The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-25
Personal.

Francis Murphy, the temperance revival
ist, is a widower.
Tony Pastor has a new ballad called
Turn off the gas at the meter"
Mark Hopkins, the California million
aire, who died recently, made $45, 900, 900 in
ten years. He had a million TO begin with.
DR.. Bacon has received 5000 from the
Board of Aldermen of New Haven for the
centennial Grafton he'delivered in that city.
Gov. Mcclellan is said to be a persistent
and accomplished collector of ceramics. He
has been visiting the potteries i'll Trenton,
with w. c. Prime.
Alexander H. Stephens says he shall never
seek the Presidency while he has his senses.
Like every other public man he may be
come PRESIDENCY mad"
Senator Booth recently remarked that the
only chicken he stole while in college was
divided with his chum, Judge Porter, now
Comptroller of the Treasury
Christian Kiefer, who was member of
the German Revolutionary Parliament Of
1919 and who was for time at the head of
the movement, died in Philadelphia lasl
week.
DR.. D. B, Cheney one of Chicago's most
popular BapTst ministers resigns hischurch
in order to take the Eastern agency for rails
ing money needed for the endowment of
the Chicago University.
Bishop Simpson is nearly sixty-eight
years old, and is beginning, it is said, to
feel some of the inseparable infirmities of
age. They do not however, prevent his
preaching with all his old eloquence.
DIR. Behrends of Providence, receives an
| 90 IF G1 0flO tn hiS calory with a6
ditional donation of 81 500 to spend in going
to Europe. His salary is now $4,000, and
the Providence people crowd his church.
Mr.. Frederic H. Cowen, the English
composer, whose oratorio of '"The Deluge''
was one of the principal works performed
at the Brighton Festival, this spring, is Wis.
York, negotiating for the production OF
some of his compositions next season.
Colonel A. G. Boone, of Denver, Col, q
grandson of Daniel Boone, is to write q
history of the men who figured in the ad
vance guard of the pioneers of the plains
including his old companions, Colonel
Albert Pfeiffer, and others, covering a pc
riod of more than fifty years.
Henry NJ Stanley is working night and
day on hisnarrative of his latest explorations
The book, which will exceed eight hundred
octave pages, will probably appear during
next month, being simultaneously pub
lished in England, Germany, France, Den
mark and America Negotiations are like
wise pending for Swedish, Spanish, Italian
and Russian 'translations.
Lord Emly-or "Little Emily" as he is
more familiarly called in contradistinctior
of his size-is publishing, for the first time
in the.Irish Monthly, some letters addressed
to his ancestor, Viscount Perry, Speaker o.
the Irish House of Commons about cen
tury ago, by Burke, Grattan, and others
In one of these, dated Rome, May, 1878, the
Bishop of Derry (afterward Earl of Bristol
puts on record the fact that project was
on foot in Ireland "to make as general ar
emigration as possible, and to settle in 6
part of the Popes territory which is within
forty miles of Rome, and now actually pre-
pairing for some very extensive colony
History is singularly silent about this de
sign.