National Republican., 1880-07-21
PERSONAL.


COMMODORE $. C. ROWAN, U. 8. N, is al
Saratoga.
Mas. SHERMAN has left Oakland for Bcrke-
ley Springs, w. Va.
THE body Of Thomas Ovens the PhiladcI-
phia postal agent drowned at squan beach. has
been recovered.
NJ. CnEvREUL Of Paris Is ninety.lve years
old aud has just begun course of lectures
on chemistry.
PRINCE GUNrHER III. Of Schwaizburg. Som
dcrshausen has abdicated in favor of his son,
because he has become blind.
TIE widow Of William Bullock has re-
ceivod two IN lion dollars from Hoe & Co.,
for the patents Of her husband
COLONEL WILLIAM CALDER, one of tho
wcalthiest and most prominent citizens of
Harrisburg, died there on Monday.
REV. Mr.. KEMBLE, secretary of the Ameri-
can Truct society, was stricken with paralysis
in tho pulpit last Sunday at Highlands Mass.
MILE. SARAH BERNHARDT is learning Eng
lish in the hope Of getting fat on IL, BECAUSE
she says, the English swallow half their
words
CARDINAL McCLosKEY will arrive in New
port on Thursday as guest Of the family of his
friend, the late w. e. Caldwell of New York,
and will remain there several weeks.
PROFESSOR r. b. FERGUSON of Baltimore,
Of tho United States fish commission, has ar.
rived at the McCurdy villa, Newport.
Ex-JUDGE STEPHEN I. LOGAN of Illinois
died on Saturday last in Springfield, in that
state, at the age Of cighty.onc years. lie was
ut Que time a law partner of President Lincoln.
Mr.. JACOB BRINKERHoFE, agod seventy
years, died at Mansfield, Ohio, on Sunday. He
WAS the author OF the original draft of tho
famous Wilmot proviso, and was Judge of the
~ of 10 -
SENATOR RoscoE CoNKLING and Hon. Chos-
ter A. Arthur are at the Crossmon house.
Alexandria bay, N. Y. Senator S. w. Dorsey
and family are also guests at the Crossmon,
where the senator's family arc spending the
summer.
COLONEL TIcHENoR, the efficient chief OF
| tho quartermaster's division, third auditors
office, leaves to-day for vacation, and will
visit his old home and friends in California.
Although his mission is in 10 sense a political
one, Colonel Tichenor's woll-known republican
principles will doubtless find vent during his
sojourn on the Pacific coast.
WHILE DIR. Carver, tho famous American
maIksman, eXcites the greatest onth usiasm in
the court of Berlin, where he has received q
splendid testimonial from Kaiser Wilhelm,
grand shooting contest is being opened ut
Vienna by the Society of United Rinomen Of
Austria. DR.. Carver next Coca to Austria to
contond with the famous Tyrolese.
MEssRs. MAX STRAKoscH and C. d. Hess
are said to have secured. for their season of
English grand o. ia, Marie Rose, Rosc Hcrseo,
Stella Bopheur, Arturo Byron, Peregrini,
Augustus Montegriho, W. T. Carleton, Braga,
George A. Conley aud Pealtcs. Bchrons and
Novelli are to direct tho music The season
will begin on November 10, in Boston.
Mr.. EDWIN BoorH is now at The lakes OF
Killarney. He will visit Scotland and Wales
aud expects 10 arrive in London in September,
whence he will 20 to Germany. where he
may fulfill an engagement in Berlin. Mr..
Booth has not accepted any engagement in
London, although he has been solicited by
several managers and numerous influential
gentlemen to appear there next winter.
FREDERICK BARNARD, aged nine years, rode
n largo Newfoundland dog into the canal at
Elenville, N. Y, on Sunday last The boy fell
off and sank. The dog dove twice for him,
but as he was naked could not bring him out.
The dog gave warning and the body wis re-
covered. few days before the dog had res
oued boy by soizing his hand with his
mouth.
OF distinguished visitors therc arc already
many in Newport. Mr.. G. de Bildt, OF the
Swedish legation, has u cottage; Mr.. Eugene
Bluhdorn, first secretary Of the Austrian lega-
tion; Mr.. Victor A. w. Drummond, charge
d'afiaires of Great Britain; Mr.. Fred Adams,
his secretary of legation; Mr. Lucis Polo do
Bernale, secretary of the Spanish legation;
Count G. CALI OF Italy, aud Ex-Governor
Hamilton Fish are all there; aud the Princess
Cenc, Yiscount Dalrymple, Sir Iatton and
Lady Sykes, Lord Pagct, General Joe john
ston and Cardinal McCloskey arc expected.