The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-29
THE METROPOLIS.
The VIII Business.

NdllOndl Associated Press 10 the Star.
New YORK, June 29.-The noteriety re-
Gently given to the Vanderbilt, Stewart,
Dancer, Rollwagen and other well-known
will contests has given rise to frequent state
ments in the press that it was no longer of
any use for rich men to make wills. In
order to ascertain precisely to what extent
this is true and how many wills are really
successfully assailed in the Surrogate Court
OF this CITY, reporter called upon Surro-
gate Calvin. Information obtained shows
less than one out of two hundred over
thrown.
A Royal Visitor.
A special cable to the Graphic from Ber-
lin says Prince Bismarck has proposed to
the Emperor and to the Imperial Crown
Prince that, as a stroke of wise policy, the
eldest son Of the latter, Prince Frederick
William Victor Albert, should be sent on a
visit of six months to the United States, ac-
companled by numerous retinue. At a
family council held at the palace yesterday
Prince Bismarck was present, and he strong
ly advocated the visit giving as principal
reason the good effect it would have in
strengthening the amicable relations of the
two countries, gratifying American Ger
mans and promoting hostility to Social
ism that would have an excellent reflex ac-
ton in Germany. The visit will probably
take place Immediately if the decision upon
the proposition be favorable,
Bad for the Cabbies.
One effect of rapid transit is the compare
tive injury to business on stage lines, and
the almost total destruction of cab enter
prise. There has been great reduction in
coupe rates down town, drivers being glad
to get almost anything.
The Liberian Bark.
The bark Liberia, hence for Monrovia,
Liberia, on the 10Th inst. with tifty-nine
negro emgrants and six cabin passengers,
returned yesterday morning disabled.
When in latitude 400 20, longitude 60 81,
Sunday, 23d, duringa heavy fog, she came
in collision with the Austrian bark Marte.
She will sail again July lst.
Heavy Failure.
B. L. Solomon < Sons, furniture dealers,
on Broadway, made an assignment yesterday
to d. j. King. Liabilities estimated at
81 OOo,Oo principally in this city and
Europe.
Illness of J. Watson Webb.
Gen. James Watson Webb the well known
journalist, who has been lying ill at his resi-
dence for the last few days, was much worse
last night and his physicians are now of the
opinion that he can not recover.
A Lord in Jail.
A man named Carr, who says he is and
who is believed to be Lord Ogilvy, son of
the Earl of Airlie, has been arrested here by
a Bos on lady for obtaining money under
false pretcnses. He is in jail
BeecEer's Raid on Canada.
Chaplain Beecher, of the Thirteenth
Regiment N. g., s, N. Y, of Brooklyn. on
the occasion of the Plymouth Sunday school
excursion, conceived the idea of making an
excursion to Mont real, Canada, on the oc-
casion of the Queens birthday, next spring.
Col. Austin received permission from Ad-
Townsend to take the Regi-
ment oUt OF the State and country, and has
now written to the Secretary of State of the
Dominion of Canada for the privilege of en-
ering Canadian territory.
The trip bids fair to assume an interua-
,ional character. and with this end in view
heir Excellencies the President of the
United States and the Governor of New
York will be invited to accompany the
egiment and under its special escort. The |
'egiment has mustered into its service
lew company, designated Co. G, mainly |
rom Plymouth Church, numbering one
hundred, and the Thirteenth expects to go |
o Montreal at least six hundred strong.