National Republican., 1882-12-04
GENERALLY PERSONAL.

Gen. Sheridan is the guest of Gen Nc.
Cook at Salt Lake
The Duke of Edinburgh has been promoted
TO the rank Of Vice Admiral.
Father John Carroll, the Oldest priest in
America, is visiting ut Elkton, Md lie was or.
dained in 1919
James p Voorhees,, q son of Senator Voor.
hees, is mentioned as being an actor, artist and
| author" He has just written play entitled
"Tdes"
M. Gambetta's doctor says the former will
probably lose the use of two fingers by the injury
to his hand by the accidental discharge of re-
volver some days ago.
| Senator-elect Ii. H. Riddleberger and Sem
ator William E. Malone, OF Virginia, were at the
ellsey House, New York, Saturday, where Senator
Malone has been stopping.
Count Constantenus, tho tattooed man, has
generally been considered by anthropologists to
carry Burman marks; but a critical examination
| SHOWS they were made elsewhere.
Govcrnor-clect Waller, of Connecticut. has
Just received from admirlng friends a small col.
ton OF the Democratic rooster" in gold, with
diamond eyes TO be worn as u scarf pin.
Congressman Melvin c. George, of Oregon,
and the Hon. w. W. Morrow the defeated candi-
date Tor Congressman .at-large from California,
are in Chicago on route for Washington.
Mrs Labouchere and Mrs Langtry have
had quarrel, and Mr.. LabUuchere has started for
America Some men never know when they uro
| well oil and Mr.. Labouchere seems to be one of
| them.
Henry Labouchere, the editor of London
! run is announced to leave Liverpool on Decen-
Der 10Th for this country, and hopes to eat his
| christmas dinner with his wife and Mrs Langtry
in this city.
! III salt Luke City, Saturday, to Congressman
Cassidy, of Nevada, who ran 20 per cent ahead of
MS ticket, mainly on account of his decided stand
| against Mormon polygamy.
When the late Bomanee Boyraniiee Colah,
the ParSee merchant prince. VISITED this country
seven years ago he purchased 500 900 III gavgin.
ment bonds, and Saturday a copy Of the widows
administration papers were received at the surro.
gates office, New York.
Mr.. Manager Abbey publishes the statement
that Langtry's season i'll New York brought The
largest receipts ever taken in the same length of
time at any New York thrcater. This statement
tailies with the growing suspicion that Mrs.
| Loligry is AN actress for revenue only"
The members of Col. Jerome Napoleon
Bon"paries family have been summoned to Wash
! ingiol OH account Of the critical illness OF Nine
| Bompar'e who is suffering from pneumonia. 1t
is noL thought that she can live Nine. Bonaparte
wasf 'pughter Of The late William A. Russell,
of New York, and granddaughter of Daniel
Webster.
Mrs Garfield recently wrote to Mr.. Spur
geon, OF London, referring to the pleasure she hnd
OF sitting with her husband in the Metropolitan
tabernacle one bright summer Sunday morning
Ill l'G', ana enclosing copy OF her husbands
| Journal for that day. The Journal closes with
these words: God bless Spurgeon He is help.
ing to work out the problem OF religious and cvi
fr eIom Tor England in II way he knows not or"
The ultra-reliablc Mr.. Gath is authority TO,
tie statement tHnt the government having agreed
t. pay $4,000 for The base of II statue of Admiral
| Dupont to be erected in the squa c oppo itc T.
Bainu's house and Castle Stewart, IL is incumbent
on the admirers of the Admiral to collect the
money TO pay for the statue Itself and Mr.. Bayard,
| OF Wilmington. is said to have The matter in
charge. 1t Is gratifying to learn that the memory
| OF AT least one great man will not be made the
subject of that species OF numpntal begging OF
wnlch this public has of late Lad occasion to so
YEARLY complain
In his lecture in Brooklyn on Saturday
evening Lieut.. Danenhowtr said: :" / ask now
what have bean the results OF that voyage.
We discovered three isamas and cau,ed much
Information concerning Siberia 10 b. dis~em.-
mated But those results DO not compensate for The
| noble lives that We're lost in making the discover
| les. The scientific results of such voyages can
never amount TO great deal. After long d.libce-
alton have concluded that the lrGper person to
send to lind the North Pole is It journalist, w.u
always eds in dh COVERING what he is seut TO
| find" Lieut.. DancnhOwcr,. it is almost un-
necessary to say, has II very large head, but his
confusion ofthe North Pole With the distance pole
is simply painful.
Concerning the family of Admiral Dupont,
whose etlay will soon 0iuru the circle ut (i.c head
of Connecticut avenue NJ. Tliers says in the first
of n'tI
"1he opposition was secretly directdLy Dupont
II young man gifted with capacioGs mind AMI
posses. cd Ui great frmmCss and perseverance, who
alone perhaps amidst tie p. csent troUblcs had
!uture in view, and designed to lead his class, tho
court, and I! natl ~ I" an end very different from
! a pnlliumcula : urstJCsary." This was Just b.
fore the call NJ of the National Assembly, As tho
rey.lntiun prusre'scI The sunS 4 hi, Elpout be.
rNmr alarmed, and started TO the United States N
euwSn in the manufacture of gunpowdrr, il
which they had mucL skill
The Rev, Frederick Wines, charged with
the ,cn-u, ur d, Iccdvc, drurn cont, aill ,lelni.
queut GluS,es Og lhr population, w,s lcleully
hero repairing summary ul Trfsti 10; the TO- Ill
coming census cumpei d,dm, LIS Tt .ura Arr not
cunipc Q as 10 lAc or luiua cliss s. lie woall
like $50 600 in order 10 coml 10 his work T., hh
own SIT sincuou, as 1t i, known lie has very 40.
culnle returns as 10 the detective and dependent
classes one sumewha. s;Urling fact brought put
Ia his lelUll " t!mt the number ct !Guls ana H.
naucs rvprGrl in 1897 is dunhlc The stunt, y &C.
20 ted IN 1870. Nh Wines is disposed 10 u'trihuto
this 20 defects uf the ceusuS OF NO ,Nthvr than
any Suidru increase of idiots and lGlIatlcs. Thu
results mcurtNinCd by Mr.. Wines tn deaf mates,
n- VII idiots aud lunatics, Uo accurate tat
they are III demand uy ~ 20 Gvigls q. sir0us Of
Improving their own ati,tc' on the subject. Mr.
Wines seems 10 think that III psrcen,Ng OF in'
sane lct,nrs in ihc l,ln atom is Incrcasi every
svar. one culiou, &c ut a his wulk /, ue MS
&C Imminent OF The existence OF deaf ru,es uu-
known to lucal authorities With Utl %! his
returns local authorize, in many cases 'lrs huu.I
iug up INDECENT GrUf mGics und providing l&s
with means of eDucu ten Ol means Ot sulD
SI,S NYnie NIAuOsE.