National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-27
PERSONALITIES.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has been pro-
fessor at Harvard for thirty -four years.
AN exchange suggests that JEFF Davis
should take confederate money for his book.
Miss CLARA MORRIS will play the part OF
a gypsy in a new drama written expressly for her.
SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, will
make thorough canvass of his State next autumn
on the stump"
Mr.. GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, formerly At
torney- General, is a candidate for election as
United States Senator from Oregon, to fill the next
vacancy that occurs.
THERE is Russian professor named
Dragomanoff He ought to be appointed chief OF
police to look after the Nihiliss. He could drag
man off to Siberia in no time.
THE lucky dog who has Just drawn a
prize ofs1OOOO in lottery is Alexander McCracky,
young farmer residing near Somersville, Tenn.
Oh, Cracky! what'll he do with it?
ROBERT GOLFER, the great Unitarian
divine and formerly Yorkshire blacksmith, on
one of his visits to his native home hunted up his
old anvil and brought it over to set in his study.
| Ex-SECRETARY OF THE Navy NATHAN
GoFF, of West Virginia, General Keifer, of Ohio,
| Hon. w. S. Shallenberger, of Pennsylvania, and
| Hon. Chauncey l. Filly, of Missouri, are in the
| city.
| ANDREW D. WHITE is certainly coming
home from Berlin. He is announced to deliver
course oflectures at Cornell University during the
| coming academic year. viii Whiteaw Reid sue
| eeed him?
| w. r. HOLLOWAY, Of Indianapolis, will
commence the publication of new morning
paper-the Indianapolis Tmes-in few days He
! is well-known newspaper man and will make
| spicy journal oft.
COLONEL INGERs Oils religious revolu-
tion proposes to turn the churches into schools,
the cathedras into universities, the preachers into
teachers this world into heaven, and let the next
take care OF itself"
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, has given
up his contemplated trip TO Europe at the city's
expense Benjamin Franklin once concluded that
he had no appetite for apples, after discovering,
that he could not reach even the lower branches
of the tree.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN says he is too old
to run for Office. This is a remarkable concession
from all Ohio man. We thought Ohio men were
either too old too young to hold ofice-that
they became political possibilities at five and re-
manned eligible as candidates until ninety.
GENERAL BUTLER, General Pryor, ex-
Senator Sprague, and other gentlemen held con-
ference Saturday in Providence, R. L, with COM
mittee of the creditors of the sprague estate, look
ing to proposition for the purchase of the entire
estate by syndicate represented by General But
Ter and his associates.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE EVANS, widow with a
history, died in San Francisco last week. Her
maiden name was Josephine D'Orme, Countess de
Carroll. She came to this country in 1863 and was
leading member of the Bianchi Opera Troupe.
4 cI,a twill tba
stage of San Francisco which made the amputation
of one of her legs necessary, and she retired to
private life.
Mrs. ELIZABETH TILToN recently became
grandmother, child having been born to her
daughter Florence, who resides in London. The
second daughter, Alice it is said, will be married
this summer while her father is in Europe. Mrs.
Tilton is still living in Brooklyn. Her mother
Mrs. n. B. Morse, her son Carroll, who has
abandoned the notion Of studying for the ministry,
and who has obtained position in mercantile
house, and her youngest son Ralph, live with
her. Mr.. Tilton has not visited his wife for two
years.