The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-02
PERSONAL.

Miss Anna Oliver, the first Methodist
woman pastor, is reported to be doing
exceeding good WORK in Passaic, N. j.
Mrs. Alice Key Pondleton, vile of the
Hon. g. Ii. Pendleton, has just bought
small estate in Newport, Il. l., for S9, 100.
Mr.. SWiuburne is writing a pamphlets
on the Eastern Question, and its teach.
ing is not at all tnat OF MIR. Carlyle's le6
ter.
President Porter of Yale will YisEt
Buffalo shorty, and the Yale graduates
in the city will offer him formal entes.
tainment.
Madame Teresa Careno- Sauret has
given up travelling, aud has undertaken
teaching in New York as a permanent
profession.
President Smith OF Dartmouthis is slowly
recovering rom his illness He has no
organic disease, but needs rest, for he is
seventy years old.
Miss Minnie Hauck, the young AmeEi.
can prima donna, has been singing in
Pesth and Berlin, and has met with eX.
tra0rdinary success in both cities.
Mr.. Ulysses Grant, Jr., is described as
having exceedingly good manners AM. a
low, cultivated voice. And Mrs. 'Sarteris
h1S q feLy indtul0 AVOh1 Sa1 VIC SVIfeS
spondents.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has been
sued i'll Chicago for breach of CONTRACT
damages $1,000, she showing 10 diSp0Sa-
Lion to fulfill her agreement to sing IN
New Orleans.
Luttrell was once asked whether a
certain acquaintance of mis- was not
always very disagreeable. "Weu,''
Q a Hn Gsb ia nIl
as the circumstances will permit"
Grace Greenwood protests. II there
is any ything she aDominates more thaA
prune pudding, it Is piece Of petty inl-
pertlnence rolled up into q personal
paragraph and set afloat through all
newspaperdom.
Mr.. William Morris is rather fantas-
iically called by the AthenR I'm I.the
Poetry-Smith of the Northern olympus
and II adds thai he is soaked in 0l.G-
ism-hIs body is in Queen Square. but
his soul Is in Ultima Thule.
NJ. BarLholdl, the sculptor, has lust
been married at Newport to Miss
Jeanne de Puysieux, niece of Mr.
JDhn La Fargo, the artist. The ceRs-
mony was performed by the poet ami
clergy man, Charles L. Brooks. the
bride is beautiful Ais titan.
MI. Joseph Arch, the English agitator.
said / recent speech that Lord Bea-
cOnsneld must not count on taking The
agricultural laborers to be shot at fur
thirteen pence a day. They are de-
termined to keep out OF the wars et
England until they obtain the suffrage.
William Hewitt, author Of ga Letter
to Young Naturalist" in the last ulI.n-
Der Of st. Nicholas magazine, Is now in
his eighty-secona year. His first boax
appeared in 1881, lie and his wife Nav
formed one OF the most cu.iouS aaL
pleasing partnerships in literary his
| tory.
James A. Coe, the Boston ex-broker
aud Tor ger, died in the Massachusetts,
State Prison December "a, from the
effects of poison administered by his
own hand. His vile died of broken
heart after his conviction. He had
served two years and three months Of
| mis- term.
MIR. George b. Hamilton, of Dubuuue.
| Iowa, is sure OF enough -four to las hss
family through The winter, however tas
rest OF US may he situated. He noIas,
at present, seven hundred and fiIty
thousand bushels Of wheat, or onc-tAiE.
leenth OF the visible supply in the States
and Canada.
Mr.. Ingalls,, OF Kansas, is considered
by the ladies IN the gallery 10 be the PSI
| bachelor OF the Senate, and is termed
fastidIous, elegant and literary. Tue
pet bachelor OF the House is MIR. Piper.
Of California, to whom the above aa.
JectiYes do not wholly apply. But he
owns mines and city properly.
Henry Murdoch, the actor who met SO
tragical fate, is described as haYiug
been devoted to his mother. IL MAS
sometimes only by the keenest personal
dlscomtorts, the denial to himself oy
| necessaries even, that he sent each week
OF his life TO her the sum which Rlads
| her comfortable. In or out OF enra.e.
ment, it was always the same.
| DR.. Bradus, OF Greenyille, s. G.. re.
CARDS the Hon. Alexander ii. Stepny ms
as an anachrOnisn, ana says: III he
had lived in the middle ages, the Tacs
that SO frail man can SPEAK Two hours
and hold a great audience would have
stamped him a saint, prelerna. .uralig
supported, and with more thaa mum u
claims to attention and Delief."
| John ID. Lewis, two years ago a prom.
inent merchant OF New York, who lea
by will property estimated to ba
worth $50 ,OUO, was by birth u negro.
born OF u sIaVs-mother. He moved freely
i'll the best society, and was perseculea
with a number OF breach-)s-prom Sc
suits, but never married. lie began li:e
as Il porter, and accumulated ali nis far
tune through his own eXerti0us.
General Dick Taylor is visiting Mr.
Abram S. Hewitt AT his house in VAST
ington. The Mexican War gave Gen arni
Taylor and President Grant the oppor-
tunity to 6ght their first battles L.
gether, and their friendship has cep-
tinued ever since with the one sharp ic-
terruption OF the civil war. But their
intimacy ceased in '73, when, is is re-
ported, the pulley of the Administrator
| in Louisiana caused some unplea ,aEt
feeling. General Taylor is vary erera
ana slender. with u marked miIifnrs