The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-21
Personal.

Mr. Blair is now the sole survivor of Lin.
coins historic cabinet.
Governor Hampton's first veto was the
chain-gang bill, and the House sustained
him by 102 to 10.
Mr.. Mackey, the enormously wealthy Cali
fornian, has bought Mr. Albert Grants
house at Kensington, and is soon going to
London with his wife and daughter to take
possession of his new home MI Mackey
is said to be native of Ireland, who came
to this country poor boy; he is now one of
the wealthiest men in the world.
Mr.. Doane, of Gold Hill, New, shot and
killed his Chinese cook for a supposed as
sault on a child. 1t was afterward shown
that the Chinaman was innocent of any Of
fense, but as the local newspaper calmly
says, "Mr. Doane could not know so at the
time, and is, therefore, not to be seriously
blamed" He was not even arrested.
General Benjamin f. Butler is reported
as saying that in his childhood he was zone
of the conventional good boys who always
learn their Sunday-school lessons" and
that in this way he knew all the New Testa-
ment by heart and good part of the Old
Afterwards when he read the Greek Testa-
ment at college he never had to study his
translations. The mould of each chapter
and every verse was already fixed in his
mind.
DR.. John Doran was one of the most ami
able, simple-minded and excellent of liter.
ary men. He had an enormous store OF
odd and curious information. If it were
remarked that nobody knew so much about
old plays and players as DIR. Doran did, ii
might at once, on the other hand, be stated
that nobody seemed to have made extracts
from so many sermons or to have so many
gossiping anecdotes to relate about clergy.
men.
Mr.. Francis H. Underwood, of Boston,
who is lecturing on American Literature
at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, said
the other evening, that the present is an
age of great literary promise, but of poor
achievements. While he called MI Ban
croft industrious, clear and unprejudiced,
he pronounced his style none of the best.
He praised Jared Sparks, but blamed him
for Withholding the publication of Wash.
ingtons private letters, in which is shown
the charming side of the man.
Mr.. Spurgeon is staying in France for the
benefit of his failing health. In letter
from Mentone to his congregation, he says,
after mentioning the refreshment he feels
there 1T would best please me if l could
work right on and never have wretched
item of self to mention. II We are
set for sign and token of the power of the
old-fashioned Gospel, and we are bound to
prove to all around not only that truth can
gather, but that it can hold 1t will not
only forcibly draw men together, but it will
bind them together, and that, too, not
through some famous preacher, but by its
own intrinsic force. This assertion needs
nroof and YOU will prove itn
Mr.. Gladstone appears to be considered
an adept in the woodman's art He was
recently invited to witness the operation Of
patent steam tree-feller. A tree with di
ameters of three feet one inch and two feet
three inches was brought down in four min
utes-work which would, Mr.. Gladstone
thought, have occupied an expert wood
cutter whole day. The Ex-MiniSter gave
his opinion to the ladies and gentlemen
around him as to the resistance offered tc
the ak by various sorts of wood. Spanish
chestnut was the ''pleasantest," and yeW
the ''most horrible" to the woodcutter. II
was calculated that the machine would dc
in minute what it would take man ar
hour to accomplish
A MISTAKE IN THE NAME.-The Middle
town Press prints this story: 'The follow
ing is fresh from Syracuse, and is entirely
authentic: A prominent church of thai
city has been afflicted in its last two pas
tors, one of whom has deceased, and the
other become disabled by overwork so thai
he has sought milder climate for the win
ter. One of the brethren, correspondent
of the absent pastor, knowing the anxiety
to hear of the ministers welfare, announced
at one of the meetings his latest intelli
gcnce Just received but by singular in
felicity got the deceased pastors name into
the place of the debilitated one. Il have
just got, he remarked, "a letter from the
dear absent pastor, -, giving the deac
minister's name. He says the weather il
very warm-indeed, usually and uncom
fortably warm in that locality At this
point general smile, which could not re
sist the proyocation to become vocal in the
congregation, brought the brother TO {
pause, and perception also of mistake ii
the matter of his nomenclature. oh, l see
it is Rev. DR.. -, our present pastor, whose
name | meant to give.