National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-23

DRYDEN was not a THIRSTY poet, tnOuSn
Poe was
VICTOR HUGo will enter his eightieth
year on Saturday of this week.
GENERAL MILoN, Italian Minister of
War, is ill, and is believed to be dying.
Mr.. JOHN g. WHITTIER is to be invited
to prepare an ode for the Yorktown celebration.
TIE Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her
husband are coming to travel in this country III
May.
PooR Garfield! He has had to sustain
the burden of a visit from L" Jim" Scoyille, of New
Jersey. Yet he bore it amiably.
We judge from all accounts that your
Uncle Rufus Hatch tries to be good but Jay Gould
won't let him.-Ahanta Constitution.
PROFESSOR BILLRoTH, of Vienna, has
succeeded with an operation for stomach cancer
which has never been undertaken before.
THE entire Dolly Warden mining estate,
in Colorado, was sold yesterday by Hall & Burns
to the Boston Gold and Silver Mining Company,
for 100000.
NOTING the report that Representative
De La Matyr intends settling IN Florida, the Mo-
enough of our own in the South
LIEUTENANT O'CoNNELL, who was killed
in the last engagement with the Beers, was the
great grandson of the Liberator. Although very
young man, he was the head of the O'Connell fam
lily.
PRINCE BISMARCK, in making speech
In the Prssian Chamber the other day, tersely in
formed those who were eager for his retirement
that he should remain in office as long as he pos
sbly could.
HoN. SIMON CAMERON and party arrived
at Nassau, New Providence, on the 18th instant
where they will remain for fortnight and pro-
ceed thence to Cuba for like stay. Mr.. Cameron
Is in excellent health, and has had a pleasant
voyage.
MIR. JOHN T. RAYMOND, the actor, is to
be married to Miss Courtney Barnes in April. He
makes the announcement himself he says, to
"saYe many weary journalists from the duty of
necessarily chronicling the event until its actual
occurrence"
THE daughter of Provost -Paradol, once
French Minister to Washington, who became a
nun some time ago, has gone to Egypt to found
convent of the order of Notre Dame de Sion, mis-
sion especially devoted to the conversion of women
and girls of the Semitic race.
A NEW HAVEN man picked up oyer $500
on the street the other day, which was found to
belong to servant girl, who had carried it around
sewed to her underskirt, considering that a safer
place thana bank. She has changed her opinion
since, however, and put it in bank.
JOHN w. Young, the second and favor
lite son of Brigham, who was arrested for bigamy
in Denver On the 18th instant employs six hun
dred teams and one thousand men constructing a
hundred mile section of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad west from Albuquerque, n. NJ.
Dr.. WILLIAM PEPPER was formally in
stalled in the proyosship of the University of
Pennsylvania yesterday, the ceremonies taking
place at the Academy OF Music. Governor Hoyt
an address, and closed by presenting the
keys, the symbol of the Office. to DR.. Pepper.
NJ DRoz, previously Vice-President, has
been elected President of the Swiss Confederation,
in place of NJ Anderwert. deceased, and NJ. Bavier
has been elected Vice President. NJ Hofmann,
a Radical, succeeds NJ. Anderwert as member of
the Federal Council. The changes do not affect
the policy of the Swiss government.
As BURDETTE, the Burlington Hdwkeye |
man, walked into hall where he was to lecture |
put West, the other night, an hour and half be-
hind time on account of delayed train, the aU- |
dience arose and struck up eve won't go home |
until morning. To this he responded that if he |
had known that he wouldn't have been in such q !
hurry.
MICHAEL DAvITT, the Land Lacquer, is |
he son of a tenant farmer of County Mayo Ire |
and, and worked in Lancashire cotton mill un- |
il he was nine years old. Then his right arm |
vas crushed in the machinery and had to be am |
outated Thereafter he turned his attention to ed
lcating himself, and at fifteen became govern |
nent letter carrier.
ADELIA CHAMBERS, the baby giantess,
laughter of Mr. Smith Chambers living near
'fosby's store, i'll this county, died last Tuesday |
;he was sister of Dero Chambers, the boy giant |
hat died about five years ago. Della was six |
Tears old, and weighed 2lO pounds. Another two
'ear-old remains to the family, it having the pc
;uliarity, physically. that was possessed by its
emarkable brother and sister, now deceased
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