The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-11
PERSON Al.

Ex-Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts,
has arranged to pass next winter in Paris.
General Butler pays tax of 1886 in
Lowell, Mass. He is the largest individual
taxpayer in the town.
Secretary of War McCrary left Washing
ton for Iowa Saturday evening. He will
be absent about ten days.
Bishop Seymour, of the Springfield Cl.)
Diocese, has purchased a lot of land on the
west shore of Lake George.
Pere Hyacinthe is thinking of erecting a
church in Paris, and is about to apply to
the Government for the authority.
Attorney General Devens, during his re-
cent stay in Massachusetts, visited North
field, where he studied law years ago.
John G. Whittier says that Ralph Waldo
Emerson is the one American who is sure
of being remembered a thousand years.
Mr. Richard H. Dana, Jr., of Boston, will
start early in October for a long visit to
Europe. He will be absent for two or three
years.
Alexander H. Stephens has never mar
red He has always had all he could do to
keep from being blown away by an ordi-
nary breeze,
The Grand Duke Constantine has made
visit to Madame Thiers at Paris, as an eX-
preston of his warm admiration for her
late husband.
Mr. Bright is back from his Scotch tour
looking better and feeling stronger. But he
is still much shaken and decidedly averse
to any publicity.
Joel Benton has poem entitled can
Epicedium for Queen Mercedes" in the
September-OCtober number of the Inter-
national Review.
Speaker Hustled will make an address at
the Lowville IN. " County Fair next
Thursday Senator Herman will also be
present and speak.
James Seeley, another bonanza man of
Nevada, will be recommended as Sharon's
successor in the United States Senate, if the
latter resigns this fall.
George Walker, of Armada, Mich, lost
one hundred and twenty-five sheep by dogs
He and his brother owned the dogs. Home
consumption as it were.
Herbert Spencer has almost recovered
| from his recent illness. With raClcris-
| tic industry he has begun to arrange mate
rial for an autobiography.
The King and Queen of the Belgians at
tended the ceremonies at the unveiling of
the statue of the celebrated Flemish painter
Van Eyck at Bruges recently.
Mr.. Preston Powers the sculptor, is ex-
pected to pass the coming winter in Boston.
His wife has already sailed from Europe for
this country, and he will soon follow.
William Henry Ogden, of Tennessee, and
This is a clear case, as the old darkey said,
"whar man marries his own dear SELF"
Mr.. Sidney H. Morse, the Boston artist,
has painted large Oil portrait of Gen. B. f.
Butler 1t is now on exhibition in Boston,
and is regarded as a very striking likeness.
President Bartlett of Dartmouth College,
delivered memorial discourse on the life
and character of the late Professor Edmund
Randolph Peaslee, in Hanover, N. H., Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. Gladstone will deliver his address as
Lord Rector of Glasgow University in the
second week of November. During his stay
in Scotland he will be asked to make some
political speeches.
Lord Beaconsfeld, it is rumored, will pre-
side at the ceremonies on the occasion of the
placing of the Cleopatra Needle on its pedes-
tai He will also visit Ireland during che
recess of Parliament.
Mr.. and Mrs Carleton, of Rockville, CT.
were poisoned last Saturday by eating ap,
pies cooked on plate on which there had
been once some fly poison, but which had
been thoroughly washed and secured
Gen Joe Johnston, in accepting the nom.
ination for Congress, declared himself q
Virginian by blood, by birth and in heart
and the passionate love of his boyhood fol-
the State had been confirmed by the expe'
rience OF maturer years.
W. A. Sledge was Postmaster at Lawrence
Vile, Va. but he sent tart reply to re-
quest for contribution to the Republican
campaign fund and now he is compelled tc
acknowledge that Hayes is bigger man
than Old Sledge.
VIM Gilmore, of Portland, Pa, eighty.
five years old paid $4,000 cash
and decided homestead worth
So, 500 to secure Miss Ledale, his bride
of twenty-four summers. At the close o.
the honeymoon he offered to deed her back
for nothing.
Col John P. st. john who has just been
nominated by the Republicans for Governor
of Kansas, went to California when a boy
by way of the great plains and on his ar
rival in that region went to work as an
''honest miner" Not satisfied with this ht
read law, and was admitted to the bar
! About the beginning of the war, he re
turned 10 Illinois and took par
in the struggle for the preservation of the
Union. He served through the war, ant
earned his title as colonel in command O
the One Hundred and Forty-third Illinois
Volunteers. In 1868 he removed to Olathe
johnson County, Kansas, and assumed po
litical and professional prominnce at once