The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-03
PERSONAL.

| UaTlDalul is Sdlu 10 Ue very Ill, anu De-
yond hope of recovery.
Peter Cooper bears up well under the
| Presidential suspense.
Mr.. Moody bears a remarkable resem-
blance TO President Grant.
Mr.. Sturgeon has gone to the south OF
France TO recruit his health.
Thurlow Weed has bought a Florida
orange grove, and now those gorgeous
trees are Weeds.
Capt. Il. r. Locke, a veteran of the
war Of 1872, died at Rye Beach, N. H.,
on the 20th Of January.
Medical Director VIM. Grier has been
appointed Chief of the Bureau Of Sur.
gerry, Navy Department.
General Hawley has been offered the
Presidency Of the American Commits
sion to The Paris Exhibition of 1879.
Il. j. Bailey, Newport r. l. million.
aire, aged seventy -four years, died on
the l91h. His property is in real estate
Captain Glazier is said TO have ridden
on horseback from Boston to San Fran
cisco in one hundred and forty four
days.
| Mark Twain has seen watch which
he declares to be more intelligent than
| The average American voter. 1t is re-
peater, too.
Sir Augustus Paget, the English EN-
bassador at Rome, has been out hunting
on the Campagna, got fall and dislU-
Gated his wrist.
Max Outrey, the new French Minister
to the United States, m lrried Miss
Helen Russell, who used 10 be promin-
ent in social circles i'll Newport, Rhode
| Island.
Senator Christiancy begs leave to re-
mark that he has not been particular
ly happy father for something more than
twelve years, newspaper reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
M. de Cassagnac, the Bonapartist
champion, has openly thrown down the
gauntlet TO the Republic hy maintain
ing in tue Pays that the son Of Napoleon
Ill Will return triumplanlly TO the I'M.
perial throne OF France within three
years.
| Daniel C. French, the sculptor of the
Minute Man at Concord, Mass, Is now
at work IN Washington on a group rem
resenting Peace and War for the ST.
Louis CusLom-lOuse. The figures, four
teen ieet i'll height, VIII be cut in
granite.
Abram Hewitt and his brother went
through Columbia College on the c.
operative plan. The brother earned
enough money to support them both
ADram attended the college classes DUR
Ing the day, and at night impaired to his
| brother what he had learned.
Mr. Escosura, the Spanish artist, has
done graceful and timely thing. Be-
fore sailing for Paris he left 500 in gold
| Tor the metropolitan Museum i'll N. Y.
city las slight token OF his apprecia-
tion OF the kindness OF the American
people and OF his interest in the prog
| ress of art"
DR.. Taylor's Tabernacle, in New
York, is one OF the finest churches in
| the city, and has quite the best singing.
Miss Thursby, one of the singers, is paid
| $4 600 year, besides the use of cal-
| riage on Sunday and rehearsal nights.
The magnificent church and exquisite
music contribute IN tterially to Dr. Tay-
| lors visible success.
Signor Blitz, the magician lately de-
ceased, once sald to Daniel Webster:
"GiYe me one hundred thousand Treas
| nry-notes to count, and watch closely
ana you will find only seventy-tive thou
sand when l return them" "Slgnor,u
responded Webster with animation,
''there is no chance; there are here be =
ter maglcians than you; they would not
leave fIty thousand alter their coun I.
ing"
Valentine, the Virginia sculptor,
while at S aunton last fall, WAS charmed
with the singing, by little bind girl, of
a song III Whlc1 occurred the line, ,"W nen
SHAH l behold thy faceW The music.
The words, and the touching presence OF
| the little girl, with her hands put up as
i in mute appeal, made a picture upon
The artlsPs mind which he has repro
ouced in marble at his studio in RlcA-
mond.
Talmage's sermon to the physicians
last sunday was preached from the fol-
lowing text: Sand Asa in the thirty and
ninth year of his reign was diseased in
his feet until his disease was exceeding
great; yet in his disease he sought not
TO the Lord, but to the physicians. And
Asa slept with his tathers." Asa mad
the gout, according to Talmage, and
quackery killed him. He WAS only
ChIrty-nine years Of age.
Hon. Thomas Jones Yorke, a Con-
gresham from New Jersey from 1887 to
1889 and from 1S41 to 1S43, was on the
floor OF the House on Monday. looking
strong and well kept. Mr.. Y orke was a
candidate for election TO the XXYIth
Congress, but he was not admitted, al
though he went to Washington with the
broad seal of his State. Fernando Wood
was the only member present on Mon
day who served with him.
Senator Blaine found beautiful bou-
quet on his desk in the Senate chamber
when he first appeared there the other
day. He looked male, hearty and happy,
| and the Senators all rushed at him 10
congratulate him. Mrs. Blaine will not
20 to Washington this winter. She evil
IDENTIFY did not care to go until her bus-
band held his seat by the election OF the
Legislature rather than the temporary
appointment OF Governor, and as there
are scarcely four weeks Of the session
left, doesn't think it worth while now
to break up the establishment in Angus
ia and remove e" Washington tor 80
short a period