National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-28
PERSONALITIES.


IT is said that William Castle, the
tenor, has made $4,000 on Wall street.
SENATOR HILL, of Colorado, has re-
turned to the city, and is at Wormleys.
SENATOR VANCE has been honored by
having new county in North Carolina named for
| him.
| EX-SENATOR HANNIBAL HAaILIN has gone
to the headwaters ofthe St. John on a fishing ex-
cursion.
Mr.. OWEN WIsTER, one of the actors in
the :" Harvard Greek :" play, is grandson of Fanny
Kemble.
SENATOR PLATT, of Connecticut, is in the
Adirondacks, and is not at his home in low con-
dition, as stated
THE Mormon missionaries who have
been trying to make proselytes in Germany are to
be expelled the country.
REV. MONROE GIBSON, of Chicago, is
with his sister, Mrs. W. F. Barker HOS New York
avenue, on a short visit.
SENATOR SEwELL seriously sprained one
of his ankles by slipping on railway track in
Philadelphia on Thursday.
Miss ANNIE. B. IRISH is visiting the
family ofRev Cyrus Dickson, the eminent Presby-
terrain divine, in Baltimore.
Mr.. III. L. NELSON, formerly residing
here, and now of the editorial department of the
Philadelphia Times is at Wizards.
Mr.. J. W. MACKAY, the bonanza
millionaire of Nevada, returned from Europe yes
terday, accompanied by his daughter
ADELINA PATHS passage has been al
ready taken on the new steamer Servia, of the
fpr
ber -.
THE business men who supported SEN
ator Conkling in his opposition to Robersons con-
tirmation stand by him il his struggle for the SEN
atOrship.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CoRKHILL has re-
ceived the sad intelligence that his sister, Mrs. II.
C. Putnam, of Mount Pleasant Iowa, is lying at the
point Of death.
PROFESSOR SWING, of Chicago, is greatly
pleased with of the features of the revised New
Testament-the substitution of the words Holy
Spirit for Holy Ghost.
THE suit of Henry Willard against the
Northern Pacific Railroad and Frederick Billings,
begun recently in the United States Circuit Court
New York, was discontinued yesterday
Mr. G. W. HARRISON, of Philadelphia
has been directed by the Governor of Pennsylvania
to go to England and assist i'll preparing TO remove
the remains of William Penn to Philadelphia.
THE meanest man for the year halls
from Canada His name is John Shaver, and he
is on trial in Montreal for stealing tombstones from
a cemetery, taking off the names, andselling them
ROssIs repertoire includes Il great many
plays in which Salvini did not appear He will
be seen in Roa,eO Merchant Of Venice, King Lear
KedH, Louis YL, francesca dj Rin,iai, &c. He will
give representations each week.
THE following Washingtonians were at
the places named, IN Europe, on the lith instant: :
C. J. Bell, J. NJ. OCmes, and DR.. J. II. Thompson
Paris; c. Z. Coon, London; F. s. Hill and family
Dresden; Gardiner Hubbard and family, Rome.
GEORGE WAsHINGToN's false teeth were
held in by spiral springs. That firm expression of
the mouth seen in his portraits, which has been
attributed to decision of character, was probably
due in a measure to his efforts to keep his teeth
from jumping out.-CIRciRRGd Saturday Night.
A J. FRITZ, a prominent local Demo-
cratic politician of San Francisco and captain of
the Gatiing Battery of the National Guard of Cali
forna committed suicide at his residence Thursday
night by hanging himself tOa bed-p post. The cause
is supposed TO be temporary pecuniary embarrass-
ment.
THE trial of the suit of Rufus Hatch
against the Western Union Telegraph Company
and Others TO restrain the issue and distribution of
S5O000e0 of increased capital stock of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was begun yesterday
in New York in the special term of the Superior
Court, before Judge Truax.
WILLIAM +. DRANE, general superin-
tendent Of the Philadelphia Leigrr, died suddenly
yesterday morning at the age of seventy-two
years. Mr. Drane was one Of the best known men
in journalism in Philadelphia. lie was the founder
of the Transcript the first penny paper in Phila-
delphia, which was ultimately merged into the
Ledger.
GENERAL Ton BROWNE, of the Sixth
Indiana District is in the city for few days. and
is stopping at the National. Since the adjourn
mcut General B. is doing more for the good of the
country than all the politicians in it, TOR lie has
been busily engaged OH his farm near Winchester
planting his corn and other crops. He looks as
sturdy and contented as the veriest granger of
them ALI
THERE is a bit of romance yet in the
Austrian Empress heart, though she is credited
with being such an Amazon. She cherishes in a
beautiful jeweled box, not aone of great price,
but a little faded nosegay of edelweiss, that
mountain flower, white and delicate a snow
fake, which Austrian peasants attach to their
button holes as sign of love. The little nosegay
was given the empress by her husband the time
they were betrOthed and happy.
McDoNALD LYON, who died in Denver,
Col, Wednesday night, from al overdose Of NOR
phine, was we'll known Chicago man, having
been engaged in the brick and tile manufacture
with A {. Ducat, of that city. The lady accom-
him is Mrs. a. NJ. Ducat, who cloped with
him from Chicago. She gave him the morphine
to ease stomach pains and she has since his DEATH
made three unsuccessful attempts at suicide. The
coroners jury returned a verdict of accidental
death.
Costly.