The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-11-06

vindicatory card in an Alabama paper.
Very naturally a man with good name
like that wants to be careful OF it.
Victoria Woodruff is going to London
to be an actress. Bhe has given Lady
Macbeth "a new creation" and has also
tackled several other Shakspearean
productions.
The Archbishop of York, speaking at
temperance meeting, said that there is
public house to every one hundred and
fifty persons in Great Britain, and that
& lag 900, 900 are spent there annually in
sLrOng drink.
Mr. Isaac Ray, the father of negro
minstrelsy, died in Kentucky last Wed
nesday, in the seventy-secOnd year OF
his age. He lived long enough to be
ashamed of his offspring. His stage
name was Sam johnson.
Celia Logan denies that the New York
ladies' are addicted to the use OF opium,
but says that many of them take too
much arsenic for the complexion. The
effects OF arsenic can be seen in puffy
eyelids and bloated cheeks.
Miss May, who is to marry James Cor
don Bennett,h has received her trOusseau
from Europe, where 1t was collected at
a cost OF $4,000, according to the gos-
sips. 1t is said to be the most beau itul and
elaborate ever prepared for an American
lady.
Ii. o. H1ughton, founder of the oele-
brated Riverside Press, began lie as a
printer Ia the Burlington (Vt.) Free
Press Office forty years ago. The ami
versary was celebrated last week by q
pleasant company Of his friends and as
sociates.
Paul de Cassagnac, the famous French
| fighting editor, has been elected Mayor
of the Commune OF Cououne, Depart
ment OF Gers. 1t is to be hoped that
he writes his editorials, with the points
! OF the rapier.
W. A. Day, of Sanford, Florida, has a
| lemon weighing just one pound, winch
he plucked from tree belonging 10 D..
A. q. Caldwell. The doctor pulled six
thousand lemons from the same tree
last year, and will get above tour thous'
and from it this year.
DR.. AllclIiu, an eminent London ply
sician, has frankly ayowed, in an adj
dress to students, that "of all scientific
pursuits which practically cOuoern the
community, there is none perhaps which
rests upon so uncertain and insecure a
basis as medicine"
NJ. Gambetta, after careful and elab-
crate study, bls prepared an entirely
new revenue scheme for France, which
is exciting an earnest and lively dis
cussion in the Paris papers. The gen.
eral opinion, Eoweyer, is that it Is an
able and important fiscal paper.
Rev. John 5. Glendenning, the alleged
betrayer of Mary PomerOy, who nus
been debarred from the Synod of lii
aG.S, &%ss been in jersey City recently,
and ii is reported that he lnlends re-
turning to his former place of residence
and beginning the STUDY Of law.
President Chadbourne told the Fresh
men Of Wiliams College Lnat the notion
of having girls admitted to College fol
| the sake of their good influence upon
| the boys was unsound, Wnereupon one
OF the students eagerly inquire,:, Don't
you think it would have u good influence
on tue young ladiesW
| Martin Pine was tried in Henderson,
KY, for an assault, and the lawyer who
defended him deemed it polite TO say
that he was coWardly. Mr. Piue pub
fishes this card: II woald announce TO
the citlzeus of Henderson, and especi.
ally to Il learned gentleman who pro-
nounced me a coward before jury, That
| if he VIII take the trouble to select hi
| friend and repair on the other side OF
| the, river, the matter can easily be dc
cided who is the greater coward of the
| tWOO