National Republican., 1881-07-02
PERSONALITIES.

CUSTODIAN PfTNEY should lecture and
tell us just what he has In his custody
COLONEL JESSE w. JACKSON and family,
Of Atlanta, Ca, are in the city, at the Howard
House.
EDWIN BooTH, who is back at New
York, declines a reception because ofthc illness Of
his wife.
HORACE GREELEY's brother, Thornton
Greeley, bequcathed his farm valued at s2O 900, to
the city OF Nashua, n. II.
GEORGE WASHINGTON is reported to have
remarked, per medium ~ see that II Is proposed
to erect monument TO Iroquois. Give him mine"
GENERAL GRANT has, It is reported in
the Cincinnati Enquirer, sold his farm in st. Louis
County Missouri, to Mr.. Jay Gould for $4,000. The
farm contains over 200 acres aud Is well improved.
LoTrA, the actress, says that If she ever
marries she hopes to become the companion OF
"some handsome. whole-souled gined editor"
SO she can always dead head II at the theatre, we
suppose
The New York Herald reports that
Goldsmith Maid has new daughter, and thinks
that admirers Of the family can hope without be-
ing suspected Of total depravty, that she viii be
EAST"
Ex-ALDERMAN CLANCY, of Ottawa, Ont,
has built flying machine by which ho sails down
street from an elevation with case. On Dominion
Day he will fly from the tower Of the Parliament
buildings over the rowing course.
Ex-MINIsTER JOHN WELSH has refused
the political Office offered him by ward associa-
tion in Philadelphia He declined on account of
his advanced age-seventy-s six years. If he were
younger man, he said, he would accept
The Louisville Courier-Journal prints a
story about woman In Jackson County, Tennessee,
bearing seven children at birth. work OF the
imagination, we prcsume.--BgGaio Express. I'M
agination? Well, hardly.-Nep Harei Register.
"GATH" says that in 1854 he knew
Robert Collycr as n blacksmith, working in an AK
factory about eight miles north Of the city OF Phla
delphia. He had been in America only about two
years.-Erehdnge. We will see Collyer about this
Ex-senator PIScHBAcK says: "Ididn't
play poker with a preacher in 81. Louis, and /
didntlosc 81, 700 at the game which wasn't played.
The story is nm Internal lie, and l would like TO
know who started it. would sit me down and
pen him q few lines"
THE american says Ex-Governor Philip
Francis Thomas llmp by tRe;Jes5tthe chairmanship
OF the Democreti -stO VI Sr,o,,. "edttee, ana II
to S hold % tbe M marty eleos lor al another oil two
years CuplberiqS.id (Md). Paper.
Cp...rLAIN VAN WYcK, U. S. A., and
/ iamily will leave next Tuesday for Milford, Pa.
spending n few days In the Valley OF the Della
ware thence n points OF interest in the East
| They will also visit Colorado and the Rocky
Mountains before their return to this city in octo-
| Der.
MRs. RALEIGH, of Salt Lake, wants q
| divorce from her Mormon husband. Among other
things which she had TO do, and which she says
she will do no longer, was TO skin poisoned COW
and carry the hide to her house over her shoulders
Mr. Raleigh, In tho meantime, standing by with q
linen duster on and walking cane In hand, super
intending the job-Erchange.
THERE is rumor that Count Won Bis
marck Is to succeed Mr.. Won Schlozor as Minister
| to the United States. Mr.. Won Bismarck will be
remembered as the young gentleman who elopcd
with the wife ofa Prince The lady, 1t Is said will
accompany him to Washington. II there is one
thing Washington prdes itselfupon 1t is Its morals
This news IS truly dreadful. We must write to old
Bismuth about it-New York Commercial Advertiser
j. ii. S. PARKER, of the Post-0fiice De
partmcnt, has just returned from a trip to Boston
where he went to present the cause OF the law de-
partment of Howard University, Of which he is
recent graduate. This school is the only one II
the South where colored man can obtain
knowledge OF common law, and the people at the
Hub were very much interested in It, and besid,
| nattering newspaper notices of Mr. Parker, prom
ise him substantial assistance in the future In hi
efforts to establish the school on firm inancia
basis.