The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-13

Senator Logan is smd to be IN excel
lent violinist. - s''- -"
Emperor William still carries his
wounded arm in sling.
Joseph White, the American violinist
is conducting musical festivals in Chill.
Frank d. Moulton, once known to
fame, is in the butter and cheese business
in Liverpool. > ..s f I'D
Senator Burnside is said to give more
entertainments than amy other Senator
in Washington. .t......
Col. Schuyler Crosby, our Consul
General at Florence, drew prize in the
Partisan lottery.
Prince Leopold has consented to be-
come President of the Southampton Hor.
ticultural Society.
Mr.. Zamacona, the Mexican Min
lister, does mot contemplate returning to
Mexico, as has been reported.
Hon. Josiah Quincy is the oldest living
Ex-President of the Massachusetts Sen
ate. He held the Office in 1912.
Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister
at Washington, is at the Clarendon. Sen
ator Allison is at the Brevoort.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, has
been continuous member of the United
States Senate since March 4th, 1861.
A. H. Stephens has prepared bill for
the coinage Of metric gold dollar worth
four hundred centimes, to be called
"st9lla.'
Secretary Rvarts' two sons, Messrs.
Prescott and Sherman Evarts, are the
editors of the literary magazines at Har-
ward and Yale.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, is at the
Hampton Normal School, near Fortress
Monroe, taking casts of the heads of the
Indian students.
Mr.. Frank ID. Millet is to be married
to-day in Paris to Miss Lily q. Merrill,
of Boston. The artist and his wife will
return to Boston in MAY.
Senator Wade Hampton suffers very
much at intervals, but nevertheless goes
hunting, or fishing, OF. riding in saddle
almost every pleasant day.
Alexander H. Stephens says that he is
ashamed of the record of the Forty-ffth
Congress, which, by his admission, "was
a burden, not benefit, to the people"
Tom Moore's centennial birthday is to
be formally celebrated in Dublin on the
2Sth of May. Mr.. Dennis Florence Nc
Carthy is to write an ode for the occa-
sion.
Ex-senator Sargent has accepted an
invitation from the officers of the United
States training sloop Saratoga to be their
guest on her cruise to the Azores and
Madeira.
Stephen w. Dorsey of Arkansas is the
youngest United States Senator, being
thirty-:eyen, and Hannibal HamIin, of
Maine is the oldest having passed his sew
entieth birthday.
George Macdonald, the Scottish poet
novelist, has been spending the winter at
Porto Fino, Italy. He says in recent
letter that he has not been 50 well in
thirty years as he is now.
Richard II. Dana left all his property
to his children, Richard H. Dana, Jr,
and Charlotte, with the exception of u
life interest III $4,000, which goes to his
sister, Elizabeth Ellery Dana.
Simon Cameron's eightieth birthday
was duly celebrated by party of his
friends at Washington Saturday. Next
week the Widow divers case against
him for breach of promise will be tried.
Senior CASTELAR, is going to lecture at
Oxford on the Spanish literature of the
nineteenth century. He will, it is said,
address the University three times, twice
in French and once in Spanish, during
the last week of the summer term.
Robert Templeton, matchmaker and
jeweler of Ayr has bequeathed his
whole estate of about 500, 900, to rebuild
the old bridge of that town, popularity
known as the "Auld Brig of Ayr" and
rendered famous by Burns poems.
Sccretary-at-Arms Thompson of the
House of Representatives was presented
| by his friends in Congress with an ele
CANT watch and chain last Friday night
Recently he had handsome watch anC
chain stolen from him. L.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett will, in al
probability, rent the villa on Bellevue
avenue, Newport, once owned by Mr.
Nathan Matthews, of Boston. Mr.. The
odore A. Havemeycr, New York. vii
again occupy the Andrews villa.
Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria