National Republican., 1881-07-12
PERSONALITIES,

A9ANh Abh 4 hNmb Ntlo ltEloltiNl III ANtM
York last night
KING ALFONSO and the court of Spain
have gone to La Grania.
Hon. RICHARD CROWLEY, of New York,
is registered at the Arlington Hotel.
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES T.. HOOKER,
Of Mississippi, Is at the st. james Hotel.
NIRs. j. A. ROBERTS has gone to Oc-
coquan Falls, with her son, for the heated term.
Ex REPRESENTATIVE HENDR1cK +.
WRIGHT is dangerously i'll at his residence in
Wilkes Barre.
WHEN Carl Schurz sits down in the
chair Of the New York Pos his feet stick out of the
fourth page, last column.
Mn. w. B. REED, who has been confined
| to his house by prolonged attack of neuralgia
for some weeks past is again able to be out
THE Commune of Paris, having charge
Of the proposed statue to Victor Hugo, appeal to
citizens of all countries for funds on behalf Of the
statue.
MEssRs. THoIAs and Anthony A. Con-
molly were passengers by the steamer City of Brus
sells for Europe, whence they on telephone busi-
ness, in which they are fortunately interested.
WHEN q man is nominated for en- inn
portant and honorable position merely because he
has no decided opinions, every honest man should
vote to keep him in private life until he is able to
find out where he stands.
ATKINS LAWRENCE has been passing
himsclfand Annie Gillllan Off rs DR.. and Mrs.
Lewis" and he was arrested IN Delaware the other
day. at the instance Of his wife, on a charge of
adultery and bigamy.- Globe. DcmocGt.
GovERSoR CoRNELL, of New York, We
toed on Tuesday a Croton 0queduct bill, which
had passed the legislature and majority Of the
Legislators then learned for the first time that they
had authorizcda piece Of work which the lowest
estimate placed at sl2,OOoOO0.
NRs. MYRA CLARK GAINES says she tried
for ten years TO find flaw In her husbands char
aCtcr, but was not successful. Poor man No
wonder he died so many years before his wife.
Perfection in men Is mighty unhealthy. l. is also
mighty scarce.-Nouiaotcn Herald.
THE wife of Leonard Grover died June
80 nj Philadelphia. She was a sister of Colonel W.
4. Sims Of Brooklyn. She leaves two Sous, Leon.
ard Grover jr., an actor, and William Grover u
lawyer. Mrs. Grover had long suffered from paraly-
sis, from the effects Of which she died.
HERE is a nut for the superstitious
ones who considered II n bad omen that President
Garfield was nauguatcd on n Friday:
"Whcn beggars die there are no comets s,en:
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death Of
princes, -JiiUs Caesar, 1ci H., SccHc2.
Mr.. WILLIAM c. HENRY, the brother-in-
law of Lieutenant Fitch, who married General W.
+. Shermans daughter Minnie, was robbed of Il
diamond brcastpn worth 81 500 in Troy on Tues
day afternoon. The diamond was from the neck
lace sent to Mrs. Fitch By the .ihedive of Egypt.
Miss HENRIETTA VADERs young tra-
Gedicnnc who Is rapidly coming to the front Of the
dramatic profession. has hccu engaged 10y Mr.. Matt
W. Canning for term Of years, ana viii appear
early In the coming season. She will be supported
by Mr.. Frank Roche aud n we'll selected company
BIsnoP STEVENS, of Pennsylvania, eau
iions his clergy against the Of the revised New
Testament in the public services of the church.
lie says that no clergyman is at liberty to use any
Other version the Bible than the King james,
which was in ls2S adopted by the General Conyen-
ton.
Mr.. MERRILL, of the Union Athletic
Club, of Boston, who, with his friends was dis.
gracefully hustled at the athletic sports of the
Moselcy lIariers Club in London on Saturday
last, has indicated his Intention of not competing
in the sports at LheAston Lower Grounds, Birming.
hOm, again.
GOVERNOR /. A. SHELDON, of New
Mexico, was sitting in his Office at Santa Fe, when
he received Il dispatch saying that his old friend
and commander, the President, was shot In n
few moments the General and Mrs. Sheldon We're
Oh railway train, and have travelled the two
thousand miles to Washington without stopping.
Il. +. BAnroN, of Columbus, Ohio, found
In gravel bank near that city last Saturday the
iemur or thigh bone Of huge mammoth creature.
The bone at the smallest circumference is 91I
inches, At the largest diameter 1t is 20 inches.
The animal must have been at least % feet high,
and a vcrebra of 80 feet. lie thinks it is of the
duothcrium species.
Mr.. BRADLAUGn, speaking in London
last night invited his supporters to meet in Trafal
gar Square on the 81 of August for the purpose Of
insisting that the law enabling him to take his
scat in the House of Commons shall be carried out
The next day or not before, he said, he should go
to the table Of the clerk of the House and demand
that he be allowed to take the oath.