National Republican., 1882-12-05
GENERALLY PERSONAL.
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Anthony Trollope is dangerously i'll.
Madame Minnie Hauck is at the WestmiDs-
ter Hotel, New York.
Mrs. Langtry is forty years old, although
she does not admit it.
Cassus NJ. Clay, ir., of Bourbon County,
Kentucky, was married on Wednesday last
Mr.. Arthur has decided to appoint son of
Gen. +. IL. Clarke 10 be cadet at-large at West
Point.
New York is agtated for fear Oscar Wilde
is reconslderng his resolution to go to Australia
this winter
Acknowledgement Brewster left here yester-
day morning for New York city. He expects to
return this afternoon.
Galusha A, Grow, of Pennsylvania, is tell
ing his party friends he is out of politics. The
next question is, what is he after?
The Right Honorable Thomastree Ochil-
tree, of Texastree, is considerably past due, and
Congress is consequently lonesome
Anna Dickinson publishes the dishearten-
ing statement that she has not retired perna-
nently from either the stage or the rostrum.
Herbert Spencer is safe in England. This
information comes too late for this years thanks
giving, but 1t is good enough to last until next
DR.. Schliemann has recently finished the
erection of II residence in Athens which has cost
more than 100000, where he and his family now
live.
Through the defeat of Gen. Phil. Cook by
Judge Charles f. Crisp, Georgia loses her only
Confederate Drigadier" from the next Con-
gross.
Gen. Jubal Early will lecture before the
Association of the Maryland Line in Baltimore on
Washington's birthday next, on "Jacksons Cam
paign against Pope in August, 1862"
1t is a fashion in Paris to wear the head of
a monkey on bonnet. This in France is termed
an American fashion-correctly, excepting that
the head here is worn in the bonnet
| Mrs. Hancock, the wife of Gen. Hancock,
has written a "Te Deum Laudamus," which is
dedicated to st. Cornelius's Chapel, Governors
Island. II is to be published shortly.
The Duke of Argyll has stocked all his
woods with wilk turkeys from America. The Duke
of Argyll, it will be borne in mind, is the gentle.
man who invented the Itching post
Sealskin sacques are shorter and fit closer
to the figure than last season and are not made
with pockets. The darkest shades of sealskin are
not only the best but the most fashionable.
| There is only one Freemason in the present
| French Cabinet, but such prominent statesmen
as Gambetta, Brisson, Cazat, Jules Ferry. Paul
Bert, and Constans are members of the order
The statement is made by the New York
Herald that "the coming Congress is to have among
its members very close and careful man. He
refused TO buy porous plaster because he thought
| it was moth. .eaten."
The novel that Mr.. Gladstone was recently
reading during heated debate was "Proper
| PRIDE" by an Irish lady Mrs. Croker the wife of
an officer from India. This form of soporifc is
infinitely preferable to bricks, stuffed clubs, or
morphine
Miss Yates, who is trying to induce reforms
concerning English workingmens food, is sus-
tanned by high authority when she says that dogs
fed on white bread die at the end of forty days.
while they thrive and flourish on bread made of
whole meal.
1t is the duty of the present legislature to
elect United States Senator for the term of six
years beginning on March a. 1883. So far as is
| known. there is no opposition whatever to Gen.
| nj. G. Butler, the present Senator and he will re.
ceive the unanimous Democratic vote.- Charlcstos
| NetcS-and Courier.
"Gath" asked an important man bearing a
friendly relation to both spencer and Dorsey some
| time ago what evidence it was that the govern
| ment wanted to get out of Spencer. "Why," sad
the man, =" from the best information 1 can get,
Spencer has been telling so many lies that he does
not just know what he ought to put in as evi-
dence, SO he has started for the woods"
The President was at the White House
early yesterday morning. and received q large
number of callers during the day. Among them
were Secretary Frelinghuysen, Senators Voorhees,
and Hale, Representatives Anderson Aldrich, and
Brown, Marshal Longstreet, of Georgia, and Dis
trict Attorney Flick, of West Virginia. delega-
tion of citizens of this city also had an audience
and urged the appointment of John T. Mitchell as
Commissioner OF the District of Columbia.
Generation after generation of school boys
have laughed over the fantastic names in vogue
among the extreme Puritans of Cromwells time
After two centuries the old fashion seems likely
to be revived by the Salvation Army, body in
many respects strikingly dissmilar to the Puri-
tans. Capt. Glory Matthews and Lieut.. Hal
lelujah Abbie suggest the old days of Praise
God Barcelona. The lamentable difference exists
that the old fellows meant business, while the
salvation party are cranks.