The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-01-18
PERSONAL.

Harriet Beecher stowe Is an Episco-
palian.
The King has wrestod with the Niagara
hack-fends, and still survives.
Queen Isabella does not accompany AL
fonso to Spain, but remains in Paris.
Vice President Wilson says he read
SberidaTs banditti dispatch with ''hor-
ror."
The Siamese twins ought not to be for
gotten in the list of the distinguished
dead of 1874"
The father of Lawrence Barrett, the
actor, is a cutter for merchant taiiorln
indianapolis. -.
Frank Hatton, a well-known Iowan,
has become sole proprietor of the Bur-
lin gton Hawkeye for $4,000.
Mrs. Isabella Hooker has been chosen
Suffrage Association for the cHfrent
year.
Archbishop Manning is said to be en-
deavoring to abolish all music in his
churches except the pure Gregorian
chants.
Bishop Colenso was among the passen-
gers by the mail steamer Roman, which
sailed from Southampton on Christmas
day for the Cape OF Good Hope.
Nj. Theirs has stated privately, accord
ing to a Paris correspondent OF the ln-
dependence, that the renewal Of the
armament Of the French army will still
require 100000 francs.
Miss Jennie Britton, of Lewisburg, Pa,
has gained an extensive reputation as u
skater, by propelling herself 81 miles on
the ice in three hours and 30 minutes the
other day. ... ..,...s.
The last King of Spain, before the one
| Just proclaimed, bearing the name of AL
ionso, was Alfonso XI, historically
known as the Avenger, WHO reigned
IRON 1924 until his death before Gibrai-
tar in 1850, SO that between Alfonso XII.
and Alfonso XII there is only the little
period OF 525 years. .l....
The Beechers and the Tiltons all got
| together in The Courtroom, Tuesday, the
hrst real family reunion they have ell
lioyed ior some time, but there
seemed however to be a little chill!
Illness in the atmosphere. Beecher
wouldn't look at Tilton,- Triton refused
to glance at his wife, Mrs. Tilton looked
at nobody.
Miss Carrie S. Burnham, who has been
studying law ior three years in Philadel.
phia, presented her application before
the Board Of Lawyers OF that city the
other day, for tue usual examination and
admission to the Bar. The Board de.
clined to receive her application, as they
could find no precedent for it, but prom
Used to lay the matter before the Court.
Pope Leo XII once. when hard pressed
for money, induced several rich Roman
famrlies to make him advances, and by
way oil compensation freed them AND
their estates from liability to taXatiof
during the present century. The tax
gatherers of the new ltallan Kingdom
however, refuse TO acknowledge the va
lidity of this dispensation, and have de-
i manded payment OF tour years taxes
from the representatives OF the families
in question. The latter have therefore
determined to contest their liability be
|. fore the courts.
King Cakobau,s war club has beef
isent as a present to. Queen Victoria
: through Sir Hercules Robinson. 1t il
: about feet inches in length, and mad,
! Of dense, hard wood, stained black, an(
highly polished, resembling in shape /
lstout, weli-rounded walking club.
Round the handle are group of cocos
palms wrought in silver; fern leave,
II gradually enLwine upward toward the
head, with doves carrying olive leaves
lin their mouths, and the top or KNOB il
surmounted by a crown, all of solid sill
vef. 1T was formerly used as mace By
the self.cohstituted Government iron
whose hands Fiji has now been wrested
Mrs. Mary A. Liverlnore lectured to u
llafge audience IN the Brooklyn Academy
RECENTLY, "Concerning Husbands o
Judge McCue, Horace b. Claim, Homer
b. Sprague, and other well-known hus,
I bands were there. In her tank she said
s'Last summer many very unhandsome
\ paragraphs were going about the coum
i try about womar's devotion to the cler
\ ey. | only wish women knew what they
4 owe to the clergy. From early times
they have been "oman's best friend
The right to a dover, proprietary right
/ liberty of acton, and much else is due tt
the ministers, who, while dependent or
| the State for a living, sacrificed them
selves tor woman's good, lifting the lasE
from of her back"
Rev. DR.. Ormiston. of New York, has
met with an accident which may cripple
him for life. As he was Stepping from
the sidewalk to a street car the Other
/ day a tendon of one of his legs broke
about midway from the knee to the ankle
The snapping Of the cord was like thS
| first that he had been shot. He reached
home with great difficulty and intense
suffering, and surgical aid was soon al
hand. The breaking OF the bones woul(
have been light matter compared with
| this, as the broken tendon contracts each
way, and the reunion is q slow and pre-
carious process. The leg is now tightly
encased, and its use dispensed with fol
a couple OF mouths at least. In the near
time Dir. Ormiston Is not idle. lie gets
about on crutches, and was in his pulpit
last Sunday.
/ Recently, man appointed to the Office
OF notary public in South Carolina, on tht
lreenin m atldAtian Of the entire legislatiYf