National Republican., 1886-08-17
The Senatorial Edition.
Historical in character, and of interest to the
general public.
PERSONALITIES.

POSTMASTER CoNGER Is at Bar Harbor.
Ex.PosrMAsTER GENERAL GRESHAM is visit
ing Boston.
HoS. JOHN c. NEW, of Indiana, is at the
Riggs House.
REV. FRENCH 8. EVANS yesterday celebrated
his S5th birthday.
Mr.. CAMPBELL CARRINGToN has returned
from his summer trip.
NINE. PATTI Is to begin her American tour on
Nov. l6, in New York.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD denies that he aspires
for GGSbinet portfolio.
GEN. sHERIpAS's hoSby Is small and easily
ridden. He is coin collector.
THE widow of Paul Hayne is failing under
the shock Of her bereavement.
THE Rev. DR.. Stephen II. Tying, jr., sailed by
the Etruria for Liverpool on Saturday.
Ex-REcoRDER FREDERICK DOUGLASS and wife
sail on the 18th proximo for Europe.
THERE Is no truth in the rumor that secre-
tary Bayard contemplates reslgning.
SENATOR HARRIS has sufficiently recovered
from his recent illness to be out on the street,
Mr.. JAMES L. NORRIS and family left yester-
day for an extended trip through New Eng
land. ...t
GEN. DRUM thinks II would require a far
greater force to whip Mexico than 1t did in the
last war
SECRETARY BAYARD attended the uuveiling
OF the statue OF Baron de Kalb at Annapolis
yesterday.
THOMAS B. CoNSERY, formerly manager of
the New York Herald, is living in Belgium with
his family.
tha All, Do 4
for Saratoga, where he intends TO stay for a
weeks vacation.
MARKETMAsrER BUELL. and his wife left
yesterday for the home OF the former In Cort :
land county, MY.
SECRETARY WHITNEY left Washington yes.
terday afternoon for Lenox, Mass, to be abb
sent several weeks.
RICHARD BowDITcH, direct descendant Of
Nathaniel Bowditch, OF navigation fame, died
day or two ago at Rochdale, Mass.
II. W. HAMILTON, of the loans division, first
comptroller's office, Treasury Department, had
slight stroke of paralysis on Saturday.
Col. STEVENSON, assistant postmaster general,
has been called to his home In Bloomington,
ILL.,, where his little daughter is very ILL.,
ROSE CoGHLAN is reported as very deeply
interested in bringing a particularly fragrant
onion to a state OF unusual development.
Miss CLoTILDA PIRSsTEIs, of st. Joseph's
| parish in this city, received the black veil
Sunday at the Notre Dame Convent, In BIlti-
more.
THE wife of E. d, Morgan, the New York
millionaire, Is dangerously i'll with typhoid
fever at the Newport villa Of Mrs. Paran
| Stevens,
Mrs. CoNANT, the wife of the missing editor
| of HaIpeTs Weekly, is a proof reader aud
translator OF foreign languages in that estlb.
| lishment.
| REV. DIR, JOSEPH PACKARD, professor In the
| Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexan-
dria, Va, is visiting friends In Maine. He has
| Just completed half century OF service as Q
| teacher.
DIR. DEEMS, the venerable pastor OF the
| Church of the Strangers, in New York, has
strong convictions upon the subject OF closed
churches, and expresses them very frankly
| He keeps his church open all the year round,
and always has a congregation.
SOLICITOR GENERAL JESKs told correspond.
ent Of the Baltimore American, who asked him
about the nomination for governor 81 could
not accept the nomination under any clrcum-
| stances at this time. II is simply impossible.
My imperative duty is to remain here, aud Il
| by any chance should be nominated II would
simply be necessary to call another conyen-
ton" This decision, he added, was "hual
and irreyOeable." The Baltimore American
| learns that, In the event Of Mr.. Garland's re.
| tirement, Mr.. jerks will become Attorney
General,