National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-08
.ABOUT pEOpLE.


GEN. MCCLELLAN and family are at Mount
Desert.
PROF. DUSsTER, Of the university of Michi-
gan, Ann Arbor, is at Block Island with his
family
J. WARREN KEIFER, at the expiration of his
present term, will open u law office in Wash
ington
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAT
TON left the city last night for the Catskill
mountains.
MILArss latest exhibition is sketchy por-
trait of the young daughter of the late Col.
Thomas A. Scott.
SENATOR ASTHoSY's diet for more than
twenty weeks has been Graham bread and
sweet skinned milk.
THE late Thomas Dickson president of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal company, died
worth about 100000.
JUDGE CURTIS ]. HILLYER, of Massachusetts,
avenue, and his family are spending this
month ut Block Island.
COMMANDER AND MRS. WILLIAM STARR
DANA, who were here recently, are at the
Aquidncck house, Newport.
Miss LIZZIE BEssER of / street, leaves this
morning for Whitehall, St. Mary's county, Nd,
where she will remain during August.
LoTTA has paid $4,000 as an installment OF
the purchase money OF the Boston Park
thcater, and about $4,000 more is required.
BELLE BOYD, the famous ex-rebel spy, is now
the wife Of ]. W. Hammond, of Dallas, Texas,
from whom she expects soon TO secure di-
vorcc.
Hon JOHN NJ. BUTLER, OF Indiana the law
| partner of ex-senator Mcdonald and repub-
lcau candidate for electorat-large, is at Block
Island
RUSSELL SAGE who is at the cottage OF a
friend In Quogue, is gaining slowly on the ma
laria that has troubled him more or less for
several months.
LORD BEACoSsPIELD LEFT neither memoirs nor
journals, and he never copied a letter that he
wrote. The only literary remains are u vast
mass of letters received by him.
HOE the inventor OF the printing press
which bears his name, anticipates in the near
future the invention Of Photographic press
that will turn Off 06O,0 900 papers an hour.
EDITOR WILLIAM ii. GOODRICH, of the Hart
ford C0urd,u and Editor william ]. Hunt, of
the Newark Daily AdrertiSer are at Block
Island with their families, enjoying the sea air.
JAMES X. STEERS, the veteran builder OF
famous clipper ships and yachts, is spending
the summer at Block Island, where he was
given grand complimentary supper one night
last week.
Mr.. "LUCKY" BALDWIN, who is at Long
Branch, is described rs q "tall, spare, old fel-
low, with gray beard and an expression
about the eyes that makes wise man put out
his deienses instinctiycly"
GEN. ANDREW J. ALEXANDER, U. s. A., is at
Block Island with his family for the summer.
When his regiment, the ID cavalry, was re-
Gently transferred from Montana to the Pacific
coast he came east on leave.
SISTER GoSZAGA FESsrEL, one of the "guar.
dian angels" at 81. Vincent's Infant asylum
New Orleans, died at that institution on satur
day evening, aged "a, She was a native q
Baltimore, where her mother still resides.
Col BoNAPARTE's entertainments at New
port are counted among the finest there. The
floral decorations which are always very
beautiful, are designed for each occasion 10y
Mrs. Bonapartc, and attract especial attention
and admiration.
Col. CHARLES G. ericsson, retired, U. s. A..
ormerly lst United States cavalry, is now
ranching It in Texas, near Bandera, engaged
in sheep and cattle raising During the wa
he commanded Pennsylvania regiment o.
infantry, and was retired for wounds
EX.PosTMAsrER GESGRAL JOHN A. ]. CREs
WELL aud Mrs. Creswell, DR.. A. Y. y. Garnett
Miss Irene Coleman, the Misses Sterling, Hon
Henry Watterson and family, and Hon. Johl
G. Breckenridge and Mrs. Breckinridge, o
Kentucky, are at the Allegheny Springs, Va.
LEoPoLD WILISTADLEE of Veit l'Hornburge
& Co., of Carlsruhe, ana II, Klophe-, directo
of tho Union German bank of Mannheim, Ger
many, have arrived in New York. They ar,
the representatives of the holders of severa
million dollars worth Of the bonds and stock
of the Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia
railroad, and have come to inquire into tn
affairs of that company
p THE mother ofthe wife of Secretary Iincol
= Mrs, Harlan, whose health has been in pre-
{ carious condition for some months past, ha
gone TO Fortress Monroe in the hope that sh
may be benefited by the change of air an
scene. Judge Harlan and Mrs. Lincoln &C
companlcd her. The many friends of Mrs
, Harlan, who is well remembered during he
long residence here while Judge Harla
, served In the senate and also us secretary q
the Interior, sincerely trust that her healtl
may be improved by the change,