National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-24
PERSONALITIES

NIX. II. lLLiAMS, VI SOuueCllCut, 10
stopping at the Imperial.
JENNY LIND GoLDsCHMIDT is living in
London and has 100000.
| q. S. GRANT has never been known to
turn his back on a friend or foe.
GENERAL BAKoUsH, the Tunisian minis
ter of foreign affairs, has resigned.
PROFESSOR r. T. GREENER is in the city
He will return to New York in few days.
LIE Due having resigned, the projected
boom in tea culture will collapse. Te-hee!
HoN. A. H. STEPHENS left last night for
his home at Liberty Hall, Crawfordville, Ga.
Mrs. GARFIELD is reported out of dan
ger. Her husband is not. Blaine is attending his
case.
VoN MoITKE once said that he knew of
half dozen ways of getting into England, but
he never could see any good way of getting out
again.
EDWARDS PIERREPoNT thinks Conkling
| will practice law i'll New York. The first time
! jury disagrees with him he will move to disbar
himself.
Mr.. MAHoNE will now concentrate his
energies upon the intricacies of Virginia cam
paign. We hope that he viii make the Bourbon
hair fly.
COLONEL MULFoRD, the well-known
clerk of the Arlington Hotel, will leave this city
| tomorrow for Fort William Henry Hotel, Lake
George, Ny.
THE death is announced in Berne of
Signor Mecgarie, the Italian envoy extraordinary
''i's -I'azreF risninotentiary to Switzerland. He
died of apoplexy. ------.--
GENTLEMAN GEORGE and all the Demo-
Gratis did the handsome thing toward Vice Presi-
dent Arthur. 1t is only the half breed Republi-
cans who abuse him.
JOHN SHERMAN is reported as saving
General Garfield will have TO change his advisers
very soon, else he is gone TO the devil Isn't his
somewhat "imperious?'
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN says there is not
SO much as a hand-organ on the Western coast of
South America from Cape Horn to the equator Let
a colony be established at once
DURING the last 100 years the only
statesmen who have had memorials to them put
up in Westminster Abbey have been the two
Pitts, Mr. Perciyal Sir Robert Peel and Lord Pal
meIstOn.
SOME Of the Boston papers do not pay
the highest compliment To the CJnley- Barton Oil
Vette Company, and say that the difference be-
tween its version Of the operetta and others is of
little account.
Hon. HALsEY RILEY STEVENS, for the
last thirty years prominent citizen of Newburg.
\. Y, died yesterday, III the eightysecond year of
his age. lie was member of the New Hampshire
Legislature in 1885, 1886 and 1887
THERE was an old maiden of Rome,
Who very much wanted home;
So she asked her friend Harry
Ifher he would marry
He blushed, and said solemnly Nom"
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE, accom- |
panied by his son and private secretary Mr. !
Walker T. Blaine left for New York last evening |
1t is supposed he goes 10 represent the aminisra-
ton i'll the war upon Mr. Conkling in his own |
State.
MRs. CATHARINE COFFIN, widow of the |
late Levi Coffin, died yesterday, at her residence
in Avondale, Ohio She and her husband were |
widely known during slavery times as among the |
most active helpers of fugitive slaves on their way
to Canada.
GEORGE H. NANNY, of Tennessee, the |
new Minister to Colombia, raised the first con-
federate regiment in his State and fought hard on
the rebel side during the war; but after it was over
became n Republican and was a Garfield elector-
at-largc last fall.
SAMUEL +. MILLER, Justice of the
United States Supreme Court at one time prac-
ticed medicine in Knox County, Kentucky. He
became disgusted with the profession, studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1874. Some years
later he moved to Iowa.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES does not
lose graciousness of manner nor briskness of con-
Versation as he grows gray with years. rapid
5alker, he writes slowly and laboriously Dr.
Holmes is like one Of the fabIed apples which
grow ruddy and mellow on the side toward which
he sun goes down.
SOME time last week it was reported
that Senator Platt, of Connecticut, was i'll: but
dispatch was received at the Arlington Hotel last
night from his son, who denies it. 1t is to the eff
ect that his father has gone TO the Adirondack
Mountains in better health than ne has ever seen
him, to spend the summer.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD claims to have
originated the cable system for street railroads.
lie brought suit against the San Francisco CON-
'any, and it was compromised by the agreement
# defendants not to extend their use of it away
rom the Pacific coast 1t is stated that the Chicago
companies will pay him a royalty for the use of
The system in that city.