National Republican., 1881-10-24
PERSONALITIES.


lying very sick at her residence.
Mr.. CHARLES DARWIN inherited a for
tune of 81, 100000 from his late brother, Erasmus
JUSTICE MnLER's gown, worn on the
United States Supreme bench was made in Paris.
MADAME CHRISTINE NILSSON was offered
sl25OO for eight concerts at Monte Carlo this year.
but refused.
LOUISE MICHEL, the Paris Communist,
in her newspaper approves OF the assassination of
President Garfield.
SANTLEY, the singer has given $4,000
to q diocesan seminary under the patronage Of
Cardinal Manning.
The late DIR. j. G. Hollands most re-
muncratlve work was his Life of Lincoln" from
which he made $4,000.
Mrs. JULIAN HAwTnoRNE and family
arrived from London on the Anchor line steamer
Bolivia Saturday night.
TIE widow and daughter of "Stone-
wall' Jackson went to Yorktown under escort of
Senator Wade Hampton.
AMONG the august personages presented
to the Marquis of Lorne at the grand pow-wow
near Fort Macleod was Engle. sitting on. a rock
with Install hanging. g.over.
STEPHEN c. MAssETT, the renowned
Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville, who has entertained
the habtabe globe with his readings, ballad sing
ing, and musical compositions, is in the city.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's household is, it is
reported, 10 be under the charge of an unmarried
sister Of the MASTER Miss West, sister of the new
British Minister, is to preside at the Legation.
GOVERNOR S. d. McENERY, of Louisiana,
is forty -four years of age and native of Monroe,
Ia. He is graduate of the University of Vir-
ginia aud the law school at Poughkeepsic, N. Y.
Mrs. JOHN KELLY, the wife of the fi-
nous Tammany chieftain, is in the city, visiting
her sister, Mrs. Frank Cleary. Mrs. Kelly was for
merly Miss Mullen and has many friends in WASH
ington.
CONGRESSMAN CLARKE might at least
have deferred the public washing of the family's
dirty clothes until the Chrlstiancy case is out of
the way. One national scandal at time is enough
Indianapolis Journal
Mr.. BARTON KEY, whose father was
shot by General sickles. has gone on the stage
Phtiddeiphia Press Yes. he has been well known
actor for five years. and the news appears to have
just reached Philadelphia.
ONE hundred and twenty-seven dollars
have been raised toward n monument 10 be
erected in Cypress Hills Cemetery in memory of
General Charles G. IInlpnc, Private Miles oReil-
ly." His grave there Is unmarked at present
PRESIDENT GREvY is stout, thickset, and
almost corpulent person. When he goes shooting
this being his favorte amusement-he wears u
dark corduroy suit and long leathern gaiters and is
accompanied by n pointer given to him by the
Prince of Wales.
CAPTAIN j. b. EADs was in the city yes
terday. lie is on his way to Mexico in the inter-
est of his ship railway. He expresses confidence
in the of this enterprise, and regards the
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| Orleans PicdyiRe, 20h,
JOHN MUIR, the old noted naturalist of
the Rocky Mountains was regarded as eccentric
when n student at the University of Wisconsin
twenty years ago He constructed a bed, con-
trollcd by machinery, that let him drop heavily
to the floor at certain hour every morning.
SEVEN years ago Ben De Bar, the actor,
was worth s30OOOO To-day his widow is support
ing herself by her needle. What makes the case
as remarkable 1t Is sad Is the fact that Mr.. De
! Bar never started out as manager of u travelling
Plnafore" troupe nor brought out IAN original
American comic opera.
Mr.. FRANK HATroN, of the Burlington
Hdirkeye, who II is rumored, Is TO be Assistant
| Postmaster-Gencrnl. is not n politician. but II
| Journalist and 0man of business. The Providence
Press says of him: "As judge of character and
man Of the world he has few superiors in the West
ana he VIII be as difilcuit 10 hoodwlnk as any
man that ever went into Office"
Mrs. CAMPBELL, the wife of Alexander
Campbell, founder Of the Christian Church, OF
which President Garfield was a member, is n
strking-looking woman of eighty years Her
hair is as black, her eyes as bright, MS in her
| YOUTH and her mental activity is remarkable. She
reads and writes often until past midnight, and Is
now engaged upon volume of "reminiscences OF
her husband.
LOUIS I1. BARNARD, the only son of Mrs.
Helen NJ. Barnard formerly of this city, has Just
been elected to full profossorship in the Penn
sylyania State College. lie is but twenty-five
years of age. The patient care and energy of his
talented mother, who for years graced the list OF
correspondents of this city, is thus amply re-
wnrded. His career promises to be brilliant one.
American Genius far october
IT is stated that General John b. Clarke,
NJ. c., of Missouri Of whom It is alleged that he
employed n detective to follow his wife and then
charge her with unfhithfuneSs, has returned to
Missouri, with the intention Of handing IN his re-
signatlon to the Governor Of that State General
Clarke has served eight years in the House. and
was reelected to the FOrty-seventh Congress. His
wife will live with her father, Mr.. Jacoby proprie.
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