National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-02
PERSONAL.

| Ek-SENATOR HITCHCOCK, OF Nepfdshd,
is at the Riggs House.
| JESSE r. GRANT and wife sailed for Liy-
| erpool on Saturday.
GENERAL GEORGE P. IHRIE, of California,
| is quartered at 1881 G street.
Dir. J. J. AsToR has sent S13 homeless
children West, at a cost of s11, ,GO0
GENERAL GARFIELD is here-so is the
iice-seeker, by large majority.
POSTMASTER JAMES, of New York, is q
| Welshman, and printer by trade.
Mr.. J. A. FARDEN, editor of the New
Orleans Republican, is at the Imperial.
MAJOR BIcKHAM, of the Dayton Journal,
| is in the city, the guest of Colonel H. C. Cerbin.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELLis banking system
seems to have been in vogue at Mount st. Mary's
College.
HoN. S. W. DORSEY, of Arkansas, and
D. ". C. Wheeler, of New York, are domiciled at
Hillard's.
VIc2-PREsIDENT WHEELER intends to
leave some time next spring for q two years trip
through Europe.
MAJOR SAMUEL W. SMALL (Old Si) is
about to begin the publication of The Southern
Democratic Critic.
EDISON has removed his whole estab-
iishment, business and domestic, from Menlo Park
| to New York city.
TIE nomination of Mr.. Harlan for Gov
| ernor of Iowa is now widely recognized as fore
gone conclusion.-HdtrEeyc.
Mrs LANGTRY is fond of pickles, and it
is seriously contemplated to change her name to
that of the jersey pickle-lily.
Il, ~ .,,ct hrf
the close ofthe engagement in South Africa, while
giving an order to cease firing.
GENERAL JOHN C. Fremont, now Gov
ernor Of Arizona. beats them all. His annual
message was only half column.
GENERAL SHERMAN is accused Of kissing
the girls. Scientists have long been aware that
this habit is not confined to Brooklyn.
MARK TWAIN has made one hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars out Of his books,
and an equal sum out Of his lectures and plays.
Miss KATE PRIDEMoRE, "a promising
writer" who is " lineal descendant of Addison,
the great English esSayist,' lives in Sioux city,
Iowa.
THE Syracuse Standard asks: "Will
some one tell us what Mrs. Langtry's maiden name
was?" Certainly. Her maiden aim was to marry
Mr. Langtry.
PM. SIMMONS, the araist courier of Miss
Geneyiere Ward, is in the city making prepara-
tions for that lady's appearance at Fords Opera
House next week.
GENERAL GARFIELD has received about
10000 letters since the Chicago convention, accord
ing to the count of the postmaster at Mentor,
who, by the way, expects of course to be promoted
NINE. anna BIsHoP's maiden name was
Riviere, and in 1881 when seventeen years old, she
married Sir Henry Bishop, musical professor at
Oxford, fifty-one years old Since his death, in
1885, she has had three husbands.
GENERAL AMAsA COBB, judge of the Su-
preme Court of Nebraska, formerly representative
in Congress from Wisconsin, and one of the general
officers of the Army of the Potomac, is visiting
Washington, and sojourning the st. James Hotel.
A Miss TERRY, cf Boston, recently wore
white satin dress that belonged to the mother of
Napoleon Bonaparte. 1t is rather strange that the
friends of Miss Terry don't fling in and buy her
new dress of her own. We dare say she is q nice
young lady.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS, of Baltimore, says
in regard to the financial trouble of Mount ST.
Mary's College at Emmittsburg that this was the
only secular Catholic college in the State the
funds ofwhich he did not exercise control and
management.
THERE is nothing vulgar in Gould's
wealth. He lives in plain, comfortable house on
Fifth avenue, indulges in little art and few
horses, keeps his family out of the newspapers,
listens to any suggestion request and is merely
a phenomenal money maker and promoter.
TIE hair of the late Senator Carpenter,
of Wisconsin, was long and wiry, and he could
never manage it. A cowlick banged it down in
I,or1 -
up behind, so that at last he let it grow as it
pleased. He was very picturesque man with his
hair, and his face was so manly one that it gave
him good many friends