National Republican., 1881-07-07
PERSONALITIES.

Mr.. AND MRs JOHN JACOB AsToR will
remain in Europe this summer.
LEXINGTON, KY, is to erect statue to
John c. Breckenridge costing $4,000.
Born Lincoln and Garfield were shot
down in moments of relaxation from the cares of
office.
MAUDE GRANGER recently distinguished
herself by catching thirty two trout in two days
fishing
PARsoN NEWMAN says: "Would to
Heaven those who live by politics might die by
politics!"
Ex-senator STEWART, of Nevada, is in
Santa Fe, New Mexico, as counsel in the great rail-
way suit.
GUTEAu, although monomaniac on the
subject OF his rights is of the coolest assassns
that ever lived.
Miss GENEvIEvE WARD will return to
New York In September and begin herseason with
Forget Nc Not.'
MISSES NELLIE, May, and Mabel Gilfil-
Ian, daughters of the Treasurer of the United
States, will spend the summer In Connecticut.
RILEY the oarsman, says he is making
ARRANGEMENTS for race with Trickett at Sara-
toga, some time the present month, iorsi J0Ja SIDE
GENERAL FRANCIS A. WALKER is an IL
d. twice over. He reeaipaa the degree from both
Yale and .sinherst at their recent commence.
meT.;.
Mr.. NJ. p. HANDY, managing editor of
the Philadelphia Press, returned from his Euro
pean voyage on Monday very much improved in
health.
REAR-ADMIRAL Y. Fl. STEVENS, lately
commanding the United States naval forces in the
Pacific, has arrived in New York city with his
family.
MISS ANNIE LOUISE CARY has declined
offers from Messrs. Mapleson and strakosch to sing
in opera. She intends TO accept concert engage
ments only,
PROFESSOR LANGLEY, of Pennsylvania, is
trying to prove that the sun is blue. If he wants
to get job at Yale, that's the kind OF tay to give
'om,-Boston Post.
PRINCE BISMARCK refuses to sanction the
innovation in German printing beneSolently in
troduced to students eyes, and refuses to read
German printed in roman type.
GAMBETTA is an inveterate gambler,
and as his high living aggraVRtes his tendency to
apoplexy It is predicted by Rochefort that he can
not live more than four years longer.
PRESIDENT GREvY has sent Hugo very
neatly turned compliment on his last book at
Is as good as your best work" says the president
"but 1t can add nothing to your glory"
THE Marquis de MacMahon, son of the
Marshal and ex. President, has Just been married
In Paris to Mile, Marthe dc Vogue, daughter of
the Count de Vogue, formerly French Ambassador
at Vienna.
:" Mrs, HIcKs-LoRD, from America" says
an English society journal, twas taken up by the
best people in London and is said to adorn her.
self with chains of diamonds reaching from
shoulder to shoulder
GAMBETrA told his constituents, in Il
dinner address the other day that the most touch
ing thing observable In France during the past
two or three years. had been the foundation of real
republican manners everywhere,
Mr.. OSCAR A. PHELPS, of Guilford,
Conn, found In field IN that town a few days
since pino.tree shilling Of the date Of 1862, the
year in which Captain John Hall, Of Massachu-
sets, began manufacturing these coins.
FOURTEEN years ago Thaddeus Stevens
made the will giving, among other bequests,
$4,000 to be used in erecting refuge for homeless
orphans in Lancaster Not until this week was
any movement made to secure the bequest
Mr., SIMON WOLF, confident Of the
health of the President, leaves tomorrow ON
the limited express for Philadelphia from there 20
New York, where he will sail on the steamer Oder
to Egypt,
HOWARD EDMoNDs has been arrested
for the murder of Miss Sallie Watson the daughter
of Hon, J. r. Watson, at Monticello, Ark. The
body Of the young woman, aitershe had been miss
ing four days, was found in the woods The muir
derer was her cousin
The Rev. Henry b. Hooker, d. D., for
many years secretary Of the Massachusetts Home
Missionary Society, died on Monday, aged seventy
eight years, at Roxbury, Mass. He graduated at
Middlebury College in 1891 and at the Andover
Theological Seminary In 1928 lie was a prolific
writer for the religious press.
THE nomination of the old patriot, Han
nibNl Hamlin, as Minister to Spain Is one of the
most graceful acts of the present administration,
There is a warm place in the heart of every Amer.
lean for the venerable statesman who, amer serv-
ing his country for nfy years, is to-day as poor as
when he first entered public life,
THOMSON is the name of the Georgia
man who accused his mother of immortality be-
fore church, in consequence Of which she was
expelled, Then he made the same charge in
court Of law, but the jury believed he was seeking
revenge because she had refused to'giye him some
property, and the verde, was an 0cquita