The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-28
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

George Eliot will edit the works of Geo.
Henry Lewes.
Mrs. Ole Bull is said to be the business
head of the concern.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mccullough, mother Of j.
| N. Mccullough, of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, died on Saturday in Jefferson Coun-
ty, Ohio.
Mrs. Boucicault, upon landing in New
York. went straight to her husbands room
and--took dinner with him. The gossips
feel outraged.
Mrs Lockwood, of Washington, is de-
| Tending colored woman who is being
tried before the Criminal Court in that city
for child murder.
The Empress of Austria will go to Ire
land early next month to .begin the hunt
ing season, for which extensive prepara-
| tions have been made.
Miss Bessie Conkling, the only daughter
of the Senator, is engaged to marry W. T.
| Oakman, the Superintendent of the Utica
| Division of the D., L. & W. Railway.
Nine. H. P. Bavatsky, Col. H. S. Olcott,
and one other member of the Theosophical
Society, sailed yesterday on the steamship
Canada for Liverpool, en- route for Bombay.
Mrs. Lander, the celebrated actress, has
chosen Washington as the home OF her re-
manning years, and having purchased
COW but unpretentious home, holds very
attractive receptions to her friends
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is interest
ing herself in gathering clothing and money
for he relief of one hundred thousand fugi-
tives who have been driven to Constantine
pie from the districts devastated by the late
wal in Turkey.
The Baroness Burdett- -Coutts is interest
ing herself in gathering clothing and money
| for the relief Of the one hundred thousand
| ftci.iyes who have been driven to Constan-
tinople from the districts devastated by the
la'e var III Turkey.
Miss Catharine Wiggin. spinster, of
Queen Annes mansions Westminsi er," ad-
Vcrises that hereafter she will adopt the
name of Sumner, that being the surname
of her grcat-uncle General William Sum
ner of Boston, U. S. A.
Queen Victoria has been singularly for
tunate in having raised all OF her nine chill
dren. The decease OF Princess Alice was
the first death that has occurred in the
royal family since the death of the Queen s
husband, Prince Albert who died in 1861.
Patti, during her recent engagement in
Berlin. declined all the invitations show
cred upon her, by the leaders OF society
there. The only exception was made in
favor of the Richters-the daughter OF
Meyerbeer, and her husband, the dis
tinguished artist.
Miss Hosmer, the sculptor, writes to 9
friend in Boston, expressing her surprise al
the claim of Mr.. Chapman to share in the
4. r H. ,to pxrtI 1, poiI n
, Mr.. w. W. Story she is preparing a com
plete statement of the whole case, and has
taken steps to prevent any successful inter
ference with her claims.
; The Princess Christine, elder sister of the
: late Queen Mercedes, whom the European
gossips have selected as King AlfOnso'E
second wife, is described as tall, thin anC
angular, with pointed nose of portentious
2 dimensions but she is also said to be grace
, full and elegant in carriage and address, ac
complished and possessed of strong char
acter
: Mrs. Elizabeth Child, one of the oldes
: residents of Boston, died in that city las
, week in her ninety-eighth year. She was
descendant in direct line Of Thomas Dud
lev, one of the first Governors of the Prov
: ince of Massachusetts Bay. She had live
= lv recollection of having seen Genera
Washington in Boston when she was abou
twelve years old.
= Miss May, an active advocate of woman
: suffrage, was defeated in last weeks munici
e pal elec ion in Boston as a candidate fo
q School Commissioner, an office that she ha
held for term. Only one woman is lef
/ in the Board. 1t has become common t.
j elect women School Commissioners in East
ern Massachusetts,, and in Brooklyn tn
Overseer of the Poor is woman.
o Mrs. jerks still lives She has written
= letter. which is published, in which sh
6 saws that the "perfume-laden breezes of tn
D Sunny South sigh over many an unknown
hero and political martyre, who stoicall
met their fate Or whose souls went out i
= their last desparing cry for mercy, an
i whose bones to-day are bleaching in tn
, lonely woods and dreary swamps of Louis
- lana, Mississippi and South Carolina" Mrs
Is jerks is evidently preparing to organic
o another political campaign.
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