The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-09
PERSONAL.

teenth Century,"
Judge Bradley, OF the Commission,
owns and lives In the house in Wask-
tngt0n built and once occupied by
Stephen A. Douglas. ..... ,..l :
King Alfonso and the Princess OF tae
Asturias have just opened at Madrid q
child's hospital on the English model,
the first established in Spain.
| Hon. Rutherford b.. Hayes In hIs
youth played with sled, aud a reVe1-
ential NeW-Englander claims TO pos
sess and to tenderly preserve that sled.
| Alfred I. Goshorh, OF this city, lats
DirectOr-General of the Centennial Ex-
nibitioD, returned to Philadelphia this
week to close up some business GEN.
nected with the great fair. GA al a.5I
Colonel A. r. Holiday died, at Hsu-
rico, Va, last week. He was, besides
serving in the Virginia Legislature aual
as Commissioner of Public Works, n
Representative In Congress from 1919 10
1853 - ~ .tl.-
Mons. Waddington, the French Mia
lister OF Fine Arts, is to direct him self q
performance at the COnserVatoire Of one
of the works of the late Alfred Holmes,
an Englishman, and Parisian BY resi-
dence. -i, q ,. ~. - m.
| Sir Edward Thornton sent to tha
pound party" given In Washington
| the other night, pound Of silver quar-
ter-dOllars. Quantities OF useful tniags
| were contributed, and all are to be given
TO destitute lamiiIes. .n E...y 10.
DR.. Schliemann has the prospect af
seeing some Of his recently discovered
| treasures consigned to the British Mr.
scum. Several antiQuaries are going To
Greece to make Il preliminary eXaMiHa-
| tlon oil these treasures. 7.. tr-
Jacob q. Hazeley, a native African
from Cape Palmas, mas been lecturing
on the land OF his birth at Baltimore.
AT the Sailors Bsthel he sang a hymn
In the African tongue, which he after
| ward renueredln English. ..,
| Pablo de Sarasat, the Spanish VIOLIN
play Ell, whose performances are exciting
great surprise and admiration in Eure-
pean cities, was member OF the Car-
lotta Patti concert troupe in this o9up-
Try iour years ago. In Vienna hs was
called out twenty Times.
| Jose Maria Iglesias, Ex.Chie Jusslra
oil Mexico ana claimant OF the Pregs-,
dency, is man OF learning, and nj
| twenty two had already been for soma
lime college professor. He is distrR-
gu1Shed for mis- elias ical a! tainme q ts AND
nas been historian ana an editor.
MIR. Gladstone, with the warmth proper
10 his age and character, denies IAak
| any extremely clever and hlghIr-cos.
! nected Russian lady," prominent in
London diplomatic CIRCLES, has bsen liz
hueneing Engiand's course. lahe 1eaTtefS
OF his IN her possession.
Gen. George IL. Hoyt died at Atiaal.
q 10 10
from Boston to Virginia as a volunteer
counsel tor John Brown, fought in the
West In the cavalry, and alter the war
sat In the Massachusetts Assembly two
terms, promoting the famous resolutions
OF cehsure on Char!es sumner.
Pere Hyacinthe was a few days aKo
stopped on the street in Geneva bya
woman Of rank who abused him nlsst
violently, and woman like, got all the
angrier when he refused to answer.
Madame" said the ex-prlest, politely,
respect is due to women and pity to
FOOLS" and he went Oh his way traa-
gully.
SalYini, the actor, Is a remarkably
cultivated and weli-read man, emineHa-
iy dignitied and agreeable in mannsr.
dis second wife is a pretty little Rng-
Iisl-Woman. formerly Miss Kitty Sharpe.
fhe four sons of his first marriage be is
educating finely, but none of Them is
destined for the stage, which their lather
graces.
Mr.. Martin Farquhar Upper would
appear TO have met and needed that
American oil Dickens who threateningIy
| observes: owe must be cracked up, SiIi
We must be cracked upW He writes
that several cases OF curious honesty
Il
eral good nature and courtesy and even
one meets are traits abundantly notice.
able.
Robinson is his name. He is Boston
lawyer, uncommonly piOus and ex-
tremely High church. AHe thinks it
neediul to sow seed by all waters, and
SO has his note paper branded with
Scripture texts. The other day he had
occasion to write for favor from tue
courL to Chief Justice Gray, and he lafs-
luckily used sheet OF paper which was
headed, 'Ye men all bought with n
price," Srme slanderous wag has been
ceiling that the application Wasst
granted.
Gambetta is an invalid, and his physl-
| clans give him but two more years pf
I.le. But in spite of his suffering it Is
| said that his Oratory is like food Of
Iava-a liquid stream of molten fire. Ha
IS all action; his voice rises and sinks
with his emotions, but in the tempest
l and whirlwind OF his passion he never
loses mis- self possession, With ali his
vehemence Gambetta is logical ana for
cible in his reasoning. and iu every ,re-
5pect dangerous antagonist.
Col. Plumb, who has just been elected
United States Senator from Kansas. be-
gan lite as country printer. Al the age
| Of nineteen he Was pnblishef and ASS.
ciate editor of The Xsnia CO.. News.
From Xenia he em,gcated 10 Kausas,
| settled at Emporia. aud immediately bsxs
gan the puDiication OF another new.
paper, also called The News. He has
temained 1T Emporia ever since, and has
Always been prominent in local p0liiies.
He is an admirable type OF the energetic,
plucky, and capable Western printer
able to take hand at almost anything,
ind generally likely to succeed in YnAa-
ever ne does take u hand i'll.
| Mr.. Lancaster hodges OF BrowRyille,
| Ie., is a gentleman who has attaiaeLi
he rather mature age of one hun0rea
| and six years. The other day you1h
| Il eighty Appeared AT the centenarlan's