The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-11
PERSONAL.

HEhSONALs
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has rented a
house in Richmond, where he is about
TO attend 10 insurance interests.
Mr.. Gladstone, it is said, has realized
the extraordinary sum OF 100000 from
his pamphlet on the bulgarian HOr-
rors."
j. Clancy Jones, United States Min
lister to Austria during Mr.. Buchanan's
administration, is seriously III at Allie
gneny, Ia.
The Rev. DR.. w. L. Breckinridge, son
OF Jetferson's Attorney General and uH-
Gle OF the Confederate Secretary OF War,
has just died i'll Missouri.
Gen. Dix appears in a new character.
His picture has been cut out of a news
paper, framed, hung up on wall and
Worshiped as d Rus sian saint III Siberia.
Herschel V. Johnson, the candidate
for Vice President on the Douglas ticket
sixteen years ago, is a prominent can
didate for the United States Senate
from Georgia.
Marshall p. Wilder, of Massachusetts,
is proud OF the fact that he has viii
messed the inauguration Of every Gov
ernOr OF that Commonwealth during the
past forty years.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker has been re-
fused admission to the White House
''until she can appear in apparel becOm-
ing her, seX," anu now she desires W
abolish the Presidency.
John Graham, at the Old Bailey, on
one occasion, forgot to pass sentence of
death upon convicted prisoner. Being
reminded OF the omission he gravely ex-
claimed, "Dear mel l beg his pardon,
am sure"
Sir Michael Costa, after his two ora
torlos, sell" and "Naaman," has pre-
served a long silence i'll composition;
but it is stated that he is now engaged
on third work depicting the career Of
Joseph, the son Oh Jacob.
Minnie Lonsdale, ayoung actress, was
recently burned TO death at Newark, N.
j. Her dress caught fire from a red-n0t
stove, against which she carelessly
| brushed her skirts. She was nineteen
years of age, and had been but six
months upon the stage.
Brigham Young printed circular let
| ter of fellcltaLion 10 his "famlly and
| friends Of Salt Lake and elsewhere" in
the papers of that city the day before
Christmas. Not many men, happily,
obliged TO address them through the
newspapers.
The Duke of Westminster has set a
very good example in The other proprie-
tors OF London squares. He has offered
to the Metropolitan Board of Works the
freehold OF Euury Square Gardens, in
order that this space may be thrown
open to the public. The Duke offers to
give up absolutely to the public the
lee simple, unhampered by any cOndi-
ton.
Miss Clara Morris is now fully re-
| stored to health, and has resumed her
personation of Miss Mutton" with her
accustomed paLhos and yigor. She is
pronounced entirely out OF danger, and
in position to continue her proies ssonal
engagements. Her return to the scene
oil ner triumphs, the stage Of the Union
| Square Theater, has created a new ill.,
| terest in the public.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaiues is credited
with the following opinions: "Oh,
| DEAR" she sighed, "WhatIs to become of
our country? l do wish The women had
voice in elections; tuey would soon
settle mattersl A Woman'S instincts
are much better than mans logic. She
may make fuss about little things, but
in any great emergency she always
comes up on the rlghL side."
Won Moltke expressed himself at re-
cent military gaLnerlng to the effect that
Russia, in making war against Turkey,
was embarking on great aud difficult
enterprise. In 1928 the Turks, with bare
| ly 10000 raw levies, resisted tor d long
time the onslaugnts OF 100000 well
equipped and disciplined Russians,
whose numbers were kept up by contin :
ual reintorcements; in the present emer-
gency the Russians would nave still less
reason to anticipate an easy and rapid
| success,
Major Mcfarland, the engineer en-
ployed by the lnter-oceanic Canal Com
mission 10 report on route uniting the
Atlantic and the Pacific, says that the
Nicarauga way is the most feasible.
The distance would be sixty -one miles |;
there is no natural harbor at either end,
and the cost would he about $l10, 900, ,00p.
The difficulty would be greater than in
making the SueZ Canal. The Darien
route would be much shorter, but would
involve tunneling.
Edward Everett Hale has q stout,
clannish liking for the traits of his
! brother New-Englanders. Speaking OF
| ''resource" he says: II was talking only
yesterday to a healthy, sober laboring
man who was really starving for want
of work, as are thousands of others. He
said forcibly to me, Il had chance to
go and chop wood in New Hampshire,
| but what do know of chopping woody
| Now knew in that moment that this
man was not New-Englander. for q
man of New-England blood never owns
| willingly thar there is any thing he could
| not do il he ought to. And any genuine
New-Englander would rather do some
| thing that he never did before than the
thing which he has done for the last
| year"