National Republican., 1880-09-09
PERSONAL.

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tralian trip.
TnE 1rst pumpkin pics Of autumn are OF AZ
old gold color.
MooDY says that II is very hard to report
tho Holy Spirit"
Bishop SIMPSON Of the methodist church
remains in California.
SENATOR WILLIAM A. WALLACE of Penn
sylyauia is at Willard's.
THE widow of the late Senator Morton Of
Isdiana is ia San Francisco.
Miss CLARA Cole of this city will try star.
ring with company Of her own.
Mrs. LANGTRY, tho Jersey lily, talks of go
ing on the stage Let it ond in talk, please.
WILL the ladies please wear low bridge
bonnets when they visit the theaters this sea-
soul
SENATOR DAVIS of West Virginia arrived In
! Washington yesterday, aud registered at tho
| Arlington.
IT is reported that Lew Benedict will soon
marry wealthy widow OF indianapolis. Lew
does not believe in warnings.
! WAsrINGToN MCLEAN OF the Cincinnati
Enquirer, was sufficiently recovered TO leave
Long Branch yesterday for his home.
Mn. GEORGE LAW is seriously i'll with fever
aud under the care of his old family physician,
at his country place near Cambridge, n. Y.
CAPTAIN l. N. BURRIrr. editor Of tho Sunday
Herald, arrived in tho city yesterday, after u
sgjourn ofseveral weeks ut the Bedford Springs,
Pa.
WIDOW BEN BUTLER is going abroad, and
| Mrs. Lnngtry and the other famous beauties
over there are warned to look out for their
laurols.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL DRUM does not be-
lieve that General Miles has been selected to
fill the vacancy occasioned by tho death Of
General bIyer
They have a Northumberland vocalist
out in Montana whose favorte song is dance
Me On Your Knee, My Darling" Very few
accept the offer.
| SoTHERN has recently successfully under
gone two painful operations at the hands Of
surgeons in London, aud ut latest accounts was
improving in health.
Mrs. KATE L. RoBINsoN has returned
from her visit to Fortress Monroe Va, much
improved in health and highly delighted with
that popular summer resort.
The wife of l.. A. Woodward Of Norwalk,
| Conn., of the old Tweed ring. sues in tho
Fairfield county court for divorce on tho
ground OF cruelty asking for $4,000 alimony.
| The young duke Of Newcastle, aged sixteen,
| is anxious to marry, and Is down on the list Of
| Baron Pollock for a hearing, tho assent Of the
court to his marriage as an infant being neCcs-
sa,y.
The subscription list for tho Sarah Bern
hardt season in New York will be opened ut
Booths theatre ON Friday, October /, ut 2
| p. M, when the boxes will be put up at auc-
| tiOn.
| EX GOVERNOR AMEs, it is announced, has
dropped politics aud betaken himself to tho
practice OF the law. He is a son-n.law Of Ben
Butler, and such an exnm pie is enough to dis.
gust any ono with politics
| GERTsrER, the opera singer, is very proud
of her baby, Its voice in the upper register
is very iino, and its sustained notes, as heard
in the middle of tho night, are something
unusual for one so young.
Mr.. HENRY L. ABBEY intends to Introduce
The OOerammereau nassi9n ri"y 90 'ho Kew
| ork public, opening at Booths theatre inn
mediatc!y after the close Of the Sarah Bern
hardt season at that house.
JOHN MCCULLoUGu, Lawrence Barrett and
Thomas W. KCene will play against each
other at Chicago the FIRST week in October
q conjunction of legitimate stars such rs has
rarely happened of late years.
The lato j. A. Jaokson's statue of "The
Reading Grip has been purchased by Cam
bridge university. Mr. Luunt Thompson il
in Florence ana is modelling female figure
which he calls "Ihe Wbito Captive
THE New York Grcphic of Tuesday is au-
thority for saying that Thurlow Weod's ILL
ness is more serious than has been thong ht,
and his friends do not regard his recovery As
possible, though he may lingor for some time
| to come.
MAJOR F. NJ. CLARKE of Iowa, who had but
just returned from Maine, left last evening for
Indiana, where he will take the stump for Gar
field, Thence he will so to New Jersey and
New York Major Clarke is pleasing and
effective speaker and will do yeomRn service
for the cause.
Mr. jonathan HARP the oldest inhaLt-
ant OF Sussex county, Va, died recently as
tho advanced ago of ninety-nino years. fyo
months aud seventeen days. Deceased was u
soldier Of 1872, and received a pension up to
the time Of his death. He retained his health
and mental faculties 10 the last.
| Mr., A. BRONSON ALcorT, the Boston Courier
says was several years ago invited to give 10
lecture ut Great Falls. He took the train at
Boston, and when tho conductor came to him
iunocently said 81 have no money. l am
going to Great Falls to deliver a lecture, aud
win pay you when l como back" The con-
ductor, recognizing the honest simplicity of
| his passenger, allowed him to pass.
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON is one of the
most graceful visitors at the watering-place of
Ax-les- Dans this year. She does not mako
herself conspicuous in any way, always dressing
in the simplest possible manner, in strange
contrast with the exaggerated toiettcs about
her. On the ground that charity begins at
home, aud that she is at AK for rest, she has
refused to sing for a benevolent object.
MIR. JOHN II. BRowE long aud favorably
known as Ru omploye Of tho treasury depart
ment, was united in marriage last evening ut
Alexandria TO Miss Blanche S. Mcguire OF
that city, The ceremony was performed at
the First Baptist church, which was filled by
the friends Of the contracting parties Tho
bride was neatly and prettily attired and tho
handsome young couple start in lifo with the
best wishes Of q large circle of acquaintances.
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Honith from Two standpoints.
To ue Editor of The National RepuJhcdn:
SIR; For two or three days space in your