National Republican., 1881-08-08
PERSONALITIES.

FRITZ EMMEr is back again from Europe,
ready for another drunken tour here.
VIcE-PREsIpENT ARTHUR arrived at New
port Saturday morning from New York.
DIR. o. +. PREsBREY, wife, and son are
registered at the Clarendon Hotel, Lcadville, Col
Mr.. Powers began to make q bust of the
President IN his studio at Florence on the day that
Mr. Garfield was shot.
HARTMANN showed his good sense in
getting out of American territory as soon as pos
sible This is bad time for assassins just now.
ONE-DoLLAR subscriptions for testi-
monial for General Merritt, the new Consul. Gen
eral to London, being solicited Of customs Off
cias in New York.
BRONSON HowARD's new play, Baron
Rudolph which was produced on Monday at the
Theatre Royal, Hull, England, is declared to be
an undoubted success
Mr.. JoHN McCULLouGH, the tragedian,
was among the passengers by the Guion line
steamer Arizona, Captain Murray, from Liverpool
Saturday for New York.
4 RuMoR is in circulation in London
that the Prince Of Wales has been advised not to
give dinners oil board his yacht at Osborne, which
has been the usual custom during his stay at the
Isle of Wight because Of supposed Fenian designs.
THE electric indicator proved successful
in determining the location of the ball in the
Presidents body. Perhaps the same inventor
could get up machine to tell what Mr.. Book.
walters political principles 1t would require
very nice piece Of work to accomplish the job.
A MEMORIAL service of the late Captain
Charles p. Smith, ofthc Scawanhaka, is 10 be held
on Sunday the 18th instant, in the tabernacle at
Sea Clif, Long Island Mayor Grace is to preside
aud an address is To be delivered by Richard
oGorman, also by Judge w. H. onderdonk, OF
Great Neck.
THE elaborate bronze balcony railing
made for the house of William H. Vanderbilt, on
| Filth avenue, is now on exhibition in Philadel-
pha. 1t is wonderful piece of hand. beaten
work, and, with other bronze railing ordered fol
the house. viii cost 100000 Each section is seven.
teen feet long and two and quarter feet high.
THE Hon Jimmy 0'Brien, NJ. c., now
| in Paris, is honest, if not grammatical, and Is
| living evidence that some American constitu.
encics prefer brains without grammar to a mere
| respectable noodle Of irreproaChable grammar He
| is by no means to be placed in category with
Mrs. Sweeney and Hutchings who. like the English
residents at Boulogne find It convenient to live
abroad for the present, you know.-Th 7rdreIer
A BERLIN dispatch to the London Times
says: Minister White has started for Southern Ger
many. He will return here by the middle of August
to present his letters of recall He will then pro-
coed to and remain in London n short time and
acrward sail for home in the steamship Elbe of the
| North German line. General Noyes, ex- Minister
to France, has left Paris lie will sail in the In
man line steamer Cityof Richmond from Liverpool
on the 9th instant for New York.
AMONG the passengers by the steamer
Germanic, which arrived in New York on satur-
day, was Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who return;
| from Europe after an absence Of over two years
Miss Kellogg, after some little delay at the dock
where her luggage was turned over to the tender
morces Of the customs officers, drove to the Clar.
cndon Hotel, where she was seen later by repre-
| sentative of the New York Herald. 81 have had
delightful time abroad, she said, in answer to the
usual inquiry "but am glad to return, as should
| all good Americans, to Now York;