The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-06
PERSONAL.


hair, and Il lovely voice.
General Garfield OF Ohio Taught school
when he was eighteen years old.
Salvini may visit America next season
with new biblical drama, sc G,deon."
Cardinal Bizzarri was seventy-live
years old, paralytic, and nearly blind.
Henry w. Longfellow, poet, pays a
tax on palpable worldly property of
S2 633.
Mr.. Gladstone's son, Herbert Glad
stone, has been appointed Lecturer in
Modern History at Keble college.
George William Curtis, as well as
Horatio Sel mour, will speak at the Ged j.
lcatlon OF the Saratoga monument.
Simon Cameron denies that he said
there was too much Stanley Matthews
in the Administration to suit him.
MIR. Gardner Brewer, one of the rich.
est men in Boston, built his house upon
the site Of the old John Hancock man.
sion.
Mrs. Jones, the wife of the Nevada
Senator, has just had jewels worth $2,-
900 stolen from her room at "a South Nor
walk Aolel.
Bismarck continues to remain in quiet
retirement. He is having peaceful
time, gets up late and drinks champagne
as an evening beverage.
The Baron Rothschild who lives in
Paris has bought me famous picture
gallery OF Van Loon, at Amsterdam, tor
the bagatelIe OF $SO0,0O0.
Captain Hall, who has recently been
doing the State OF Texas some service,
in command OF a mOunted troop on the
border, Is the son OF DR.. Hall, Of Hills
Uoro, n. Z.
: MI. >. ). Cox is said to have written to
| Washington that his chances for the
Speakerslip are "eXcellent,' and that
MI. Randall is "ouJ OF the race" with
''Uuu' Italicized.
Hon. Allen Wardner, father-in-law of
Secretary Evarts, died at Windsor, Vt,
W ednesday morning. He was born in
Alstead, N. H., and had passed his nine
tleth birthday.
Senator Jones, OF Florida, learning
that senator Jones, OF Nevada, mad re-
mained in Washington all summer, got
mad and came up from the Everglades
TO divide the Jones honors.
Governor and Mrs. Hendricks were.
at last accounts, enjoying themselves
exceedingly at HomDourg, and were to
remain in Germany three weeks aud re-
lurn home Dy way OF Paris and London.
Mr. Alfales Young, son of the late
Bvigham Young, has settled in Pinck-
| ney, Mich, and begun the practice OF
the law. He Was graduated from the
Law Department OF Michigan UnIyer-
sIty.
MI. Key says he is receiving more
compliments than grOWls from the south
ern people. IAis would seem to indi-
| cate tnat the incapacity to comprehend
| a Ike is confined 10 the Southern news
papers.
Messrs. George W. Haseltine and
Owens, OF Lag, ange, Ga, have given
VI, 200 to the fund for es lablisning a free
school for the negroes of thai ace. The
negroes nave raised about 81, 900 for the
same purpose.
| Senator Sumner used to say that a
member OF The Lower House of Congress s
should be addressed as ''Mr.," a Senator
as ''Mr. Senator" a Cabinet Secretary
as "Mr. Secretary" ana the Pre- sldent
as "Mr. President" The proper pro.
| noun Of address III each case is %you."
Miss Flo ence Nightingale SAYS tha,
If the English DO not neIp the starving
| East Indians they are worse than the
Turks who put an end to the enemy,s
wounded, for they will be neglec ting
| their own starving subjects. And there
upon she contributes $l25 10 the fund.
| The Rev. d. N.sBentley OF Norwich.
Conn.,, who ls nInety-tWO years old, has
| preached nearly seYenty-tiye years, hay.
| ing married i've hundred couples and
Otticiated at three thousand funerals
Uut mas never received any remunera
ton tor preaching or burying the dead
Mr.. Whittier, it is reported, wishes tc
buy his old family homestead; but like
| the majority of literary men in Ameri-
Ga, he has not put money in (his
purse" rapidly enough 10 do this. 1t is
| 10 be hoped that the latter clause of this
| report Is untrue. ft
Mr.. John Bright has recovered the
oIaIorlcal powers which have been dur
ing the past few years slightly impaired.
He has no more That trouble IN his throat
when dld not permit him to utter 0
| single sentence without a clearing o
the throat, the effect Of which was often
painful.
Senator Ben. HIPS war horse, over the
death and burial OF which there has been
considerable gush in the papers, is (;
phantom sCeed. The Senator, it is stated
on authority, "neyer had war horse:
he was never borne through any battle
by anything; he never had horse to die
on his hands, and never composed an
lepitaph about MIN if he did die"
Col. Valentine Baker has received the
rank OF silva, or General of Brigade, in
4 the Turkish service, and has the title OF
Pasha. HE will be under the orders OF
lhe Minister OF Police, ands will, be
eharged with the reorganization Of the
I9endarmerie, or mounted police. Baker
Pasha will receive about 100000 a year.
ana his engagement is tor three years
| He will have several English officers
under him as inspectors OF districts and
for other purposes.
I Ephraim Keyser, a Baltimore sculptor.
has been awarded the "Meyerbeer''
prize OF 2,2O0 tbalefs at Berlin, winch is
a bequest gwen by brother otstne COM
poser, given annually to the best artist
and sculptor, alternately, among the
jewish race throughout The world. The e
Is very large Number Of competitors
every year from every part OF the globe.
EAe prize was awarded this year to
young heyser by the unanimous vote OF
the senate OF the Academy OF. ANS at
Berlin, ior a figure OF "Psycheb ana
some original bas-leliefs and other
works.
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