The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-04
PERSONALS ABOUT LADlE~.

Miss Bulkleo, of Elkhorn, Wis, bid IN
the old town jail at public auction.
Queen Victoria, though overwhelmed
with sorrow by the death of Princess Alice,
has not suffered in health.
NJ. Meissonier has just sold his Halle de
Cuirassier," which was shown at the Paris
Exposition, to Belgian for 500, ,ooO
Charlotte Bronte's piano is advertised for
sale in England. Its authenticity is guar
anteed, and it is still i'll good condition.
Mrs. Conners, the Fall River (Mass,)
woman who was bitten three weeks ago by
a mad cat, has just died from hydrophobia.
Charles T. Stowe a sou of Prof. Calvin
f. and Harriet Beecher Stowe, was or
dained to the ministry at Hartford, Conn.
Monday night last
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson, a widow aged
eighty, and living by herself at Lebanon
Junction. went to bed with pipe in her
mouth, and was burned to death.
Miss Fanny Davenport while recently
playing in Pittsburg, Pa, engaged herself
to marry a well-knoWn commission mer-
chant of that city. SO say the papers.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton believes
that girls, to be beautiful ought to bathe
in cold wa er twice a day. The sad ruth
| is, that many of them would rather live
and die ugly.
Miss Haskins the wellknown reader, is
sick with consumption at 81. Luke's Hos
pilal. This sad Intelligence will cause deep
SORROW among the many friends that tins
lady has made professionally.
Mrs. Derby, the widow of that genial
! humOrist, Lieutenant "John Phmnix'
I H,,n
with 100000, was persuaded TO invest 1t i'll
real estate. and has lost it all.
Mrs Fremont is pleasantly described as
| so much interested in popular education III
Arizona HAT She often visits the public
schools and entertains The delighted pupils
with stories of her travels abroad.
Mrs Harriet Prescott Spofford, the ac
complisIed writer, is descended through
her father from the famous American baro
net, Sir William Pepperell. One of hel
mothers ancestors was Sir John Bridges.
Miss Kate Sanborn is to give new lectures
in New York in February on Madame dt
Genlis," Birds as Sung by Poets anc
"Spnster Authors of America" She ha
been delivering these lectures in Boston
with great success
Lady Roseberv had Jewels and money t.
the value OF three or four thousand dollar
) stolen from her few days ago while trav
cling in railway carriage. To a persol
worth some fifteen millions, however, tn
loss is not serious one.
Mrs Mnna Kleeburg nee Cohen, wife o
f Rabbi Lewis Kleeburg, of the Jewish Syna
, gogue, New Haven, Conn, is dead. Mrs
Keeburg was a German poetess OF marke,
ability, and was well known in New Iorl
= and foreign literary circles.
!, Mrs Hamilton, of Portsmouth, N. H
died one day last week of diphtheria, an
two hours afterwards, while the undertake
, was laying her out in the same room he
little child died of the same disease suffer
ing fearful agony by suffocation, his hal
actually standing on end.
The Queen of the Belgians has decide
/, on presenting to the Belgian ladies who a.
z tended as deputation at the celebratio
!, of the silver wedding suitable souveni
of the occasion. This will consist of silve
Y medallion bearing an excellent likeness {
Her Majesty on the diverse, the revers
bearing the inscription; "Offert par
$ Refine, souvenir du % Aout, 1878" SUI
!. rounded by garland Of roses.
G Mrs. Gaines is still getting in her werk
:" New Orleans. Says the Pic: On yesterda
c the case of Mrs. Gaines vs.. Brown, admin
e tratrix, involving title to plantation
the Parish of Ascension, having front {
= 1872 arpents on the Mississippi River, can
P up for hearing, Mr.. Mills for Mrs. Gane
< Messrs. Charles S. Kellogg, Singleton
q. Browne and Elmore & King for defendant
Judgment was rendered in favor of Mr.
Z. Gaines against Mrs. Brown.
E. Anna Dickinson returns to the lectu,
ID platform, according to the Philadelph
II Times, because she must earn living A
=. though she for long time received 5000
X night for lecturing, she spent money gene
ly ously, and finally lost all her savin
to through an unfortunate investment
~ Western land. A friend lent her the none
III with which to make her unsuccessful We
re ture on the theater stage, and she desir
ID to repay the loan. Miss Dickinson I
=. ceived hundreds of letters from friends a
u vising her to give up the stage.
is When mind and body are out of sor
J., with cold extremties a yellOWness in Il