National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-07

SECRETARY BLAINE will pass his vacation
at Augusta, Me.
JOHN MCCULLoUGH and Billy Florence
backed Iroquois to win for s35 800.
| Ex-VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER is in New
| Hampshire. 1t is rumored that he had bite last
| week
Mr.. BLAINE's essay on the hog is to be
published, curiously enough, under the general
| title of " Our Foreign Relations"
THE dirtiest-lookingp paper in the United
States is the Louisville COurierJournaL. 1t looks
| as fit were printed on a cheese press.
IT is reported that Woodward has be-
come a strict sabbataran since the 1st of May
"And of such is the kingdom of heaven
AsHMEAD BARTLETT will be here in
about TWO weeks. His wife's bank account will be
welcome addition to the poker-playing circles OF
New York.
MICHAEL L. FLANNERY, engraver on the
Irish World (newspaper), committed suicide at
Syracuse n. Y, Sunday. Unrequited love is
said to be the cause of the rash act.
DEAN SWIFT, hearing of a carpenter
falling through scaffolding of house which he
was engaged in repairing, remarked that he liked
TO see mechanic go through his work promptly.
JUDsON SPoFFoRD, esq.,, of Huntington,
West Virginia, member of the Republican State
Central Committee and delegate to the Chicago
Convention, is in the city. He received his COM
mission as postmaster at Huntington yesterday.
THE only thing we regret about the
Derby is that IrOquois was ridden by an English
jockey. The American victory would have been
much more complete if the winner had passed
under the wire suymounted by a little darky from
the blue grass regions.-Glob Democrat.
Ex-GovERNoR E. J. DAVIS, of Texas,
now in this city, is known everywhere a Stall
wart Republican His influence among the col
ored voters of Texas is great and he has the thor
ough respect and confidence of the white people
He is lawyer of ability and learning, and in
the very prime of vigorous manhood.
GENERAL JERE RUsK, of Wisconsin, re-
fuses to take the position of charge d'afaires to
Paraguay and Uruguay. General R. is the man
who at a critical moment carried over the vote of
his State to Garfield. And now he gets his mad set
up by this wonderful administration offering him
a position that would hardly be worthy the accept
ance of ward hummer. Next!
REV. DIR. TIFFANY, of Arch Street NJ. E.
Church, Philadelphia, viii leave New York June
25 for Europe. He goes as delegate to the Meth
odist Ecumenical Council which meets in London
in September, but he will travel meantime on tn e
continent. Mrs. Tiffany accompanies him. His
daughters, with several lady friends, will occupy
the family cottage at Marthas Vineyard through
the summer.
Ex-MAYOR De GRASS of Austin, Tex,
sojournS at the Ebbiu. He was thrice wounded
in battle and thrice promoted for galantry in the
field. He is still disabled by his wounds and en-
joys the emoiuments OF a retired brigadier. He
served two or three years as superintendent of
public instruction in Texas, and for some years
past has been reelected again and again mayor
of Austin, 'he pretty capital of Texas. The ex-
mayor is devout Republican.
HoN. JACOB H. Ella, lately appointed
Sixth Auditor of the Treasury, served an appren.
ticeship as practical printer in the Office of the
New Hampshire Salesman, at Concord, and was
worthy representative of the "art preservative"
until fortune waited him into another sphere. He
was an 0id-Line Wing" in days gone by, and the
writer of this paragraph was member of the Tip
pecanoe Club 20 which he belonged in the flush
times of Tip and Ty. IN 1910.
THE Macon Miss Beacon announces
the death of Daniel Du Pre-, fifty years a cotton
planter in Montgomery, Pickens, Lowndes, and
Noxubee Counties, Alabama and Mississippi. He
and NJ. ]. Brooks built the cotton mills at Enter
prise, Miss, famous for the durability of goods
made from cotton never compressed, its fiber never
broken. the cotton being taken from the fields in
wagons 20 the mills. Mr. Du Pre- was noted for his
generosity 10 Inc churches and for lmitleSs hospi
taity. He was devout Unionist and follower of
Henry Clay.