National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-28
PERSONALITIES.

GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND {" Gath y is
at Willard's
Mr. R. H. PORTER, of Louisville, KY, is
a guest at the Imperial.
EX-MINIsTER KAssoN, of Austria, ar
rived in the city yesterday, and is quartered at
Wormleys.
VENNoR is going into the mining stock
business. Hope he won't give us barometrical
depression every time stocks go down.
THE London Morning Post says that the
monument to Lord Beaconsfied, to be erected in
Westminster Abbey, is to cost about 5000.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL is regarded by
many of his readers as a young man. He is sixty
two, and as bright as a man of thirty five.
EMILE DE GIRARDIN, the eminent jour-
nalist, whose serious illness was recently men
toned, died at eight o'clock yesterday morning in
| Paris.
| REPRESENTATIVE LAPHAM, who left for
home on Monday, had the misfortune to fall and
painfully injure his hand while visiting the navy
| yard last Saturday.
JAMES I. FIELDS was a genial gentle
man, firm in his friendships and a great believer
in young men who are determined to make an
honorable way in the world.
WHETHER Whitaker, or West Point, or
the professional experts" or Kenward Philip is
on trial before that expensive and useless court
martial is getting to be mystery.
WoN'T some chemist invent q face
powder that does not contain lead and tastes good
Our young men are all dying of lead poisoning,
and kissing is going out of fashions J. T1dcp.
DR.. W. J. Holt, an eminent physician
of Ala died J,eStarday r,o-,j,cr IJa
was one of the young Americans who, after COM
pleting study in Paris, entered the service of the
Russian government in the medical department
during the Crimean war.
One of the public squares of New Or
leans has been named Thompson Square in rec
ognition of the munifcence of Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, of this city, in connection with the
creation of the National Board of Health for the
prevention of epidemics in Southern cities.
IT is rank blasphemy, according to
Funder notions, to criticise General Joseph E.
Johnston, the hero of retreats and defeats in the
late war; but it is perfectly justifable to abuse
General William Malone, whose brilliant record
as confederate general shows him to have been
the hero of advances and victories-Riehnond
Whg.
g Miss HELEN OTTOLENGUI, an actress
fell through trap-door in the stage at New Haven
and received severe injuries" This is evidently
the second time that she fell through trap-door.
On the first occasion she splintered and tele-
scoped her rear name, and the physician got the
pieces mixed up when he "set' it-NOTTisto,ca
Herald.
HoN. JOHN G. PALFREY died in Boston.
in his eighty-fifth year. He was many years ago
Professor of Sacred Literature at Harvard College
and subsequently became prominent in politics
He was at one time postmaster of Boston, and edi-
tor of the North american RcUjear and had held
other positions of prominence IN theology, poll
tics, and literature.
Mr.. HENRY K. JOHNSON has taken charge
of the correspondence of the Chicago Ne1cs, which
now publishes morning and evening edition. He
has during the past winter been doing some very
excellent editorial work On The NATIONAL. REPUB-
LIcAN, but will hereafter devote his newspaper eff
forts entirely to the interests of the Washington
end of the Nelrs