The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-27
PERSONAL.


| Ann Eliza Brigham earns $40, 900 q yeal
lecturing.
Senator Booth, of California, is visit.
ing his parents in Terre Haute, Ind.
Barnum thinks of astonishing the eff.
fete dynasties of Europe with his show.
President Grant will be tifty-three
years of age on the 9th of the present
month.
Ex-Governer VIM. Hale of New Hamp-
SHIRE is suffering from stroke of par.
alysis.
General Spinner's successor will get
settled in Washington about the middle
of June.
Rev. q. III. spurgeon has returned to
London alter three months leave OF
absence.
donaldson is going to try the aerial
voyage to Europe. II he were Wise he
would stay.here.
Prince Leopold, of England, has been
elected Senior Warden of the University
Lodge of +. and A. NJ, Oxford.
President Stearns, of Amherst College,
has recovered sufficiently from his tedi-
GUS sickness TO attend to a portion OF his
duties.
Able Liszt has been named by the EN-
peror of Austria President OF an Acade-
my OF Music now In process Of organiza-
ton at Pesth.
Harry Moody, late of the Toronto
(Oht.) Nation newspaper, has been ap.
pointed private secretary to tho Cover
nor-General of Canada.
Miss Kate Field has been appearing in
providence in q play by Alexander
dumas, entitled "Gabrielle," which was
translated by her father.
W0ftHS genius does not inspire him
frequently until he has made the third
cut, and the change out OF 100 yards
would not make u spring bonnet for a
six-lnch doll.
Count Won Arnim's latest appearance
Is i'll duel. lie acted as second to the
Hungarian Baron Arzel. The Baron's
adversary, Count Jarvezewski, was
wounded by a shot In the hip.
The Princess of>Wales wore at recent
draWlng-room reception dress and
train OF vlolette de parm.velvet, in which
she looked exquisltely lovely. 1t was
bordered with fur and ornamented with
diamonds.
M. Thlers can neither eat nor talk
without chaufrette, or foot-stove, un-
der his feet, and the apparatus to dis
simulate Its true character is made in
the form Of little valise that always
goes with him.
DR.. Edward Beecher, the most patri-
archal member of the Beecher brother
hood, has lately, while in court, been
spending his time in studying a spelling
book, preparatory to taking part in a
great spelling match.
General and Mrs. Mcclellan, with
their two children, are travelling in
Egypt. The General will remain abroad
with his family until August. They
started on this trip year ago last Octo-
hn,. nd nu
from the Khedive.
Oliver Dalrymple, the great Minnesota
wheat farmer,who was reported to nave
failed lew months ago, mas settled his
losses in the grain markets and with
speculative dealers without being de-
cIared bankrupt, and all proceedings
against him have been Withdrawn.
The Duchess of Edinburg while out
driving was caught i'll shower and bor-
roWed an umbrella at a cottage of an
old woman, who refused to loan any but
the "second best one," and next day the
Duchess sent it home with her compli-
menus, one sovereign and a pound OF tea.
MIR. Frederick 2. Warren, of Three
Oaks, Michigan, a man of ingenious and
turn of mind, whose mis-
sion has been to make practical calcu-
lating machine, died Friday. The in-
is pronounced the most perfect ever yet
made.
Mr.. John W. Young, son of Brigham
oung, has been the victim of a fraud at
Albany. A deed was recorded in the
Clerks office at that city last week, IN
which there was conveyed to him land
long covered by houses, and the title to
which of the present occupants is sal d
to be perfect.
Mime. the Baroness de Macedo, widow
Of Portuguese Admiral and domiciled
in Paris tur thirty years, has just COM
mitted suicide. She had been operated
upon Tor cancer, but second operation
was necessary, and she preferred imme-
iiate death to the repetition OF painful
poStponement.
George W. Gayle, once a prominent
lawyer i'll Alabama, WHO during the war
Inserted i'll the Cahuba (Ala.) Gazette |
an offer OF $1,000,0O0 for the assassina-
ion of President Lincoln, and was in
confined for a year in |
Fortress Monroe, died at Selma, Ala.
)ama, a week ago.
Dawson, the English lecturer, is en-
,husiastic enough to allow that there is |
coming "the greatest nation and the
wonder of the EARTH" The only differ
'nce between Pogram and Dawson is,
hat the former thought we had reached
hat state tWenty-nine years ago.
Gen. Spinner, who retires as United
states Treasurer OH the 30th of June
lext, will pass his summers at "Hickory
irOye," his home ON the Mohawk, in
lew York, and will spend the winters
With his daughters in Florida. In going
o and returning from Florida he will
top several days in Washington.
President Grant recently rendered to
l. b. Mullett, Esq, the position ofcivil
ngineer and secretary of the board
harged with the test of iron, steel and
ther metals. Mr.. Mullett, after con-
liberation, replied, thanking the Pres
lent Tor this honor, but declining to
ccept owing to other duties which pre-
ented him.
Mr.. Theodore Thomas was presented
vith $1,000 by the Directors of the Brook
IN Philharmonic Society on Saturday
vening. The presentation was made
ehind the scenes during the intermis-
ion OF the concert, and was entirely in
'rmal, the money being handed to Mr.
homas in a sealed envelope, and no
peeches being made on either side.
Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, &. G. b.,
ho Will shortly receive The baton OF Il
eld marshal, is the s'ialher' and senior
eneral OF the British army. He was
)rn in 1856, obtained his hrst commits.
ON III 1874. and served in the Peninsu-