National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-17
PERSONALITIES

j. HENDERSON, of China, is stopping
| at the Ebbitt House.
THE Empress of Austria has arrived at
Dover en- route to Combermere Abbey in Cheshire.
Mr. PARNELL and his friends dined last
night with NM. Victor Hugo and Henri Rocheiort,
in Paris.
MURAT HALsTEAD advises Captain Eads
to geta concession from Egypt for the removal of
the pyramids on raft.
Dr.. CHARLES B. STEWART is the only sur
vivor of the fifty eight men who framed the Texan
Declaration of Independence.
GEORGE ELIOT, at thirteen, was of quiet,
studious habits, and though generally preferring
books to play, was nevertheless a great favorite
| among her fellow pupils.
Mr.. RAPHAEL RoTHsCHIID was stricken
with apopleXy while attending German play in
Robinson's Opera House. Cincinnati, on Sunday
evening, and died soon after.
CARLYLE hated us cordially, but we
would rather have the hate of the stern but grand
old misanthrope than the pretended love of sew
eral thousand British noodles.
JOHN RANDOLPH used to wear blue
riding coat and buckskin breeches in the Senate
chamber. He nearly always rode to the Capitol
mounted as himself.
NJ. ANDREAs HoFER, the grandson of the
Tyrolean patriot shot by order of Napoleon l., has
recently gone mad from an excessive use Of to-
bacco N. Hofer has been member of the Aus
trian Parliament for several years.
PASTOR MARSDEN said to his Methodist
congregation at Yarker Ont, that if certain mem
bers persisted in attending dancing parties they
must withdraw from the church. Six persons in
stantly stood up and asked for dismissal.
NJ. RoCHEFoRT publishes in the Lttran
segeda an account of his Interview with Mr.. Par
nell, who told NJ. Rochefort that one of the chief
objects of his journey to Paris is to contradict in
the press all the calumnes of the English press
his cause and himself
The funeral of General Herman Uhl,
paymaster- general of the New York State militia,
who accidentally shot himselfon Sunday last, took
place yesterday at his late residence in East Six
teenth street. large numberOf friends and SYM
pathizers were present.
SENATOR-ELECT MILLER, of California,
says his Alaska Fur Seal Company has paid the
Government S. 100000 of the 81 000000 we paid for
Alaska and before hisgrant expires will have paid
the whole sum we paid Russia; while the seals,
honestly protected, are more plentiful than ever.
GENERAL CHESTER A. ARTHUR has writ
ten letter to a Vermont journalist thanking him
for the special effort he has made to prove that he
born in Fairfield that State, but saying that the
Democratic scheme TO prove him of foreign birth
has been matter of little interest to him. and he
has paid no attention to it.
GENERAL ROBERT THOMSON, who for nine
years has been president of the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad Company, died yesterday at his resi-
dence in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, in the
fifty third year of his age. He served in the civil
war and received brevet major -generalship His
railway administration was regarded very sue
ceSSful.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON is now seen in
public life but little, and he writes no letters
Every morning he spends in his study, for reading
is his chief pleasure and every afternoon he walks,
in spite of his dislike for cold weather. Once in
while the venerable man goes to hear some friend
give an evening lecture. He will be seventy eight
years old on May 25.