National Republican., 1881-04-23
PERSONALITIES,
ToHN G. FREMoNr is in Boston.

JOHN C. FREMONT is in Boston.
Mr.. JOHN RUSSELL You've, of the New
York Herald is at Wizards.
JOINT RAYMoNDs mother-in-law, Rose
Eytinge, is six months his junior.
THERE are fifteen thousand white fami-
lies in Alabama without Bible.
Miss AMY ScHAFFER, of Ford's Billee
Taylor Company, is at the Imperial
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS says that he
has broken but two promises in his lifetime.
GENERAL GRANT saw an artist copying a
picture in gallery, and he said al would rather
have the original than the copy"
DoRANCE ATwATER, of Andersonville
| fame is United States consul at Tahiti He mar
ried native princess of that island.
Mrs ELIZABETH UPRIGHT, whose eleven
sons served in the Union army during the rebel
lion. now lives in Rockford Floyd County, Iowa.
THE four leading Democratic papers of
Texas support Malone. Somebody is throw
ing bomb under the superb carriage of the solid
| South.
THE father of the lost Charlie Ross is
reported to regard the latest clew to the where
abouts of his son the most hopeful which he has
| received for several years.
FRANK HuRD declares that he will not
permit the use of his name as candidate for Gov
| ernor-dbis time. He does not believe in local
issues" and will not give up his free trade move
ment.
IT is said that John Sherman and Wade
Hampton have buried the hatchet, but Ohio people
are confident that John has marked the place of
inteEnent so that he can exhume the weapon at
short notice.
| NEARLY $4,000 have been sent by the
Grand Army posts to the widow of Mr.. Cooper, Of
Philadelphia-the Cooper of soldier refresh
ment" fame. 1t is but the payment of a long
standing debt.
Mrs MARTHA STANTON, widow of DIR.
Benjamin Stanton, and an aunt of the late Secre-
| tary Edwin NJ Stanton, celebrated her eighty
seventh birthday at her home in Salem, Ohio, On
the evening of the 18th instant.
BARRY CORNWALL writes a poem en-
| titled "Softly Woo Away Her Breath Is it
onions, Barry ?-BdltimOre Ne1us Barry, alas! has
gone to that bourne where the smell OF onions is
unknown.-Neao York Commercial Adrertiser.
AMONG the latest fashions for spending
money by lady millonaires is the purchase and
fitting up ofspecial railway carriages Mrs Mackay,
otherwise the Arizona Mine,' has set the
! fashion, and many others are following her ex-
ample
Miss LAvINIA SHANNON, of Washington,
D. c., formerly of New Orleans, is just finishing
most successful engagement of eight months as
leading juvenile lady of the Julia Hunt Company
in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama.
and Mississippi.
THOSE persons who have discovered
that George Ehot's face was extremely beauti-
full will next declare that Ben Butler is a beau
ideal of manly beauty, and DR.. Mary Walker should
have been awarded the Forepaugh $4,000 prize for
the handsomest woman.
81 LEARN that the Gar is complete
prisoner scarcely ever leaving his palace save to
walk in the grounds attached to it. These grounds
are constantly guarded by chain of Cossacks SO
closely posted that not creature can enter or
leave without being seen."-Fdnty Fair.
THE Louisville C0mfer-JOurnal says:
This has been hard winter on the mighty ones
of earth. The Car of Russia has been assassin
deaths door, Paul Boyton is a prisoner in Peru,
and Private Dalzell has had to decline an 81 500 Of
fice."
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS approves
of the attempt to overthrow the power of Senator
Conkling in this State by employing against it the
Federal patronage In other words, he thinks it
proper to violate every principle of civil
reform to put down political enemy This is to
advocate the coarsest and broadest application of
the spoils system.-BufdLo Courier.
One of the crew of the wrecked tug
boat. James Blakemore, on the Ohio River, ex-
claimed Immediately on being resuscitated: MY
mother dreamed of all this, and begged me not to
go on the boatI' The correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial On the spot sagely remarks 1t is
not likely, however, that the mothers dream had
any agency in producing the wreck"