National Republican., 1880-08-03
PERSONAL

| GENERAL MALONE has become con valescent
and has returned to tho llygcia hotel, Old Point.
Major John f. Simpson, general manager OF
the Vandaia railroad died at st. Louis ycster.
day.
GENERAL HAwLEY Is candidate for Tho
United States senate in Connecticut, to succeed
Eaton.
Archbishop GIBBONS Of Baltimore. who Ia
now in London, will sail for home on the 9th
instant
Mn. GLADSTONE tho British premier whose
chill has alarmed all England, is saventy.one
years old
SPEAKER RANDALL and Congressman Nc.
Lain and Honkle OF Maryland are guests at
the National.
fire at Rcd Bluff, CAL, yesterday destroyed
an entire block of buildings. Loss, 100000.
Insurance, $4,000.
Tho automatic whistle buoy that driftod 10
sea from Brigantino shoals has been replaced
| by government vessel.
SPEAKER RANDALL, who is at his summer
| home in Easttown, Chester county, Penn, has
been i'll for several days.
The Lutheran church, four frame houses
aud several stables at Fairyicw, Pa wore
burned yesterday afternoon.
Two thousand people attended the Island
Heights, n. j., camp-meeting on Sunday. The
meeting will close Oh Friday.
General James Il. Mcbride has resigned tho
secrotaryship of the United States Labor
| League, and 1t has been accepted.
John Mcbride, a seaman from tho steamer
Niagara, died Of yellow fever at the New York
quarantine station yesterday morning.
COLONEL J. BoDTNE, tho captain of the
American rifle team, arrived in New York on
the steamer City Of Chester yesterday.
CAPTAIN t. w. BRADY (oditor of the Mum
cie, Indiana, DUTY Tines aud Frank Horner
M I1aFl aI a ia
house.
Five companies of tho Twenty.hfth infantry
reached Yankton, Dakota, yesterday from
Texas aud were forwarded TO Forts Randall
and Meade.
SECRETARY RAMSAY, Adjutant General
Drum aud Colonel Barr left ST. Johns N b.
yesterday on their return to Washington via
Portland, Ne.
Fifty hands arc thrown out of employment
by the burning of Moad & Wetzel's basket fac
tory at Riccvlio, n. j., yesterday. Loss by
the fire, $4,000.
BLoODGooD II. CUTTER known as the Long
Island Farmer Poet and as the Poet Lariat"
in Mark Twain's "InnOcents Abroad" died in
London last Thursday.
Mrs. SARAH b. ii. GREBLE, the widow Of
Lieutenant Grebo, the first regular officer
who fell during the war at Great Bethel, died
in New Haven last week.
i SOLONEl ION MURPHY $ l0te mission 10 thu
city WAS, 1t is said, to got a young man named
Mercer appointed second.licutenant in tha
army, in which he succeeded.
PARKER PILLsBURY of Concord, n H.. who
. has out lived nearly all of his old ant.slavery
associates, is now about seventy-ons years Of
age, but does not appear to be over fifty.
FIRST ASSISTANT PosTNfAsTER-G ENERAI
TYNER returned TO Washington yesterday
, from the Jordan Alum and White SulphuI
Qt,Nf nf ftpfa L., =
ing a Two weeks vacation.
, SENATOR KIRKwoop of Iowa IL going ints
Indiana to take the stump. He is a most Of
fcctivo speaker, kccu-witted, homply and dr.
/ rect, recommending himself TO the affections
of plain people wherever he goes.
COLONEL ALBERT p. Morrow, major Of the
/ Ninth cavalry; Fhst.Lieuteuant William IL.
BiXby, corps OF engineers, and First-Lieuten-
ant Rogers Bilnic, jr., ordnance corps, have
been appointed to observe the manGuvres OF
= the French army this fall.
GENERAL GARFIELD is expected in Buffalo
tomorrow. Several prominent republicans
: will accompany him, The party will be well
! coined ut Buffalo by tho enthusiastic republi-
cans of the city. General GARFIELD is on his
way TO New York w attend the conference on
: tho 9th.
GENERAL J. A. WILLIAMSON, commissioner
, of the general land otiicc lcit Washington yes
! terlay TO spend weeks vacation in New
York state. The president has designated
Mr.. MyrOn L. n. Howell as acting comniis-
soner during the temporary absence Of Gem
| cral Williamson.
GENERAL CoNNoR, tho old.timo enemy OF
Brigham Young, is q candidate for United
States senator in Nevada. lie entered Utah
with handful of troops under his command,
secured the location since known rs Camp
Douglas, started newspaper and opened a
mine in defiance of Mormon rule.
IN an article on William Lloyd Garrison, iu
} the International Reriep for August, Colonel
Higgiuson says: His reasoning marched like
an army without banners; his invuctive was
scathing but as it was always scriptural it
I did not carry an impression Of personal anger,
D but simply seemed like a new chapter Of
Ezekiel
AMONG tho newest arrivals from Europe
are the Marquis du Quosne, General Pola-
vicja OF the Spanish army, Lord Fitzroy
Somerset son OF the Duke OF Bcauiort Mr.. aud
Mrs Woodbury. Laugdon, Mr.. and Mrs A. A.
Low, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Torrance, Sir John
RAY Reid, Viscount Merlin, Prince Cam
/. porali and the Duke and Duchess dc Castel-
luco
+ THE estate left by the late Bloomfield II.
E AIoero, the Philadelphia papor manufacturers.
) ia valued by tho executors W S5,527 1896 0f
} principal aud $2O4, 33l 80 of accumulated iiI-
: come. Mrs Moore inherited the whole of this
| estate for tho term Of hUr natural lilo, subject
c to such division as she chooses to make bo-
tween the three children, Ella, married IN
Count Won Kosrn Of Stockholm; Clarence
Moore, now at Harvard, aud Lillian Moore, tho
unmarried daughter
Il GOVERNOR ORpWAY has reached DoadwoOd,
J where he was received by the populaco with
becoming houors, though IN Il somewhat infOr-
, NAL manner. A procession headed by Il band,
l consisting OF Gre companies and citizons in
carriages, met the governor short disaLco
outside thu city and escorted him to hiH
hotel in the midst Of the firing OF cannon aud
the hurlahs of the people. Tho governor
made brief address thanking the people for
having thus distinguished his arrival among
! them.
WILLIAM FANNING WICKuAM died at his
: residence in Hanover county, Virginia, On
Saturday last, aged eighty'seven years. For
years previous to the lato war Mr., NGkham
was strong union man and frequently plc-
dicted the disastrous consequences of rebel
lion, After the war broke out he sided with
: his state He was tho father of General w.
: G. Wickhaa, who is a leading republican OF
l Virginia. Tho family is ono of the oldest
in Virginia, and is connected with many OF
the most lamous families.
!. OF the recent sermon in Westminster alb
4 hey by the Rov. Phillips Brooks, d. d., tho
F. London C6,isia,i World says "A vast con-
, grogalon a!lod the grand old abbey, and the
! preacher was an eloquent stranger, Mr. Brooks
whose voice Is clear and firm, and II nos
. musical almost free from the nasal peculiArlty