National Republican., 1882-12-13

Do not let me In. pray.
have crossd the mi lhly river;
VIII you fear me2 Do you shiverf
If your arms refuse to WOO
Death ismore kind than you.
Love, If you were ghost
And Iwere alive and warm
All, perhaps-I will not boast
might shudder at your form;
might fee before the presence
or all unenbodied essence.
Hush hush it is not true,
Love, should know twas you
Frank Frayne will eliminate "si slocums
from his repertoire.
Bismarck is said to look like dollar store
when he gets all his decorations on.
The engagement of young Arthur and Miss
Crowley is denied, as he will not graduate until
1885, and she is only 16.
Tom Keene aud company lost night by an
accident on the Georgia railway. W. r. Hayden,
the manager, claims 5000 damages.
Joe Coburn has decided not to go to Cali.
fornia. He will settle down quietly in New York
city, and open he says, first-class saloon.
Oscar Wilde remarked the other day that
the American snub was all 1t was represented to
be- oscar must be getting ready to 90 home,
Col. Mcclure says he is no democrat; he has
also informed us that he went out of the republi.
can party "and stayed out 80 the inference Is
that he is a man without party
Senator Window said to Chicago reporter
the other day. The best way for the republicans
to indicate that they know what caused the disas-
ter is to say nothing at all, but go to work"
Little Lottie to her friend: al have SO many
cares. Yesterday a little baby sister arrived and
papa ia OH journey. 1t was hut n piece of luck
that mamma was at home to take care oft"
If reports about Mrs. Langtry are correct,
the Lily may look for II cablegram from the old
man like this: Come home, Lily, and all will be
forgotten and forgiven "-or words to that effect.
The Hess company are said to be in poor
way. There have Of late been several secessions
from the company, and more are shortly to fol-
low. Unless good luck comes its days are mum.
bered.
Mrs. Anderson, widow of the hero of Fort
Sumter, is spending few weeks in Washington
with her three daughters. Afler the holidays they
will all go To Florida for the benefit of the health
tfone Of the young ladies.
Ex-Governor Israel Washburne, of Maine, is
suffering from paralysis, which fleets his entire
body below the waist. Despite his nearly 20
years, however he Is full of courage and declares
himself determined TO recover.
Humpty Dumpty Cox, of New York, is a
candidate for speaker of the next congress. When
the clown aspires 10 wear the crown instead of the
cap and bells we may be sure the democratic party
is in power.-hansds City Journal.
One of the most refreshing articles ever
read was Carl schurz's to-day, accusing Horace
lGreeley, who gave him employment at Washing
ton, of selfseeking. Schurz thinks Thurlow
Weed had real greatness" Gath"
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard's ball this week will
be attended by 500 people, if they chews to come.
The gentlemen viii wear plug hats, most of the
ladies will have fine cut features and the hostess
will have several female friends to back ey.
Sergeant Ba' lantine, the latest distinguished
arrival from England, once Tended an Indian po-
tentate in speech thirteen hours long. 1t will
be seen that Mr. Ballantine is fairly entitled to
rank with Charles Sumner, William NJ Evarts, and
the star-route lawyers.
The great men of the age are not all wealthy.
The Hon. Jem Mace for instance, is in such
straitened circumstances that money had to be nd
vanced to pay his way from New Zealand to this
country. People in the United States don't seem
to know when they are well off.
Since Wolsey, 1888, the following British
and Irish cardinals have been ere tied Fisher,
1885; Beaton, 1546 Pole. 1855; Allen, 1884; How
ard, 1884, Norris 170i: York, 1907; Ersklne. 1911;
Weld, 1887 Acton, 1917; Wiseman, 1865; Cullen,
1878; Manning, Howard, Newman, Macoabe
The chances are decidedly in favor of the
election ofStilson Hutchns to the cerkship of the
next house of representatives. Huchins owns
and edits the Washington Post, and wields a caustic
ren. He would make it decidedly warm for any
member who opposed him.-KanSds city Times.
Freddie Grimes is 13. He robbed seven or
eight stores within the past two weeks and lifted
few hundred dollars. Freddie spent his money
buying telescopes and the like probably to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus). Master Grimes is in
the Brooklyn jail. He would rather, so he says be
out west fighting Indians.
Agnes Herndon is having a play written for
Ter by Joseph Bradford the author OF One of the
Finest" in which she will star next season. The
title will be A Wonderful Woman" She appears
ns the daughter of a French fencing master, and
will fence with the h, avy villain. She is at pre-
ent taking fencing lessons daily
The sultan of Turkey is in deadly terror
of assassination, and keeps in as close seclu-
sion as the Gear of Russia was wont to do in his
castle at Gatschina. When old emperor William
dies the nihilist will blossom out in force in Ger
many and his successor will be In worse condi-
tion than any of the other hunted rulers of Eu-
rope.
A letter from Batopilas, Chihuahua, says;
what Gov Shepherd has accomplished here in
his mining enterprise is truly wonderful. The
FIVE stamp mill. run by water, and the fifteen-
stamp Hllll, run Dy hteuIn are kept gong with no
interruption, except Sundays, and q large amount
of the precious metal is turned out each month";
The pack train leaves this morning with about
$780, 900 for Chihuahua where It will be disposed of
at the Mexican mint, The governor has all the
comforts within his home here that one might de-
sire even In Washington.
Some time ago it was intimated by the
"Town Crler" in this paper that play COM
menced by the late Charles Fechter, entitled Ma
poleon and josephine" would be finished by the
desire of Mrs Lizzie Price Fechter. The state
ment is now made by Philadelphia paper that
this work is in course of procedure. The play
deals with tle domestic life of Napoleon entirely
and the first part of It was certainly magnihcenth
done. 1t is to be hoped the remainder will bea
at least some resemblance to Fechter's handiworl
in the beauty of its dramatic construction.--Nea
York Dramatic NeOs.
The Rev. Robert Collyer told congregation
at Springfield, Mass, how he had made his way
from the anvil to the pulpit. Fifty years ago he
was child in Yorkshire, England, with unlettered
but industrious parents, who put him at the trade
of blacksmithng. He worked eight years with an
employer who died of drink, and he thinks It was
only love of reading which saved him from the
same fate. His first preaching was a Methodist
exhorter and for the first ten years Of his minis
tration his income from that source averaged 70
cents year, his living being earned as black
smith. He came to America with his bride in
1850 and during the panic of 1857 he carrieda hod
for awhile. Twenty years ago he became "a sala-