National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-11
PERSONALITIES.
NAsBY is going to Australia.

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GOVERNOR FOSTER, of Ohio, is stopping
| at the Riggs House.
Mr.. D. Fl. GILDERsLEEvE, of New York,
| is stopping at the Imperial.
JOHN RUSSELL Young has rented cot
tage at Long Branch for the season.
| ADELINA PATTI has recovered from her
| recent Illness and has arrived in London for the
! opera season.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS NJ. BAYNE and
Robert P. Neyins, editor of the Pittsburg Leader,
| are stopping at Wizards.
In the Fulton County Superior Court of
Georgia j. C. Burton, young lawyer, was sentenced
to four years imprisonment in the State peniten-
tiary for perjury.
HENRY WARD BEECHER says he doesn't
know anything about evolution and doesn't care
whether he descended from monkey or not, pro-
vided he has descended far enough.
CAPTAIN HERMAN ScHREINER's charm
ing wife left last week, after delightful visit here
and in Baltimore, to join him at Port Clinton, on
Lake Erie, where they will pass the summer.
THE London correspondents of the pro-
yincial press renew the rumors about Mr.. Glad
stones partial complete retirement. The
rumors are probably oceaSioned by his recent ILL
ness.
Mr.. FROUDE says he is done talking
about the disputed Carlyle memoranda for which
the literary clan will be grateful The dispute has
been as undesirable as fight over a dead mans
money.
AUDITOR MCGREw left for New York
city last evening. From thence he will make
flying visit TO Niagara Falls, accompanied by his
daughters, who have been spending some time in
New York city.
A DISPATCH from Paris says: ga duel
impends between NJ. Lepere, formerly minister OF
the interior, and NJ. Massot, president of the
council general of the department of Yonne. The
latter is seventy-six years of age"
HoN. JOHN B. CoGswELL has been re-
moved from the receivership of the Sandwich
Savings Bank, Boston, because of Deficiencies in
his accounts amounting to 5000. He was given
time in which to refund, but failed to do so.
DUyENECK, the successful American art
ist, now settled in Florence, is a Kentuckian-a
native of COvington. Mr.. Duveneck is one of the
happy artists who never lack for orders and can
command their own prices. He has under his in
struction class of eighteen students.
THE parsons should let Bob Ingersoll
personally alone. Their mild denuncfations do
Bob about much harm as the big Golfers little
wife. who amused herself by cutting her amiable
giants ears; and they afforded him an infinite
amount of amusement and profit-NeIV York Com
nnercial advertiser.
GENERAL FRANK CHEATHAM, of Tennes-
see, who commanded a corps in General Hoods
army during his campaign in Nashville, and who
has remained stolidly silent in regard to an effort
to hold him responsible for the failure of that
campaign, has notified the president of the South
ern Historical Society at Louisville that he is en-
gagged in the preparation of a history of that ad-
vance and retreat from his own standpoint.
Mr.. FREDERIC A. PoTrs, who was the
Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey
last November recently sent two of his three sons
OH pleasure trip to Europe. News came that both
the young men wered dangerously ill in Naples, and
the third son left on the next steamer. Shortly
after the steamer had sailed report of the death
of one of the young men, Harvey Potts, was re-
ceived. ThereupOn Mr.. and Mrs Potts sailed for
Europe, and they are now on the passage. On Sun
day cable dispatch announced the death in Paris
of George II. Potts the who went to the assist
ance of his brothers.