National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
PERSONALITIES.

| GENERAL LONGSTREET VIII De fetalneu
! in the civil service
NJ. DE LEssEPs will 90 to the Isthmus of
Panama in June next.
Mr.. MooDY, with his faithful lieutenant,
Sankcy, has conquered San Francisco.
MARIETTE BEY's two daughters have
been pensioned by the Knedive in the sum of S6 900
each.
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR is going to visit
| the Pacific coast this summer if his health will
permit.
FRED DOUGLASS is said to be the hand
soonest man who was ever Marshal of the District
OF Columbia.
MARSHALL JEWELL has a portrait of the
late Car, painted by the artist who was chosen by
the Car himself
WILLIAM E. SHERIDAN, the actor, if he
succeeds in his starring tour, will go to London
and open in Shy'ock.
Mrs. JANE ENGLISH, mother of Lucille
and Helen Western, has applied for admission to
the Forrest Home, at Philadelphia.
| GAIL HAMILTON says girls cannot afford
to be wild And yet many wild girl has been
subdued by nice fellow just saying "ie fame" to
her.
| AND now they have discovered that
Worth, the famous Partisan costumer, is Of noble
Polish BIRTH This is another proof that the needle
is-true to the Pole.
JUDGE ALEXANDER BoARMAN, of Louisi-
ana, is in the city, and is being strenuously urged
for the position of United States attorney for one
of the districts of that State He is native of the
| State.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard; Mary L..
Booth, of HarpeT's Ba=ar and the cook of Parker's
restaurant Boston, receive the same salary; but
| then Eliot and Booth do not know how to bake
| beans.
| BARTLEY CAMPBELL is rapidly becoming
a wealthy man. But his cash hasn't spoiled him.
He is the same whole souled, generous fellow as
when he used to drive Faber On a daily paper
some ten years ago.
THE Hon. A d. White, it is stated, had
no intention of remaining abroad longer than two
years, and has already signified mis- intention of
returning home in July and resuming his duties as
president of Cornell University.
JoUBERT, the head of the Transvaal
Boers is man about fifty-fve years old. He is Of
medium height, is dark, and wears rather long
beard. He rides well, is active man, and is the
| brain of the whole Boer community.
SECRETARY WINDOWS name was orlgl-
nally ''Wyndham," but he changed it while living
| land he would long ago have attained high honOrs
had he spelled his name Whynndeham.
THE Philadelphia Chronicle says the new
| Cabinet is so harmonious that when one says,
"Come, let's have a drink" all rise and move
quickly forward. All except Wayne Macveagh,
who says: Not any for me; it is not my Veagh.''
A LAD, aged fifteen, named George
| Fletcher, employed as cash-boy in diapers
or oil hoci nIn1
10000, left him by an uncle, who seems to have
never taken any notice of his nephew during his
life.
DANIEL BAsHIEL WARNER, the Presi-
dent of Liberia, is dead He was born near Balti-
more, Md, in 1915, of slave parents who, however
obtained their freedom shortly after his birth. He
has been in Liberia since, and was astateSman
of considerable ability.
WHEN Victor Hugo entered the Senate
after his birthday festival the Lett and Centre
| rushed to receive him, and when the ovation" !"
was over the President said: True genius has
taken his seat among us-theSenate has applauded
| and now proceeds to the order of the day."
MAJOR Poole, who fell in the attack on
! Laing's Neck, was for more than year the GUS
| todian of~Getewayo, who was very much attached
| to him, and who is reported to have cried like a
child when he heard of the death of the English
man who had done SO much to render his captivity
| tolerable.
A PENNSYLVANIA paper gives long ac-
| count of the recent meeting of Mr.. George W. B..
Stoey and Mrs. Pifer, his sister, after separation
! of sixty eight years, each having supposed the
| other dead. The reunion was brought about by a
son of Mrs. Pifer, who accidentally heard Mr.. Stoey
spoken of, and, knowing his mothers maiden
name, made inquiries and learned his identity.
Mr.. JOHN PARNELI, brother of the
| Irish agitator, has an immense peach orchard in
Alabama, which las yielded $4,000 worth of
| peaches Mr.. Parnell came to this country about
ten years ago, and, buying an old cotton farm,
gradually transformed it into this orchard. He is
getting very wealthy, it is said he is always the
first to have early peaches in the market and re-
ceives large prices.