National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-15
PERSONALITIES.

SECRETARY KIRKwooD's favorite paper
paper of tobacco.
REPRESENTATIVE L. C. HoUK, of Ten
nessee, left for home this morning.
Mr.. JOHN T. RAYMoSD's present to his
bride was bangled bracelet studded with selected
diamonds.
MoDJEsKA says her name ought to be
pronounced Mod -je-i-ev-ska. wenever pronounce
it any other way.
J. c. BATES, one of the largest bee-raisers
in Iowa. living near Ames, has lost 81 900 worth of
honeymakers by the extreme cold weather.
THE municipal elections North 60 DEM
oeratic and the presidential elections Republican
with disgusting preeison.-T TickSburg Herald (Denl
Ex-MARsHAL BAzAINE, whowas charged
with having betrayed Metz to the Prussians spends
most of his days in Madrid coffee house, playing
billiards and drinking chocolate.
STETsoN, the Boston manager who con-
tracted with Anna Dickinson to play Claude Me-
Ote took to his bed after she refused to fulfill the
engagement, not, as he says, because he was sick,
but because he was SO mad he couldn't sit up.
QUEEN isabella is reported by the st.
Louis Globe Democrat to be property owner in
W
acres on Capitol Hill and a row of brick houses
The purchase was made through a Philadelphia
firm.-Neto YorE Tribune.
A DEMOCRATIC cotemporary calls him
| "ex-P President Tilden." 1t appears that he was
once president of baseball club and had to re-
sign because he didn't pay his income dues, or
| something that way. Our Democratic cotempo-
rary should let bygones be bygones.-NorTist0lcn
Herald.
A VIRGINIA Republican paper says:
Captain Riddleberger is one of the most gifted
young men in Virginia, and if they will give him
the privilege of the Senate floor for two hours he
will show that he is more than a match for the
grave and reverend Senator'S who have for the past
week been so numerically belaboring him.
GEORGE III. POWERS, one of the most
popular editors in Iowa, who carried Grants name
st his editorial mast head for three years. and who
has been Stalwart Republican editor ever since
he was twenty years of age, has received an i'm
portant appointment in the Pension Bureau
| through Secretary Kirkwood. and will remain in
Washington until about July 1.
THE Republicans elected their candi-
date for mayor in Dallas, Texas on the 5th instant
much to the establishment of the Democrats. Col
one Stone, the mayor elect, was serenaded in the
evening, and reoiced in the result as Republican
victory, and said they had only asked, and now
only ask the right toexpress themselves on politi
cal subjects freely as they would be allowed to
do in other States.
SENATOR BUTLER ought not to allow the
present opportunity to escape for him to defend
the political morality of South Carolina He was
reported to be heavily surcharged with speech
on this interesting subject, and he ought TO have
ii out at once. If he will give lucid description
OF the way in which expert son of chivRlry can
vote between fifteen hundred and two thousand
times in one day he will command wide audi
ence. The feat has been accomplished repeatedly
in South Carolina. If it had not been, Mr. Butler
would not be occupying seat in the United States
Senate-Nclg York Tribune.
A GOOD thingis told as having lately hap
pened in the fourth collection district of North
Carolina. 4 certain dis;iler wrote to the collec-
tor of internal revenue at Raleigh, stating that
there were gross Irregularities in and about his
distillery, and demanding that proper officer be
sent forthwith to investigate and rectify matters
man was sent, and, after thorough inspection,
reported TO the distllcr that everything was all
right in and about the premises as far as
he could see. The distiller said: "Oh, you have
not hit the case; the rregularity consists in i'm
proper intimacy between the storekeeper and
gauger and my wife. That's what mean" The
inspecting officer laughed, and said he did not
think he was sent down to examine the mash.