National Republican., 1880-11-25
PERSONAL.

| HANLAN will sail for New York on December g
| Hon. BEN BUTTERwoRTH OF Ohio is at the Ebbitt.
| EX-SENATOR MORRILL, Of Maine is in failing
| health.
GoyEHyoE,EtEcr BIoEtow of Connecticut is m
with typhoid fever.
| IT Is getting 10 bo pretty evident that Senator
| Bainc's hand Is at work In Ohio.
SENATOR DAVIS Of wcst Virginia Is building a
| railroad up the north branch OF the Potomac river.
! EN.CoLLECroR SIMMONS OF Boston hns made
fortune Of SG0)o00 and says he Is "out Of poiticH
GoyERNoH HoYr OF Pennsylvania Is 50 much
under the weather that he is Obliged to keep In The
| house.
A REPORTER Of Truth says General Hancock
bought 1900 copies of the paper with the Morey
| forgery IN a.
| THE principal proprietor Of the Philadelphia
Press denies that he is candidate for United States
senator from Pcnnsylyania.
| p. 7. BAESuM has been il for several days IN
| Now YORK. HIS condition has been critical, but
he Is now thought 90 be out Of danger
iT Is considered n singular coincidence that the
late Lord Chiei.Jusilce COckburn, in expressing
his admiration for the new law courts building
added ~ shall never live to SIT there"
ASSISTANT SECRETARY or STATE JoHN HAY aud
John q. NicUlay, both Of whom were private Sec
retaries at the White House during Mr. LnColns
administration say that IL will be year at loast
before their Joint biography Of Lincoln Is ready
! for publication.
GENERAL PATTERSON OF PENNSYLVANIA, now In
his nneteth year, Is the only survivor among tho
officers Of tho United States army who took part in
| tho war Of 1872. lie also served ia the Mexican
Il
The government IN 1851.
| A GREAT many Colorado people have never be.
| lieycd that the Indian Johnson reported killed by
young Jackson, was dead and IL is now positively
| asserted that he is aliyo ana well. A telegram 10
the Sunday Denver papers asserts that he has been
seen and recognized positively by Mr.. j. c. Howe
ard, who has just returned from the Ute country
| A QUAINT and tender little anec iote Of Ms.
| Incrctia Mott Is related IN Hnpd's Weekly. Tho
writer, when passing Oh the roadside one dag the
stone wall of her country home near Philado pha,
saw ranged ON the top Of IL rows OF apples aud
! pears. There had been more than enough OIL tho
! trees for hmily needs, and the swcehenrtcd Old
! Quaker grandmother had placed these treasures
ION the wall for the stranger children who passed
Mss MiSYtE A. srgAouE Of Newark. Ohio. the
althoress Of that phcuumcuully popular novel
An Earnest Tnner' arrived In Washington yes
! terdly morning, accompanied by her brother. and
| registered at Wlards. Mss SpruBuo, according to
rumor. is engaged upon another work, TO be pub
lished in the early spring. 1t Is rather remarkable
! that OHIO, besides having q monopoly OF the bus-
ness of furnishing presidents not 70 speak of her
wholesale trade in supplying the brightest Jour
naliats, statesmen, m0gl2iuists etc, should have
furnished light literature with III c two most popu-
| lar and readable books OF last ycUr-MuuU
sprngues An Earnest rrIler' and Ca,ista Hal.
! scy's Two Of U.s."
! A PRIVATE dinner party IN honor Of General
Grant was given Tuesday evening az he New York
| Union League club house by ES-Judge Charles a.
| General Grant, General Chester A. Arthur, Gov.
! ernOr Cornell, Peter Cooper, EX.Aliuster slough
| ton John Jacob Astor President Barnard of Co
| lumbia college benjamin III. Field, Clarence A.
Seward, William Alien Butler, Ex-Governor Alex
| andcr II. Bullock Of Massachusetts, Ex-senator
Chailec, Professor Vinccn2p liotia, General Adam
Badeau, the Rev. Dr. Peabody Of Harvard unlver
| sity,Colonel Fisher A. Baker, Judge Blaiohiord.
| Judge Hunt of Washington, Judge Noah Davis,
Dormnn b. Eaton, Edwards PicTGpont and Rev.
| J. Z. Newman. ThurlOw Weed was present fOt
q few minutes In the course Of the evening Tho
| guests sat down at the table AT o'clock. No for
NAL speeches were made General Garfield, who
had been invited by telegraph 10 be present sent
his regrets in q long and cordial telegram. Among
| the invited guests who were unublotO be present
were William NJ. EyOrtS, Hamilton Fish, Roscoe
COnkling, Frederic De Peystor, Theodore Komcyn
of Detroit, John j. Cisco and Judge Daniels