National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-09
PERSONALITIES

CAPTAIN D. H. McCoMAs, of Lansing,
Mich is in the city.
r. P. FADDIs, of Hampton, Tex, has
rooms at the Imperial
Mr.. TILDEN will remain quietly in pri-
vate life now-ifthe courts win let him alone.
COLONEL MCCLURE calls Wayne Nc
Yeagh the beacon light of the administration.
ITwas George Eliot-poorwomanI who
wrote, Nothing is so good as 1t seems before
hand"
c. L. r. WAPPENHAUs, of the Signal
Service, III charge at Detroit, Mich is at the St.
James.
r. T. VAN Horn, of the Kansas City
Journal, member of Congress elect from Missouri,
is at the National.
GENERAL GORDON has bought the Geor-
gia Western Railroad, and is going Immediately to
work to complete ii.
GENERAL GRANT has arranged to remove
to his Long Branch cottage June and remain
there during the summer.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES and the members
of his late Cabinet have been invited to participate
in the schurz dinner at Boston.
CYRUS T. Fox, of the Times and Dispatch,
of Reading, Pa, chairman of the Republican
County Committee is in the city.
Hon. CARL SCHURz has designated
March % as the day on which he will accept the
hospitalities of his Boston friends.
Mr.. CHARLES A. DANA says the new ad-
ministration is already failure and then puts his
words into Senator Cameron's mouth.
S. J. CAMERON, editor of the Carroll
(0hio) Republican, has left for home. thoroughly
satisfied that the Inauguration was "a big thing"
HENRY D. PIERCE, of Indianapolis, law
partner of ex-United States Senator Turpie, was
admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States
yesterday.
ENGLISH ladies strewed the path of
General Roberts with flowers. The Beers, should
he ever get close enough to them, will strew his
path with thorns.
SECRETARY ROBERT L. LINCOLN was born
in Springfield, Ill., August l, 1915. He is married
and has three children, the Oldest, daughter, be-
ing twelve years of age.
MIR. CHARLES 7. WORKMAN, of the old
and we'll known firm of Charles T Workman & Co.,
of Richmond, Va, died there in the eighty ninth
year of his age yesterday.
TIE beautiful, talented, and accom-
pliShed ladies' Misses Emma and Amanda Butter
worth, of Philadelphia are visiting their friends,
Miss (. Collier and sisters, Of Washington.
GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN arrived in Phil
adephia lastevening from Washington and willre-
main few days as the guest of his father in law
General d. II. Rucker, of 2220 Spruce street.
Ex-SPEAKER RANDALL arrived in Phila-
delphia yesterday and intends resuming his legal
practice, which has been interrupted to some ex-
tent by his close attention to the Nations business
MARY ANDERSON has been appointed
lighthouse keeper at Round Island. This, of
course, is not Mary the tragic actress for she knows
nothing about light t-houses-Neg Orleans Plea
ytsne.
JAMES S. FRANKLIN, late clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, died at Annapolis
suddenly last night, aged fifty-three years. He
was elected clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1868
and re-elected in 1874 and was succeeded in 1880
by Spencer C. Jones.
W. W. WINCHESTER, son of the late
Lieutenant Governor Oliver F. Winchester, died
last night aged forty three He was vice president
of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and
since his fathers death was nominally its head.