National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-13
PERSONALITIES.

| Governor CORNELL has written two
messages, and neither of them contains AM.
NOTEBOOKS are in demand since the an
nouncement was made that Garfield has kept
| diary for twenty-four years.
GOVERNOR HAMILTON, of Maryland, will
lecture about reaping machines before the Agri-
cultural Society of his State.
WHEN General Ben Harrison comes on
here he viii carry the cane his grandfather bore
/ -silnn inangIlrafod PrHsllent.
Dr. HIRsCH, a distinguished Jewish
rabbi of Chicago has delivered a memorial SER
mon in tribute to the memory OfGeorge Eliot.
| EVEN icicles sometimes strike back.
| The last case reported is from New York, where
the great General Aspinwal was hit Oh the head.
DIR. SCHLIEMAN has been building HIM
selfa marble dwelling at Athens, and overthe door
in gilded letters rs the inscription, Cottage of
| Homer"
| GOVERNOR HENRY NJ MATTHEWS, of
West Virginia, is described as a strikingly hand
some man, of middle age, with face full of intel
hgence and expression.
Mr.. HoYLE, defaulting tax collector
at Core 1rd has made a fatal hole in his head. He
felt doubt whether the public wanted its taxes
collected according to Hoyle.
JUDGE AMAsA PARKER, of Albany, has
bought a controlling interest in whist club of
that city. His first official act president was to
appoint his wife assistant secretary.
THE latest report is that Vennor has
signed a five-year contract with the dealers in
overshoes in this country and Canada. His COM
missions up to date have been nearly 10000.
ANOTHER gentleman, by the name of
lines. He swung a mIskct in the war of 1872
This leaves only few counties to be heard from.
francis MURPHY, the temperance lee
turer feels Authorized to suggest that he will ac
cept house from the sod people Of Troy. This
is proper. Can't he stipulatc TIM: they must keep
il in repair?
INDIANA appears to be rapidly swing
ing back into the Republican channel. She began
last year with forty-ifvc conyicts i'll the female
prison, and ended ii with only forty-one-a Demo-
cratic loss of four.
GENERAL GARFIELD has written to Mr..
Potter, of the British Parliament, While cannot
agree with your views of free trade Us applicable
to country situated is, still welcome the
fullest discussion"
Nh. q. A. HOBART, who has been
selected for President of the Senate of New jersey
is three years less than forty. He is stout hearty
and temperate His knowledge of parliamentary
law has made him strong in New jersey politics.
Mr. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS is returned
the list of the Boston assessors as worth s736-
900. Mr.. Quincy A. Shaw is set down as worth ST.
39i $50; Lemue Shaw, 81 0Ss5 NJO: Moses Williams,
900; Joshua NJ. Sears, oS5, 800 and John l.
Gardner, S, ,26i,5oO.
Mr.. ARTENUs HALE, of Bridgewater,
Mass, is i'll point of age the oldest living who
has been in either of the Houses of Congress He is
ninety-seven years old. He voted for Jefferson in
1904, and seventysix years afterward fo: Garfield.
He was member of Congress in lSi6.
THERE ought to be a law passed draw
ing line somewhere. A correspondent Of the
Couriey-Jo,,r1Ih has been holding an interview
with Roscoe Conkling Bruce. son of Senator Bruce
The victim is only in the twenty-tirst month of his
age and, with his lack of experience, was led into
some damaging statements.
THE eminent philosopher who played
the exile during long engagement on the Island
of Juan Fernandez has been compelled TO wait
some time for recognition from a cold world
But his family claims have been acknowledged
at last. Mr.. Robinson D. Crusoe, the sole survivor
OF that noble lineage, has left San Francisco ac-
companicd by 5000 belonging to the head of the
firm.
THE list of suicides for 1880 embraces
the arts and industries about as usual. Preachers
and doctors and lawyers predominate, which is
generally the case, with musician thrown in here
and there to lend harmony to the affair Perhaps
the most touching mistake mentioned in this con-
nection was the case of John C. Short, of Cincin-
natl. Mr., Short was under some hallueination
about the fatality OF his name but his assets footed
up million and half.
AN Indianapolis reporter says of Mrs. |
Foster, the woman lawyer,who is defending mur-
der case that she " is not tall and has roundaess
of outline that would not disgrace cherub as they
are generally painted. She has a brunette's COM
plexion; hazel eyes, and dark-brown hair, worn |
smooth and without bangs. She was dressed in |
skirt of black silk with basque and train of black
velvet and wore black plush bonnet with eardi- |
nal strings. She is not especially strongmnded in
appearance and She has round arm and plump |
hand, which a casual observer would be more apt |
to expect to find performing domestic duties than |
dipping into the laws lore" Keep this nan off |
the jury,