National Republican., 1881-02-28
PERSONAL.

Bill ENGLISH will not be here. He is
too poor to come.
GENERAL GARFIELD'S will be the third
administration to begin on Friday.
P. w. STRADER, eX-member of Congress
from the First Ohio District, is dead.
RILEY, the bug man, has grievance
against LIE Due and carried it to Mentor.
THE first time Bob Ingersoll catches
Delaware alone he is going to thrash her
COLONEL RICHARD W. JULIAN, of Balm
bridge, New York, is dead aged ninety-one
GENERAL BUTLER will sail in his yacht
from Fortress Monroe for the West Indies to-day.
GENERAL SAM CARY has turned eyangel-
ist, and hopes TO rival Moody. His present field of
labor is Tennessee.
CAPTAIN w. II. WALDRoN, senior editor
of the Lewiston tAIe) Gazette, died yesterday. He
was fifty mine years old.
JUDGE D. NJ. KEY and wife are in the
city, the guests of Second Assistant Postmaster
General Brady, 17O1 street.
PETITIONS to General Garfield, asking
him not to have wine in the White House, are cir
culating by the hundreds.
GEO. B. WILLIAMS and wife, of Indiana,
are the guests during Inauguration week of Mr..
Yoshida, the japanese Minister.
JOE EMMET is billed to appear in Nash
vile tonight. Yesterday bets were made of two
to one that he would be too drunk to play.
The Baroness Burdett- -Coutts proposes
to bring her recent purchase over to this country
next summer. twill come in free Of duty.
The Couttsey-CouttSey-C are
coming The Lotos Club will of course attend to
see that they are properly dined and wined.
GENERAL G. NJ. DODGE says that fully
5000 miles of new rails will be laid in the United
States and Mexico within the next twelve months.
Dr.. ARTHUR CLIFFORD, son of ex-Gov-
ernor Clifford, shot himself through the heart in
railway train near Winchester, Mass He was in
sane and in charge of DR.. Ira Russell.
Mr.. GEORGE REED, of Philadelphia, con-
tends that the lower animals have souls, and are
rather more immortal than certain men. Think
of this young man, when you are eating calves
head
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND is doing some
deliberate work for the Sunday edition of the New
York Tribune, over the pseudonym of Johnny
Bouquet" and it is the best of its kind. 1t has
literary favor all its own.
TITZ-JOHN IORIER > 1FlSIlClS HIVE given
up hope of securing his yindication from the pres
ent Congress; he certainly has nothing to hope
from the next. The lecture field is still left Mr..
Porter, or he might follow the example of JEFF
Davis and write book.
Ex-Governor c. C. WAsHBURN, of Wis
consin, has not been able to leave his room since
his first prostrafon from paralysis He is cheerful
and stronger, and with careful nursing and diet
ing will be able to be about in month or six
weeks. No danger of further attack is appre-
hended.
COLONEL FORNEY announces the deliver
ance of fresh batch of "articulate inspiration"
in the form of novel. Whether or not it is a
humorous work we are not informed. If it be, it
is entirely safe to say it cannot equal his Life of
Hancock" That is the champion humorous pro-
duction of this epoch.
DIR. FRANCIS CARTER, the leading ply
sician at Columbus Ohio and dean of the Harling
Medical College for many years, died Saturday, of
Inflammation of the throat, after illness of forty
eight hours; aged sixty-seven years. Mrs. Carter
had recently gone to Washington a guest of the
White House participate in the Inauguration of
President Garfield, and was here when notified of
her husbands death