National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-22
PERSONALITIES

THE Marquis of Lorne has been mar
ried ten years.
FASHION in Paris has abandoned Worth,
and is now led by Dusuzeau.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has just ordered
a new yacht from New York firm.
MURAT HALsTEAD, editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial is stopping at the Arlington.
Miss EMMA THURsBY is coming to
America next season with a large concert COM
pany.
LADY ANNE BLUNT says that Persian
riding camel astrde is the most ridiculous sight
in the world.
Mr. BLAINE generally takes the bull by
the horns, but now he has got the pig by the car
Chicago Journal (Repl.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD is of the opinion
that the Mormons are like the Utes in one respect
they have got to go. And this opinion of Presi
dent Garfield is sound.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS thinks Ben
Hills attack on Malone was a mistake Mr.
Stephens is the one Democrat who habitually
knows mistake when he sees it.
D. o. MILLS, the California capitalist,
has recently purchased property in New York of
the value of 81 ,S25 900, on which he proposes to
erect buildings costing s3000,000.
ROBERT NJ CUTTER has reached his seat
in the Nova Scotia Legislative Council after 200
miles journey, aged ninety-seyen. He was a
member of the House of Assembly sixty-two years
ago.
Mr.. JOHN MCCULLoUGH will sail for
England from New York OH the 9th of April. 1t is
intimated that he will receive from his friends in
that city the tribute of farewell dinner prior to
his departure.
Ex-CANDIDATE NORWOOD, who ran
against Governor Colqutt, of Georgia, in the last
gubernatorial campaign in that State, is said to
have made fortune specializing in silver mines
since his defeat.
JUDGE CLIFFoRDs successor may be
pleased to know that his physical health is quite
good and that an aunt of his died recently in New
Hampshire at the age of 1OO Mr. Clifford is sew
enty-eight and his mind is lamentably impaired.
THE stupidity of Ben Hills assault
upon Malone is paralyzing. Nothing like it was
ever before heard. Even if Malone had wished
to preserve an independent attitude, Hill did not
give him halfa chance--Nemphis ArGlGncte (DeTn)
A PHYSICIAN told General Grant the
other day that he could cure his appetite for to-
bacco. The General looked at the man moment
blew large cloud of smoke from his lips said
"Can you?" and changed the topic of conversa-
ton
THE Rev. Dr. Frederick III. Hedge is re-
ported to have resigned his professorship of Ger
man at Harvard College, expecting to sever his
connection with the college upon the completion
of course of lectures on German literature which
he is now delivering.
Mrs. J. W. MACKEY gave in Paris the
other evening the most magnificent ball of the sea-
son. For the dancing she furnished not only the
- i l. L.
sang the waltzes, giving marvellous spirit of fas-
cination to the dance.
THE Rev. Morgan Dix, d. D., denies
that the Protestant Episcopal Church favors Uni
versalisn He says that the Prayer Book itself Is a
sufficient answer to the charge. The references in
that book to hell and to everlasting punishment
are in very plain terms.
GENERAL ORD arrived in the City of
Mexico on the Sth instant in a special train and
was received with marked honors. The Monitor
eral Ord, who is the father-in-law of General
Treyino, the Mexican war minister.
GENERAL ECKERT iourneyed from the
Atlantic coast to the borders of Mexico, and says
he never saw drunken man until he reached the
New York ferry-h house on his return. And it
should be borne in mind that this trip included
ST. Louis and the toughest regions of Texas.
FoRTY-FIvE years ago the Rev. Leonard
Woods, d. D., of Andoyer, wrote that he could re-
member the time when he could count up forty
intemperate ministers at no great distance from
his home. Ministers who suffer themselves to fall
under the power of intoxicating drinks are now
very sea rec.
EDMUND YATES describes the man who
has mastered one of the secrets of parliamentary
success as that member Of the House of Commons
who does not know its higher side and cannot
play up to its higher moods, but who knows its
preiudices and littleness and has caught and re-
fected its foibles.
FRANK HURD, ,eX-Congressman from the
Toledo District, is. just now very busy in New
York, organizing free trade leagues. He says he
intends to make the movement national For
cause that has so much true goodness in it free
trade is the hardest thing to natonalze this coun-
hos n,-er l-nCyIi - -''-1s- pa
i.4GEaERAI.aR. H. sHILL,ssone of the con-
feeTate headers, is Row president Of the Arkansas
industrial University lat ayettesille in tbatstate
at salargsef Ss;eoea year. He told reporter the
other day that the ?0ar seemed far back in history