The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-09
PERSONAL.
venture

Samuel H. Clay owns five thousand nine
hundred and ninety acres OF Bourbon Coun-
ty KY, land.
Mark Twain and family are going abroad
in April, and propose to spend several years
in Germany.
Ben. Butler and Brick Pomeroy working
together in the new National party is q
spectacle for the gods
Mr.. Richard Bright, Conservative mem
Der of the English House of Commons from
East Somersetshire, is dead.
General Butler and his daughter, Mrs.
Blanche Butler Ames, are reported to be
enthusiastic believers in the cause of wo-
mans rights.
Isaac Bassett, the present Assistant Door
keeper of the Senate, was taken to Washing
ton in 1882 by Daniel Webster, and began
his official career as a page.
Prof W. Stanley Jevons has written q
primer Of Political Economy" for the use
full series of Science Primers" published
by the Macmillans and the Appletons.
Mr.. J. He Ingram's literary find" in
London, an "hitherto unknown romance"
by Edgar A. Poe, turns out to be an old ar
ticle published in Burton "Gentleman's
Magazine" of years ago.
Flotow, the composer of Martha" is a
man of sixty-six, with long, white hair
beard and moustache His cheeks are round
and full, and he makes constant use of per
fumes. He is about to produce a new opera
entitled "Roselana. ~ '''.'i ~
Dr. J. L. Briggs of San Juan, Colorado.
was caught in snow slide lately and carried
down the mountain side two thousand feet
When found his dead body was buried in
the snow, head downward, with his feet
and legs to the knees protruding above the
surface. ' 'r
Hon Schuyler Colfax has written a note
to repeat, what he ''has said at least five
hundred times" that no vote, however
large, could induce him to become again, as
he was for twenty years, the servant of the
dear public. He finds lecturing more pro-
titable and pleasant.
ten letter calling for the refunding of the
cotton tax and incidentally protesting, as
the Mobile Register says, Every properly
against the political trick, resorted to by
Mr.. Tilden, Just before the election, in
threatening to veto any law for the refund
ing of the tax"
Mr.. John W. Wheeler, of Tuscola, ILL.,,
was awakened on Thursday night last by his
dog springing upon his bed and clawing at
the bed-clothes. Startled at the unusual
conduct of the animal, he got up, and dis
covered. that fire was raging in the lower
part OF the house, and he barely escaped
with his family and the dog. -
James Gardiner is about to publish in
London s'History of Richard Ill" whose
general tendency It is announced is fo 'ro.
vindicate the old view Of Richards charac-
ter and actions, with fuller and more mi
mute criticism of details than has been de-
voted TO the subject. The book will con-
clude with chapter on Perkin Warbeck,
| founded in part upon new evidence of the
strongest description against the pretensions
of that adventurer
Capt. o. P. Beard, of Kentucky removed
| the belt of Col. Archibald Yell of Arkan-
sas. when he fell at the head of his troops at
the battle of Buena Vista, in February fS47
and resolved to preserve il for his friends
A few days ago he learned that a relative ot
Col. Yell is living in Little Rock, Ark, and
at once sent the relic to him, gratitied that
after thirty years of fidelity to dead COM
rade he should be rewarded with the only
recognition which he sought.
Iobn Damon and Sre NIors ,roro oro,.
taken by the girls irate parent While thev
were elopng from Aberdeen XIV, and the
old pentleman or1ered stbn VAIN n he
gone Damon refused ana was tnoclx ed
down He arose and sent two nistols bnl'
LET'S whizzing at the haaT of lis nroSnoot;ro a Nv
fatber.in-low who heat y hastv rntreot
The pair then went on and were married
The. narent swore ont a warrant of infant