The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-03
PERSON

Brick Pomeny is seriously i'll with
pleurisy.
Vice President Wheeler is particular
ly fond Of music. .,oIi
George Alfred Townsend is to be the
poet at the meeting of the New York
Press Association.
Bishop Quad, of Rochester, who has
been dangerously i'll ut Rome, is better
and improving slowly.
Gen. Blanco, the ncwly-appointcd Cap
tain-Ganeral of Cuba, will leave Spain for
Havana on the lst OF April.
Mr.. Horatio Seymours health now
compels him TO decline all invitations to
make addresses of any kind.
Hon. S. II. Mallory, of Charlton, is
about to build residence, which it is
said will be the most elegant and costly
in Iowa.
The Marquis of Lornc and the Prin-
cess Louise, it is said, will have a cot
tage at Newport next season. The other
watering-place managers haven't invent
ed their new advertisement yet.
Senator Chandler has presented the in
FAINT son of Editor Tomkins who tick les
the stalwarLs through the Marshall
(Mich.) Statesman, with gold cup be-
cause the infant was named Zachariah G.
Marquis Using, the Chinese Embassa-
dor to England and France, speaks and
writes English and has fair knowledge
of French. He has three children--two
boys and girl-and suite of forty per-
sons.
Angel, the Chicago defaulter, is keep.
ing the books of the general office in Jol
let. He is said to be very modest, and
it is thought that if his behavior is good
the Governor may pardon him and that
he may be Joliet.
Richard Grant White loves London
living. In an article he gushes over the
roast joints of mutton and the pretty
pink checked, lisping Emma" who
briugs his hot water and shoes at hi,
lodgings. Whoa, Emma!
Mr.. OConnor Power, in a recent dis
custom upon the Chancellor of the Ex
chequcr's resolution, said, "Since the
Government had let the cat out Of the
bag there was nothing to be done but tC
take the bull by the horns"
Jim Keene, who has just bought the
Matthew's villa at Newport, intends tc
entertain his friends in royal style, anc
will import cooks and servants from
Europe. Between him and Bennett ;
little rivalry is not at all improbable.
Mr.. Henry !. Wilson, keeper of the
Outlet House, Moosehead Lake, Ne.
caught with hook and line, through the
ice, within forty rods of his home, trou
OF prodieious size. 1t is three feet il
length, and weighs nineteen pounds. Mr.
Wilson sent the fellow to Mayor Nash
of Augusta.
Walt. Whitman will lecture in New
York on Lincoln. Colonel Thomas A
Scott has given him pass to California
and he is trying to pluck up courage tc
20 thcr. On the 3lst Of May Whitman
will be sixty, and if his lecture on Lin
coin is not a failure he will prepare one
on "Tramps."
Editor Storey, of the Chicago Times
is building for himself and his youn,
bride fine suburban residence, and sur
rounding it with full-grown trees con
/, veyed from Indiana. One red mapl
thus traasplanted is sixty feet in height
and a whole platform car was occupie
by it on the journey.
l Ex-senator Christiancy, Minister t
Peru, has taken with him his son, bo
: of fifteen, who, without governments
compensation, will be his private secrt
tary. Mrs. Christiancy will fellow hii
: from New York on the 10th of Jun,
!, Minister Chrtstiancy is sixty-sevea, an
= = receives $4,000 a year, with $400 fc
Office rent.
h General T. w. Sherman left $4,000
a an old colored woman who had been
). his family since his marriage, and wi
4 was formerly slave in his wife's famil
9 George G. Mason is appointed the guar,
2 ian of his son, who at twenty-one obtail
n absolute control Of property estimated
r be worth 100000.
Cnlnnal Manlesnu. of Her Majesty