National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-18
PERSONALITIES.

CONSTABLE, the noted jockey of Eng
land is dead.
RICHARD R. MCMAHON, ESQ, of West
Virginia, is in the city.
THE report that Senator Grover, of Ore
gon, is i'll is unfounded.
SENATOR BLAINE is getting much better
His trouble has been 4 touch Of rheumatic gout.
THE new California Senator-elect, Gem
eral Miller was on the floor of the Senate yester-
day.
The President will go to Alexandria
next Tuesday and review the firemens parade that
day.
THE Atalanta Boat Club of New York
will tender Hanlan a reception on his return from
Liverpool.
MAGGIE MAY and Jennie June are al
ready organized. There is room yetfor Aggie Au-
gust and Sarah September.
QUEEN VICTORIA travelled to Windsor
from Osborne yesterday. There were only a few ex-
ira precautions observed ell route.
PRIVATE DALzELL is mad An Ohio
paper printed an article on Great Authors and
his name was not once mentioned.
Ex-Governor MCCREARY, of Kentucky,
says he won't be a candidate for Governor next
time, but he is ready to go to Congress.
MIR. BRET HARTE's drama, "The Two
Men of Sandy Bar" has been produced in Ger
many under the title of " The Lost Son.
SENATORS MCMILLAN, Window, and
Bailey, and Representatives washburne, Davis.
Horr, and Crowley called on the President yester-
day.
A VERMONT lady, who died recently.
left five sisters, aged respectively ninety one,
eighty-seven, eighty-f five, eighty one, and sew
enty six years.
GENERAL GEoRGEB. MCCLELLAN, of New
jersey, has been chosen as one of the managers of
the Soldiers Home vice General John Love- of
Indiana, deceased.
As a rule man who gives you title
of General" OF Major" or Colonel" on the
first acquaintance will want to borrow s. in about
twenty five minutes.
THE C0rTeo of Madrid announces that
the Duke eff Fernan Nunez has been appointed
ambassador at Paris, Senior Valero at Lisbon, and
Senor Mazo at Rome.
REBEL RAIDER JOHN MORGAN DESTROYED
a great deal of property in Southern Indiana, and
5000 claimants are asking the Indiana Legis-
lature to give them S500,000
SOME genius has invented cane that
will hold a pint of whisky, and now the Ken
tucky politicians believe that the telegraph pole is
the greatest invention of the age.
Poor Harry Hunter is dead. It will be
difficult to find another Lone Fisherman like him.
The part he created was unique, it being at the
same time perfectly select and iTresistibly funny
EX-GoyERNoR JEwELL's own organ. the
IIorf ri DaeF hot ba
pletely Frustrated by his campaign work of last
year, and that he has gone to Cuba to recuperate.
COLONEL ED. RICHARDSON, of AIissis-
Appi the most extensive cotton planter in the
South, and commissioner from that State to the
New York International exposition is in this city
The correspondent of the London Dailg
Telegraph at Paris says he has reason to believe
that James Stephens, the Fenian head centre who
arrived in Paris on the 9TH instant left there last
week.
CoUNT VoN ARNIM BoITzENBURG, who
has been reelected President of the Reichstag
has declined to accept, as he had resolved to do
if the clerieals were represented among his COL
leagues.
JOHN KELLY has secured rooms for his
family at a Washington hotel, and will witness the
OF General Garfield. John Kelly is
mean, hateful thing, and helped to defeat u.s.
s. j. T'Iden.
The portrait of Mr.. Storey, of the Chi
cago Times, which painted for the Chicago
Press Club, was the work of Mrs. Storey, who is a
gifted lady. Mr. Storey is one of the handsomest
men in the West.
KING KALAKAUA was chief guest at a
ball given at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco the
other evening. His majesty appeared in an ordi-
nary black dress suit, and opened the ball by
dancing quadrille.
Mr.. PARNELL promised on his return to
Ireland to send Victor Hugo letter upon the
political situation in that country, and Mr. Hugo
said he would replyto such letter bya ma o to
Europe III favor Oft the claims of Ireland.
DIR. ARTHUR SULLIVAN has a nephew,
an eight-year old Richard Sullivan, who bids sair
to be another musical genius. The child has just
beaten thirty boys who competed with him for the
position of choir-boy at st. Paul's, London.
Ex-MAYOR COOPER is mentioned as the
Democratic candidate for Representative in Con- !
gress in place of Fernando Wood, deceased. John |
Hardy, who has run twice as an independent can
iidate against Mr.. Wood, and shown great deal d!