National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
No. 653 A STREET NORTHEAST.
ABOUT PEOPLE.

SECRETARY CHANDLER returned to Washing
ton yesterday.
CHIEF NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR THEODORE D.
WILSON, U. $. n, is at Newport
JOHN C. NEW is confident that Indiana will
give at least 10000 republican majority.
Mr.. BALDWIN, otherwise Lucky" Baldwin,
claims to have cleared $4,000 on the turf this
season.
Young Mr.. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT pooh
poohs the story that he recently lost s3,OOO,O 600
in stock speculation.
MAJ. J. SUMNER ROGERS, president Of the
Michigan Military college, has returned to his
home Mt Orchard Lake, Mich.
MULEY HAssAN, the emperor Of Morocco,
can read and write, and is the only subscriber
to newspaper in the empire.
SECRETARY CHANDLER and Senior Don Juan
Valera Y. Alcala Galiana, the Spanish minis
ter, were in New York yesterday.
MRS VAN CoTT, the evangelist popularity
known as the widow" proudly says that she
is the spiritual mother of 10000 souls.
MARY ANDERSON is described by a London
society Journalist to be the most dudely-
dressed woman Off the stage he ever saw.
NAVAL CADET Epson W. SUTPHEN, U. S. n.
who recently returned home from the Wachu.
chusett, is visiting his family, at 1905 street
HENRY IRvING's latest advance advertising
flattery is that the Americans can eat with
more intelligence than any other nation on
earth"
CAPT. RoBERTM. O'REILLY, assistant surgeon
U. s. A., will return to his duties here Sept. Is
from his vacation at 0swego, on Lake
Ontario.
PAYMAsTER LEONARD A. FRAILEY, U. S. N,
Is visiting at his home, No. 1915 New York ave
nue., on leave from the Norfolk navy yard, and
will leave tomorrow for his station.
DOYLEY CARTE iscredited with an intention
to pilot the astronomer, Proctor, and Brad
laugh on lecturing tourin America. Proctor,
with his family, is going to settle in this coun-
try
LIEUT.. WILLIAM J.. BUCK, 18th y. s. infnn-
try ilitary professor Mt the Mississippi Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college, is here on of
fetal business for the college with the quarter
master generals office.
CAPT. p. II. RAY, Sth United States infantry,
who commanded the Point Barrow Arctic
station, has returned to the city from Montreal,
where he went at the invitation OF the British
scientists in session there.
PROF. JOHN w. MALLET has resigned his
chair at the University of Virginia, and will
probably be chosen to fill the professorship of
chemistry at Jefferson college, Philadelphia.
AMONG the New York doctors of divinity who
are attending the Evangelical Alliance meet
ing at Copenhagen are John Hall, Philip
Schafl, Wilbur F. Watkins, William Taylor,
and Edward Bright.
Mrs. AGNES BOOTH, having ended her sea
son as hostess Of her Masconome hotel at Man
chester-by-the-sea, has now begun season on
the stage and is playing 1.-THE Squire" In the
Park theater, Boston.
Mr.. HowELLs, is to write for the CENTURY a
series of articles on the cities of northern
Italy, to be illustrated by reproductions OF
etchings by Joseph Pencil, who accompanied
Mr., Howells to the places described.
Mr., FRouDE is said TO be at an inaccessible
resort somewhere on the coast of England, fin
ishing his biography of Thomas Carlyle. lie
is probably revising his proof, as that work
was understood to be practically finished sew
eral weeks ago.
Mr.. JusrUS ii. RATHBoNE, who was burned
so severely two weeks ago by the explosion OF
Il vapor stove, has SO far recovered from his
| burns as to be able 10 be out. His face and
LEFT hand still show the discoloration of the
burns, but the right hand Is still unhcaled and
will DO badly scared.
COMMISSIONER PATTEN, having completed the
organization of the new bureau of navigation,
has gone to Maine TO arrange some business
matters, Mr.. Patten Is an enthusiastic repub.
| lican, and feels confident that Maine will sus
tain her reputation Of fidelity TO the cause in
the present campaign, which he expects tc
| take part in.
LIEUT.. ERNEST A. DARLINGTON 9TH United
States cavalry, arrived at the Ebbitt house
yesterday evening from Dakota, on leave He
Is the officer who commanded the Proteus ex
petition OF 1888 for the relief of Lieut.. Greedy
the failure of which was the subject Of disa
greement as TO responsibility between him and
the signal corps authorities which was settled
by the Benet court OF inquiry last winter,
LIEUT.. EMORY II. TAuNT U. s. N, will be
detached from the Thetis in November and
ordered to the European squadron for duty
under his father'in-law, Rear Admiral Eng
fish. He will probably escort abroad Mrs
English, Mrs. Presley NJ. Rixey wife of Passed
Assistant Surgeon Rixey, and his own family,
but If the cholera epidemic continues after
cold weather sets IN tho ladies will not 20
Labroad,