National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-12
PERSONALITIES.

MAGeIE MITCHELL is snow-bound at
Davenport Iowa.
JOHN SwIsToN calls Bismarck "an in
caruate brandy barrel"
d. F. WILCOX, proprietor of the Quincy
Qll) Wais, is sojourning at the Ebbitt
WHEN Mrs. P. L. Barnum was baby
Tom Thumb used to hold her on his knee.
Ex-PREsIDEyT HAYES has subscribed
500 to the Bennington battle monument fund.
Hon. A. NJ JONES, chairman of the Hill
nois State Republican Committee. is in the city.
GENERAL NJ. NJ. BANE, of Quincy, Ill,
receiver of the land-ofice at Salt Lake is at the
Ebbitt.
PosTsIAsTER-G GENERAL JAMES was backed
by Grant who first selected him for postmaster OF
New York.
Down among the dead men Samuel j.
Tilden. William H Barnum, John Kelly. and
Samuel J. Randall
colonel, WILLIAM III. BARLOW, dis
tinguished Republican, of Efingham, ILL., is regis
tered at the Ebbitt.
G. A. SALA SAYS the negro dialect in the
South was the only original tongue he heard dur
ing his recent visit to Americs.
1t is said that niece of Samuel ]. Til
den composed the Racquet Galop." She did it
probably to hyen the old man up.
BURDErF-CoUrrs loves to lounge and
smoke cigar while his doycy sits at the piano
and MARBLES, /" VIII you kiss me, darling, when 1
mold?'
Mr.. EDWARD 3 ANGs, of the Sixth Audi
tors Office. who has been confined to his Office for
some weeks by severe attack Of rheumatism, is
again at his desk. p =
Hon. JOHN III. LEWIS, member-elect
to Congress from the Ninth Illinois District, who
had been spending week or two in Washington,
leftlast night for home.
JUDGE DEvENs is going to California and
Oregon for spring and summer trip. No man
ever went out of Office more highly respected than
the Attorney General
WILLIAM H. ENGLISH would probably
consentto be present at the Manhattan Club BAN
quet to General Hancock if the club would pay his
travelling expenses there and hack.
JENKINS reports that Miss Tennie Mills,
the fiancee ofWhitelaw Reid, is ofmedium height,
graceful and we'll rounded figure, with clear COM
plcxion. light hair large clear eyes, set in gold
trimmed glasses, and dowry Of $4,000.
Six members of the Senate are not ma
tives of the United States. Farley of California,
Fair of Nevada, Jones of Florida, Sewell of New
Jersey were born in Ireland Jones of Nevada. in
England, and Beck of Kentucky, in Scotland.
Hon. G. G.. SHEATs, ex-member of Con-
gress, of Alabama is in the city and has rooms at
sos Twelfth street northwest. Colonel SheatS was
chairman of the Alabama delegation that pre-
sented an address to President Garfield on Tuesday
last.
GEORGE THATCHER and Add. Ryman, the
noted Ministries, have been engaged by French
manager to present in Paris the burlesque on the
Bernhardt entitled Sarah Heartburn" which so
pleased tho great Sarah when she saw it in Phila-
delphia.
EMMA ABBOTT says that she went to
several insane asylums before she found popular
ideal for the insanity of Lucia: but where she got
that kiss from none but those who have lived on
Long Island and have heard men treading for soft
clans at low tide can tell
WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG is now squarely
of his seat in the Senate for the rest of his
term. After man has served four years it is
pretty late in the day to talk about turning him
out Besides, the new Senate has fewer bull doz-
ing statesmen In it than its predecessor
THE Rev. DR.. G. A. BARroL began last
Sunday the forty-f year of his settlement as
Pa5toT VI DosvOu Reviewing MS preach
ing for all these years. Dr. Bartol mentioned three
fundamentals on which ne had laid stress-theo-
logical sincerity, ecclesiastical spirituality, and
moral purity.
Pen picture of Jay Gould and Russell
Sage: The contrast between Gould's glittering
black eyes and sage's mild blue orbs was only
equaled by the contrast between his evenly
cropped black beard and mustache and Sage's
clean-shayen face. One looked like Sam Slick,
and the other resembled Spanish student.
Fl Is related of the. late Senator Matt
Fl. Carpenter that he once said, when President
pro tenn of the Senate: you may put me in the
chair blindfolded and can tell whether or not
Senator Edmunds is in his seat by the character of
legislation that Is brought up. Ifit is known that
he will be absent for few days. every bill with
job in 1t is brought to the front and pushed;
whereas if he Is present nothing Is said about
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