National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-05-13
PERSONALITIES,

Mr.. JOHN KING, of Pittsburg, is at the
Imperial.
Mr.. JAMES REMRIcH, of New York, is
stopping at Wormley's.
| SENATOR THURMAN is the most promi-
nent Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
| Mr.. Dion BoUCICAULT and Mrs. Scott
Siddons sailed Tuesday for Liverpool in the Ari-
zona.
The young Car is quoted as saying re-
Gently: "1 don't expect to be alive five weeks
hence"
| OF THE eight men who ran on the four
Presidential tickets of 1860 only one is alive to-
| day-Hannibal Hamlin.
Mr.. HENRY w. LoNGFELLow has pre-
sented to the Maine Historical Society hand
somely framed portrait of himself
JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS, of Ohio;
Judge a. W. Tourgee, of North Carolina and Dr. r.
NJ. Jordan, of st. Louis, are at the Riggs House.
Hon. ANDREW ]. Mills, a prominent
Democratic politician of the town of Mount Hope.
N. Y, died yesterday morning in his sixty first
year.
Ex-Governor RoDMAN NJ PRICE, of New
Jersey, has been paying visit of years lenghi in
California. He will probably take up his residence
there.
SAMUEL GOULD, president Of the Manu-
facturers' Fire and Marine Insurance Company of
Boston, died on Wednesday at his residence there,
aged fifty y-eight.
BACHAUMoNT, the celebrated French
journalist and author of Les Femmes du Monde
"Rolande," and other works has been very i'll at
Nice with pneumonia. He is expected at Paris by
the middle of the month.
YANKEE ingenuity is asserting itself in
strange ways. Remenyi says that Americans lead
the world as violin makers, and ne declares that
he has played on an Ohio fiddle four days old
which was better than his StradiYarius.
COLONEL c. A. B. SHEPARD gave fare
well dinner at Parker's, in Boston, on Wednesday
evening to Mr. D. r. Locke "a Nasby ~ on the eve
of his departure for Europe. a small company of
gentlemen of the literary guild were present as
guests.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER, of much cheek
and some notoriety to spoons, proposes to pre-
sent granite water fountain to the city of New
buryport, Mass. Just what Office he will subse-
quently ask of the people of the town is not yet
apparent.
The wedding gift of the New York
Times staff to Mr. Howard Carroll, who is shortly to
marry Miss Starin, will be massive loving cup"
OF hammered silver and gold, OF exquisite design
and rare workmanship, bearing the monogram of
the young couple.
Mr.. ]. PETTIBoNE, of Baltimore, has |
sued the American Rapid Telegraph Company for |
$4,000, claimedGs damages for the non delivery |
of telegram in Washington. 1t is said that the |
message was given to boy in Washington to de- |
liver, but the boy got into fight on the way and
lost it.
Mr.. EBEN WRIGHT's will, which caused |
social sensation in Boston, because by it the bulk
of his property was left to the wife of General |
Charles A. Whittier, not member of the Wright |
family, will be contested by the heirs. The eXecu-
tors will enter the will in the Probate Court at |
Harwich on Monday.
Mr.. HENRY CHISHOLM, who died in |
Cleveland few days ago, mainly instru-
mental i'll establishing five of that citys rolling
mills, which now employ eight thousand men and !
do an aggregate business of So, 100000 annually.
All is the outgrOwth of small mill located in
Cleveland in 1857, and in all Mr.. Chisholm's was
the guiding hand.