The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-27
PERSONAL.

land.
Mr.. Julian Onion, OF London, has
I'peeled to Parliament for a change OF
name.
| Young Jesse Grant is composing
poems to most important celestial
| bodies.
| Governor Bross owns an antique stone
ak OF twelve pounds, found near Rock
ford, Illinois.
| John F. McDermott, of Hartford, not
yet twenty-iour, has saved thirteen
drowning persons.
| Lawrence Barretts summer house Is
washed on three sides by the ocean, but
1t isn't wash-h0use.
Don Carlos has been visiting the EN-
| peror of Austria at Vienna, and the
Count de Chambord at Frohsdorf.
Mr.. e. Rice, the author Of "Evange-
| line," is engaged on another musical eX-
traVaganZa, to be called "Corsalr, Jr."
Tom Thumb got angry because a star
| ing crowd followed MIN into a Carson
barber shop, aud he offered to fight any
| one OF them.
Manager Samuel Colville will sail for
England on the 30.h, to meet the Lydia
thompson troupe, with which he Will
return early in August.
Hon. George L. Davis, who died at
Portland recently, is likely to be remem-
bered for the fact that Thackeray said he
was the best talker he ever knew.
Blanchard Jerrold says that the end II
the present trouble in France will pos
sibly be "a Red Republic, followed by the
restoration OF tue Napoleonic dynasty.
Mr.. Eugene Schuyler is to be marie d
in PARIS 10 Miss Gertrude King, daugh-
Ter OF the late President OF Columbia
College, and sister OF Madame Wau-
dlngton.
Mr.. Jones, OF Bloodworth, Ca, killed
a hawk last week with a shot gun With
| out lock. He exploded the cap by
striking it with his knife and the hawk
was Killed.
Mr. John I. Raymond, while passing
| he treasury Department in Washing
| ton, observed: "Ihere's millions in itr'
ana then, i'll quiet manner, "VAere's
| millions alter it,"
Mr.. Leighton's first effort in sculpture,
| "Ihe Athlete SLrangling PyLnon,'
now exhibiting at the burlington House,
has been purchased by the Royal Acau-
envy for 2,C0j guineas.
Theodore Lachner, organist at Munich,
and the eldest OF family OF tour
| brothers, all of whom, especially the
second, Franz Lachner, are Qistiu-
| gulsneu as musicians, has just died at
MunIcn, at the age OF seVenCy-nine.
Wagner said very neat thing in Lon.
don 10 Well-meauing chorus when
sere enaded him with selections (with Va
| rlatlons) from "IannhauSer." Said he:
~ ou natter me, gentlemen, by finding
| in my music more Than l Remember Wri-
Lng."
DR.. LIE Moyne, Of Pennsylvania, to
make sure that all his children snail
| follow his example and be cremated.
has maze WILL providing that his heirs
shall, before receiving their legacies,
make formal promise to be burned
after death.
Mr.. Albert Rhodes, the magazine wri-
ter, has become one of the editors of the
Washington Nation, which has passed
into new hands. Mr.. Rhodes diplomatic
experience, together will his WeIl-dp-
proved literary skill, gives him SPECIAL
nLness for sucn post.
George Ii. Butler says he wasn't the
man who offered the Bishop drink; it
was another person altogether. We
suspect George Is right. He had tray
eleu some distance, the Irain was an eX-
press, and he had only a couple Of
quarts when he started.
"Bogus Charley" of the Modoc tribe.
whose members now occupy reserva.
ton Ill The Indian Territory, has been
converted to Christianity. All the chill
dren Of the tribe can read, and they and
the adults are very proud Of their prog
ress. The tlbe Will soon be sell-sup-
porting.
Dr.. Chambers Lytle, of Bradiord's
Landing, KY, near Augusta, was ia.
tally shot ny young Charles Boyd, OF
Il pIey, Onio, sunday afternoon last.
Ly tie had seduceu Boyd's sister. Boyd
had spent the morning with Lytle in
ploring him to marry her, ami snot him
on fiual refusal.
Lord Houghton presided over the late
meeting OF the Womau-outfrage Cub in
| London. Ii is said that The cause has
not as great strengh to-day as il had
| years ago, owing to the detection otsucu
men as Goodwin smith ana John Bright,
who have publicly TecanIed, aud con-
| Ieessed the error vi their former POSI-
ton.
Rogers, the tenor, saves his shirt
bosom by lying knot in Lhe corner OF
his napkin and slipping in his collar.
The discovery has created greater
turore i'll Parls than ever one of Mir.
Rogers songs did. The simplicity oil the
tnIng recommends it to The dullest
imagination. Columbus and his egg
are forgotten for the time.
Admiral Henry John Rouse, who died
recently in London at the age Of eighty
Two years, was Steward OF the Jockey
CluD, and had been for more than a quar-
ter OF century at the head of the En-
glish turl. HIS best eplLaph is: "His
uaudicaps were seldom wrong" He was
the author Of "Ine Laws and Practice Of
Horse-racing," termed The BLACKSTONE
ol Tile turi."
| MIR. Millais has painted a new picture
| which bids tair TO be turned into p0pu-
lar engraving. 1t is "The Good Resi- solVe"
"a picture OF u little Scotch lassle stand
ing with upraised lace and serious eX-
preston, sedately determining TO keep d
resolution suggested OF confirmed by
consultation OF The Bible, leaves ol which
she is deliberately turning down. 1t il
an old Scottish custom. =
MIR. Lepoir, of North Carolina-a de
scendant ofan ancient Huguenot family
owns successfully managed estate il
Loudoun County Of two thousand five
hundred acres. During the war Burn
SIDES command found its Wav to the
| LeuOIr estate. and the General remark e(