National Republican., 1881-10-22
PERSONALITIES.

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Ex-GovERNoR THRooKMoRroN is i'll at |
San Antonio, Tex.
REPRESENTATIVES, HUBBELL and WASH |
burne are at the Riggs
IT Is said that Mr.. Froude, the histo- |
rlan, is to have peerage
IF Annanias had lived in these days he
would have passed for simple, guileless old man.
Boston Post
SENATOR CoNeER is about completing
negotiations for the purchase Of handsome rest
dence in Washington.
STRANGE as IL may seem, an Ohio man
has contributed $500 TO the conscience fund OF the
United States Treasury.
THERE are 1000 dram-shops kept by
women in New York city. Only one of the num-
Der is a native American.
MIR. HENRY GARFTELD, eldest son of the
late President, has been chosen vice-president Of
the freshman class at Williams College
Mr.. CRAMER, the representative Of the
United States at Berne, will take furlough until
next spring He intends to visit America
IRELAND will stand happy and prosper
GUS when Gladstone's name will rot with Wetter-
burnc. Lord Eldon, and Lord North.-Wendea
Phillips.
THE Rev. James G. Beecher, youngest
brother of Henry Ward Beeohcr. has been ap-
pointed pastor OF the Bethel Of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn.
THEY say that can of custard placed
upon the stage where Miss Mamie Anderson is
making love will develop into the incest kind Of
ice-cream.
Ex-SEcRErARY WILLIAM M. EvARTs is at
the Brevoort House, and ex-senator Allan O.
Thurman, of Ohio, is at the Fiflh Avenue Hotel,
New York.
Mr.. MILLER OUTcALT, of Cincinnati, for
merly assistant county prosecutor OF Hamilton
County, Ohio, is stopping, with his wife,.at Will
lard's Hotel.
BARON DE SAvA, the italian Minister,
has arrived in New York from Europe on his way
to Washington, accompanied by the Baroness and.
their retinue.
Mr.. 7. J. NEWMAN, editor of the Zanes-
willie Daily Cptricr one Of the leading Republican
papers Of Ohio Is In the city for few days, stay
ing at the 81. Marc.
SOME residents of West Chester and
Media, Pa, claim to have seen meteor and to
have heard It explode in broad daylight on Sun
day afternoon last.
A METHODIST preacher in Ohio is said
to have prayed for Guiteau" as follows May
curses be on the hand that did the deed. May the
wretch be eternally tormented."
THERE are some lovely names in the list
of Pennsylvanian dignitaries who went to York
town, such as Huffnage and Vanderslice, Rooms,
and Scheep, sassaman and Schoonmacher, Stubbs,
Boggs Potts, and Boyle.
Rosa BoNHEUR is failingin health. She
Is fifty eight years old. Her first picture was ad-
mitted TO the Salon when she was but nineteen.
| No other woman artist ever sold her works for as
high price as she has received.
MEssRs. A. NJ. CALDER, J. A. Rally, and
| A. L. Lansing, all Of Philadelphia, have won the
prizes for sketch modsisof statue to be erected
TO the memory Of General Meade Mr.. Calder re-
ceived the frstprlze ofsl,OOo.
MRyj II. KLINE, formerly of the Gin
! lcinnau Commercial, ut present treasurer OF the
Minnie Palmer combination, is in the city.
"Harry's" push Is only equaled by his social
qualifications, and in his new sphere he is rapidly
making his mark and proving himself invaluable
to the company.
Mrs. GARFIELD has requested that five
of the flags which decorated the inside OF the pa
vilion wherein her dead husband lay at Cleveland
should be given to her children. ofthe remaining
three one is to be given to the elder and another
to tho Younger Mrs. Garfield. The dais and Tho
casket which first held the Presidents body are Il
be carefully preserved by the Western Reserve His
torical Society.
GENERAL STEWART VAN VLIET, U. s. A.
who has been at his seaside residence at shrews
bury, N. j., since last May, has broken up tina
home and arrived at his residence here. No. 81
Fifteenth street, for the winter He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Van Vliet, his niece, Mis-
Moore, Of Richmond who will spend the winte
with them, and his son. DR.. Frederick G. VA
What ira n axcellant health
A LETTER received in Milwaukee from
Ex-Governor Fairchild, United States Minister O
Madrid, says that he will not return home unit
next spring. He had expected to return durin
the past summer, but the delay in the appointment
and confirmation of his successor has deranged hi
plans Mrs. Falrchild suffers so much from sea
sickness that he viii not attempt to cross the Al
lantic during the winter season, but on the arriyi
of Mr.. Hamlin at Madrid he will go to some poir
> in Southern Europe to spend the wintor and earl
8 spring.