National Republican., 1880-09-16
PERSONAL.

WILLIAM WINTER is registered at tho Ma.
tional
"THE Black Robe" will DO the name Of Mr..
| Wilkio Collins latest novel.
JOHN KELLY speaks at Springfield aud Chi
caRo. ILL.,, the first week in October
CADET MIDsHIPMAN r. c. PARIS has ro-
signed his position in the navy, to take effect
December l.
THE superintendent Of the census. General
F. A. Walker has returned from a short visit
| to New Haven.
EVANGELIST MOODY has been offered $25,.
900 with which to start boys school 40
Northaeld, Mass.
JUSTICE SwAYNE Of the United States su.
PRONE court, 1t is reported, will retire from
the bench next winter.
PRESIDENT HAYES 10 urney to California
has filed him with wonder, delight and alkali,
says tho Chicago Times.
FfRsT-LEUTENANT Henry P. WALKER Of
the Seventeenth Infantry died last week ut
Fort Pcmbnu Dak, Of paralysis.
HoE.J. NJ. LANGsToN, United States min
ister, will leave for Ohio to. day to take part In
tho political canvass Ia that state
"ULTrMA THULE" Mr. Longfcllow's new
volume, will contain all the poems he has
written since "Kersmos" appeared in 1873.
MIR. KuRD voS scHLozER, German minister
q I Washington, aud Baron Friesen Of Ger
IN any uro at the Brevoort house, New York.
A NEW story by Mr.. Henry james. jr., en-.
titled THE Portrait of Lady" will be begun
In the October number Of Mdcmiliaa's Mdgasias
Mn. EPEs SARGENT imagine9 lie has dis
covered some scientific basis for spiritusism,
and is preparing work on that aspect Of tho
subject.
NJ. W. HAzELTGNE, the literary critic of the
Now York SIN, will probably be the demo-
cratic candidate for congress from Monmouth
county, n. J.
JoHN w. BOND, tho oldest book merchant
Of Baltimore, died on Wednesday, in tho
eighty.ilrst year of his ago He was an en-
ginoer In early life.
The health of Mr.. Francis Parkman has
boon SO much impaired by tho return of his
old malady that he has been obliged to lay
down his pen aud go to Europe.
Mr.. JoHN +. GIBsoS of the surgeon gen.
erals Office left for Ohio this morning, to re.
main until after tho presidential election.
He will help TO swell tho republican majority
by earnest and effective work.
COLONEL GEORGE B. CoRKHILL Unitcd
States district attorney, who has been spend.
ing the vacation of the court at Cape May,
Coney Island and Saratoga, returned to the
city yesterday and is quartered at Willard's.
WuHELMINA HELENA pAULINA MARIA Is
the very long name of the very little daugh-
ter Of the king and queen of the Netherlands.
She is to DO called Princess Wlhelmina, and
rs n girl can have no pretensious TO the throne
of Holland.
MR. JOHN RUSSELL You've. who Is now In
California, has just recovered from a pro.
tracted illness. io caught cold crossing tho
Rocky mountains For this reason lie has Of
late been doing nothing in Journalism or the
political campaign. His wife is critically i'll
witt gastric fever in San Francisco.
THE Hon. HENRY WALDRoN, who repre-.
scnted tho second district of Michigan for soy.
eral years in congress, died suddenly on
Wednesday at his home at Hllsdac, from the
rupture of blood vessel in the BRAIN Ho was
prominent banker, business man and repub-
lican politician IN his section Of the state for
the past twenty-five years.
THE remains of General Torbert will he
buried from Trinity church, New York, on tho
22d instant, the body arriving from Jackson
willie on the 2lst. The pall-bearcrs win be
Generals Franklin, Alex. Webb, A. G. McCook,
J. NJ. Schodeld, Fry, Mcclellan aud shaler.
West Point special traiu will convey the
body to Milford Del. General Fitzpatrick
and Colonel Wharton of lIancock's staff will
follow tho rcmains Of this gallant soldier to
their final resting place.
A DISPATCH from SprnGold, H., say Gen.
eral Bushr0d Johnson diod at his farm ut
Brighton, MacOupin county last Saturday.
General Johuson WIS born ia Ohio in 1917,
WAS graduated from the West Point military
academy, and served In tho Mexican war as a
lieutenant. At its close he resigned and be-
came professor at r military institute in
Nashville. At the breaking out of the civil
war he entered the confederate army as brga-
dior-general aud was promoted to the rank Of
msjorgencml in 1868. He participated in
many Of the important battles, such Mis-
siouUry Ridge, Shiloh aud ChickamsuUa, and
surrendered ut Fredericksburg. After the
war he resumed his pIofessorship lu the mill
tary academy Mt Nashville.