National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-04
PERSONALITIES.

IDh AhD Ss w AbAst OA ~~f Nsts.t
| is in the city.
Miss IDA HENDERSON is the guest Of
Miss Lucy Moten.
| S.W. BATTERsHALL and wife arrived on
the early morning train.
WILL HOLIDAY, postmaster of Indian
apolis, swells the throng.
A. c. WIDDIcoMBE, Boonville, Mo-, is at
No. 83l street northwest.
Ex-GoyERNoR J. MADISON WELLS, OF
Louisiana, is in the city.
Mr.. DUNNELL, Albany correspondent OF
! the New York Times, is here.
C. III. III. BULLOCK, ESQ.,, of Providence,
| R. l., is at the National Hotel.
MISS EDWARDS, of Philadelphia, is the
guest of Mrs. DR.. Martha Tucker.
JAMES n. KERNs, ex-sheriff of Philadel-
phia, Is at the Riggs, fixing the Cabinet.
GENERAL n. P. BANKs, of Massachusetts,
was on the floor of the House last night.
Hon. F. A. PoTTs, last Republican can
didate for Governor of New Jersey, is here.
REV. r. WHEELER and wife, of Brook
Ign, n. Y, are the guests of Mr.. MeriwetheE.
Ex-GovERNoR PINcHBAcK and Colonel
Robert Harlan are the guests of r. J. Harlan.
JOSEPH POLAND, editor of the WatchGaa,l
and Journal of Montpelier, VT, is at s11 street.
NJ. E. PAGE, of the Brooklyn Eagle, is
here doing the descriptive for that able journal.
SHERIDAN Shook is shaking the city
with enthusiastic remarks about General Garfield.
Hon. WILLIAM H. ROBERTSON, of West
chester County leader of the Chicago bolt, is in
town.
EX-SENATOR JOHN W. Coz, Liberal Re-
publican just returned from California, is in the
city.
THE Rev. and Hon. J. Hyatt Smith an
nounces that he intends to preach while in Wash
ington.
S. H. NJ. BIFERs, United States Consul at
Zurich, Switzerland, is guest Of Fourth Auditor
Beardsley.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, the chief
among ten thousand writer's is stopping with Billy
Copeland.
DR.. OWEN E. HoUGHToN, president of
the Lincoln Union Club, of Brooklyn, is helping
inaugurate.
GRANVILLE w. HARMON, deputy col
lector of internal revenue First New York district
is in the city.
Mr.. A. n. BIRCH, governor Of the Bank
of England, viii represent England at the none
tary conference.
S. S. FARRELL, United States internal
revenue collector of the Second Colorado district,
Is at 1880 street.
LORD BEAcoNsFIELD is said to be work
ing on an autobiography and journal for post
humous publication.
SENATOR HoAR will deliver the ora
ton at the commencement exercises of the Yale
Law School in June.
Ex-JUsTIcE TIMOTHY J. CLUB, president
of the Oriental Club, is at Wizards. The club is
not here; Kelly has it.
Ex-SHERIFF ALBERT DAGGErT, of Brook
lyn is here to secure the nomination of Postmaster
James as Postmaster General.
NJ. ADoLPHE-LAURENT jeanne, the
French geographer and publisher of guide books,
is dead, at the age Of siXty-eight.
CAPTAIN MoULToN EMERY, late of the
United States army at present engaged in planting
near Charleston, S. c., is in the city.
GENRAL II. n. OwINGs, secretary of
Washington Territory is about Congress looking
after appropriations for his Territory.
NObUNEls w dhhEN NlhhShiLL, doSlSl-
ant United States district attorney of South Caro-
lima, is spending several days in the city.
HoS. GEORGE W. CLARKE, of New York
City, is stopping with his old friend Rev. P. Fl.
Burghardt, No. Is Seventh street southeast.
Miss HATTIE P. FITCH, of Chicago, az
rived last evening, and is the guest of Mrs. L. E.
Mitchell, 21s street southeast, Capitol HILL
JOSEPH HOWARD, JR., of the New York
Herald, fresh from Mentor disports his agile form
and elevates his pen for his usual great work.
Hon. H. c. BRUCE, doorkeeper of the
is stopping with his brother, Senator B. X Bruce
COLONEL E. D. WEBSTER special agent
of the Treasury Department, formerly a very ac
tive leader in New York politics. is at the Airing
ton.
JOHN ". STANLEY, the leader of the
infinitesmal Democratic minority that gave him
the complimentary nomination for Speaker, is
here.
MANNING KIRK, ESQ.,, a promising young
member of the South Carolina bar, is in the city,
the guest of Rollin H. Kirk, esq., SO street north
west.
Rev. E. E. HALE's society in Boston
gave german in public hall in that city last
Monday evening. "The favors were very hand
some"
d. G. ROLLINS, successor of BENJAMIN
X. Phelps, of New York, and George NJ. Van Mort
ex-commissioner of public works, New York, are
at Welckers.
THE actual commander-in-chief of the
Boer forces in South Africa is an Irishman named
Alfred Aylevard, once connected with Stephens,
the Fenian leader.
COLONEL GEORGE w. HOOKER, assistant
secretary of the National Republican Committee,
is busly recounting the achievements of the Green
Mountain Boys for Garfield and Arthur
STATE SENATOR W. W. ROCKWELL, of
Glenn's Falls, and Hon. John A. Nichols, president
Kings County Republican general committee, the
Conkling leader of Brooklyn, are in town
THE next Senate will have two Platts
Connecticut and New York;, two Davises illinois
and West Virgiuia), two Joneses (Neyada and
Florids), and two Hills Georgia and Colorado.
WILLIAM SIMPSON, late cashier of GUS
toms; Edwin Barton of the United States Mint,
and J. Madison Wells, with others of delegation,
arrived in the city last night from New Orleans.
The Spanish Cabinet, in conformity
with its expressed opinion i'll the controversy with
the Canova's Cabinet, win propose to the King to
confer upon the infant Mercedes the title of Prin-
cess of AsuriaS.
JAMES W. Hustled, the Bald Eagle of
Westchester County and ex-speaker of the New
York Legislature, and Colonel Hugh J. Hastings,
the veteran editor of the New York Commercial
Advertiser. authority New York State politics,
are at Wizards.
DIR. J. A. HAwLEY, Attorney Hall, and
H. N. Boardman, of Canandagua n. Y. arrived
yesterday, and guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln,
615 street. Rev. ". B. Dada and w. B. Riggs, of
Texas, and Mr.. C. 1. Webster, are guests of Mr..
Eaton. 615 street.
MARCUS PETERSON, JR., president of the
Young Mems Republican Club of Brooklyn,
has his club at the Lyon House. They are es-
cnrted by the Union Republican Battery in uni