The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-18
PERSONAL.

Inc emperor OF emma is very scout.
Minister Noyes will return from Paris
next month.
Mr.. Moody will conduct his work in
St Louis next winter.
Mr.. 7. Kittle is the name of an emil
nent Michigander.
John M. Langston, Minister to Hayti,
is down with yellow fever
JEFF, Davis says he never saw recon-
structed Southern woman.
Robert Willis, once the wealthiest man
in Decatur, Wis, now begs from door to
door Whisky.
Gen. Butler, Boston report says, is
sure of his nomination for Governor by
the Democrats.
John B. Cough is about to start for
home. He has delivered one hundred
and fifteen lectures in Europe.
Prince Bismarck is especially fond of
bread, cheese and beer, and they have
made him exceedingly stout.
General Longstreet had his pocket
picked of gold watch and chain in
Gainesville, Ga, a few days ago.
Orville Grant, who is now living at his
old home in Galena, still believes that
his brother will be the next President.
Courtney, the oarsman, has been hired
by four crews, each made up of eight
young ladies, to teach them how to row.
General Ord has at his headquarters in
San Antonio, Texas, the handicapped
table on which General Lee wrote the
famous capitulation of the Confederate
armies.
Senator Wade Hampton's popularity in
his native region may perhaps be esti-
mated by the reported answer of young
person who recently came up for school
examination. She was asked "Who
discovered America~ and promptly re-
piled: "Mr. General Wade Hampton"
Victor Hugo, Edmond About, Alexan-
der Dumas, Castelar, Belot, Zola, to-
gether with upward of three hundred
known men of letters from France, Ger
many, Italy, Austria, Spain, Belgium,
even from the Brazils and San Salvador,
are going to hold congress on authors
rights next month in London.
Lord Augustus LOTUS, the new Gov
ernor of New South Wales, left Liver
pool in the Bothnia for New York, &C.
companied by his family. He will pro-
ceed overland to San Francisco, leaving
that city by the steamer on the 7th of
July. lie will reach Sydney in time for
the opening of the Exposition there.
Lord Rosebery, on hearing of Baron
Lionel Rothschild's sudden death, with
drew all his horses from their Manches-
ter engagements except Visconti, which
he permitted to run for the cup because
the animal had been freely backed by
the public in the expectation that it
would start and they would thus have a
show for their money.
Prince George of Leuchtenberg and
the Princess Theresa Of Oldenburg were
to be married on the 18th of May at
Stuttgardt, and all the arrangements had
been made, when there came peremp-
tory telegram from the brides father,
Prince Peter, asking how they dared ar
range for a Monday wedding, that day
being in the Russian calendar the equiv
alcnt of our unlucky Friday. So the
ceremony had to be put over.
Prof. David Swing said in his last ser
mon, in speaking of the "immense multi
tude of literary men, and statesmen, and
Judges, and lawyers, and physicians, who
stand apart from church membership"
that "the history of man is the history of
increasing light. Yesterdays wisdom is
to-day's ignorance. The men Of letters
have always perceived this, haze con-
fessed and loved the fact. The church
has too often denied it and has often seen
noble men pass away from it, not because
of their sin, but because they were car
ried by moving world"
Rev. Samuel S. Harris, the new Epis-
copal Bishop of Michigan, was for sew
eral years a successful lawyer in New
York city. To enter the church had
been an early impulse, and at last he
yielded to it, and began his theological
studies under Bishop Potter. He has
been for four years the rector of the
largest and wealthiest congregation in
Chicago. He is the son of a wealthy
Alabama planter, and is thirty weight
years old.
Mr.. Edwin Booth is quoted as writing
thus to the prosecuting attorney at Chi
cago: II trust that our friend Gray may
become gray indeed-yea, positively
hoary-headed-in kind but careful con
finement, or if earlier released, that hi