National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-30
PERSONALITIES

GENERABCANALEs,o ofthe Mexican army,
is dead.
REPREsENTATIvE-ELECT MoREY, of the
| Third Ohio District, is in the city.
San DIEGO, Cal, is said to prohibit by
ordinance cigarette smoking by boys
! Mr.. GRoEsBEcK, of the firm of Groes-
1 beck & Schley, bankers, of New York, is in the
city.
THERE has been notable change in the
temperature since Garfield and Grant met at Long
Branch.
Ex-Governor Fl. II. Wells yesterday
left for Saratoga and will be absent about two
| months.
Mr.. A. S. HATCH, of New York, and
the firm of Hatch & Foster, is stopping at the
Arlington.
Hon. LEVI P. MORTON, of New York,
and the recently appointed Minister to France, is
at Wormley's.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance lee
turer is to be licensed to preach by the next Hi
nois Methodist conference.
Ex-SPEAKER RANDALL was orator and
| George Alfred Townsend poet at the commence
ment of Dickinson College at Carlisle.
Mrs J. P. PALMER, of F street, was
passenger for Europe by the Cunard steamer
Partha, which left New York for Liverpool yester-
day.
"BETwEEN the Green Corn and the
Gold " is the latest poem. We presume it will be
followed by one entitled Between the Green Corn
and the Cholera Medicine"
IT is reported that Jay Gould's son is
about to organize racing stable. If this is so the
public will eventually discover the exact size of
the elder Mr.. Goulds fortune.
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD expec,5 to enter
tain President Garfield at dinner next Saturday, at
his villa on the Hudson, and it is hoped that Mrs.
Garfield will be well enough to accompany him.
GENERAL WEAVER, the gentleman who
not long ago appeared as Greenback candidate
for the Presidency, is rather a handsome man,
with good head and a brown mustache. LIE is a
clever speaker.
PETROLEUM V. Massey has been at TIE
Derby and he gives it his unbiased opinion that
the British female drinks too much beau He be-
held her returning from the races in very ad-
vanced stage of corner grocery.
Mr.. WILLIAM P. SCOTT, brother of the
late Colonel T. A. Scott, is hard-working farmer
at Clinton, Iowa. His brothers will gives him
comfortable little fortune, and he will not be
obliged to toll so persistently hereafter
c. DOUGLASS GRAY, a prominent Repub-
lican of Harrison burg Va, was in the city yester
day. Though Funder Republican, he earnestly
favors the Readjuster ticket and thinks it will be
indorsed by the Lynchburg convention.
AMONG the articles on exhibition in a
loan collection in Lynchburg, Va, is a mourning
ring once worn by General Washington for his
brother Lawrence, who died in 1852 at the age of
thirty-five, as an inscription on the ring shows.
h.,
with the auspicious title of "Old ShipmateS"
which will be produced next season by Mr.. Frank
Mordaunt, who will play the chief part 1t is in
four acts, and presents seven persons The tone is
dramatic and humorous. This play will be pre-
sented for the first time on August29 at Buffalo.
o HENRI RoCHEFoRT was the victim of a
curious mistake the other day. He was driving
with a friend, when his acquaintance bowed to a
friend whom they met. Rochefort, mechanically
or out of politeness, bowed too and the gentleman
thus saluted (who had noticed the first greeting)
responded by lifting his hat. 1t was Marshal Mac
Mahon.
EUGENE KELLY, the richest of the Cath
olic bankers of New York, was formerly partner
of William C. RalSton in San Francisco Kelly
wanted to have their business transferred to New
York, but Ralston said they had not money enough
to compete with New York bankers, and they sep
rich by doing slow, safe business.
STANLEY HUNTLEY, of the Brooklyn
Eagle, writes that the sketches already published
in the Sunday Eagle about I" Mr.. and Mrs Spoop-
ondyke" are coming out soon in book form, to
counteract the exhiarating effect of the Revised
New Testament. In addition to these sketches,
Mr.. Huntey will include his Bismarck poems thus
immortalizing himself and the metropolis of the
Northwest.
the star-ESoute Fizzle.
The other day, when good many peo-
pie feared that the newly discovered comet was
about to pitch into the earth the sun, the New |
York Times in clever article, illustrated the diff
ference between hunting comets and being hunted |
by them. 1t was rare sport to stalk this erratic
game in tof- the way places and bypaths of the
universe, taking shot at it as it blundering
by was in retreat; but when comet turned and |
came booming for the hunters, the interest though
rather intensified than abated apt to be of the
soberer sort. 1t looks if omething like this was
going ON in the Washington star-route investiga-
tions. When the quarry was started everything |
appeared auSpicous-a splendid dawn, early |
away, grand game, hot pursuit, a magnificent |
run, glorious DEATH The Times in the thick |
of it, echoing ta1ly-ho and beating jungles with
unusual ardor. All at once the horns ceased, the
hounds came flying back, the whipper-in dropped
his lash and the hunters huddled as if for parley
behind very thin hedge. Brady, the most pow
erfl buck of the star service has turned to bay on
a commanding eminence, and not only refuses to
exhaust himself with run, but threatens to dis
embowel the whole chase-men, horses, dogs and
ALL An occasional whimper alone is audible but
the spectators are intensely interested-Nelc York
Sun.