National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-11
PERSONALITIES.

EX-GOVERNOR THOMAS 4. FLETCHER
leaves for his home, in Missouri, this morning.
PROFESSOR FRANKLIN CARTER has con-
sented to become president of Williams College.
- EX-SENATOR HANNIBAL HAMLIN is visit
ing friends in Waterbury, Conn., for few days
PRESIDENT HAYES, in four years, out Oh
his salary of two hundred thousand, saved sixty
| six thousand.
| SENATOR AND MRs. HILL, of Colorado,
have taken rooms at Wormley's for the remainder
Of the session.
E.P. WHIPPLE, once so popular as an
essayist, is a recluse and has been making study
| of George Eliot
MINISTER JoHN A. KAssoN has applied
for letter of recall and expects to return to this
country this month.
POsTNAsTER-GE JAMES leaves for
New York on the limited express this forenoon, TO
be absent few days
THE only officer of the army in the
Cabinet is Secretary Lincoln, who, for a period,
was on General Grants staff.
Mrs. GARFIELD doesn't waltz. Never
learned. But she can teach her boys Greek and
Latin, and knows how to cook
WHEN Bob Lincoln heard Of his nomi-
nation he went right On attending 10 hiSlaw buSi-
ness There is no nonsense about him
AMONG the literary people who have
been visiting Rome are Henry James, jr, "ouida,
Mrs. Lynn Lynton, and Mr.. Edward A. Freeman.
SARA BERNHARDT is now astonishing
the theatreg goers of the new cities ofthe far West
and the actress is as much astonished as they are
IT is proposed in London to erect a
posite Cheyne Row, and to place adjust of him in
Westminster Abbey.
CHINAMEN become graceful pupils at
dawncing the lawncers and other faWney dawnees,
and some of their flirting glawnees lawnce the
dawncers.
LORD HouGHToN has accepted the NOM
ination to the Office of president of the London
Library, rendered vacant by the death of Mr.. Car
lyle s.
THE new church at Haworth, which
stands on the site of the old building closely as
sociated with the Bronte family, has just been
conseerated.
MAINE has exactly dozen ex-Goyern-
ors living. Chamberlain, the Morrills, Washburn,
and Hamlin are the most noted; Garcelon is the
most notorious.
Mr.. w. I'll. WELSH, the editor of the
Baltimore Gazette, win deliver the commencement
Grafton before the literary societies Of Princeton
College next June.
GOVERNOR HOYT, of Pennsylvania, has
issued general order congratulating the 1900
members of the National Guard of the State upon
the good display they made in Washington at the
Inauguration.
DIR. JOB BELL, who was late assistant
of fba n pao Try
Volunteers United States Army, at present clerk of
the McNairy County court, Tennessee, is in the
city for few days
JAMES w. PURvIANCE, formerly United
States District attorney for the Western District of
Tennessee, and at present editor of the MeNairy
Independent published at Purdy, Tenn, is in the
city for short visit.
JUDGE T. C.. Muse, of Jackson, Tenn, is
a candidate for the vacant place on the Court of
Claims. In the recent contest for United States
Senator he received the full Republican vote in the
Legislature of his State.
Mr.. J. W. MACKEY, of California, has
been in Rome, buying statues and pictures right
and left 1t is even said that he thought of acqur
ing the Torlonia collection and talked with Prince
Torlonia about the price.
OK the off-nights of Signor Salvini's
next engagement in Boston, during the month of
April, Miss Anna Dickinson will astOnish the pub
lie of that city by acting in the characters of
Claude JIelnotte and Hamlet.
JUDGE A. w. ToURGEE, at recent meet
ing in Philadelphia. described the evils which
ignorance among the Southern voters caused in
their government, and argued in favor of COM
pulSory education in the Southern States.
CAMP-MEETING JOHN ALLEN, of Maine,
II, ,a
Industry that State, in 1873, aud commenced
preaching when he was thirty-five years old. Up
to the present time he has attended 80 camp
| meetings.
LORD AIRLIE has recently made a large
purchase ofland in Colorado, on behalf of rela-
tive who intends to settle there as a farmer He
is the author of interesting article in the Nine
teenh Century on the United States as a field for
agricultural settlers.
A PENSION of 1900 was granted in 1870
by the British Parliament to the heirs and de-
scendants of William Penn, in consideration his
meritorious services and of the losses which his
family sustained in consequence of the American
war. 1t is now paid to Colonel William Stuart, u
descendant.
GEORGE CHRIST, of Des Moines, Iowa,
is in the city. Mr.. Christ is chairman of the Re-
publican congressional committee of the Seventh
District from which Mr. Kasson was elected to the
next Congress over Gillett, the Greenbacker He
is very confident Mr.. Kasson will be elected Speaker
of the next House.
AMONG callers at THE REPUBLICAN of
fee were ]. R. G. Pitkn, of Louisiana; Dwight A.
Lawrence, of New York; Homer n. Lockwood, of
the Auburn CN. " press; Judge Billings of Louis
lana; Hon. Samuel B. Axtell, of New Mexico:
Hon. Mr.. Atkins, ofSavannah, Ga; Hon. William
Saunders, of Montana, and Hon. John F. Swift, of
California
Compliments for Mcclure.