The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-23
PERSONAL.

AHhhSoNAAs
Mr.. Henry Bergh will lecture at Sara
toga.
Ismail Pasha will reside permanently
at Genoa.
Secretary Evarts will 60 to Newport
in a few days,
A Mr.. Krauss, Of Munich, has invented
a wo-story railroad car.
ExGov. Furnas has a blossoming fig
tree on his Nebraska farm.
Lord Lytton will probably be made an
Earl for his services in India.
G. A. De Graf has herd of twenty
elk on his farm at Janesville, MINI.
Caleb Cusbing's library is to be sold at
auction in Boston early next month.
President Grevy has pardoned sixty
five Communists detained at New Gale
donia.
Gen. N. P. Banks will deliver tie adj
dress at the Barton, Mass, Fair on the
lst of October.
Prof. Wise will shortly attempt the
feat OF making a voyage across the CONT
nent in balloon.
Senator B. II. Hill, who is now fftv-
six years old, has just shaved off his
beard, and consequently looks ten years
younger.
Mr.. VIM. I. Townes has sold out his
interest in the Hopkinsville South Ken
tuckian to Mr.. Charles NJ. Mearham, and
has gone to Virginia.
President Grevy resembles General
Grant in at least two particulars-in the
number of cigars consumed perdiem and
in the length of his speeches.
Mr.. A. III. Stephens proposes that
Georgia should contribute to the Nation
al portrait gallery Of the capital the
statues of James Oglethorpe and DIR.
Crawford W. Long, the discoverer of
anasthesia.
The Emperor William gave grand
banquet at Berlin yesterday in honor of
the Empress Francis Joseph's forty-ninth
birth. Many cordial sentiments were
expressed and exchanged between the
two Emperors.
Otto Struse, the eminent Russian as
tronomer, spent a considerable part of
Monday night at the Naval Observatory
at Washington, d. G., examining its
methods and mechanism and taking OBJ
servations through the large telescope.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, author and
member of Parliament, has a son who is
rapidly following in his fathers footsteps.
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, the younger, is the
writer OF clever paper on "Prince Ma
poleon" in The Gentleman's Magazine.
Gov. Croswell, of Michigan, who is a
widower of fifty-four, is about to be mar
ried to Miss Lizzie Musgrove, of Char
lotte, in that State. The young lady is
pretty, wealthy, and still in her twenties.
She was graduated at Oliver College not
long ago.
Mr. Mitchell, a brother of ok Marvel"
has exercised his aesthetic yearning5 after
pure art on an old farm house at New
Loudon, by painting it and the fences
and outbuildings in India red, and hav-
ing yellow lattice work along the piazza.
A row Of sun-fowers adorns the river
bank.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler writes concerning
"Way Down Upon the Swanee River"
that it is "the finest melod yet produced
by those born minstrels of the planta-
ton" Not so. The melody was "pro-
duced" by the late Stephen G. Foster.
1t has been popular on the plantation,
and has been set to Sunday school
hymn extensively sung in the Methodist
Churches.
Henry Pace killed the young man who
had wronged his daughter, at CIerken-
we'll, England, and public sentiment
favored him so strongly that fund was
raised to support his family during the
year and a half of Imprisonment to which
he was sentenced. His escape from a
worse punishment was regarded as lucky,
and he went to prison in good spirits.
But the daughter taunted him with
being murderer, and in consequence of
that he hanged himself in his cell.