National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-17
PERSONALITIES.

WHo'ss1cK FALLS is said to be good
place for invalids.
GENERAL AYAMA, the japanese Minis
ter of War; viii shortly visit Europe and this coun
try.
IT was very wicked in Foxhall to run
on Sunday, but, inasmuch as he won, the matter
will be overlooked.
GOVERNOR CHARLES FOSTER is suffering
from erysipelas. Ohio men are always breaking
| out in new place.
SECRETARY BLAINE has found an organ
ist at Washington. His name is A. C. Buell., and
his paper is the Critic. Mr.. Buell. is Democrat
Cincinnati Gazette.
MIR. LIONEL SACKvILLE WEST, who is
said to be the coming British Minister at Wash
ington, is a widOwer with several daughters too
young for society:
COLONEL FoRNEY says in Progress that
" it is getting to be hazardous to steal from the
public. The days of great jobs are over" Times
have changed since the colonel got off with his
s25 900.
CUTTING off more Democratic headsupat
the Capitol! They must have Brighfs up there
bad There'n be new version to pay for all this
slashing when the Bourbon brethren meet next
December
JOHN E. BRUCE declares in the Critic,
and pom honor, 'twasnt him that got drunk. Of
course not. Twas Register Bruce. He got
fullern goose trying to initiate Father Spinner's
sign scrawling.
Mrs. NETTIE CLoNINGER, of ofDaingerfeld,
Texas, while fishing on Hughes Lake one day re-
Gently, was attacked by a raccoon in most saw
age manner. She threw it into the lake. but it
came back and fought her for half an hour before
she killed it.
THE Salida MGit thinks the Democrats
have not struck such bonanza in twenty years
as the pretty family quarrel in the Republican
camp" But it is likely to prove only pocket,
and to be all worked out before the time for any
important election comes around.
THE deadlock at Albany is very live
thing for the Democrats.-Bourbon Exchange You
would better take your little Bourbon party and
climb up on the fence You will get the life
trampled out of the poor little thing if you allow
it to fool around the edgesof this muss. Youhear
US, now?
The editors of America are waiting for
Whitelaw Reid to do something in England that
will get his name into the papers. The idea of al
lowing noble profession to be entirely over
shadowed by couple ofthree-y year old colts is
Mr.. Reid would say, just too preposterously ridcu
lous for any use.
THE hospitality which Mr.. A II. Ste
phensoe to strangers at his Georgia home is
thing unique. He has even, it is said, fixed his
dinner hour at eleven o'clock in the morning, be-
cause that time suited the railway arrangements
and he could invite all those who came to see him
to dine before leaving.
MARCUS J. WRIGHT, JR., son of General
Marcus ]. Wright, agent of the War Department in
the War Records Office, he finished his course
at Fort Myer has been ordered TO take charge the
station at Cape Lookout North Carolina, of the
most importantand responsible places on the Allan
tic coast. This young man passed his course with
out demerit, and General Hazen has great conf
dence in him, as eyinced by his assignment to
this place.
HERE are three items about Senator
Edmunds in the exchange papers for one day:
"Senator Edmunds will go fshing;'' Senator
Edmunds has started on his excursion in canoe :,
"senator Edmunds has just argued law case in
New York city" Here are three about Joe Jeffer-
son:-"Joe Jefferson is quietly spending his yaca-
ton on his Louisiana plantation;' Joe Jefferson
put his oyereoat on at the depot near his New Jer
sey farm )" Joe Jefferson has gone off black
bass fishing excursion Take your choice.