National Republican., 1880-09-11
PERSONAL.


THE English duke of Bedford has been made
n knight Of the garter.
| ADMIRAL McCLISTocu aud the officers OF
tho British fleet were given a grand naval
ball at Quebec Thursday night.
AIMEE Is said to have lost 100000 francs iu
| the last ten months, and thinks of returning
to this country to repair her fortune.
FREDERICK A. PRATT collector of fcustoms at
Newport, X. l., and editor and proprietor Of
the Newport lfeycu'y. died yesterday, in his
| iifty'fourth year
Ex-Governor WILLIAM SPRAGUEs counsel
expresses the opinion that an amcablc divorce
will be agreed upon by the cx. governor aud his
wife. Mrs. Kate Chase spraRue.
NJ. JULES NIcALET, the eminent French
lawyer, died in Paris yesterday at the age of
sixty.one. He had been retained by tho
jcsuitsin their actions Sgainst the government.
THE sentence of death passed by Minister
Maynard On Mirzon. an American citizen
| convicted Of murder in Egypt, has been COM
muted by President Hayes to imprisonment
for life.
COLONEL JouE NJ CARSON who has been In
Europe for the past two months for the New
York Times, has returned. He reports that
when he loft Paris Senator Morrill, was thero
quite III.
Mr.. CHARLES +. CRoCKER, vice.prcsident of
tho Southern Pacific railroad, and Miss Jennie
NJ. Easton. nicco of Mr.. ID. o. Mills were mar
ried on Tuesday night at "Milbi@" Mr.. Mills
country seat.
REV. DAN1EL L1HDLEY, who died at Morris.
town, N. j., Friday, aged eighty, was mis-
sionary in Zululand from 1895 to 1873 and ono
of the missionaries who sailed from Boston, De-
cember 3, 1884, In the bark Burlington, for
Cape Town.
A GENTLSrAN from Louisville KY, is build
ing Long Branch cottage In the Queen Ammo
style The floors are Of polished oak, except
in tho lower halls, where they arc of marble.
Tho woodwork is of mahogany and the walls
are of cork.
Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS pays tho
price Of her fame to ovcr-curious admirers.
Walking on the deserted beach the other day,
and asked If she were not afraid Of the ter
rife storm then raging, she replied, mo that
she preferred the voice Of God to that of tho
summer bOaTder."
FROM recent information 1t appears that
the death Of Henry w. Casey, son Of Colonel
| Casey, who was reported as having been
drowned at Naragansett pier ON the 1st instant,
was caused by accident his head having como
| In contact il is supposed, while diving with
AN open upright water.pipe, which was located
about six feet below low.water mark. His
face bore marks Of the contact, aud the pipo
was found detected to an angle OF forty-fvo
degrees.
RUSSELL BEARDsLEY OF North lansing,
Tompkins county, New York, has served
longer as postmaster than any other person in
the United States. He wus appointed to the
Office by President John Quincy Adams
in 1925, and has held it ever since Mr.
Beardsley is an active. bright little man, but
VOL developed aud preserved, both physically
aud mentally. His store, his Office and his books
are models of fneatness aud simplicity. A cor
respondent visited him recently and convorscd
with him about his political belief. Mr..
Beardsley said II am democrat since "a. L
voted for Jackson, aud never split ticket in
my life But, remember | didn't vote for
Greeley. / voted for O'Couor. Now am
president Of Hancock club"