National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-02
PERSONALITIES

Mr.. VENNoR's thaw seems to have
frozen up.
THERE are six journalists in the Arkan-
sas Legis lature.
Mr.. W. d. HowELLs will soon resign
the editorship of the AGGntic and it is said that
James 7. Fields will fill the vacancy.
N1S03 Louisiana was sold to the United
States for SIS 100000. Vanderbilt would have con-
sidered the purchase mere bagatelle.
BY the will of the late Elizabeth Col
lins of Philadelphia, 81, 900 is bequeathed TO the
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans of that
city.
EX-SECRETARY DELANo, who has been
confined to the house by sickness for the past few
days. left yesterday for New York, where he will
spend the next week or two.
THERE is one good thing about Ben
Hills method of dealing with public questions. In
perambulating around them he is sure to get on
the right side now and then.
GEORGE MACDONALD has this winter at
Bordighera entertained the English residents by
delivering two lectures on Wordsworth, and, along
with mis- family, giving some tablea@G rirdnts.
GOVERNOR BLACKBURN, of Kentucky,
expresses himself as very confident that cholera
Will lniS tne CON-
ing season. He means yellow fever, probably.
Miss ANNA Dickinson is at present To-
Gated as guest at the Continental Philadelphia
She will return to the stage, and her friends
anticipate the event as a brilliant one in dramatic
life.
Miss CLARA MORRIS, the American
"star'' is expected to visit London in the course
OF the present year. From all that l hear she is
the finest emotional actress now living.-L0adoa
Tipth
JOAQUIN MILLER thus concludes a rem
iniscence of an old California friend: Dear Dave
Cotton. hear he is dead now. We first got ac-
quainted one night in Yreka while shooting at
each other"
THE siX-months-old child in the Hearts
of Oak combination costs the management $40 per
week and the mother Mrs. Dear, of Cleveland,
receives $50 weekly for her darling services The
baby has been on the stage three months.
CoyTRoLLER JOSHUA NANsANT of Balti-
more, has held positions enough, if each were
counted separately to make his public service Ia
years. At one time he held ten different places,
only one of them having a salary attached,
MONROE said to Sparks, at East Ber-
nard, Texas: Come overto my house tomorrow
to dinner; but don't bring your brother Frank for
l will shoot him if you do" Frank defantly went,
however and got shot Immediately On entering
the house.
THE English woman novelist who. i'll
defiance of social ana literary custom, signs her
nane Mrs. Henry Wood, instead of using her own
feminine appelatives, is the eldest daughter of the
late Thomas Price, head of one of the largest
gloye-making firms in Worcester.
A WESTERN correspondent, who visited
Senator Bruce at his home in Washington, says
the furniture of his parlors is rich and elegant
and the books, pictures, and other ornaments are
of such character and so arranged as to denote
refined taste as well as ample means
AFTER listening to lecture by Miss
Phoebe Cousins, the st. Louis lawyer in the Dover
DELI courthouse the other night, Senator Sauls
bury said: :" She is pretty and talented, but she
had better be taking care of some good mans
house, adorning womans proper sphere as a wife
and mother" \ bystander remarked: Take her,
then, Senat0Ti" but Senator Bayard's old bache-
lor colleague walked of, shaking his head-BslFi-
more Sun.
THE gist of Republican newspaper COM
ment on the nomination of Stanley Matthews to
the Supreme bench is that he is excellent jtlrist
though not always judicious politician. The
Democratic papers attack him because he helped
argue the Republican case before the Electoral
Commission. They have never forgiven him for
the part he took in circumventing the bulldozers
and cipher conspirators.