National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-06
PERSONALITIES.

PERSONALITIES.
Mr.. ]. NJ. PERRY, of Boston, is at tht
Imperial
SITTING BULL has cut the seat out of his
new spring pants.
ROBERT LINCOLN has more visitors thar
any other Cabinet man.
HoN. LYELL I. ADAMS, consul to Geneva
Switzerland, is at the Riggs House.
IT is whispered that in Mexico General
| Ord is % bigger man than old Grant,
Miss ADELAIDE PHILLIPS and sister, OF
the Boston Ideal Opera Company, are at the Arling
ton.
VICTOR HUGO is suffering from a severe
cold. His friends are uneasy regarding his con-
dtion.
GEORGE W. JULIAN thinks that if he
were young fellow he would pitch his tent in
Texas
Ex-Governor RICE, of Massachusetts,,
will shortly be married. it is reported to lady in
this city.
THE King and Queen of Italy will at
tend the opening of the National Exposition at
Milan to-day.
MIR. BARTLETT-BURDETT-C Courts
has taken his seat in the House of Commons to
which he was recently elected.
THE Vienna correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph declares that the recent rumors
| that the Czarfna is i'll are untrue.
ELDRIDGE G. FAIRBANKS, a prominent
business man of Coventry, L. l., committed sui
| eide yesterday while temporarily insane.
DENNIS KEARNEY began recent address
at the Sand Lot with Men, women, and friends y
Friends" perhaps, designated the hoodlums
JAMES r. CHALLEN, ESQ.,, of Cincinnati, is
at the Ebbitt on legal business. He is personal
friend of the President of thirty years standing.
SAYS Ingersoll in his new lecture g Nv
brain is my castle; and when l waive the right 10
defend it become an intellectual serf and slave.''
THE tug of war will come when Barnum
gets out West and encounters Sells Brothers
Millionaire Confederation of Stupendous Railroad
Shows"
GIRARDIN was well-preserved old man.
Hismannersb bespoke aristocratic race His eyes gilt
tered like black diamonds. Very few could resist
his gaze.
COLONEL A. F. ROCKWELL is preparing a
volume of the speeches made during the campaign
by President Garfield which will soon be ready for
publication.
PROFESSOR JONATHAN HARRINGTON, the
celebrated ventiloquist died suddenly at his resi-
dence in Revere, Mass, last night at an advanced
age. He had been in poor health of late.
COLONEL JAMES E. GREGG, the business
manager of the celebrated Bull Domingo Nine,
Colorado, is a guest at Wizards. The Colonel is
full of confidence and radiant with carbonates.
n -
ofto Mexico with the Worlds Fair concealed some
where about his person. At least the much talked
of project cannot now be found anywhere in New
York.
The English artist, Mr.. John Collier
has presented to Edwin Booth his picture. which
has been hanging this year at the Royal Academy
entitled "The Curse of Rome" and representing
Mr. Booth as Richeiieu.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE, speaking at
Kettering, assured his hearers that there would be
no dissension among the Tory chiefs relative to
the leadership, and intimated that the question
was not pressing one.
THE Benares Rajah, we are told, wears
sapphire large that it nearly covers the back of
his hand. If Mr.. Rajah were to come 20 this con-
try with his ring he would be mistaken - -Nun
vance agent of female minstrel ,nna ao' 'He au
Miss JUSTIN INGERsGls+ ,OII~
Governor IngersoIs,fs oLL, daughter OF eX-
able desg:Jr. Gallaud Connecticut. made a credit
teare last REaI SO Stunning the character of Mrs.
Br01ualee in the play of Old LoveLetters
Hon. II. L. LANGEvIN, Minister of Pub
lie Works, was rendered a banquet at Quebec
Wednesday night by his Conservative friends. A
large number of members Of Parliament were
Iialo,
COLONEL CHARLES w. STATHEM, one of
the solid men of Lynchburg, director of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad and an original ~
Readjuster, and one of Senator Mahones right
hand men, has rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel.
CAPTAIN CHARLES NJ. WEBER, founder of
the city of Stockton Cal, and one of the earliest
of the Old Worlds pioneers to California, died in
Stockton yesterday. He rendered valuable services
to the United States in the war with Mexico in
1916.
NINE ANNA BISHOP, who used to give
concerts about one hundred years ago, when we
were boy if our memory is not at fault has made
her reappearance on the concert stage. She must
be nearly thirty years old now, despite the fact
that star" never gets past twenty-five.
The Spanish Minister in London an
nounces that thedistinguished jurors, who include
United States Minister Lowell, are unable to award
the prize for poem on CaIderon, as, although the
compositions sent in are meritorious they are de-
fcent in their special application to the subject.
"PRIvATE" DALZELL, as secretary, has
issued call for the eighth grand reunion of Union
soldiers of all ranks at Cincinnati Ohio, on Sep
tember l5 16. and IL. This reunion, his call says
differs entirely from the regular army reunions
of the Tennessee, James, &C., where no one but
officers are participants, and everything is exclu
Sive and aristOcratic"
THE Daily Ners, of London, in a lead
ing article, says: ave do not desire to stint the
generosity OF tribute to the late Lord Beaconsield
as man, but national monument in Westmin-
ser Abbey would, we believe, bear false testimony
to the deliberate judgment of the English people
on the essential features and animating motive in
Lord Beaconsfelds life.'
THE late General John S. Preston, of
Virginia and South Carolina, was a man of
aesthetic tastes and generous impulses. His
fined ideas made him connoisseur ofthe arts, and
they had in him amost liberal patron He was the
first to discern Hiram Powers transcendant
genius, and it was he who solely betrayed his ex-
penses while pursuing his studies in Rome and
elsewhere The first copy of the celebrated Greek
Slave was given him in recognition of his gener-
osity.
MARY ANDERSON'S FORTUNE.