National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-02
PERSONALITIES,

THE wheat crop of 1881 will be short.
Eli Perkins predicts great crop.
WILLIAM Penn Nixon, of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, is at the Riggs House
CRITICS of Jeff Davis new book unite
| in pronouncing it intolerably dull
CARL ScHURz and family are stopping at
the Gramercy Park Hotel New York.
A MILLION dollars of marriage portion
is said to have gone with Whitelaw Reid's bride.
LADY HERMIoNE DANcoMBE, a young,
pretty, and popular beauty, is creating sensation
in London.
MARK TWAIN" heads the list with $40
in Hartford subscription for testimonial to
John Browns widow.
THE firm should be Bradlaugh and In
gersoll, intidels and counselors at law Lectures
promptly attended to-
THE Queen and Princess Beatrice drove
to Hughenden Manor Saturday to visit the tomb
of the late Earl of Beaconsfield.
J. S. CLARKE will begin his farewell en-
gagement at his newly modelled theatre, the Ly-
ceum, formerly Broad Street Theatre, this evening
Ex-senator RANDOLPH, of New Jersey,
is on his way home from California The rumors
that he will go to Mexico to invest in railways are
incorrect.
RIGHT Hon. WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, NJ.
P, purchased for 92O00 the portrait of the late
Lord Beaconsfield, by Millais, now on exhibition
at the Royal Academy.
THE eldest sister of King Alfonso
Princess Isabel, fell from her horse near Madrid
and was badly bruised. She has partially recov-
cred from the effects of her injury
HALLET MURRAY Crypt Palmoni) and
Miss Lavinia Shannon, of the Julia Hunt combina-
tion, closed their engagement in Louisville, KY
on the 30th ultimo, and will return to Washington
AFTER Theodore Parker died his lovely,
lovable widow kept his study up TO the day of her
death Qast Saturday week just as he left it. Even
his pen on the table Just where he put it down
for the last time.
Ex-Governor MORGAN, ex-senator Fem
ton, and ex- President Hayes have written letters
approving the project of the George II. Thomas
Post G. a. R., of Rochester, of erecting a monu-
mcnt to the Union dead in that city.
Ex-senator DoRsEY's disclaimer ofssanv
unlawful or dishonest connection with the mail
service is very emphatic, and will be accepted by
those who know him as the truth until there is
better evidence than wild statement to disprove it.
NILE. HoRTENsE SCHNEIDER, the famous
French opera bouffe pima DONNA is forty-six The
sale of her furniture and jewels which took place
recently i'll Paris only included such things as she
no longer wanted. The richest and best articles
are still hers.
THE London Family Fair says: "The
parties to the elopement mentioned are the Earl
of Shrewsbury and Mrs. Miller Mundy, of Simply,
Derbyshire The fugitive pair fed to Strasbourg,
where the lady's relatives overlook them gave the
Ear
to England"
COLONEL Tom SCOTT said to the people
of New Orleans in the speech made on his South
ern trip in 1872: AZ think may say to the people
of New Orleans that within the next nine years
hope to be able to take them through to San Diego
and perhaps to San Francisco, on a train of cars
from their own city,
Miss EDITH LoNGFELLow. daughter ofthe
poet, is about twenty years of age She is the sub
ect of one of her fathers best poems She has been
travelling in California with the families of Pro-
fessor Horsford, of Harvard and of Mr.. Durant the
founder of the Wellesley College for young ladies'
The party IS on its way home.
GIRARDIN was the first to introduce fic-
tion-short stories and serials-into a political
paper ard he also brought into fashion the broken
line style of editorial. His motto journalist is
said to have been, U1e idee par joHr"-a new idea
every day-and herein, perhaps, lies the chief
secret of his marvellous success.
THE grand jury of Court of General Ses-
sions presented two indictments against the police
board Saturday, charging them with misdemeanor
in not cleaning the streets One of the indictments
includes Commissioners French, Nichols, Mason
and Matthews, and the other names the three
former and includes General William F. Smith.
The indictments contain some verbiage.
The judicial inquiry into the death of
the Sultan Abdul Aziz continues. The disclosures
made show plot was contemplated for the assas-
sination of all the imperial princes and the pro-
clamation of a new Calph. The trial is to be con-
Quoted before a special tribunal, consisting of
thirty judges, assisted by several councillors of
state.
THE report having recently got into the
newspapers that the widow of President Lincoln
an early visit TO Pan, in Southern
France, it may be stated that Mrs Lincoln is now
at the house ofher sister in Springfield H. con-
fined TO her bed by sickness She never expects to
go abroad again. She is subject TO periods of great
mental depression, and her friends have serious
for her recovery