The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-01
PERSONAL.

CharleS Longfell0w, son OF tne poet,
is one of the beaux at Newport.
d. Lord Chelmsford has been awarded
the Grand Cross of the Order of the
Bath.
Captain Paul Boyton has accepted
Captain Webb's challenge for another
swimming match.
Mr.. Chauncey Howard, son of General
0. O. Howard, will pursue his theolog-
ical studies at Andover.
Count de Chambord, the Legitimist
pretender, has, according to French
paper, started for England.
Lord Beaconsfeh has not very success
fully prorogued Cetywayo. The old
savage is again in fighting order.
King Humbert is said to have written
very sympathetic letter to the ex-
Empress Eugene on the death Of her
son.
Count Gerard, of Naurois, the great
grandson of Racine, has received from
the Pope the hereditary title of Mar
quis.
Verdi, the composer, who now lives at
Genoa, says that his age and infrmities
have compelled him to relinquish all
artistic work.
Mr.. Julian Hawthorne is said to be en-
gagged in writing novel, larger in scope
than any he has yet published. Its title
ia to he "Sebastian Strome."
Emmons Blaine, son of the Senator, a
recent graduate Of Harvard, is taking an
active part in the campaign in Maine.
He is said to be a very effective speaker.
Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, who
suffers from rheumatism, is staying with
his family at Avon Springs, N. Y, and
is industriously drinking the mineral
waters.
W.B. Lewis, of Danville, Va, has been
chewing tobacco for sixty years, and has
swallowed the juice all the time. He
has enjoyed fine health, and is now eighty
years old.
James Bullock, of Walton County, Ga,
while hoeing in cotton field, found con-
cealed in a stump $4,000 in gold and
silver and pile of greenbacks. The pa
per money had rotted.
John E. Owens, the actor, advertises
for sale the stock and fixtures Of his ele-
CANT farm near Towsontown, Nd. The
supposition is that Mr.. Owens proposes
to quit amateur farming.
Mr.. w. S. Gilbert is credited with the
following aphorism: '"The sun never
goes down on the Queens dominions,
because heaven is afraid to trust an Eng
lishman in the dark"
Colonel A. H. Hoyt, Of Cincinnati,
now visiting this city, has in his posses
sion a red morocco pocket-book which
Daniel Webster owned when a resident
of Portsmouth in 1907 Boston Trav-
Teller.
Sir Anthony Musgrave and Mr.. T. B.
Potter, M. P, have been visiting the
Fields, at Stockbridge. Mr.. Longfellow's
daughters have also been in that town
visiting the former home of their mother,
the Appleton Place, which is now owned
| by MIR. Southmayd.
General L. w. Thayer, of Warsaw, N.
Y, well-known Democratic politician,
was accidentally thrown under railway
train at Attica on Friday and seriously
injured. He had sufficient presence of
mind to turn on his side, and conse-
| quently the train went over only his left
arm, which has been amputated.
NJ. Victor Hugo, in sending a contri.
button to the sufferers of Chatenois, made
some grandiloquent remarks, which have
rather amused the Patrie. cit would
says that journal, "have been more sim
pie to send the money without the re-
marks. The circumstance reminds u;
that when M. Victor Hugo had his hail
cut 80 as to resemble brush, as at pres
ent, he presented himself to his relatives
and said MY maturity is passed; my
old age has set in" which only meant
4 have had my hair cut )"
DIR. Beseler has been elected Rector O.
the University of Berlin. He is one O.
the moderate Constitutional members O.
the Reichstag and strong opponent O.
the recent financial and economic meas
ures of the German Government. In ,
brilliant speech during the recent debate
"The Protectionist movement" said DR.
Beseler, "is essentially financial sys
tenn which separates nations, organize
universal discord and hinders natura
operations by artificial and arbitrary
measures. Such policy I can only de
scribe as hostile alike to Christianity, tt
culture and common sense"
Mr.. Henry Watterson amiably say
that Mr.. Samuel J. Tilden is passing ,
most placid, though by no means an idl'
summer, at a country place two mile
above Yonkers, on the Hudson River
The situation, though elevated, is re
tired; the house is of gray stone, will
many gables and a tower, "on which til,
truly loyal will be glad to learn the star
and stripes occasionally foat;" there ar,
fifty-fve acres Of orchard, wood and lawn
Mr. Tilden has the refusal of the prop
erty and he is devoting himself to pa
tient and most laborious inspection o
the premises.