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

JAMES PHELAN, of Montreal, is at the
Imperial.
THE Duke of Avila and BAHAMA, Portu-
guese Councillor of State, is dead.
DR.. JOHN RUTH, the celebrated rife
shot, died yesterday at Oakland, Cal.
/ BEN BUTLER says he " feels like boy
again." He probably means the I" old boy
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL is to marry
Miss Gertrude Blood in the last week of June.
Hon. E. B. MORGAN has given Wells
College, at Aurora, n. Y, $4,000, making upward
of $4,000 in all.
JENNIE JUNE says " this great Republic
has no right to ask loyalty or consideration from
women; it gives them none''
GENERAL ROBERT TooMBs is to deliver a
lecture in Columbus, Ga. in behalf of a public Ii
brary to be established there.
COLONEL S. r. HAMILI, a prominent
railroad attorney and well known in this city, died
at Fortress Monroe last evening.
SEVEN eX-Goyernors of Texas. are still
living-Messrs Bell, Pease. Lubbock, Throek-
morton, Davis, Coke, and Hubbard.
SENATOR JAMES G. FAIR has returned to
Virginia City, entering that town in the comfort
able magnifcence of a fourth hand.
MAINE claims that General Knox, who
had charge of the siege guns at Yorktown, was the
real hero of the surrender of CORVALLIS.
birdie MCWHIRTER" have re-
ceived your poem, entitled In the Mist" Here
after it Will be known as among the missed.
Mr.. ]. F. CAKE, former proprietor of
Wizards and the Metropolitan Hotels in this city,
is now keeping the Grand Central Hotel at Santa
Fe, Nm.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper of
this week contains an illustrated sketch of General
Thomas J. Brady by Mr.. Frank Smyth its Wash
ington correspondent.
THOSE of us who have the time and
money are going to Europe this summer. Mr..
Vanderbilt has already gone and more of US will
follow on the next steamer.
Mr.. G. B. ROBERTS, president, A. J.
Cassatt, vice-president, T. Thomson, manager,
and A. Dowdell, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, are
stopping at the Arlington Hotel.
MAJOR r. VI. HALL, formerly promi-
nent real estate operator i'll this city, has been ad
judged insane in indianapolis, and been properly
cared for by his relatives in that city.
MCKEE RANKIN and wife, at the special
request of Lord Lorne, witnessed the military
sports at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Canada, on Satur-
day afternoon, and dined with him in the evening
Moses ROBINSON had for many years
paid taxes on his property at East Northfield, Vt
at valuation of only $4,000. When recently it
was put up to 200 he became insane and COM
mitted suicide.
LORD REAY will attend the international
monetary conference as the second delegate for In
lis in Dyyith tha
ing of the double standard in Java is likely TO
prove valuable.
THE Queen of the Belgians and her
daughter Princess stephanie, who is to be married
on the 10th instant to Prince Rudolph, Crown
Prince of Austria, have arrived at Augsburg, en-
route to Vienna.
DR.. Fl. E. LEACH, of this city, is in Rich
mond, Va, as one of the delegates to the conven-
ton of the American Medical Association, now in
session. The Doctor is the guest of the Commercial
Club, a we'll known and popular organization of
the Virginia capital
HELMHOLTZ, the great German scientist,
has a face and head which somewhat resemble
those of Bismarck, the lower part of the face how
ever, being more delicate. His figure is less i'm
posing than Bismarcks His voice is very fine,
and he speaks English clearly.
lion. LEVI L. MORION IeIG Iile Guy JillS
morning with his family for his cottage at New
port R. l., where they viii remain until they leave
for France early in July number OF prominent
people, many of them connected with the lega-
tiOns here, assembled at the depot to say goodbye
to Mrs Morton Mr.. Mortons Washington house
has been leased to Senator Hale:
DR.. BARToL relates that the late Mr. !
Fields once told him that when he was a clerk in
bookstore his emDloyer sent him one dav with 81
printed volume to the great DR.. ~Channing, an
errand peculiarly welcome to him, because of the
fame of the divine, whom he would be so glad to !
see. The doctor appeared in the entry of his !
house, when the young man, trembling, addressed |
him, Sir, have been sent to beg your permission |
% have this book dedicated to YOU Take it !
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