The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-04
PERSONAL.

Dir. bhacklef0rd, OF Atlanta, ba., mas
just finished his l3ath novel.
Nilsson's repertoire of ailments in
cludes insomnia and dyspepsia.
Emperor William Will probably visit
Italy in April ,sand subsequently Vienna.
VIM. Cullen Bryant was one Of the
at the funeral of Shepherd
Knapp.
Strauss threatens to discontinue COM
posing dance music ana devote himself
to operas.
Verdi is said TO be engaged upon a new
opera, tue subject OF whicn is taken from
king Lear"
Sir Garnet Woleeley having "Angli-
cized" Ashantee, will be sent to Natal
TO repeat the process there.
Yuug Wing, Of the Chinese Educa-
tional COMMISSION, has just peen mar
ried to New England lauy.
Hon. ID. A. Smslley, tor loyears United
States District Judge OF Vermont, Will
shortly retire IRON that position. o..
1t is reported that LII Tsung-shi, Vice
roy OF the Liang Kiany, has applied for
leave to retire, owing 10 bad health.
Alph0nso has u new loye-Princess
Mercedes, an aristocratic-iooki girl,
the daughter Of the Duke dc M0ntpen-
bier.
Inc "Heart of the sierras," painted
by Thomas Hill, of Boston, has sold 10
Il. j. BALDWIN, OF San Francisco, Ior
Yl0,0U0.
Rev. Israel Chamberlain, one of the
founders oil Methouism III this country,
died recently at Lyndonyille, N. :, aged
" years.
SIR. Beecher will plumply and emphat-
ically contradict Mrs. MUutOn i'll several
essential and delicate branches OF her
testimony.
SIX OF those recently elected to the
UniIed States Senate-kernan, Jones,
W ailace, Mcdonald, Cameron, and Nc
Millan--are Gets.
There is rumor that Mr.. A. L. Stew
art intends 10 build large hotel at
Newport, and that work wall be COM
menced next month.
Lord DerDy has announced that he
will deliver his inaugural address as
LoId Rector OF the University Of Edin-
Durgh carry in November.
Nj. Kramer, late OF the American Reg
ister,.ls about 10 start new daily paper
i'll Paris, One-nali to be printed in English
and the olher IN French.
Bombay papers give Lhe details Of the
arrest or the Gulc0war OF Baroda,
charged with completely in the attempt
to poison Colonel fDayre.
Capt. Warsaw, OF the ill-fated steamer
Japan, has been presented with com
pIimentary address, signed by the lead
ing business men OF hong Kong.
fattI and Capoul recently sang to-
geLher in st. Petersburg Tor the first time.
Capoul was in tine voice, and looked more
like an American barber than ever.
james Honeysett, of Chautauqua, the
celebrated Davenport brotners' grand
father, died February 8, aged III years.
He resided Ill Chautauqua ior over nfty
years.
1t is said that Mrs. Laura D. Fair, the
| lady VINO shot Crittenden, her married
lover, has got rich by Investments II
mining stocks during the recent bonanzs
excitement.
| MIR. Swinpurn is working at his long
projected essay ON the several stages ol
ohaKspeare's work, based on study Of
the progress and development OF his
style anu metre.
The King of Burmah announces that
he is aUOuJ to start u newspaper and will
engineer the editorials III person. Those
Of MS subjects VINO do not subscribe are
| to be executed.
AT a jubilee ceremony in 1775 two boys
| who accompanied tne cross as acolytes
| quarreled and fought one another with
| the golden candlesticks. One OF them
became Pope Leo XII, the other Plus
| VIII.
Tne farewell engagement of Madame
| Ristori in The United States began at the
Lyceum Theater, New York, on the 1st
OF March. Sne brought the necessary
scenery and complete wardrobe iron
| IJaly.
Under a law of Congress authorizing
| the collection OF the portraits OF The Sec
retaries OF War during the different Fed
| eral administrations, likeness OF Jef
terson Davis has been added to the gal
lery OF the War Department at Wash
ington.
vi. Paul.Henri Foucher has died il
Paris, i'll his slXty-tIth year. He took
under the leadership Of NJ. Victor Hugo
| his brOther-ln-law, an active part i'll Lnt
\ stIile OF the Komanticisls against tn
| Classicists.
| Herr Gerhard Breuning, q member o
the family Of that name with wnicl
| Beethoven was intimate, has published
| in Vienna, his youthful "reminiscences o
the composer.
| Alexander Dumas has taken up tn,
| arm oil the law against Madame Marias
si-Susan for having used, without hi
permission, letter OF his to serve as
1 preface to her book, "The Return q
Christ"
On the I'd inst. the infant grandchill
of Bishop Piers Claughton, Archdeacol
OF London, was christened in ST. Paup
| Cathedral, London. The specialinteres
IN the event is that the ceremony hai
not been performed within those walls
previously during Ill years.
A correspondent from Rome writes
that Dlilmore has produced reproduc
ton othis statue Of Sumner, executed
few years before his death, and which /
soon to be sent to this country for ties
timOnial from individuals in this city t
George William Curtis, OF New York.
1t is reported that while in Lyons re
Gently, Col. Forney discovered tha
J many French citizens entertain dee
affection for Washington and Lincoll
and have pictures OF them both wrou Ugh
! in silk, with oracular utterances trOl
their writings. He is going to bring som
of these home for the Centennial.
Building operations in A. T. Stewart
Garden City are as active as the weatht
will permit. AT least one hundred nor
houses will be erected in the coming Sc,
son, including large store and an 0ffie
for the transaction oil Mr.. Stewards rel
estate and other business.
The formal reception Of Alexa ndl
Dumas into the French Academy too
t place ON February IL, in Paris. Th
/ new Academician took his seat betwee