National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-14
PERSONALITIES.

Mr.. PIERRE L. JoUY has started for
Yokohama TO join the Palos expedition
"a JAY GOULD and party returned to New
York from their Southwestern trip Saturday.
Mrs. A. G. WILKERsoN and her children
and Miss Maud Rollins have sailed for Bermuda.
SAMUEL L. GALES, secretary and SUI
perintendent of the Memphis Cotton Exchange
died Saturday
GOVERNOR PILLsBURY, it is expected, will
announce Secretary WINDOWS successor in the
Senate to-day.
Hon. L. C. CoULsoN is warmly urged
fer foreign mission by Alabama Republicans.
who say he is a true and earnest man.
SENATOR SHERMAN has presented each
member of the Ohio Legislature with a cabinet
photograph of himself bearing his signature.
DAVID DAVIS says the fence is not so
agreeable position as it might be. That is why
he gets down on the Democratic side to rest so
often, probably.
President GARFIELD dined with the
members Of the Cabinet, ex-Secretary Ramsey,
and Senators Anthony and Allison, at Welcker's
Saturday evening.
STRAWBERRIES in the cup are as plenti-
ful as three dollars; but the trouble is that one
cannot find sugar dear enough to put on them
NelU York Herald.
IT is reported that Count Hubert, son of
Prince Bismarck has cloped with a German
Princess the wife of high court dignitary ofGer-
many, and that the couple are in Italy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MACVEAGH is soon
to be entertained at two public dinners in Phila-
delpha. One is to be given by the Union League
and the other by his personal and political friends.
IT is reported that Hon. Joe R. Rich
ards, former clerk of the lower house of the
ArkansCw Legislature, viii be prominent candi-
date for Clerk of the next House of Representa-
tiyes.
THERE are 964 noblemen and gentle
men now being educated at Eaton College. The
list includes an Indian prince, duke, twenty-one
lords, three counts five baronets and forty two
honorables.
The late Senator Carpenters hand
writing was to the school teachers not very hand
some but it told that the man was informal, reso-
Lutte sure, slightly impatient, and, to the last.
somewhat boyish.
HALF-BAKED evangelists" is what
religious paper calls some of the peripatetics who
go from church to church with Turkey morocco
limp backed Bibles under their arms, putting on
airs as they were Moody and sankey.
Mr.. PAUL H. HAYNE, the Southern poet,
lives in rough hut of pine boards on the Georgia
Railroad. about twenty miles from Augusta where
completely isolated from the social and artistic
world, he deVotes his life to literary work.
SIX members of the Senate are foreign
born: Messrs. Farley, Of California; Fair, of Ne
vada; Jones, Of Florida, and Sewel, of New Jer-
sey are Irishmen. Senator Jones, of Nevada, was
born in England, and Senator Beck, of Kentucky,
in Scotland.
THE Dowager Lady Raglan, widow of
Lord Raglan, who for some time commanded the
British forces in the Crmea and died there on June
%, 1855, is dead. She was the second daughter of
the third Earl of Mornington, brother of the Iron
Duke, and was born on the 18th of March, 1914
EX-SECRETARY of State William NJ. Ey-
arts of New York; Senator Allen e. Thurman, of
Ohio, and Timothy o. Howe, of Wisconsin, the
United States Commissioners TO the International
Monetary Conference shortly to be held in Paris,
will sail for Europe April . in the Inman steam
ship City of Richmond.