National Republican., 1880-12-09
PERSONALITIES,

BEN Butler heads the elevated railway
scheme in Boston.
The whole country says "Thats it'll"
70 the CaptainGeneral suggestion.-Neto Yorl
Tribune.
VENNoR predicts seventeen hours Of
snow, with depth Of eleven feet, on December
q, 1880.
NATHAN BARNES GREELEY, brother Of
Horace Greeley, is a poor farmer In q barren part
Of Pennsylvania.
EMILE CREM1EUx, the authority in
France upon all matters relating 10 the turf, has
Just died in Paris.
CHARLES A. DANA thinks that, Of Ameri-
can poets, Emerson and Walt Whitman win have
the most enduring fame.
Bishop QUINTARD, of Tennessee, will
build a house at Rugby and make his home there
at Tom Hughes's request.
IT is said that David Davis never hangs
his stocking up Christmas for fear Santa Claus
would take II for -four sack.
Rev. JOSIAH HANSON, Harriet Beechcr
Stoves original "Unclc Tom," is to have a new
$500 church at Dresden, ont.
The centre of target is called the
bulrseye. It is becfhitting name. This is by
Colonel A. 4. Rockwell. He's excused.
BosToN will now proceed to stand on its
head before the Bernhardt-Brootiyn Union Argus.
That's more than Bcrnhardt dare do before Boston.
BARNUM has gone to Colorado. If any
suggestion of ours would be well received by that
good man, 1t would be that he go about 5000 miles
further west and sit down.
Ex-PREsTDENT GRANT, President Hayes,
anil nt.aIo do ornn inv In
ent at the annual dinner of the New England So
ciety in New York, to be given this month.
TuADDEus STEvENs's estate in Pennsyl-
vania is now nearly settled, and 1t is believed that
there will be enough to pay the bequcst Of $4,000
for the founding of asylum for orphan children.
TIE ex-Goyernors of New York now
alive are Hamilton Fish, Horatlo Seymour, Myron
II. Clark, Edwin d. Morgan Reuben e. Fcnton,
John H. Hoffman, Samuel j. Tilden, and Lucus
Robinson.
GENERAL GONZALES, the new President
of Mexico, has been nearly fourycars separated
from his wife, who is not merely beautiful
woman but unusually bright, intelligent, and well
educated.
SECRETARY OF WAR RAMSEY was a
school-teachcr at Kutztown, Pa, in 1898. He fell
in love with Kutztown girl and asked her to
as lean as CRATES neck.
CONGRESSMAN WARD, of Chester, intends
to ask Congress to erect n monument to General
Lafayette on the battle-ground of Brandywine,
where the gallant Frenchman was wounded while
| fighting in behalf of American liberty.
Poor BREssANT the once famous actor
of the Comcdie Franchise, is now so poor man
that he is forced to sell all his pictures, bricabrac
&C., aud go into the country to live. The old
man is said to be utterly broken down, white
haired, sunkcn.eyed wreck, whose intellect has
gone with his fortune.
GENERAL GRANTS success rs an after
dinner speaker leads the Pail Nal Gazette to say
a. The circumstances in which he thus showed forth
as q speaker might well induce him to say his say
The Republic has not been ungrateful to the man
who, whatever his SHORTCOMINGS as a strategist
never despaired of success in the time oftral; and
todo General Grant justice he threw personal piquC
aside and worked for his party during the late
election with loyalty that shamed some of his
| own supporters"