National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-06
PERSONALITIES.

WHEELER FL. PEcKHAM, city attorney of
New York, is stopping at the Arlington.
SAMUEL BENNETT, editor of a publica-
ton called the Radical, will defend Herr Most in
London.
SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia, has
just invested 500 900 in coal tract of 500 in
that State.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, the grandson of
ex-President Adams, is in town and stopping at
the Riggs House
COLONEL Tom BUFoRD, of Kentucky,
who murdered Judge Elliott and was acquitted on
| the ground of insanity, is at large.
| DR.. GANGLABAUER, abbot of the Bene-
dictine Monastery of Krems- Munster Austria. has
been appointed Archbishop of Vienna
HocUM HosFoRD, for several years dur
ing the late war mayor of Lowell Mass. died yes
terday, after lingering Illness aged fiftyseven
| THE Swiss Minister at Paris and NJ.
Adolphe Burckard, of Basle, viii represent Swift
zerland at the International Monetary Conference
| Mrs. THOMAS J. BRADY, who has been
suffering all winter long from subaeute rheuma-
tism, has gone to the Hot Springs, Ark She was
| accompanied by her children and her sister.
JOHN BUNYoN and Bob Ingersoll would
have agreed to differ-NeaU York Commercial Adcer-
| tiSer. Who was John Bunyon? Any relation to
the Bunions that accompanied the Pilgrims Pro-
gresss
MEssRs. WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, Allen g.
Thurman, and Timothy o. Howe, commissioners
to attend the monetary conference to be held in
Paris the 10Th instant sailed for Europe yester
| day on the steamer Arizona.
/. M. KALLoCH assisted his father in
Sunday night week, and made an address in which
he said that he intended to resign his ministry,
| but viii continue to reside in the city.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
Monday NJ. Gambetta announced the receipt of
| letter from NJ. Robert Mitchell, member for the
department Of Gironde (editor of the Paris Golois)
asking leave to prosecute NJ. Paul de Cassagnac
| for defamation. The letter was referred to the
| bureaux.
THE lying in state of an Emperor or
| Empress of Russia is remarkable spectacle The
| body is placed on bed, with guards around ii,
and then the public are allowed to walk through
the room, each kissing the corpse as he passes.
| The body of the mother of the late Emperor was
so badly embalmed that several of the officers who
| were detailed to watch it actually died.
Mr.. JOHN MCCULLoUGH sailed yesterday
| morning for Liverpool on the steamship Arizona
to fill his engagement, made last summer, at the
Drury Lane Theatre, London. The season which
ended ut Memphis last Thursday night and began
on the 9th Of last September at Utica, n. Y under
the management of Mr.. W. N. Conner has been
the best Mr. Mccullough has ever played.
IT has been decided that if Mr.. Brad
laugh is reelected to Parliament motion will be
made from the Conservative side of the House
that, in view of Mr.. Bradsughs religious opinions
| and Of the findings of two select committees, and
of Mr. Bradlaugh's evidence before two courts of
law TO the effect that Christian oath is binding
on his conscience he be not permitted to take the
oath in the House of Commons.
PRINCE BISMARCK is highly pleased with
the large vote in the Reichsag, Monday. In ia
yor of Herr Windthorst's motion requesting Prince
Bismarck to endeavor to bring about an agree
| ment among the Powers with view to prevent the
right of asylum being abused for fostering assassi-
nation. Its expected that he will promptly issue
circular to the Powers representing the desrability
ofunited action and inviting their cooperation.
Mrs. A. NJ. CUMMINs, widow of Bishop
Cummins. the founder of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, is spending few days with her niece,
Mrs DR.. Rogers, ON Capitol Hill She has Just re-
turned from Florida, where she has spent the win
ter, engaged in preparing a volume of her hus-
bands correspondence to accompany her admira-
BILE life of him. but has enlivened her labors by
executing some beautiful little sketches in oil of
Florida scenery, some of which she has with her.