National Republican., 1880-09-03
PERSONAL.

TuE recent census Of England proves that
the Joncscs arc more numerous than tho
Smiths.
ARouBrsuop GIBBONS is expected to arrive
In Baltimore on his return from Europe TO.
morrow.
Is a jumping metch at the Twin Mountain
house % day or two ago Honry Ward Beecher
jumped seven feet.
CnAR LIE vs. wah YclS, Min Quah Tom
Kc1 aud John Zoo Is the title Of lawsuit to
be tried IN Cincinnati
! A CONNECTtCUT woman who died recently.
aged thirty five. gave birth to four pairs OF
| twins within nine years.
CARDINAL NEWMAN says that II Is almost
a definition Of q gentleman TO say he Is one
who never unnecessarily inilicts pain.
GENERAL GRANT says he has positively ro.
fused the presidency OF the Ia Vega Mining
company, which was recently offered him.
SENATOR J. D. CAMERON aud wife Of Penn.
sylvania arc the guests Of Senator Burnside,
ut his rustic summer retreat at Bristol II. |.
IT is announced that James p. Voorhees,,
a son Of Senator voorhees,, has just been re-
ceived uto the catholic church at Terrc IIautc,
Iud.
EX.GovERNoR PIERPoNT of West Virginia
has accepted an invitation to address the re-
publican ratification meeting ut Kcyser to-
| morrow.
| A MAN called on General Hancock on
| Wednesday and asked him for money to spend
in painting tho names Hancock aud English
on a canal boat, He did not get the money.
b. A. RicH, a wealthy student Of Wesleyan
university ut Middletown, Conn, who grudu.
ated in June, has married Mis- Iaggerty, the
| pretty serving maid at the college clubs table.
| WILLIAM GGLLrM eighty years Of nge, an
old and wcll'knUwn citizen Of Emottsburg,
| Nd, was found on Wednesday dead in a
room of his son Dayid's house, where he had
| hung himself. No cause is assigned for the act.
THE wedding of u s. Grant .ir., and Miss
! Flood Of san francisco will not take place
until after the Christmas holidays. Mr. Grant
is now visiting General Miller, one of the can
dida,es for United States senator from Cali
| folnia.
AMONG the people registered at Saratoga arc
Congressman \. $. Cox, General Cooke, Z. s.
| A., Ex-Governor Seymour Baron Fresen,
| Princess dIslra, General &. *. Graham, Mr..
| w. d. Washburn of Minnesota, and Admiral
| Porter.
THE reported suicide from n Philadelphia
ferryboat Of the Rev. d. NJ. De Hughes is
| thought to be another Buchanan affair. His
wife believes ho has run away with young
woman. Since his disappearance very hard
stories are told of him.
| IN British pocrage list appears 49s names,
| OF which date from the thirteenth century,
| 8 from tho fourteenth century, IL from the
ffteonth century, 20 from the sixteenth cen.
| tnry, 81 from the seventeenth century, 119
from the eighteenth century aud 27l from the
nineteenth century.
The many friends of the countess of DUFF
| ferin, both In this country and in Canada, will
| learn with pleasure from special dispatch
from st. Petersburg chat tie accounts other
| dangerous illness recently published in the
| English press have been exaggerated, and that
she Is now rapidly recovering.
| The following have boon appointed gaugors
| by the internal revenue bureau: Luther j.
Young and Peyton 4. Lehman, fifth North
| Carolina district; George A. Fox aud G.. w.
| Ware, second Georgia district II. w. Flick of
Arkansas and James N. Tarner, storekeepers
and gaugers fifth North Carolina district.
| FIVE officers of the Twenty-third British
| Infantry are said to have been married since
| that regiment was under orders for India, and
| these devoted couples have no intention of be.
ing separated, all the brides having agreed to
meet and have taken their berths in II steamer
| which will sail about tho same time as their
brIdegrooms leave England, and join them IN
| Iudia.
The Rev. DR.. Roswell d. Hitchcock, senior
| professor of the Union theological seminary,
assisted by the Rev. DR.. William j. Tucker
aud tho Rev. Charles II. Parkhurst, will con-
duct the services at the funeral of the late
Rev. DIR. William Adams, to be held in tho
Madison Square presbyterian church, New
| York, to-day at 10 O'clock. The body will be
| buried in the Mount Auburn cemetery, near
| Boston.
Mr., CHARLES B. HARE, foreman of the lab.
oratory In the assay department of tho United
States mint In Philadelphia, completed fifty
years ofservice there on Monday last. In tho
evening at his residence u lull.ensth portrait
ofthe president was presented to him, accom-
panied with au autograph letter from Mr..
Hayes congratulsting him on his half.century
| of honorable service Mr. Hare attends to
lie Inn aa laNlN ,altn hn E,1N
| tered the employ Of the government.
The English pilgrimage to the shrine OF
Lourdes has been undertaken "in reparaton
| to the immaculate mother of God, and to in1-
| plore her inlercesson with tho sacred heart of
her Son for the conversion Of sinners, for the
return of England aud Scotland to tho faith,
and for France" IL will be headed by Car.
diual Manning, and the banner of St. George,
the patron saint of England, will be borne by
tho Duko OF Norfolk. The date of departure
will probably bs either tho 5th or the 9th Of
September.
THEODORE DE BAUvILLE says: "rhe Paris.
ian has created for herself youth which ID
the result of will and which lasts thirty years.
for 1t requires that timo NJ least TO arrive at
the completion of tho charming aud astonlsh-
ing being she is. And l insist upon It that
this magic docs not consist In painting and
hiding the wrinkles in replacing the hair
that has fallen, the flesh that has withered,
DWt IN having nOthlnR OF tDht AL hll. Inc true
Parisian-and therein lies her strength
knows neither the hair merchant, nor the
dentist, nor tho porfumer, and washes herself
with pure water, like sister Of religion
MRS, MARGARET ROWAN, tho wife Of
Michael Rowan of Laurel Hill l.. l., died
recently, aud her remains arc 10 be buried
at Hagorstown, Nd, beside the graves Of her
two brothers. Mrs Rowan, who is said to have
been niece Of tho lato Archbishop Hughes,
was person of extraordinary will power.
After the battle Of Fredericksburg she sought
among the slain for tho body of her brother,
who Was member of the Sixty.ninth regi.
ment. She found his body beneath the his
toric stone wall, rlddod with bullets aud had
IL conveyed to Hagerstown. On the batte-
field at Antietam she held another brother in
her arms whilo the surgeon amputated his
shattered arm. This brother also died, and
WAS buried by his sister at Hsgerst0wn. Mrs.
Rowan expressed wish to be buried beside
hor brothers.
The Rev. Dr. Oliver Ellsworth Daggctt was
found dead in his house at Hartford Conn, at
an early hour on Wednesday morning, lie
was Tho son of Daniel Daggott, who became
chief Justice OF Connecticut in 1882. lie was
bonn at New Haven on january H. 1910, and
was graduated at Yale college In 1925. lie
was ordained April IL, 1887, us pastor Of the
South church, Hartford, aud for nearly twenty.
three years was pastor Of the Second congroga.
tiOuul church ut Cuuaudaiguu, n. Y. lie then
held thu p,itlOn oI proIt gsfl' Uf divinity in