The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-04
PERSONAL.

NJ On lESuis
Wendell Phillips is reputed to be
worth 5000
Gen. Butler pays taxes to the amount
of ST. 1853 in Lowell.
Won Bulow is at Baden Baden, leading
the life OF recluse.
Conkiing and Curtis ought to have
joint public discussion.
Curtis might have pulled Conkliug's
front hair, but he didn't.
Senator Jones has rewritten his silver
report over and over again.
Dr.. Richard d. Joyce is engaged on
new poem, an epic OF the Isle OF Man.
Philip James Bailey's tragedy of "Fes-
tus" has been revived in London by the
Issue of tenth edition.
Brigham Young's mother still lives in
indiana. She is ninety-eight. Brigham
never had hut one mother.
Mr.. Samuel L. Clemens says that he
will not lecture this season, and adds
that he has reformed forever.
Mr.. Beecher and "Biue Jeans" WILL
iams-a queerly assorted pair-are TO
| speak at Lne Michigan State Fair.
Grant is to write a book, on his re.
| turn from Europe, and the gorgeous
Badeau will assist him IN the task.
Mr.. Evarts, Mr.. Edmund Clarence
SLedman and EX-Prealdent Woolsev
nave sons in the Freshman class al
Yale.
Gov. Van Zandrs Southern journey
ended sadly for MIN in an attack OF ma-
la ial fever. He is critically i'll at his
| Rhode Island home.
Theodore Tilton left his daughter
Florence in the Conservatory of Music.
ana Alice i'll the Art School, OF Stutt-
gart, Germany, where they will remain
one year.
Alexander Marsh and wife, of Wor-
cester, Mass, celebrated their golden
wedding, Monday evening, and the
original groOmsman and bridesmaid
/ We're among The company.
! John L. Williams, President of the
| MetrOpoItan Bank in New York, whose
death was la ely noticed, was prOmi-
nent in connection with the Cnildren's
| Aid Society and the Sanitary Commas
| sion.
MIR. Atkinson, Miss Martineau's athe-
lstlc frIend, has thousand OF her let
Jers, and il ls hoped That he VIII print
some of them, at least as Aer pronIbi-
ton in regard 10 her letters did no. ex-
tend to those in his possession.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is made
| responsible for the statement that $40
| 600, 900 would cover The expense of CON
ST. Llucting the NV York Central Road,
winch represents a paper value Of
| $lO4,0OO,OOo, and he calls the $64,0 900
"water."
| tnlonel Robert j. 1nsprSon treats at
| some length OF the ethics, casuisLry and
polemIcs Of the kitchen, and he says IN
CHARACTERISTIC language, "rnere ought
to be law passed making it CRIME,
| punishable Wan imprisonment in the
Penltentlary, to fry Deefsteak."
Mr.. Henry Mackenzie, better known
as Henry Compton, the delight ul per-
senator 'of "AuLolycus," ''rouchstone'
and "Dogberry," has just died i'll Lon
don, at the age OF s'Xty-fve. A short
lime ago Queen Victoria sent him $3.50.
with the kindly expressed nope tnat NC
would recover from nls illness.
Nelson Parker, the Phiadelphia ne
gro who has taken such prominent
part in selling to credulous amateur de-
tectives exclusive information how not
to find Charlie Ross, has been convicted
of an attempt TO kill his wife. He con.
Quoted his own defense, and concluded
his Grafton by declaring, "TAere is a
great Judge above, and he won't buck
agln me-"
Mr.. William Henry Fox Talbot, whose
death in London has already been an
! nounced, had reached the advanced age
Of seyenLy-seven years. He Will be re-
membered as the dlscoVerer, sImultane-
ously with Daguerre, of the photo
: graphic process the latter using "a
tablet Of silver-plated cOpper-the
former sheet OF paper covered with a
changeable ealt Of silver.
Joshua Hill could not come to meet
The PRESIDENT III Georgia, but he sent
: him the following telegraphIc message.
, ACCEPT my cordial greeting ana bes,
wishes tor your health and success OF
, your administration. You understand
= your countrymen, and they begin tu
unders and you. The night OF dIstru t
disappears, and the dawn OF confidence
approaches. L salute you as the herald
OF good feeling and universal brother
hoou."
3 Mehemet Ali recently had very mar
row escape from capture. lie was
making "a reconnaissance with his staff
when they unexpectedly came upon b
: large party OF Cossacks, who at once
\ gave chase, anu Mehemet and several Vi
: mis- party were saved only by the supe
rior aeetness of their horses. As II
| Wd65 SOiVhSi3 WV NuplulHb, anu
:, Lieutenant We're oVertaken and made
b prisoners.
: Horace Smith Greeley, the son OF Col
= Nicholas Smith, is described as "a
bright and beautiful child oil about siA
u months" The name given to the boy
# was the result OF the experience of Col
u | omith OF his own unfortunately common
anu commonplace cUguOmen. A Corfe.
: spondent of the Baltimore American
says col. Smith "has for years been o
disciple OF Herbert Spencer" He viii
-, lecture this winter.
Gov. Blue Jeans Williams missed &
train at an Indiana town lately, an(
u was obliged to seek lodging at the hotel
l.. The clerk, not knowing MIN, assigned
nim to aroom of limited dimensions in
the fourth story, reserving a handsome
d room down stairs for an expected com
a mercial traveller. The youIh presently
discovered his mistake, anu the patien
Governor Of the S,ate was escorted
= with frantic apologies, to the more com
d Portable apartment.
It Colonel Holiday, nominee for Govern
e or OF Virginia, was one of The most earnes
ia advocates OF the Sunday closing Of tn
Philadelphia Exhibition last year. A
u the end OF his speech on this subject, d
e the Commissioners meeting, ne asked i
IN Llose who haG so much TO sRg 0f 9Th
true anu the beautiful" were unWillin