National Republican., 1880-08-14
PERSONAL.

REPRESENTATIVE WARD of Phiadelphis Ia
In Washington.
SECRETARY RAMSEY left yesterday for Phil
adolphia, where he will spend day or two.
EX-SENATOR Dorsey Of Arkansas aud ex.
Senator Conover Of Florida are at Wilarl's.
Miss ABBTB CARRtNGroS, the faniom
soprano of New York, is stopping at the Eb.
bitt.
SENATOR WALLACE Of Pennsylvania Is 10
tho city looking over affairs at the domocrati,
headquarters
Hon. l.. G. HoUcK, memboI OF congress from
Tennessee, left here yesterday for Cape May
to spend short time TO recuporate his health.
The Ithaca Joarndl mentions among the
possibilities, the early resignation Of Minister
Andrew ID. White us president Of Cornell
university.
SECRETARY EvAErs, accompanied by hii
son. Prescott Eyarts, Jeff yesterday for his
place in Windsor, VT, where lie will remain
about throo weeks.
SENATOR MCMILLAN Of Minnesota arrived
in town yesterday and registered at the Eb-
bitt. lie reports Minnesota as fuirly alive
with enthusiasm for Garfield.
MISSES CARRIE and jessie Branham, who
were tho acknowledged bellies of tho National
hotel last winter in this city, are at this
Kimball house, Atlanta.
gess that DIR. Tanner ought to submit to
post-morLem examination. Dear, dear, how
difficult it is TO please everybody.
SENATOR PRYOR, of Alabama, who was APP
pointed by the governor to fill the vacancy Oc-
casioned by the death Of Senator Houston,
will not be candidate for recollection.
MAJOR ALBERT p. MORROW, Ninth cavalry,
and Lieutenamts W. II. Digby and Roger
Birnie, jr., Of the engineer and ordnance
n N,rI,
tSry of war 10 visij Franco and witness the
manguyres Of the French army, which take
place this autumn.
GENERAL WILLIAM BIENGB, late attorney
for the District, leaves Washington next Fri.
day for Maine TO engage actively in tho can
yGss in that state Thence ho will go to In
diana and Connecticut, in both of which states
he will do "yeomau's service for Garfield:
General Birnie Is q very iOrCble and effective
speaker and will no doubt materially advance
tho interests oil the cause in his "stumping"
| tour.
JAMES BRENNAN of Charleston, S. C.,
| formerly a prominent leader in the fonan
movement, has been selected by the republican
central committee as one of tho speakers 10
stump" Indiana. Mr.. Brennan is the prosi-
dent of the Irish Republican Club of Charleston
an organization numbering over one hundred
members. He is an able and attactiye speaker,
and being Intimately acquainted with most OF
tho leading Irish citizens in the lloosicr state
will be able 10 render effective service to tho
| republican cause.
A CURIOUS suicide is reported here as taking
| place at Motucheu, N. j., on Tuesday last.
Mrs Elizabeth Compton, an old lady near
ninety years of age, who waded into pond q
fow inches deep, laid down and was suilocatod.
She was Of weak mind. IIer stringest fancy
was one which found lodgmcut in her mind
soon after the Cincinnati convention. She
learned from the newspapers that General
! Hancock had had something TO do with Tho
| hanging OF 4 woman, and became possessed
| with constant fear that if Hancock was
elected he would Immediately seek her out
and hang her in order to get her property.
She was in the eiShty-nintI year OF her ago
at tho time Of her death.
LORD HENRY PAGEr's exploit in separating
| Mrs Annie Wetmore from her husband under
a solemn promise OF marriage as soon as she
| could obtain divorce is not likely to result
| happily fUr his ordship, Notwithstanding ghat
| Mrs. Wetmore preferred death 10 tho disgrace
ot dragging the case into the courts. The last
time she saw Lord PSget, II few weeks before
| ho abandoned her, he removed the VOWS he
| bad often made in his letters TO her, and put
an engagement ring on her finger. Although
| IN leaving her husband for him she lost COM
| Portable income, all the consolation ho offered
| for the ruin he had dOnG was an allowance OF
500 o ycar-abJut the third OF bis daily leyo-
nue.. She had ample evidence to have secured
h ayy damages from him in tho courts, but
she preferred death, aud perished in terrible
| agony, while Lord Paget aud his bride were
enjoying themselves at an aristOcrIic bail.
However, society is not disposed to pardon
the rascal, even IL he is lord. French
sporting club, of which he was president, has
nusted him; the Carlton club of London il 60
ing 10 strike his name from its books, and
Queen Victoria will prohibit his appearance vt
court, thus laying him under the sevorest So
ca ban. MIS-. Wotmorc, in the grlvo, is far
better OIL than the scOundrel who ruined her.