The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-17
PERSONAL.


camp meetings.
Senator Thurman is said to be grand
success as a casino player.
King Alfonso's wedding ring is now
being made by Partisan jeweler.
Thomas Bayley Potter, NJ. P. for Roch-
dale, and Mrs. Potter, arrived in Toronto
on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sartoris, nee Nellie
Grant, are soon to pay visit to the
United States.
Mr.. Gladstone is to speak in Midlo-
THAN after his return from the Conti-
nent in November.
General Toombs recently warmed his
heart by giving whole barrel of flour to
an Atlantic beggar.
Lieutenant Governor Tabor, of Colo
RADIO, sold a one third interest in the Lit
tie Pittsburg mine the other day for
81 100000.
John T. Ford claims to have discovered
the coming American actress in Miss Lii
lian Spencer, daughter of DR.. G. w.
Spencer, of Pittsburg.
Victorien Sardou is actively engaged
in giving the last touch to a comedy
which is to be presented next winter at
the Theatre Francaise.
The Earl of Duferin is expected to re-
turn to st. Petersburg about the middle
of November, when he will resume his
duties at the British Embassy.
Gustave Hippolyte Roger, the famous
French tenor who made the tour with
Jenny Lind on her first visit to England,
is dead at the age of sixty-four.
Mr. Gladstone is not rich, but his wife
is His family is large, and only one
daughter is married. Her husband is
Master at Wilmington College
The Dean of Ripon, in his seventy
sixth year, is about again to seek solace
in matrimony and to lead to the altar Il
daughter of the Hon. L. Melville.
The Marquis of Lorne has expressed
himself as much pleased with the formal
invitation to visit Cincinnati, but regrets
that he must postpone that pleasure.
Mr.. Daniel Beckwith, graduade of
Brown University, and for several years
Assistant Librarian, has been elected
Librarian of the Providence Athenaum.
Fred. Douglass has been delivering a
lecture on the negro problem at Saratoga
His advice to the colored men is to keep
away from exoduses and stick to the
South.
General G. S. Batcheller, one of the
Americans in the service of the Khedive,
is making a short visit in this country.
He is said to like his Egyptian life ex-
ceedingly.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor will leave Ken
nett in few days. and hereafter reside
permanently in New York. Her hus-
bands posthumous works will shortly be
published.
Senator Bayard writes home that the
cost of living at Carlsbad is greater than
at Saratoga, and the comforts of life
harder to get at the former than at the
latter place.
Edison hasn't yet got up a machine
which will materialize the feelings of a
man when he takes another mans so
cent hat off the tonsorial peg and ascer-
tains that its owner has meandered with
his silk tile.
Mark Twain says Dunraven is first
rate fellow, no airs or nonsense about
him at all, but sort of go-aheadness that
would almost make him pass for Yam
kee. The Earl is an Irishman, with bic
estate near Limerick.
Sitting Bull is described as tall, pow
erfully built Indian. His face is broad
and massive, and has strongly marked
lines of decision about the mouth, and
his dark, piercing eyes, ovcrshadowed by
their heavy lids, seem to gleam with min
gled cruelty and suspicion.
Mr.. Tennyson's new drama, "Thomas a
Beckett" is finished and has been placed
in the hands of Mr.. Irving, with a view
to its representation at the Lyccum. M.
Victorien Sardou has nearly completed a
new comedy for the Comedie Francaise.
NJ. Alexander Dumas, it is said, has
made a vow not to write again for the
theater.
Colonel Thomas Scott has returned
from his journey abroad a strong and well
man. 'I never felt in better health in
my life," he said, as he stepped from the
steamer. In Colonel Scott's party was
the young man who during the riots of
1877, in Pittsburg, maintained his posi-
ton at the telegraph wire near the sta
ton, and sent dispatches to the Colonel
until the flames drove him off.
Charles Tennyson Turner, while a
charming poet, was one of the most diff
dent of writer's; his heart was in his
brother Alfred Tennyson's progress and
success much more than in his own. His
work was original yet he had morbid
apprehension that it was not original. He
had a noble tenderness for all living
things, and swallow which he had shot
when he was boy was remembered with
remorse all his life.
Mr.. Labouchere cites a French diplo-