
| turned to the city from their summer vacation
at Orkney Springs.
| EN N'GoyERNoR MCCORMICK is In tho city for
u few days, looks as well rs ever, aud SAYS Gar
field aud Arthur will carry New York by $1,000
majority.
Miss HELEN GLADsToNE, the daughter Of
! the premier, Is one of tho successful candidates
in this years class list of Cambridge univor.
sity examinations.
| JOEL Cook, for twelve years past associate
editor Of the Philadelphia Ledger, aud for many
! years correspondent of the London Times Is
tho candidate Of the republicans for city comp
trollcr of Philadelphia,
| IT has been several months since Edison
promised to have his electric light in SUCCESS
| ful operation. If he doesn't soon hurry up
with his invention people will begin to think
that the burglars have bought him of
! AS American traveller saw on a London
| hotel register these words; "Sir A. Il. Gait,
| fifteen children" The latter were ushercd
into the dning'room by tbcir govorness, and
were mostly girls, fine looking and well be-
havcd.
! Mr.. BILLIE, the new Danish minister to this
country, is said by tho Whitehall Reriew to
nave incurred the displcasuro of his sovcr-
| eign by appearing before him in plain clothes
instead Of an official uniform-a grievous mis-
take.
THE London correspondence of the Man
| chester Guardian understands that Dean Stan
Icy will pay final visit to the United
States in 1881 in company with Mr.. Thomas
Hughes, for thc'purpose Of investigating the
church question.
Mn. CARLYLE was visited IN Scotlan d BY Mr.
Barloy Campbell, the dramatic writer, and
the Hartford Post records tho disappointment
OF the latter at finding tho venerable sage en-
| gagged in killing rat with poker. Mr.. Camp
bell would rather Lave played poker with tho
sage for rat or anything else.
| EX.sPEARER GRow is still prosecuting his
canvass with tho same vigor which marked
| his earlier efforts, and claims to bo gaining
| ground III, the time. His own estimate is that
| siNiy-two republican members of the lcgisla-
ure are pledged to him and certain TO vote
| FOR him, while niuety-iye have verb tlly prom-
ised him their support
KING LoUrs Of Bavaria lately celebrated
or, rather there wcrc celebrated for Lim-his
| birthday and the 70O,h anniversary of his
! dynasty lie did not appear in his capital,
Lut sent letter thanking his subjects for
| thuit congratulations aud asking Them. with
| g0Ul.naturcd practiraitv, not to 20 TO any
great expense on hi account,
w. H. WILLS who died in Hcurordshire on
September /, will long be remembered NJ one
! Of the creators Of Punch aud MS for many years
tho acting editor of HJpCdold J}ora, and IN Mo
| Yedr Rcpd. Mr.. wills was the devoted assist
| ant of Dickens and TO him are addressed many
! Of the pleasantest letters in the volume of
| Dickens correspondence recently published
| THE gentleman who is about TO b. married
| TO Miss Leila Cameron, the eldest daughter Of
the senator, is Mr.. William II. Bradley,
| clever young Newark lawyer, and the SON of
Justice Bradley Of tho supreme court. Miss
Camrrom is tall and graceful young laly, re-
served IN manner Of much administrative
ability, and has tecn admirably devoted to
her motherless brothers and sis crs
MILE BERNHARDr is foolish in her loyalty
to hor country, While in Copenhagen she
found among her lottors one day one which
she supposed to be Danish, aud turning to An
acquaintance she asked him to read it to her.
II was begging letter aud written in Ger
man. is it German" she said, aud her eyes
flashed "Qucie bltrmie de m'add,esscr moi en-
iRemam!' and she snatched the letter aud
tore it to pieces
The titlo of chancellor Of the oxchequer,
borne by the British minister Of finance, has
been in use since the time of Henry /. That
monarch formed the clerks of tho royal chapel
| into u body Of secretaries or ministers to con-
duct the affairs of the kingdom. Their head
was called the chancellor, aud when thoy reg
ulatcd tho finances Of tho country tboy sat
around table marked into squares, like
checker board, on which the accounts were
rendered.
| MIR. SAMUEL b. FALEs, who died day or
two ago in Philadelphia, WAS beloved by all
soldiers who knew him, for his arduous abors
| connected with tho organizing and maintains
ing the union voIuntcerreiIcshmen rooms, at
which regiments going south or returning
homo were rested, refreshed and fed during
| the war. lie was one Of the first members OF
the union league, and for the last wchty
years has literally contributed 10 the support
of the republican part His private ohari-
ties wero large, aud his loss will be greatly
| felt by the poor Of tho city in which he lived.
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