National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-08
PERSONALITIES

Mr.. A. B. MATTEsoN, of Utica, n. V, is
a guest at the Imperial.
Mr.. GREER, the original Garfield man,
arrived in the city yesterday.
JONES asked his landlady how old an
egg had to be before it became chicken.
Mr.. BEEcHER says that the next world
will be aphically divided into heaven, hell,
purgatory, and Brooklyn.
COLONEL THOMAS II. NELSON, ex-Min-
lister to Mexico is at his old quarters, Mrs. Nc
Gowan's No. COL Thirteenth street, corner off.
THE Hon. John Randolph Tucker is to
deliver lecture in Richmond on the I'd of May
upon Virginia as She Was Is, and Is To Be-"
Miss FRANCES KERR, aged seventeen,
dropped dead suddenly in the cloak-room of the
Model School, at Bradford, Ontario, yesterday
morning.
JAMES A. HEARNE has made enough
money out of the "Hearts of Oak to buy resi-
dence or at least he is negotiating for in the
suburbs of Boston.
"0LIvIA," Washington correspondent,
calls Vice President Arthur peaches and cream"
"Olivia may like peaches and cream" but is
the Vice President fond of fy?"-Noristo,Vn
Herald.
PRESIDENT PORTER, of Yale College,
when asked how many of the senior class could
thoroughly sift his psychological arguments re-
piled: "Oh, quite a number-about eight, 1
imagine
GENERAL J. B. STEEDMAN had a very
narrow escape from suffocation by coal gas at his
home in Toledo Ohio, on Saturday night last. His
wife, two children, and grandson were also much
affected, the last seriously so.
FRANCIS MURPHY and Joe Emmett are
going to visit Europe this summer. Murphy is
going over for the purpose of delivering temper
ance lectures and we suppose that Emmet will
accompany him as a :" frightful example" of the
evil effects of alcohol
Mr.. JOSEPH S. CURTIS, eldest son of Mr..
George Ticknor Curtis, has received the appoint
ment of mining geoogist on the United States geo.
logical survey for the Eureka district in Nevada
which is said to be the largest silver and lead pro-
ducing district in the United States.
The Oil City Derrick says that man of
that town, Russian by BIRTH named Braunkeh-
weifergipdamfno, petitioned the Legislature to
have his name changed. His reason for wishing
to haye'it changed 10 Brown was this: He couldn't
spell it when he wanted to sign check.
WHEN the Rev. Mr.. Silver, pastor of
the Church of the New Jerusalem, in Boston High
lands, was drowned recently, he had in his
pocket sermon prepared for the next Sunday
Last Sunday this sermon was read to his congre-
cation from the authors water stained manuscript
NINE. THALBERG, the widow of the
pianist whose beautiful and refined performances
are still pleasantly remembered in this country,
after the calamity at Casamiccola gave shelter in
her house 10 whole family, husband, wife, child
and poor old woman whose reason already in
firm, the terrible disaster which had deprived her
of home completely destroyed.
MAJOR JAMES w. PEGRAM, who died in
Atlanta, Ga, last week, belonged to the famous
lighting Pegram family" He had two brothers.
both of whom were in the confederate army, and
81 the ten sons of the elder Pegrams" also entered
the confederate service. Ofthe ten young Pegrams
five were killed in battle and one was so severely
wounded that the amputation of his leg was nee
essary.
The Louisville Courier-Jour,l pub
lished three columns of trashy reading recently
with the following display head: Robert E. Lee-A
Genealogical Chain Connecting the Confederate
Chief to Duncan, King of Scotland-The Southern
Leader Seventeenth in Direct Descent from King
Robert the Bruce-An Interesting Historical Dis
coyery Recently Made and Never Before Published
Not a Doubtful Link in the Chain.
DIR. M. NJ. DE MEzA, of this city, the
private secretary of Santa Anna, is the author of
number of works, among which are the follow
ing: AN Historical Romance on General Santa
Annas visit to the United States in 1867" "The
Kingdom of Etheria," a romantic drama in five
acts; :" Bankers Heart" drama comique in five
acts and prologue; "A Woman's Corpse on the
Throne" tragic drama in five acts; " The Law of
Retaliation" tragic drama in four acts; Three
Victims" tragic drama in four acts Reflections
on Good Friday" book on theology well in
dorsed; Stories for Children small book full
of fun.