National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-16
PERSONALITIES

J.K. SNYsER, of New Jersey, is stopping
at the Imperial.
GENERAL SKoBELEFF, theyoung Russian
hero, is on his way to st. Petersburg.
Mr.. Tom NICHoL thinks that Garfield
regarded him great gun. A sort of smooth
bore
CAPTAIN SCHROEDER and Lieutenant Won
Sunsen, of the German vessel Nymphe, are at
Wormleys.
GENERAL SCHENCK ten years ago bought
lots here for twenty-five cents foot which are now
worth Sl.50 foot.
JOHN T. GIBSON, editor of the Hunting
ton (w. Va.) Commercial, is in the city. He is
stalwart Republican.
"GATH" says that Justice Miller, of the
Supreme Court, is the ablest man yet produced
west of the Mississippi River
WILLIAM III. ENGLISH has Just erected
a monument of pure Carrara marble in Indianap-
oils to the memory of his father and mother.
Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS will soon arrive
i'll New York On his way to Canada. where, it is
said he will spend a portion of the summer.
SECRETARY WINDOW and Mr. J. E. Dow
ney, of indianapolis, are building what is know as
the Window Block, on First street, Durango Col.
Ex-SECRETARY THOMPSON and family
have given up their house in this city, and will
leave for their home, Terre Haute, Ind, about the
18th.
WILLARD FILLMORE has taken to writ
ing messages per mediums. The Elmira Free
Press thinks they show a great improvement over
his former messages.
THE late General Emory r. Upton left
ON pStota of ahl nO1 of +bn
from his copyrights. iii his will he remembered
all his near relatives, some twelve in number
MAJOR JONES, the American consul at
Newcastle, England, is about to take heightened
holiday in the United States. His numerous
friends entertained him at breakfast on Thursday.
THE Economist, of London. saws: "Sec-
rctary of the Treasury Window is to be compli-
mented upon the ingenuity of his scheme and the
Judgment he has shown in putting ii into eXecu-
ton
THE youngest son of the late Secretary
Stanton has married the daughter of Mrs. Phillips,
the lady who was sent to Ship Island by General
Butler for insulting Union soldiers in New Orleans.
Inter OCEAN.
AN endeavor is being made in London
to secure the appearance of Mr.. Booth, Mr. Irving,
and Mr.. Mccullough in such piece as Julius
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dians of the day on the same stage.
GENERAL Turner AsHBY and his brother,
Captain Richard Ashby, both of whom were killed
in battle, will be honored with a memorial monu.
ment by the ladies of Winchester, Va. The nionu-
ment will be unveiled OH the 9Th of next month.
CAPTAIN H. H. PARR, an English officer,
says that infantry officers when in uniform, dress
shabbily. SIR Garnet Wolseley says that the bet
ter you dress soldier the more highly he will
be thought of by women. and consequently by
himself
Ii the President is brave man he ought
not to be afraid or ashamed to confess an error
and undo wrong. His best friends admit that he
made a mistake in nominating Judge Robertson.
Let him Withdraw the nomination-S Louis Globe
Democrat
SIGNoR SALvINI has presented to Bos-
ton critic the dagger which he has been in the
habit of using in the ASSASSINATION scene in Mae
beth" It has handle of solid oxidized silver
chased in antique Gothic pattern "It has notany
great intrinsic Value writes the tragedian grace
fully, "bnt HOW it acquires one by your kind ae-
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