The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-13
PERSONAL.

| Mr.. Whitehead, OF Austrian torpedo
| fame, is an American, but not an OAioan.
Mr.. john O'Keefe, member of the
| House OF Commons for Dungaryon, is
dead.
Judge Underwood, of Atlanta. Ga, in
vamably wears his hat when sitting on
the bench.
X. ID. Yates, the champion checker
| player, is Dut nineteen years of age, yet
he captures all opponents.
Pope Ptus is an old man, but he has
not held sway so long as Q leen Victoria,
or Dom PEDRO, Emperor Brazil.
DR.. Il. V. Pierce, the medical adyer-
tiser OF the period, has been put up as
"A ca"ddate for the Ufice OF Mayor OF
Buffalo.
stephen Johnston, the Greenback
nominee for Governor Of Ohio, s son
OF the late Col. John Johnston, OF Piqua,
| the WeII-KnoWn pioneer and famous Iu-
ulah Agent 0. generation or two ago.
John Lothrop Motley had Bismarck
tor lelloW-student ~ Gottingen; and
IL may BE- that the latter is one of the
hgures IN the novel OF "MorJon's Hope :"
| winch represents Il secJIon Of Gem Tn
university life.
| Or. Abbot, the famous Exeter school
master, used TO say that he had this adj
| van age as compared with his friends {:
| lie could read the same b lok twice over
with The same enjoyment, for as last as
he read he forgot.
DR.. Philip scbaff, travelling in the
East, Was nearly killed bv the fanatical
Mos ems at Hebron. recently. lie
wanted to go into the cave of Machpe-
lab, where tie patriarchs lie buried, and
the pagans objected.
Prof. w. D. Wilson Of Cornell has re.
Gently been favored with an honorary
detection as a member of lne PhiIosopui
cal Society of Great Britain. Only five
| Americans have ever b9en elected MEM
| bers Of this society.
! Jefferson Davis now lives near Mis-.
.sissippi City, on the border OF Pontchar-
| train between New Orleans and Mobile.
| he is Wrlllng Il S mem )lrs, is in excel
lent health, and looks younger than he
did few ears ago.
Mr.. John G. Whittier is going to the
yearly meeting OF Friends in Portland.
| Mrs. Gertrude Garland of NeWbury.
port, who is c, ERIK of the yearly meet
ing, was once "a teacher in Portland.
aud is remembered Dy her former pupils
as Gertrude Whittier.
Tom Benton's well-known portrait
| painted by Boyle, has become the Drou,
erty of the Missouri Historical Sotiety.
and that body, to celeb. ate its arquis l..
| ton, has invited the Hon. j ohm f. Darby
to give an address upon the life and
times OF the great politician.
| John Motley, the late John Lothrop
Motieys greal-srandlather, came from
| Belfast, ireland, to Falmouth-noW
Portland-in Maine, and there worked
at his trace as joiner. An uncle of
lives i'll D0ering and is ninety-JLe wears
old.
Gov. Hampton will attend the COM
mencement exercises at Trinity Co..
lege, North Carolina, next In ursdav
Gov. Vance VIII meet him there. and
will doubtless make the customary re-
mark which Interstate amty requires
that the Governor Of North Carolina
| should make to the Governor OF SCUM
Carolina.
Prot. Spencer F. Baird opens Part III
OF his report as United States FIsn Com
missioner with an essay called "Histor-
lcal observations on the Condition of
The FISHERIES Among the Ancient Greeks
and Romans, and Tneir lode OF Sailing
and Picking Fish" Tnis is taking
rather long run for short jump.
Victor Hugo is said to have ready for
publication MSS. called ''Satan.n sThe
FourW lnds of the Splli ,"the conclusion
Of the novel "Nlnety-rhree," and two
| tragedies, The Twins" and "Toruue-
maua." Some mex olicable caprice on
The part OF the author delays their pub
llcaLion. He calls them "tue fortune Of
his grandchildren"
General epokoitschitzky the Rus
sian Chiel-of-statf, is Il short, square-set.
but active looking man, hale and hearty
IN spite Oh MS seventy years. His hair,
whlskers and mustacne are snow-white,
but there is flush OF hale color on his
cheek; his eye IS not dim, neither is his
| natural force abated. He wears SIM
pie undress uniform, with the aiguI,-
| lettes which distinguish the staff Ctf1cer
and his only decoration is the Cros, of
st. George.
Earl Russell, it is reported, in spite Of
his advanced age, follows the Eu.stern
question with all the intelligence and
eaSerness OF his prime. His sympathy
is dIsplayed Tor Mr. Gladstone, VINO, he
thinks, has learned a lesson about sup.
porting Turkey by force Of aims. Earl
Russell recently expires sed his EN- phatic
opinion to an old friend that England
dId not drift, but was dragged into war
against Russia.
The old King of Gaboon, in Africa. is
dead, at the age of nearly one hundred.
His eldest son, Adaude, at once, on sue
ceedlng him, cashiered the hundred
women OF his fathers harem, liberating
fifty slaves, and abolished the sacrifice
OF human beings at religious rites. Ad-
miral Il baut and staff, OF the French
squadron in the Cult OF Guinea, assisted
a. the coronation ceremonies. The Ad.
mlral gave the King COW and a bull py
way Oh starting herd OF cattle.
Mr.. George VIM. Curtis writes, in an
obituary OF Fletcher Harper, printed in
the Weekly: ut is one OF the most
gratifying recollections Of the writer of
these lines that, during his long and in
Innate editorial ass ociation with Fletch-
er Harper npen this paper, tbel. inter.
course was perfectly sincere, and atfec-
tionate, and satisfactory. Nor in all
those years, with AL their differences of
opinion, was there ever on Mr.. Harper's
part the least petulance or dictation, Ir
the editorial tone OF the paper showed a
different judgment from his own as to
men and measures, he was carefully al
lent until the occasion was past, nor by
hint or innuendo did he attempt coeI-
cionp