The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-04
THE DAILY STAR
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

time Suffering severely from seiatiea.
Sir Edward Thornton and his family
have returned to Washington from their
summer home at Newburyport.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been enter
tanning the Polish violnist, Mr.. Adamon-
ski, who made his first appearance III Bos-
tom circles the past week.
Miss Matilda Ogden, of Campbell
County, Virginia. possesses such super
abundance of hair that it trails on the
ground eighteen or twenty inches.
Marie Sass, the celebrated singer, has
hought an estate near Condenarde, her
birthplace, in France, and intends TO de-
vote the rest of her days to rural pleas
Hes.
Lord Salisbury, Mr.. Home Secretary
Cross and their party Were loudly cheered
and more loudly hissed and groaned when
they visited the Royal Exchange at Man
chester.
Mr.. John B. Cough was formally and
cordially received in Worcester on Tues
day evening. He gave an account of his
temperance work in England, and ad-
dresses were made by Ex-Governor Claf-
lin and others. ..-..
Mr.. William Jerrold Dixon, eldest son
of Mr.. IIepworth Dixon, was found dead
in his bed recently, in Belgrave Square,
Dublin. He had Just concluded his laborS
as Secretary to the Sanitary Commission,
Which has been sitting in Dublin.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur says that she has
not offered to the King of Spain life
size head of a lion. "Not having the hon
or of knowing particularly the King Of
Si,ain, and having no right to make him
present, naturally desire that only the
truth should be spoken on this subject"
Mr.. George J. Brown, the clever Bos-
ton artist, has been obliged to postpone
his return to Italy. As soon as it be-
came known that he was going, numer-
ou, and pressing orders were poured upon
him, and he will accordingly spend the
winter in his Maiden studio. He has
been painting Mount Washington.
Mrs. Bodie the wife of Waterman S.
Bodic, the original discoverer of the "a
NOUS silver mining district bearing his
Iame, and whose body has just been
ound, after twenty years search, lives
rPoughkeepsie, where she has earned a
ncantv living as seamstress. 1t is not
lieved that she will have any claim ON
Ne mines.
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, is
mighty hunter In two days chase
in Elsenerz he killed forty-one deer and
chamois. The score of the other MEM
hers of the hunting party was as follows:
The Emperor Francis Joseph, %; the
King of Saxony, 81; the ES-Grand Duke
Of Tuscany, 9; Prince Leopold of Bava-
ria, 90; Prince Hohenlohe, II.
Mrs. Margaret Robertson, of Cooper
angus, Scotland, died recently, aged
one hundred and seven. She lived un-
de-: three British kings and one queen.
She talked with scern Of poor creatures
who could not live over eighty or ninety,
which she declared to Sir Henry Thomp-
son, the surgeon, was mae age at a."
The clay pipe was always in her mouth
"pve smoked n my days." she said.
'lt's had plenty of time to dae me i'll,
and its never socht.'
King Alfonso had appointed his we'd
ding for the 28th of November so that it
should come on his birthday, but the
2Sth happens to come on Friday this
wear, and the Archduchess Christina is
troubled with the current Austrian su-
perstition that Friday is, an unlucky day,
10 at her express desire that date has
been abandoned, and the event is to take
place on either the 9th or the 29th. The
bride will leave Vienna on the l7th, and
after a short rest in Paris will go directly
to the royal castle Of Pardo, near Mad
rid
Lord Truro had the remains of his
vie buried in slight coffin in grave
dug upon the lawn in front of his Kent
mansion, the spot having been selected
by Lady Truro during her lifetime. 1t
may be added that Lady Amberley was
buried in the garden at Rtvenscroft, near
Chepstow, by Lord Amhcrley, and whom
he died his body was laid beside that of
his wife. But their cottins have since
been removed to the vault which was last
opened to receive the body of Earl RrF.
sell, and Ravenscroft is no longer occu.
pied by any member Of the family.
Mrs. Angelina Grimke Weld, the wife
of Theodore D. Weld, and one of the
earliest of American abolitionists, was
buried Yesterday at Hyde Park, Mass.
The present generation may perhaps need
tn be reminded that Angelina and Sarah
Grimkc were two of the most energetic
speakers and writers in the Anti-Slavery
ranks. They were the daughters Of
Judge John +. Grimke, of the South Car
DINA Supreme Court, and when thcil
father died and his estate was divided
they took their part of the property IN
slaves, with the intention of freeing them
Mrs Weld and her sister, in these latter
days, were very active in helping tht
freedmen.
vi. Rev, DIR. Muhlenberg, the founder o.
St. Luke's Hospital and the author O
that famous hymn, Il Would Not Liv,
Away" was, in his old age, apt to be
little crotchety and testy. When DR.