National Republican., 1881-06-10
PERSONALITIES.

| IHE lulSTIdl hGN0nuS DurGdu ludy DC
| truthfully said to be of a Raumboidal form.
II. DE MARIEL, the editor of the Fran
cots Messenger, of New York, is at Wormleys.
Mr.. J. A. WHITcoMB, of Somerville,
Mass. the we'll known veteran excursionist, is at
the Arlington Hotel.
A SPECIAL to the Inter Ocean from Peoria
says: Jay Gould was in town yesterday and
started for the East last night"
ADELINA PATHS passage has been
already taken on the new steamer Servia of the
Cunard line. She starts for New York October %.
THE centennial of the birth of George
Stephenson, the originator of railway locomotion,
Was celebrated yesterday in various parts of Eng
| land.
THE great Scandinavian poet, Bjorn-
stern, would address a letter to the Massachusetts,
widow thus: benjamin F. Butler, Boston, near
Bunker Hill"
EMMA ABBOTT is reported to have in
vented new kind of kiss. Ifit is an Improvement
the old one no tenor with false teeth will do for
Emma's troupe.
SARA BERNHARDT registered herself at
the American Exchange, London, yesterday as of
| New York, in token of her appreciation of her re-
| ception in America
| SENATOR DAVIS, of Illinois, still holds to
the opinion that " the growth of gigantic monopo
lies in this country is dangerous to our institu
tOns and to civil liberty"
NINE. TREBELI is said to have been en-
gagged by Mr.. Gye for the rest of the season, and
thus the company of Her Majesty's Theatre has
lost one of its best members.
THE Republican party must move right
on and leave this wonderful administration to fol-
low up or stay in Room SO, just it peases. That's
the racket that won under Hayes.
IT is understood that Mr.. Hayes has
finished the fence, and is about to begin the erec
tion of two chicken-co coops and dog house. The
mind of statesman is never idle.
Mrs. HENRY MACKARNEss, an amiable
and accomplished lady, whose TRAP to Catch a
Sunbeam" brought her at once into notice more
than thirty years ago, died On the 9th ultimo at
Margate, in England.
GERsTER is coming back to warble in
the autumn. This will be Cincinnatis time for
settling accounts. II win be remembered that the
prima donna spoke of the Paree of America as
ambitious, but not musical"
Mrs. HARRIET LANE JOHNSON, niece of
President Buchanan. is now at Wheatlands, nurs
ing the only child left to her-a bright boy of
eleven, of whose return to health there is little
hope. Mrs. JohnSons eldest son died last winter.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE and Mrs. Wal
lace will sail from New York for Europe on their
way to Constantinople early next week. 1t is re-
lated that when President Garfield signed General
Wallaces commission as Minister to Turkey he
wrote across its face, "Ben Hur-J. A. G."
NJ. GAMBETTA is firm believer in the
eligibility of woman as teacher He declares him
self convinced that in the educational work of the
future the women of France will honorably bear
their share soon the legisaton of the country
enables them to assert their competency and au-
thOrity.
The Birmingham correspondent of the
Liverpool Daily Post says: "On Wednesday after
noon it was stated at the theatre here that Joe
Emmett, the comedian, had disappeared and that
his company had gone in search of him. In the
evening telegram was received announcing his
arrival at Liverpool"
THIRTY days ago Gibson and Woodward
were going to have the star-route men put in
striped breeches right of. Now we are told that
the ceremony will not take place until next au-
tumn. Well, somebody will pouch good deal of
per diem money during the summer and the peo-
pie foot the bills. Room 50 ought to'be expe-
dited" little.
W. r. HOLLOWAY is again an applicant
for Public Printer Defrees' place in Washington.
Holloway is an Indanian, and is out of Office
just now. 1t is said A. NJ. Clapp, DefreeS' prede
cessor, is also applicant. The latter made an
excellent Public Printer, and has the advantage
of being thoroughly acquainted with the require
ments of the position.-Troy Times.
Mr.. W. D. HowELLs has agreed to write
for Mr. Lawrence Barrett an original play founded
on incidents of early colonial life His first idea
was to dramatize the story of miles Standish,'
but that project he has abandoned The play is
to be ready for the coming winter season. Mr..
Barrett has also accepted a five-act tragedy in
blank verse by Mr.. William Young, of illinois, 1t
is called "Pendragon," and is founded upon the
stories of the Round Table" This play is also to
be brought out next winter for the first time at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York.