National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-09
PERSONALITIES.

J. D. PRICE, ESQ, of Harrisonburg. Va,
is in the city.
WHITAKER refuses to lecture. Let that
fact be put down TO his credit.
SOME of the Southerners call Simon
Cameron the Duke of Pennsylvania.
II pursuit of his duties as editor, Mr..
Watterson, of the Courier Journal, has gone to Utah.
HoN. JOHN PAUL, member-elect from
the Seventh Virginia District now represented by
Judge Harris, is stopping at the Ebbitt.
WENDELL PHILLIPS and General Butler
| are tospeak at an Irish sympathy meeting in Fan
euil Hall, Boston, on Friday evening next.
GENERAL GARFIELD since his election
has demonstrated that he knows how TO mind his
business in all the living and dead languages.
Mrs. LIvERMoRE is lecturing on How
Shall We Reach the Boys?" This question can
never be satisfactorily answered until every saloon
has telephone.
In some parts of England Ralph is pro-
nounced Rafe but that does not seem so remark
able when we consider that throughout New Eng
land Abijah is pronounced BIZ.
Mrs. JENNIE ROBERTSON, who donned
male attire at the outbreak of the rebellion and
served three years Union soldier and teamster,
died in Nashville few days ago.
ONLY little more bulldozing from the
Irish and it is likely Mr. Gladstone will be ready
to modify and quote at them Horace Greeley's IA
nous Erin sisters, depart in peaee!"
"WHY this disgraceful inefficiency and
donothingism in Congress supposed to be Demo-
cratic?" asks the Democratic New York Express.
Well, because that Congress is Democratic. Ask
something hard next time.-DureRpo1t Gazette
(Rep)
NINE. RATAZZI, grandniece of the First
Napoleon is still living and at present engaged in
writing book in memory of her second husband
"Ratazd ct Son Temps" She dresses splendidly,
and is attended at the Bois in Paris by servants in
patched breeches
THE new Senator, Van Wyck, of Ne
braska, has lived in that State only eight years,
but bought the land near Nebraska City whereon
he now lives more than twenty years ago, intend
ing then to some day become Nebraskan. He
has beautiful home and fine farm.
Mr. LoNGFELLow is too old and good a
man to be misepresented. Some of the papers
have said that he once went into kitchen and
helped lady to peel pumpkin. The lady now
comes forward and denies the story Longfellow
did not peel pumpkin. 1t was asquash
LIEUTENANT r. L. HoxIE and his wife,
nee Winnie Ream, left last night for Florida. The
Lieutenant in his long service in the engineer de-
partment of the District government, has applied
himself too closely to official duties, and in his
Southern trip seeks restoration of his health.
DR.. WILLIAM TREvITT, an old resident,
died in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday of heart
disease, at the age of seventy-two. Dr. Trevitt
was thrice member of the Ohio Assembly, was
secretary of State for three terms, and repre-
sented the United States Government in diplo-
matte capacity in Chill during the administra-
tions of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan. He
leaves wife
PHINEAs COPELAND, the father of the
we'll known journalist, William P. Copeland, died
in Camden, n. j., few days since in his sixty
seventh year. Deceased was born in Chester
County, Pennsylvania, aud resided in Philadelphia
and Richmond, Va until 1850, when, with Colonel
David Lyle, he went to California and was one of
the pioneers to that Eldorado. Returning to Cam
den about 1855 he has since resided there winning
the respect of all who came in contact with him
for his truthful and kindly ways and pure life.