The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-17
PERSONALS.

Stanley is expected to reach London |
in q few weeks.
Gen. Joseph R. Hawley is to sail for
Paris this month.
Ben. P2rley Poore is now President OF
the Bos - Press Club.
Mr.. Turnipseef, OF Georgia, had gin |
burned few days since.
Patrick Henry's grandson, William |
Writ Henry, is running for the Virginia
Legislature.
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan. Is an old |
bachelor and an Elder in the Presbyte- |
rian Church.
Mrs. Hayes is said to be a student OF |
politics, and to talk lntelligently upon
its changing phases.
Archibald Forbes, the famous war cor
respondent, has been invited to Bal
moral Scotland, by Queen Victoria.
Pongo, the gorilla IN England, recent
ly had q call from Mr.. Darwin, who
gravely handed his card to the royal
ape.
John Welsh, the new Minister to Eng
land, is lineal descendant Of the Rev.
Jonn Welsh, of Scotland, who married
a daughter of John Knox.
Jerome Hopkins has completed his
Nv" VPSA", Du"D "0
understood Love to be blind; but now it
| seems he is doubly afflicted.
Senator Mcdonald, VI Indiana, began
his working lie As saddler; and Jesse
d. Bright was once laborer in brick
yard. The more honor to them.
Professor Justin Winsor had no end
of civlities offered him In England
"and," he says plaintively, 81 dou't wish
often to dine out fourteen days in sue.
cession."
| Mr.. Ruskin's Oxford lectures this year
Will consist of series of twelve read
ings in "Modern Painters," the aul lhor
selecting the parts which he considers
most valuable.
Henry Meiggs, the South American
raj way king, directed in his will that all
his contracts should be carried on by a
directory, and the profits be divided
among his heirs.
| R!v. Robert Collyer preached In the
Hollis-street Church, Boston, Sunday.
Tue church was filed to its utmost ca.
pacity, and thousands were turned
; away.
Charles Sumner had no interest in
games, athletic sports, or pretty women
Ile preferred men, and IL was in vain
for Inc lOYeIlest and liveliest girl 10 seek
TO engage his attention.
MIR. Dewitt Day, of Montville, Conn.
who ID nfty years old, lett his native
town, Tor the first time, this fall, and or
. Friday last took his first ride on u rail
road, and Was greatly delighted will
the novel sensations he experienced.
Senator MOrton's full name was Olive
Hazard Perry Thr0ck Morton, and he
8 used to be fond of prefXing all thest
initials TO MS surname. 1t was his lega
, preceptor, John Newman, who persuaded
MN to leave out some of these names.
Morton is said to have hated his tradt
3 of halter, but to please his father b,
e learned it thoroughly. He made but on,
q hat, however, and that was exceedingl,
well done. His son Oliver intends II
study law as soon as he graduates a
Q Yale, and will practice at Indianapolis
Philip H. Hines left New Bedford
| Mass, forty-tWo years ago on whaling
voyage, and the nrst letter he has writ
ten nume since his departure was re
d ceived last Friday. He is living In New
Zealand. His relatives had long glyel
g nm up as dead.
d Governor Irwin, of California, ha
. been non-plussed by an app4icatiu
=, from woman Tor an appointment as
+ notary pubic. He appealed to the Al
i torney General Of lhe State, and tina
: oftioia relieved his mind by saying tina
q uuuer tne code only an elector havinj
0 the right TO vote is qualified to hol
9 Office
y Chief Justice W aite has recently takel
= up his residence in the house on Rhou
= Island avenue, once occupied by the lat
- Mr.. Stanton. Miss Waite CONSTANT
q appears at the gatherings OF Washing
y y ton society, and is always accompanie
4 by her kindly father, who never seem
a 70 hurry her away.
: MIR. Longfellow has entirely recovere
o from his grleVous neuralgia, and hi
v health is Better than it has been ro
& many years. His daughter Eiith wi
IS be married very soon to MIR. II. ii. Dana
:, third, the handsome and clever son
!, r. h. Dana, Jr. The young lady is e1
3. ceedingly pretty, lair and colder
y haired like the morning"
y Rev. s. f. Smith, the author Of the 81
L. called National hymn "America," had
D. formal reception in Washington tn
y other evening. During the evening tn
n agoniz.ng request was made that h
:, should give the particulars of the con
le position OF "Amerioa." This PRAYER
% which suggests Martin Chuzzlewit"
its most inspired passages-Mr. Smil
: deciuedly declined.
"a Judge Guild, of Nashville, was one
ro the militia officers who received La
= cite during his visit to that city in 1872
m and this is the way the Judge describe
nj the Frenchman: Lafayette was
~ stout, well-formed man, about five te
:" ten inches nigh, large head, a hazel ey
sallow color, "a large t1eshy nose, u mou
well-formed, denoting tirmness and GO
q stancy, with large elephant-lookil
. ears"
', Mr.. John L. Morphis, who has ju
,r become Marshal of the Northern DI
70 trict of Mississippi, was the only Soul
a ern Republican member of Congre
IN who joined the Liberal movement
ss 1872. He was a native OF the South, bu
t. nevertheless, supported Mr.. Greele
In The great preacher Of Abolition. NJ
is Morphis' action was condemned by
W constituents, and he has had nothing
D, do with politics until, at the time OF Nj
le Hayes nomination, he returned TO II