The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-01
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PERSON AL.

Hewitt predicts four candidates in the
next Presidential contest.
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson reached the
age of seventy-tive years last Saturday.
Sig Fcrreyre, "the man flute" blows dull
Get airs out of his thumbs, in New York.
Oliver Wendell Holmes will read q poem
at the centennial celebration at Phillips
Academy, June 6,h.
Gov. Hampton says that no more bach
elors should be sent to the General Assem-
bly, Of South Carolina.
President Hayes and the members Of his
Cabinet find it impossible to accept invita-
tons to visit Austin, Texas, next Sep ,em-
Der.
Ex-Governor John s. Preston OF South
Carolina, will deliver the University ad
dress at Vanderbilt University, next Nov
ember.
Professor W. d. Whitney is going to Eu-
rope with his family this summer. lie will
stay year, publishing meantime new
Sanskrit grammar.
Bishop Burgess, the newly elected Bishop
of the Diocese of Quincy, ILL.,, is a stately
gentleman, in height an inch over six feet,
and of commanding presence. Hcis now
fifty years old.
Elizabeth Allen, in poem, asks "Oh,
willow, why forever weep3" Elizabeth is a
little mistaken as to the facts. 1t isn't the
willow that weeps it is he boy who dances
under the timber end of it,
Ex-Governor Hendricksis now at the Hot
Springs of Arkansas where he appears to
be extremely popular among the invalidS
there assembled. He avoids all public
demonstration, but is mentioned as being
easy and amiable in his treatment of every
body.
w. w. Corcoran, the Washington banker,
has presented to the State of Virginia pic
ture of the storming of redoubt at The
siege of York town, by Lami, French his
torical painter The picture is eleven fee
six inches by sixteen feet in size and will
be placed in the Capitol at Richmond.
Mr. w. W. Corcoran, a gcntem IN whose
| wisdom is as thorough rs his generosity, is
about to add to the Corcoran Gallery of Art,
in Washington, q literally endowed School
of Art. The plans are ready to be used as
soon as the site is purchased. The endow
ment which Mr. Cnrcoran bestowed upon
the Art Gallery is said to yield an income
of $50, 900.
Messeurs Andre, Angot and HIATT, the
French Commission for Observing the
| transit of Mercury, have been visiting
| Mount Hamilton, California, the size Sc
| lected for the great Lick Observatory. Pro-
fessor Andre it is reported. after long OBJ
seryai0n, said that at no other place tina
they had visited In the world did they find
everything so favorable for astronomical
observations.
General Garibaldi who has been i'll at
Caprera, is recovering, and has by this time
resumed his favorite walks in the
country Meanwhile he has been visited
by former comrade, of Genoese birth but
long domiciled in America Signor Napolc-
one Castelini. This gentleman had always
shown him hospitality during his resid ence
in America, when such entertainment was
hospitable indeed.
| President Hayes, it is stated, will posi-
| lively be in Evansville. Ind, July 4th. on
which day General J. b. Gordon will there
give an Grafton. Secretaries Key, McCrary,
and Thompson will attend the President
and ii is announced by the Evansville Jour
nal that that magnetic and daShing leader,
whose eloquence is like his person and
3 ind, great and brilliant, Governor Wade
Hampton, is coming"
Mr. Jefferson Davis has Just received a
| judgment in the Mississippi Court of AI-
pealS IN laVOr OF MS claim tC the plantatlOn
of Brierslield, in that State. This is the
estate to which his wealthy elder brother
invited him when he married the daughter
Of General Taylor, aud resigned his commits
sion in the army. He managed The plan'a-
ton so well that he acquired a competence,
and reimbursed his brother the full value Of
the place. The decision will take all fear Of
poverty from him.
/ General Meredith Read seems to be highly
esteemed and respected in Greece. The
Government recen ly rendered him war
steamer, the Syros, in which to visit various
interesting points. Upon his return from
Nauplia, Tiryns. and Mycene. he touched
at the island of Hydra, where he had an
enthusiastic reception. The shipping in
the harbor and all the houses in the town
were decpra ed with flags, and the towers
OF the churches were manned with sailors.
When the General stepped on shore he was
welcomed by the Mayor and the Municipal
Council, and was conducted, amidst the
waving OF banners and the ringing of bells,
: to the cathedral and other points OF interest.