National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-21
PERSONALITIES.

Mr.. JOHN NfcREa, of New York, is stop
ping at the Imperial.
HoN. JOHN A. KAssoN will arrive in
Washington on Saturday.
BOB ISGERsoLL delivers his new lecture
in New York Sunday night.
THE Princeton College Baseball Club
are Quartered at the Arlington.
c. A. LoUNsBERRY, editor of the Tribune,
Bismarck, Dakota, and Breyet Major General o.
b. Wilcox, U. S. A., are in the city.
JOHN KELLY to Samuel J. Tilden: Il
am not dead have simply been sleeping. But
don't you think I'd be handsomer if were dead?'
NIR. J. E. TEMPLE, of Philadelphia, has
just given S25 600 as the first subscription for
statue to General John E Reynolds. who was killed
at Gettysburg.
SENATOR j. II. SLATER, of Oregon, hav-
ing secured pair for the remainder of the session
proposes TO abseuae himself from the Capital City
till next December.
IT is said that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
will spend the summer in Pau, Southern France.
where she has resided several years. She has not
visited Washington since 1870.
VICTOR HUGo is to be honored by hav-
ing the Avenue dEylau in which he lives, called
after him henceforth or at least until the name of
some other favorite of the hour is substituted for
his
BIsMARCKiS physician has forbidden
him to attend church, saying that he must devote
all OF Sunday to rest. That physician is oyerrun
with practice, and is far On the high road to
affuence
"THE other day Jay Gould sent his
check to Colonel Tom Scott for $4,000 in
letter" 1t may be regarded eecentricity on our
part, but We never send check for 81 400 600 in
letter. l-Noristown Herald.
J. W. MACKAY, the California mining
millionaire, accompanied by his wife, Count
Telfener (his brother in Jaw, the Countess Telf
ener, and several other titled people, will make
tour of Egypt and the Holy Land next month.
DR.. JOHN l. GORDON, proprietor of the
Mercer Dispatch, of Mercer Pa is Soiourning in the
city for a few days. Dr.. Gordon has been spending
the winter in Florida for the purpose of recuperat-
ing his health and returns to his labors in much
improved condition.
THERE is a horrible story afloat that
Mrs. Paran Stevens recently hit her son-in-law
on the head with bottle of soda water / fancy
that in TRUTH this rumor comes ofthe fact that the
son-in-law is in the habit of stunning himself
pretty constantly with brandy Correspond
ence Chicago Tribune.
FOREIGNER The last President of
the United States was Z. B. Hayes, of Fremont,
Ohio. The present President of the United States
is J. A. Garfield, of Mentor, Ohio. We cannot tell
you who the next President of the United States
will be- as it is understood that the other towns in
Ohio have not agreed upon man.
t Mr.. EDWIN FLEMING, Washington cor
respondent OF the New York Journal OF Commerce,
| was married yesterday at Kalamazoo to Miss Hat
tie L. Stone, of that place. The newly married
couple started Immediately for the East. Miss
Stone is in the typographical department of the
General Post Office in this city, and is a sister TO
the wel-k known journalist, Mrs. Nellie s. Stowell.
| HoN. THEoPHILUs FRENCH, Commits
sioner of Railroads, and Mr.. William F. MacLen-
nan, chief of the Warrant Division, Secretary's
office, Treasury Department left yesterday for the
Pacific coast, via the new Southern route. They
will be absent about six weeks on very important
Government business pertaining to the Pacific
| railroads. Mrs. MacLennan accompanied her
! husband, with her little daughter