National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-08-16
ABOUT PEOPLE.

MEssRs. h. W. HANNA and Edwin =. Hanna,
Of this city, were In Portland, Oregon, last
week.
REV. DIR. NEWMAN HALL is expected to arrive
at New York to-day by the steamer from
Liverpool
Hon. COLUMBUS UPsoN ex-representative In
congress from Texas, was in Chicago on
Wednesday.
LIEUT.. JAMES +. BELL It'll U. S. cavalry, and
Mrs. Bell, were IN st. Paul this week from fort
Buford, Dakota.
GEN. W. W. BELKNAp has gone to Lake Min
netonka to attend the annual reunion OF the
army Of the Tennessee.
GEN. ROBERT TooNRs the great unrecon-
struoted" is at the Virginia White Sulphur
Springs for the summer
Mr. ROBERT l.. DOWNING and his bride nre
rustlcating at his farm, "stopmothers Folly"
In Prince George county, Md.
SENATOR JAMES d. BECK, OF Kentucky, and
Mrs Beck, are at waukesha, Wis, for few
days before going to their sons big rancho In
Wyoming.
THE wife and daughter or Postmaster Cen
eral Gresham have arrived in Concord, N, H.,
from New York. They go to Warner to visit
Secretary Chandler and family.
Gov ALEXANDER RAMSAY, ex-seoretary Of
war, has returned 10 his home at st. Paul from
| Salt Lake City, where he has been rs chairman
of the Utah commission supervising the recent
territorial elections there.
ECAPT. ]. HYDE SPARKS, lieutenant in the
British Grenadier guards, Is making tour Of
this country, and was In Chicago during tho
week on his way to Montana TO have q shot at
| the fast disappearing bison.
SIR JOHN A. BUCK, an English baronet who
has been extensively travelling through the
United States with his son, sailed last week
from San Francisco for Honolulu to spend a
few weeks In the Sandwich Islands.
Hon. w. d. FRAzEE, republican candidate
for congress In the fourth district OF Mississippi,
is at the st. James hotel. Inasmuch as the re-
publican majority In his district is at least
5000. Judge Frazee Ia confident OF election.
MAJ. JOHN L. BLAINE, paymaster United
States army, q younger brother OF Hon. James
G. Blaine, is stationed at Helena, where he Ia
chief paymaster of the district of Montana.
He Is smaller in stature than his distinguished
brother.
Ex-Gov. r. b. BULLOCK, of Georgia, has gone
with his family to tho &Aside in the neghbor.
hood OF Boston, to spond the rost OF the sum.
mer. They were delayed at Atlanta by the
dangerous illness of the eldest son, Wolcott
Bullock, and did not arrive north until this
week.
Mr.. WILLIAM G. MCBRIDE, the Cincinnati
Enquirer correspondent, will leave next week
for q trip to the various summer resorts along
the coast, to be gone two or three weeks. Mrs
Mcbride and her children will remain at Deel
Park, where they have been all the summer
thus far.
MRS. CAMLLo c. c. CARR wife OF Capt. Carr
LIST United States cavalry, has her army home
now at the pleasant post of Fort Custer, Mon
tana, where her husbands command is sta
toned She was Miss Viven, of this city, and
afterward the wife Of the late Maj. Erskine M
Camp U. s. A.
CAPT DWIGHT II. KELToN, 10th United State
infantry arrived at the Ebbitt house yesterday
morning for a brief visit He IL the historian
of the beautiful and romantic island o
Mackinac, where he was stationed for seyera
years on duty before his company went ava,
to New Mexico recently.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WALTER Fl. BRYANT, Of Phila
delphia, who are spending their honeymoon
on the Pacific coast, were In San Francisco
last week, where they were the recipients o
many attentions. Mrs. Bryant Is the daughte
of ex-Representative Marvin, of Saratoga, tn
owner Of Congress Spring.
SOME of the obituary notices Of the late Mrs
Jane Grey Swisshelm make the statement tina
she was "a lineal descendant of the unfortu
tunate Lady Jane Grey" As 'the unfortunat
: Lady Jane Grey" never had child that his
: tory tells Of there appears TO be somethin
lacking in the "unities'' of the story.
, Mrs. DAVID GLAsoow FARRAeuT the widow
of the great admiral. who has recently bee,
seriously ILL., is reported to be conyalescent
Her sister, Mrs. C. Ashe, and neice, Miss Lin
Ashe, of San Francisco, who came east to b
near her when she was at the lowest point Q
her illness, will soon return to their home.
CAPT RopRIauEz, of the Mexican navy, ha
forwarded his resignation to the president, an
will take up his residence at San francisco
He IL now commanding the Mexican man.o
war Democratic, which has been in San Frar
cisco bay for over year past, and which
now lying at Sancelito, opposite the city Of Sa
, Francisco.
L. A WAUKEsHA letter SAWS: The place is Il
of rich young widows who have very exclt
, siye manners and in most instances ono chile
, They all wear deep black let iewelry, an
round white lingerie. In the morning the
come to breakfast with little jetted shawlet
: close caps and black silk mitts on. ROM
, trip tickets to Waukesha are cheap this year.
Mr., FnEprRIcK sgARoN. the only son of q,
Senator sharon. of California. was married m