National Republican., 1881-10-29
PERSONALITIES


at COULD just hug Foxhall."-Mdud s.
GENERAL AND MRs. SHERMAN left yester-
day morning for Philadelphia.
GRAHAM BELL and Schuyler johnson,
OF this city were registered at Paris Thursday.
Mr.. d. r. KcKEE of the New York AS
ISOLATED Press and wife. have returned from Eu-
rope
MISS ANNIE LOUISE CARY will sell her
house in Portland and probably reside in New
York.
COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS MARBLE has
recovered from his recent Illness and was at hs
Office Thursday.
Ex-SEcRETARY EvARTs is on his farm in
Vermont, writing the report Of the International
Monetary Commission
Ex-SPEAKER SAMUEL J. RANDALL and
Colonel John w. Forney, OF Philadelphia, were at
the New York Hotel Thursday.
GENERAL JAMES A. BEAVER, II. o. Chap
man, and Colonel d. II. Hastings, of Pennsylvania,
are stopping at the Ebbitt House.
! THE January number of Hdvpers Mdgd-
zinc will contain an important article by Senator
Edmunds on the political aspects of Mormonism.
VIscoUNT DE BoNDY and Mr.. and Mrs.
Pacheco were among the passengers who arrived
on the French steamer Amerique from Hayre
Thursday.
FARMER DICKENS, q nephew of Charles
Dickens, was recently elected deacon OF the
Methodist Church by the Rock River conference,
at Sycamore. Ill.
The King of Bavaria has made Mr..
Iothar Won Faber, proprietor Of the famous pencil
factory Of A. w Faber, at Stein, near Nuremberg
hereditary baronet.
BISMARCK is quoted as saying one day
concerning General Ignatleff: "The report goes
that he told the truth once in his life but have
never heard him do So"
DIR. SUSAN A. Epson has returned to the
city for the first time since she LEFT for Long Branch
with the late lamented President. She has been
seeking rest and recreation In New York and Ohio.
Mrs. DR.. HIBBARD, of Clifton Springs,
who led the meeting at the temperance convention
Thursday morning. Is a lady of fine culture. Her
husband, Dr. Hibbard, is known also as an able
writer
WENDELL PHILLIPS. writes to a friend in
Iowa: O. do not forget that President Arthur was
one Of our New York counsel In the fugitive slave
cases, and predict he will make q good Presi-
dent"
PosTSTAsTER-G GENERAL JAMES has made
poor fist of it at Washington. His letter accepting
Mr.. Tyners resignation carries no comfort to tho
person receiving II and reflects no credit upon the
wrlter.-New Yor World.
The ex-Empress Eugene has aged rap
idly Of late. She is infrm from rheumatism aud
walks with q cane 1t is not strange that the once
brilliant leader Of French fashion should finds
Paris, as she says. "like a cemetery
THE chief engineer of the Livingstonia
Mission, Mr. ]. Stewart, has made journey in the
little steamer Ilala, which now navgates Lake
Nyassa, and which three hundred African women
carried upon their shoulders around Murchison's
Falls.
A FAMOUS California Indian named
Tenocoa, but baptized Francisco, has Just died,
chief of the TETON Indians who was young man
In 1869, when the first friars landed at San Diego
and who was consequently very much more than
a hundred yean old
The oldest twins in the United States
are George and Edmund Gravely, of Leatherwood.
Henry County, Virginia. They will be ninety
three years old ON the 1st of December next, and
are In good health. Their mother lived to be over
one hundred and their father died at ninety.
AN exchange says Bill Arp (so called -
Southern humorist "is under thirty years OF
, age" As the so. called" Arp was writing for
Southern papers several years before the war he
must have been quite young when he commenced
: not over seven years of age-Norristoi0n Herald
President ARTHUR is credited with say
ing to Governor Foster recently that ifthere were
any factions In the party he hoped all sides would
confer with him; that, SO far as he was concerned
: he had no enemies to punish, and did not intend
to be used to punish the enemies Of other persona
That is a first class position.
Mr.. JACKSON, the young American who
has been appointed reader to the King of wurtem-
berg Is living In absolutely colossal clover. He Is
the kings closest friend has been frescoed with
D titles and decorations, and has q battalion o
n hunkies to jump at his command. He is Gull
Q tivated young man and pleasant, but not too ut.
terly handsome.
Q THEY have an airy way of doing things
# at Leadville. When DR.. McCosh was there re-
It Gently he wished to go down In mine, whereupon
# gentleman in workman's dress grasped his hand,
told him he had once been Princeton student
q and led the way down his own mine and befort
= the Doctor departed his new friend volunteered Ia
% create q fellowship at Princeton.
4 A CHICAGO man visiting Cincinnati was
being shown around by citizen, who said, "Now
4 let's go and see the Widows Home" The Chicago
y man put his finger by the side Of his nose and
= = winked, and then he said; "Notmuch, Mary Ann
n l saw a widow home once, and 1t cost me $4,000
u She sued me for breach of PROMISE and proved 4
on me. No, sir. Send the widows home in ,
l. hack."--CdH Schur=.
|, JUDGE DAVIS, the Springfield Republica,
!, says, preserves his frugal habits. young frent
u found him the other day counting a roll of green
Il backs. "Young man." he said, "this is the tru
way to make money. Economy and saving. Their
If is my stationery allowance. The Senators are al
Is lowed sl25 for stationery Too much, too much
10 have used just "a worth, and am entitled to si2
h In cash. and here 1t Is. Be economical and saving
70 young man."
Washington ms "a Winter Residence.
Is AS an addi tional proof of the assertion
70 so frequently made in THE REPUBLICAN that tn
" wealthy and cultured from every city fast rec
er ognzing the desirability of Washington as win
ie ter residence, both account of the salubriy