National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-10
PERSONALITIES
OAKEY HALLS library is to be sold.

| OAKEY HALLS library is to be sold.
Hon. o. D. CoNGER the coming Senator
from Michigan, will reach the city to-day.
GENERAL GARFIELD, Ikea sensible man,
stands aloof fromall senatorial squabbles.
IF George Washington had been in Edil
Giro's place we think he would have told a lie.
Hon. P. c.. HAYES and wife, of Illinois,
arrived in the city last Saturday and located at
| the Riggs House.
Mr.. TILDEN must be going back on his
age. He is said to look ten years younger than he
did two years ago.
IT is said that Bob Ingersoll seldom
uses the telephone because it forces him to admit
Ts. IL. e,5.s...1ttst.s 4 belano has given
$4,000 to build hall for the preparatory school at
Kenyon College, Ohio.
GoyERNoR-ELECT PLAIsTED, of Maine,
is aged fiftytwo years, and his bride-elect, Miss
Mabel HILL is but twenty.
SENATOR WADE HAMPTON has discarded
his crutches, and appeared in the senatela week
with bran new wooden leg.
EDISON is the most promising man in
the country. He doesn't make light of his prom
ises either-B0St0R Transcript.
THE engagement of Mr.. George McNeir,
of the Library of Congress- to Miss Meta Burrows,
daughter of Hon. ]. c. Burrows, of Michigan is an
nounced.
BEVERLY, the great scene painter of
London, attributes his success to love of the open
air, and says that ozone freshens the atmosphere
Of the foot-ights.
Mr.. CAssELs, one of the colored mem
bers of the Tennessee Legislature from Shelby
County, was educated at Oberlin College, Oberlin
Ohio, and is lawyer of decided ability.
Miss CHAPMAN, of Monroe, Mich, who
is remembered by many Washington friends, will
shortly visit Mrs Story B. Ladd (aee Paine) in her
delightful new home on Nineteenth street.
The worst type of Bourbon is the one
who has forgotten the wisdom he once learned, and
has learned the folly he once despised. Cassius NJ
Clay, of Kentucky, is that kind of Bourbon.
SENATOR Brown, of Georgia, once prac-
tced savagely with pistol for duel to which he
and Bob Toombs had invited themselves, but
compromise saved the torrent of gore that threat
ened to flow.
JUDGE LECoMPTE, of old Lecompte con-
stitution days in Missouri and Kansas is, accord
ing to "Gath," tough Republican and String
feuOW, VINO leo the DOrQer DandS mas been strong
Republican for ten years.
THE infant son of General James B.
Steedman was christened Samuel Jones Tilden
Steedman in st. Patrick's Church, Toledo Ohio,
yesterday afternoon, the ceremony being performed
by the Rev. Father Hannin.
GOVERNOR BIGELow is one of the four
men not lawyers who have been elected Governor
of Connecticut during the last twenty-five years.
The others are William A. Buckingham, Marshall
Jewell, and James E. English.
COLONEL JOHN W. FoRNEY is going to
assuage the disappointments of politics by writing
novel, which his friends predict will throw
" Endymion" completely into the shade. 1t is to
be called "0ur New Nobility" and, like Lord
Beaconsfields last work, it is to present notable
public men under thin disguises.
THE reception to General and Mrs.
Grant by Governor Cornell, of New York, will take
place next Monday at Albany. Senator Conkling,
State officials, and a number of
prominent citizens will be present. A general re-
cepton will also be held at the executive mansion
on Thursday evening. Judge Amasa J. Parker
will entertain General Grant and Governor Cornell
at dinner on the 18th, while Mr.. Erastus Corning
and the Fort Orange Club will, it is reported ten
der the visitors receptions The Burgess Corps
have offered to act escort to General Grant on
his arrival.