National Republican., 1881-08-06
PERSONALITIES.

RoscoE CoNKLrNa has already three
$4,000 retainers.
CAPTAIN BoUTELLE, of the Bangor Wing,
will be secretary tf legation in Spain.
A STATUE of the late Morton McMichael
is to be placed in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.
al MAY be horse-thief," remarked the
prisoner, sadly; "but am not newspaper cor
respondent"
JUSTICE HARLAN, of the United States
Supreme Court, intends to make Chicago his per-
manent home
SENATOR DAVID DAVIS is spending n
few days Mt Lenox, Mass, aud driving around the
Berkshire Hills.
"MIcnAEL, yer nose looks like an infer
nal machine. Have yia been blowing up any
British staymers?'
Miss ANNA DICKINSON, with her mother
and sister, will spend the remainder Of the sum-
mer in Honesdale.
JUICE COOLEY, chief Justice of Michi-
gan, who viii probably succeed the late Justice
Clifford, is the best book lawyer in the West.
MR. JoHN Guy VAssAR is still quite i'll
at his hotel in New York. and his brother, Matthew
Vassat, is confined to his house in Poughkeepsle
by illness.
WILLIAM II. DlCKERsoN, one of the oldest
lawyers in Philadelphia, was respected and fairly
successful before he went into the great Whitaker
will forgery Now he is broken down, penniless,
and convict.
G. X. MARSHALL, ID. D., Of Vicksburg,
Miss, perhaps the most eloquent Southern cx-
FOUNDER of Methodism, is in the city en- route To
Europe to attend the Methodist Eoumenical Coun.
Gil in London.
| GENERi l. ROBERT PATTERsoN's pulse OH
Sunday last went down TO 49, but his wonderful
vitality came to his aid, ana OH Wednesday night
| ii had risen to 30. He completed his Cighty.nin
year on the 18th Of January last.
Miss VANDERBILT, the youngest daughter
of ofWilliam II. Vanderbilt, is betrothcd to Dr. Webb
a son of James Watson Webb. Miss Vanderbilt is
petite brunette, with bright eyes, while Mr.. Webb
is alne-looking young man of about twenty eight
HoN. JOHN A. LOGAN on Thursday de-
livered an address at the fourth annual reunion
ofthe Macoupin County soldiers and sailors, at
Carlinvile. Ills speech was wholly non political
Despite the intense heat, ten thousand people
were present, and the meeting was great success
GENERAL BoURKE, one of the trustees
of the skirmishing fund, is reported as say.
| ing; "I don't know much about Grove. liz
| don't amount to much. What is the use Of i'm
mortalizng such an idiot? / have no sympathy
with Internal machine fellows. i want nothing
| TO do with them
Mr.. DIoN BoUcTcAULT has taken his two
| girls Patrice and Nina from the school at which
| they were being educated, in Germany, the one
aged sixteen and the other fourteen, and brought
them both out on the stage in London in one o
| his pieces. He intends TO play them through the
English provinces
THE wealthiest Georgia negro, Henry
Todd, gained his start toward fortune by owning
slaves. He was once n slave himself, and his
| freedom was given to him by his master. But he
| quickly overcame any scruples which he may
have entertained and at the outbreak Of the wal
owned twenty men.
A CURIOUS passage in the political life
of Ex-Governor Cove salisbury, of Delaware, was
his canvass for the United States Senate in oppos
tion to his brothers, Ell and Willard, The fight
was begun in the caucuses for the State LCgisla
ture which was to elect Senator in 1862 and wa
exceedingly bitter. Each brother secured tn,
members from his own district but Eli was th
| winner.