National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-04
PERSONALITIES,

IsN'T it about time for Courtney to saw
a boat in public?
Mr.. J. J. JAMES, of New York, is regis
tered at the Imperial.
HoN. EDWARDS PIERREPoNT, of New
York, is at the Arlington.
Mr. EDWIN BooTH dined with the
Prince of Wales last night.
ADMIRAL D. D. PORTER, wife, and daugh-
ter are at Fortress Monroe, Va, for two or three
weeks.
RowELL's record has been beaten again
in New York. 1t is easy to beat ROwelPs record
when Rowell is out of the country.
SENATOR EDMUNDS and General Ripley,
of Rutland, w. will set out on their fishing trip
to the Cascapediac River in Canada, in about two
weeks.
CARDS are out for the marriage of Will
lam W. Curtis prominent young merchant of
Mount Holly, n. J., to Miss Maggie H. Girven, of
that town.
An Indiana paper piteously asks ::
"Why should the father of prodigal son have
killed fatted calf?' Perhaps the old gentleman
was tired of mutton.
"THE Man with the Scarlet Letter" is
the title which a St Louis paper conferred upon
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher when he lectured
in that town last week.
Mr.. r. B. HAYES has submitted to an
interview, in order to express the pleasure which
ne feels in the fact that somebody else is afraid
to fight Mr. R. Conkling.
DR.. J. G. HOLLAND will indulge himself
in pleasure yachting this summer He has sent
new yacht up the Erie Canal 10 meet him at his
place, on the st. Lawrence.
Mr. WILLIAM MAHoNE, JR., son Of Gen
eral Malone was married to daughter of Major
Tanner in Petersburg, Va, on Wednesday. The
Senator was too busy in Richmond to be able to
attend.
President GARFIELD would not give
dime 10 have the senatorial election at Albany go
either one way or the other" says leading CORE
spondent at Washington. He would risk only a
Nichol.
The Binghamton Republican asks:
"What is inventions other name? If necessity is
the mother, who is the father?" We believe they
call him Pat Ent-evidently en- Italian-Norris
t0,Cn Herald.
THE Hon. Mark Alexander, who was
Representative in Congress from 1919 to 1884 is
still living in Mecklenburg County, Va, at the age
ofninety years. and is about to celebrate his golden
wedding, his wife being twenty years his Junior
LEVY, the cornetist, is again in trouble;
this time charged by Emily Levy, of London, Eng
land, who claims to be his wife, with deSertion,
and living with another woman, by name Marianne
Conway. Levy required to furnish s., 800 bail.
A New YORK politician, in writing a
letter of coincidence to the widow of a Congress
man who had been his friend, says: q" am panied
10 hear that W has gone to heaven. We were
bosom friends. but now We shall never meet
again.
SENATOR FERRY, Of Michigan, was
taken i'll while on his way nome from Washington,
and was compelled to stop in Grand Haven for
medical treatment. His speedy recovery is conf
IDENTITY looked for. The attack is one of nervous
prostration, similar to that which brought him so
! ow a few years ago.
Mr.. JOHN 0. EVANS, president of the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company who has been
in this city days, looking after its interest,
yesterday made arrangements with Colonel J. J. s.
Wilson, late superintendent of the Western Union
lines, 20 take service in the Mutual Union. Col
onel Wilson will doubtless prove valuable acqui-
sition to the new company.-Ifltcr- Ocean
DENNIS KEARNEY is losing his hold on
the San Francisco workingmen, who suspect that
he has lined his pockets in his efforts in behalf OF
the I" down trodden hinds of toll" When he said
at a recent sand-lot meeting that this is the only
country in the world where a poor man can get
enough to eat he was interrupted by cries of
" Throw him off the platform! He lies: they get
enough in Ireland" How about the house you
are building with the blood money of the work
ingmen%'