National Republican., 1880-12-10
PERSONALITIES.

GARIDALDI's body, below the waist, is
almost inscnsiblc.
III. L. MoREY, the modern Moses. No
ono knowcth Of his sepulchre unto this day.
Mr.. r. r. SPRINGER, of Cincinnati, is
lying dangerously Ill at his residence in that city.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, NJ. p, is writing a
novel and also the history of the first reform period
NOTWITHSTANDING the withdrawal of
tho Passion Play, Its manager is not ruined
Abbey
NJ FURTADo, of Paris, is the largest in
divldual creditor of France. Ho owns $4,000 900 Of
the public debt.
Miss JULIET CoRsoN is soon to cook q
fish dinner for party of gentlemen who advocate
heavy fish diet.
MINISTER ANDREW ID. WHITE is visiting
Paris, the Berlin Legation remaining in charge of
Mr. Sidney Everett.
SENATOR JoE Brown, Of Georgia, is tall
and angular, with a bald head, snllow COM
ploxion and long white whiskcrs.
GENERAL HARTRANFT, Collector of Gus
toms at Philadelphia is the strictest dlscpllnarian
ever at the head of that Department.
CONGRESSMAN HENDRIcK b. WRIGHT is
too III to leave home, and he doesn't expect to
i'"Nu ui'i uiNSA NhS hbAiNnss'
CLARA MoRRTs has received an offer, by
cable, from Mr.. Barrett, of the Court Theatre Lon
don to take the leading characters in some new
plays,
COLONEL JOIN S. MosDY writes from
Hong Kong to a friend in Alexandria, Va, that he
certainly will arrive in this country about the 1st
of February.
You will find an Irishman in almost
every army in the world. There's oThcllo, Mike
Cassio Cory o'Lanus, and many others too numer-
Gus to mention.
TIE Atlanta Constitution says that John
A. Logan keeps trained billy goat in his front
yard, whose duty 1t Is to examine and digest un-
| friendly newspapers.
ARCHIBALD FORBES is lecturing in the
United States on "Kings l Have Met" Forbes
must, at some sad period Of his life, have held
queens against the kings he met.
EMMA ABBoTr's husband says that she
has never taken cold while saying her prayers.
There is nothing strange about this Thousands
of Chicago people can say the same thing of them
selves.
EDWARD THORNTON, JR., son of the Brit
sh Ambassador Mt Washington, has just graduated
from the University of Cambridge, and will enter
| upon diplomatic career at our national capital
|
TIE announcement that Senator Lamar
will not take his scat this session Is without foun
dation At present he is in feeble health, but i'm.
proving, and will certainly occupy his scat this
session, unless n complete change III his present
physical condition takes place.
A CHILD with double nose has been
born to Mrs. Bernard, of Friendship, Allegheny
County Pa. This child will be of great service to
the sewing societies of Friendship. 1t isn't every
child that can put two noses into other peoples
busness.-Ncio York Commercial ADVERTISER
THOMAS j. FITZGERALD, of Trenton, ar
rived in the city yesterday as bearer of the electoral
vote of the State of New jersey, in company with
Hon Randolph ii. Moore, county clerk of Mercer
| County, New jersey. He visited the Vice.Presl
dent at the Capitol and delivered his document
Hon. EZRA B. TAYLOR, elected TO Con
gress as the successor Of General Garfield for bot
vacancy and regular term, is in the city, accom-
panied by his brilliant and cultivated daughter
They are located ut $40 Twelfth street. Judge Tay
lors mai lorlty exceeded that of any other member
of Congress in the Union.
VENNoR, the man who is responsible
for all this cold weather, is blarsted furriner,
graduate Oft the department of applied science II
MCGill College, Montreal. What right has he to b'
introducing Canadian weather into the Unitct
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to raise our own ice without outside help.
RECORDER HACKETT, of New York
crushed outtho garroters ofthat city by sentence
twenty years confinement in the penitentiary OF
conviction, The present recorder, Smythc has dc
tcrmined to make robbery from the person oquall,
odous He sentenced a street robber on Monda!
to fftcen years imprisonment and says ho will d
So oyery time.
ONE hundred years ago to-day the fol
lowing marriage notice might have appeared in al
Albany newspaper: Manied-On December o. a
the residence of the brides father, by the Rev
Eliarous Westerlo, d. d., Alexander Hamilton
lleutenantcoloncl in the revolutionary army an,
aldede.camp to General Washington to Elizabeth
daughter of MnjorGeneral Philipschuyler."
THURLow WEED describes Aaron Bur
as "quite small man, very graceful In movement
and courteous in demeanor small hand an
foot; not spirited or dashing at all, but his mar
nes were full ofrepose and his voice was sot AM
musical. He would strike one at first as bein
slightly elemlnato, but he was not so; he was
bold, strong, capable man. In conversation, I'll
the last ten years of his life, he was brilliant.