National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-30
PERSONALITIES.

DE-. BUIssoS. of Paris, cured himself of
| hydrophobia by trying to sufocate himself in
vapor bath.
THE Queens birthday was celebrated
through Great Britain by appropriate exercises,
the rei0ieings being general
| SENATOR FAIR came from Ireland when
be was twelve years old. He is an Orangeman
Flood and Maekay are Roman Catholics.
LIE Due still retains his grip on the
Agricultural Department. He will not hang up
the shovel and the hoe until the 1st of July.
| CoNKLING has been three times a can
didate and three times elected to the Senate and
each time every Republican paper in New York
city was against him. His competitor in his first
candidacy was Horace Greeley.
AMONG Lees most efficient lieutenantS
i'll the struggle before Richmond and in the run
ming fight from Petersburg southwark were Leng-
| street and Malone. CurioUsly enough, Lees fol-
lowers are now abusing both these men.
ABOUT once in the year thousand
country ministers challenge Colonel Bob IngersoIl
TO go ont to Smiths Cross Roads or Misery Five
Corners or Grocery Glen and be defeated in argu-
ment, and the time of year seems to have come.
according to IngerSon
THE fool-killer is arming himself with
big hludgeon for the editors of the Bourbon
Funder papers of Virginia which stated that Scna-
to: Malone was in Virginia last week, actively
engaged in organizing the canvass for Governor.
Senator Malone did not leave the Arlington for
home until yesterday morning.
ANTHONY DUMAS, d blacks mith employed
al the Louisville and Nashville Railroad shops, i'll
Louisville, was shot Saturday evening by drunken
loafer. named Riley, and died soon after. There
was not the slightest provocation for the act.
Dumas was about forty years of age, industrious
and sober. He leaves wife and ten children.
THE Able AIichon has Just died in
France. He the author of a system of graph
Ol0gy for discovering persons character by his
handwriting, and published, journal devoted to
this subject He was also supposed by many to
have been Liable ~" whose novels, like = lie
Maudit,' made such Il sensation few years ago.
\ MARRIAGE is announced as having
been arranged between Mr.. Gordon Bennett, the
millionaire and proprietor of the New York Herald,
and well known for his hospitality and sport
ing tastes at Melton, and Mile. Buonaparte,
daughter of Pierre BuOnaparte, who has resided
nearly all his life in retirement III the south of
France.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE, q fortnight
ago, were the guests of the Queen at Windsor Cas-
tie. When they had concluded their visit they
were driven to the railway station in one of the
royal carriages, and as they aghted OIL the plat
form near the Queens private waiting room pas
sengers and citizens had congregated i'll large
numbers to salute them.
\ RUMoR comes from Nice that Clara
Louise Kellogg is to marry a Mr.. Andrews. Not if
ClGra'S mother knows herself and she generally
d0eS-TI0y Times. Her mother? Her mother died
years and years ago. and it is said her aianced is
only twenty -five-RocdeSter Eyening Express Smart
Aleck old Mrs Kellogg is still alive and kicking,
and Clara will not be married until Ma says so.
THE Empress of Russia has sent an
autograph letter to Copenhagen, thanking the
town council for an address of sympathy, and
speaking thanks to all - who have sent consoling
words in this time of trial from my beloved father
land-aye even those living on the other
side of the frontier, allusion to the people of
North Schleswig, which has made deep impress
sion in Denmark.
THE son of the late Edwin H. Stanton
was married on the 10Th of April last at Christ
Church, New Orleans, to Adele C. Townsend,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Townsend, of
that city. This disposeS of the story going the
rounds of the press that he married daughter of
the woman General Butler rightly incarcerated at
ShipIsland for publicly insulting Union soldiers at
New Orleans.