The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20

COLUMBUS LETTER.

Tne w eONer the CnleI OteFks
ship-How Sam. F. Hunt HELPED n
Friend-The Columbus Academy of
Iestgn-The Opinion OF a Certain
Editor About Darrett's Hamlet"
The Success ana .aiiure of 1--WE
Young Ladies - Richmond as n
Place of ultiva ion.
Special Correspondence of the Star.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. Is 1879.
The wrangling and one-sided stories in
cidental to ofioe-seeking are just now
taking up the time of the newspaper
men, and happy is the man who has no
lax to grind"
THE LATEST THING
out is a story put in circulation about
Mr.. J. F. Clegg, of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, who is an aspirant for the position
of Chief Clerk of the House. 1t is to the
effect that Mr. Clegg is not an American
citizen, and consequently should not be
recognized.
1t is true that Mr.. Clegg was born in
Canada, but he has long since renounced
his allegiance to Queen Victoria, and
shows as an evidence of this fact four
wounds he received while fighting for the
perpetuation of the Union, and yet there
are people who stand up and bawl out
when his name is mentioned, "He is a
foreigner" 1t shows what little things
some people will grasp at.
SAM F. HUNT,
of your city, is just coming in for great
amount of free but very unenviable ad-
vertising. In Mondays Enquirer there
appeared a letter from this city, consist
ing of an interview with Nelly, the pres
ent Adjutant General, through the mis-
take of Governor Bishop, in which both
the reporter" and Nelly said some very
improbable things. 1t now turns out
that Sam. F. Hunt, the man who went
to st. Louis in all the glory of full
dressed Major General of Militia, or
something else, some time ago, wrote the
entire ''interview," and that the resident
correspondent here raised big racket
over the matter.
Meily's Midgets, which are four little
fountains in the State-house yard, never
fails to fill the beholder with mirth and
then contempt for such foolish official.
THE ACADEMY OF DESIGN,
at No. Is East Long street, is fast grow
ing in popularity, and bids fair in time
to be one of the leading institutions of
Columbus The ladies who are at the head
of the Academy represent the wealth and
culture Of the city, and as each one is do
ing all in her power constantly to render
the Academy more attractive, the time
when it has paying Attendance is only
question of time. As it is there are
some sixty ladies and a number of gen-
tlemen enrolled who are assiduous toiers.
Some of the ladies are proving excel
lent artists in the various lines of study
Mrs. Frank Osborn, a wealthy and prom
inent lady of this city; has executed sew
eral oil paintings that would reflect credit
on professor of the art. She began a
pupil a few months since, and is now an
adept in the use of the brush.
GOOD JOKE
is trying to be kept silent by certain
embryo editor not one thousand miles
from this city. 1t seems that he does the
amusement work for his paper. He at
tended and wrote column description of
Lawrence Barrett as "Hamlet."
Among other things, the enterprising
pencil-shover said that "Mr. Barrett's
playing was excellent, yet he was most
too melancholy, and did not have the
snap and get-up about him which one
would expect in so great a tragedian." !"
All this seems more laughabe when it is
known that "Critic" is a man who lays
claims to being writer, and is on a
paper which claims four or five thousand
circulation.
"sERPoLETTE'
was the name of saucy little character
in the "Chimes of Normandy" VIII ich
was rendered by Mahn's English Opera
Company in this city on the 18TH Ref
erence is made to the circumstances for
two reasons. First, because rs Srpolette"
is a niece of Mr.. Theodore Comstock,
owner of Comstock's Opera-house, in
this city, and also because she is an
Ohio girl. Her name is Miss Sallle
Reeher, and her parents live in San
dusky, at which place she was born. She
has an excellent voice, and on the occa-
sion of her appearance in this city was
the recipient of encore after encore.
The case of Miss Reeher is in strange
contrast with that of young lady in
this city. Miss Fannie Mannetti-which
is her stage name-has been known as an
amateur singer in this city for many a
long year. Miss Mannetti has always
been an earnest, painstaking pupil, and
studied music under frst-class teachers,
both in this country and Europe, and
yet she has never been able to secure a
paying position. She is in great demand
for home theatricals, and as Josephine"
In "Pinafore" did fairly, but that was all.
She is engaged at present in teaching
music, while Miss Reeher, who has not
had as many opportunities as Miss Man
netti, is winning a reputation as song
stress as well as "laying by some money
for wet day."
LAST SATURDAY EVENING