National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-15
PERSONALITIES,

JOAQUIN MILLER has lost all his money
by Wall street speeulations.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS is teacher in a
negro Sunday school in Memphis.
BARTLEY CAMPBELL is writing Russian
play. It is expected to contain several a-bomb-
Unable features.
SENATORS THOMAS F. BAYARD, of Della
ware, and George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, are at the
New York Hotel.
| EX-SENATOR THURMAN says he does not
intend to be the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio this fall.
THE death is announced of Right Rev.
James Danel. Roman Catholic bishop of South
| wark, Eng, at the age of sixty.
Miss NELLIE HUTCHINSON, a bright-eyed
young woman who edits the Weekly New York
| Tribune, has a volume of verse in press.
JEFF. DAVIS is opposed to the revised
New Testament" He is probably disappointed be-
cause it doesn't uphold the action of the South in
| seeding from the Union.
LLEwELLYN T. SEAvY, of San Francisco,
CAL, has brought suit for $4,000 damages against
DR.. Hugh j. Glenn for the alleged seduction of his
wife. The defendant may be remembered as the
Honorable Blk" candidate for Governor at the
last State election.
A CONNECTICUT paper says that Mrs.
General Mower the ex- postmistress at New Lon
don, is unable to collect money deereed her by the
courts from the present postmaster, Mr.. Tubbs, all
kinds of technical obstacles being placed in the
way by Tubbs counsel. Mr.. Brandegee.
The friends of the late Harry Hunter,
the I" Lone Fisherman" arc making arrangements
to give performance for the benefit of his father,
mother, and younger sister, who by his death have
been deprived of his support. 1t viii take place
at the Boston Theatre at a date yet to be named.
BENJAMIN G.. PORTER, aged seventy, and
Miss E. Copeland aged sixty-ive, were married in
King City Andrew County, Missouri, on the 9th
instant. They were sweethearts forty five years
ago. and were engaged, but became estranged. He
married but she never did. His first wife died
about a year ago.
WHILE no relative of General Wash
ington has lived at Mount Vernon for many years,
and none of his family any portion of the es
tate, descendants of three families of negro ser
wants still live there, and neither they nor their an
cesters have known any other home since General
Washington brought their ancestors there.
GENERAL IGNATIEFF, the new Minister
of the Interior in Russia, is a TALL broad shoul-
dered man, with slight stoop He shaves closely
the scar said to have been left by the bite of a
favorite horse, which ON taking lump of sugar
from his mouth once nipped off piece of the
upper lip.
A CITY MERCHANT (the Philadelphia
Ledger tells the story who had formerly been a
resident of country town was in the habit of
making annual visits to his native place. On one
of these occasions he missed minister who had
preached there for many years. and on asking for
him one of the deacons said: "Oh, you mean Mr.
Chancel; yes, we sent him his resignation last
fall"
On June 10, 1861, First Lieutenant John
T. Greble was killed at the Little Bethel affair, and
on June 10, 1881, his son, Cadet John T. Greble
was made second lieutenant, standing sixth in
his class of graduates at West Point, where his
father was a cadet and an assistant professor The
elder Greble was the first commissioned officer
killed in battle the Union side They are Phila-
delphians.