The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-04
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expected back from Europe during the fall.
Dr. Luke P Blackburn, of Louisville, has
been through fifteen epidemics of yellow
fever.
Senator Beck of Kentucky, is making
tour of the Northwest. He is now in Min
neSOta.
Mr.. Schirmer, the music publisher, re-
turned from Europe recently by the steamer
Donau.
Senator Grover of Oregon, will spend the
next three months at the house of his father
in Maine.
Gov. John s. Phelps, of Missouri, was the
guest of Gov Hubbard, at Hartford, Conn,
Thursday.
Justice Strong, of the United States Su-
preme Court, has spent the summer at JET
ferson, N. H.
Mr.. Beecher has been engaged to deliver
several lectures in Colorado on his return
from California.
Lord Roseberry is mentioned as a sue
cessor to Mr. Foster as Lord Rector of the
University Of Aberdeen.
Hobart Pasha has gone to Scotland on
shooting excursion. He is the guest of Lord
Scotield, at Grant Castle.
Bishop Simpson is in Utah presiding over
the Territorial Conference now in session.
His family are with him.
Senator Gordon is taking advantage of
the vacation to improve and stock his ex-
tensive sheep farm in Georgia.
Secretary Evarts celebrated the thirty
fifth anniversary of his marriage at his
home, near Windsor, VT, last Saturday.
Lord Beaconstield has left London and
gone into the country. Nearly all his min
isterial associates have followed his exam
pie.
Thers had a strong sympathy for animals
The thoroughbred race-horse and the old
fashioned hunting-horse were his particular
favorites.
John B. Cough will begin his temperance
campaign in England about Christmas time
He will hold his first meeting in Spurgeon' $
Tabernacle.
The Marquis of Lorne has given $500 to-
ward the new endowment fund of the Uni
versity of St. Andrews. He was formerly a
student there.
Sir Charles Dixie was recently asked how
his house had Jared during storm. 'Oh
badly was the reply; my cistern is the
only uly pace III IL.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin returned from Europe
much improved in health. Most of his
time was passed at Carlsbad, the waters of
which he found very beneficial.
President Hayes owns q section of land
near Bismarck, Dakota and the people
about there are anxious to have him visit
them and learn the value of his possession.
Ex-United States Treasurer Spinner is en-
gagged in raising watermelons, and has sue
ceeded in producing some very fine ones
weighing from twenty to forty pounds each.
When Lord Beaconsfield made his late
visit to the Queen, at Osborne, crimson cloth
was laid from the train to the royal yacht
which conveyed him from Portsmouth to
the Isle of Wight.
Henry Ward Beecher's first lecture in San
Francisco was attended by a large and bril-
liant audience. Nearly every seat in the
house had been reserved although the price
charged was 81 so for q single lecture or IS
for the course of four lectures.
Prof Samuel A. King, the aeronaut, will
soon begin the construction, at Philadel-
phia, of balloon with which he proposes
10 cross the Atlantic. 1t will be 80 feet in
diameter, 275 in circumference, and hold
between 900 and 400 900 feet of gas.
MFR Gladstone saws in q racant 1ettor tbo+
he is ssin favor of the abolition Of rastr;n'
tions and limitations on land and to 't, hav-
ing holdings of all sizes, with abundance of
small holdings On nv sons nronertv ,nd
form the vast majority and we wo,l5 10y on
no ACCOUNT disturb then, !, 'A'
C -, ,.OOO >
blsmarcks stay at hlssingen was very
pehehclal 10 nm lie walks with more
ease ana is sulIe1ng much less from neu-
ralsla than last year. lie mingled but lit
Tie WIN the trequen'ers OF the fashionable
spa, ABOUT me only exception TO his seclu-
sion Deins IN tne case OF the Marquis OF
Lofhe ana The frlncess Louise.
Governor Wade Hampton is trying to re-
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