The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-20
Personal.

non. ". D w WaSnDuTne mas gone 10 Dan
Antonio in search OF health.
Gov. Hampton has been steadily improv-
| ing His physician visits him only once
day, and his crutches have been ordered
| Mr., Smalls ("Old Sly, of the Atlanta Con-
stiuion, is rapidly recovering from the
| rui1anly attack recently made upon him.
| Mrs Mary Marer of Boston is claimant
for million-dol.ar essu,e in Maryland,
left by Wm. Mackey in lhe eighteenth Ii cen-
tury.
Consul Mostly told one of his Warrenton,
| Va, friends that his main object i'll going
to Hong Kong was to s,udy the Chinese
| language
Caleb Cushing's will will soon be pro-
ba ed. 1t is supposed that ne left properly
worth $1,O00,OuU, much Of it being land i'll
The South and West.
Joseph Ganier of Scottsvile, N. Y, aged
one hundred and seven years, has ust lost
| his wife, aged one hundred and lnrue, to
whom he had been married eighty years.
| Alexander Stephens trouble is said to be
| q combination OF erysipelas phthisc
shakes apopIexy, bronchitis and typhoid
toothaehe. 1t is not considered dangerous
| Senator Lamar will have an article on
The Relations of the South 10 American
| Politics" in this months number of the
Southern Monthly, HOW published in Rich
mOnu.
Mr.. Ezekiel, the Hebrew sculptor, has
made bust of Christ, which is said 10 be
beautiful and impressive. The face is STRICT
ly Jewish i'll type and full Of spiril ual eX-
preston.
The Lord Clyfford of Lee, England, who
married Miss Florence Kate Smth i'll LIN
coin, Neb., the o,Aer day, is an officer on
| the man-ot-war that brought the Marquis OF
Lorne and Princess Louise to Canada.
Mr.. Thomas Lord, the octogcnaran New
Yorker, who braveiy wOoed. won and mar
ried Mrs. Annetta Wihelmina Hicks, las,
year is said 10 be at the point Of death. lie
| has no well defined disease, but is simply
| worn out.
General Longstree's salary as Postmaster
of Gainesville, Georgia, Will he 81, 100
year, which sum. The Petersburg (Na.) In
| deX-Appeal SD S, Is more, allowing Lor The
| difference IN currency, ilIaIl lie received as
Lieutenant General OF The Confederate
States.
Jules Verne, the French novelist, who
| has a mysterious knowledge Of The sub er-
ranCan ear,h has suddenly broken through
the crust at Spencer, Mass. He rcgis creu
at the hotel and eX pressed hiuself as desir
GUS Of Witnessing the Yankee process Of
manufacturing boots by machinery.
john and Ann Thompson celebrated their
golden wedding at Bal more two Years ago,
potn being uI ne same age. I've other ua,
The wife died of Il parllytle stroke while al
dinner, and JOnn was stricken with paraly-
Sis AZ supper and died on lhe day SCI for
his wlu's funeral; and both were buried in
one grave.
Lieut.. Paaet, son of Lord Alfred Paget
(and brother of Capt. pagrt, who married
Minnie 6gGyens) is engaged to Iheodosia
ParneIl. Miss P;rnell is granddaugh er OF
he late Commodore Stewart cod Iron
side" ana sister of Parnel, the Irish mem
Der Of Parliament. Mrs. Parnel is widow,
and lives wilh her daugniers at Borden
town, N. }.
Bishop Simpson was about TO begin his
lecture before the Yale theological students
the other day, when he was seen To pause
and look for some hing. Young gentle.
men," nG said, Il find myself in the posi-
lion o. he preacher who was informed by
II lady that thirdly had flown out OF the
window" a part of his MS was missing,
and while Professor Fisher went away to
| | SeuFCn lUT III, lliC IDlSlpp clltCIktlDGu MS
audience with half-hour's talk on lresi.
dent Lincoln. Then the MS appeared, and
he lecture began.
Mr. Spurgeon, writing of his first entry
! upon London duties, says that he had been
invited by Dr. Rippon to preach at New
) Parks rect Chapel, Southwark and being
then but nineteen years of age, he surnised
that the letter addressed to him at The VII.
E lage of WaterDeach near Cambridge, had
been intended for another Mr.. Spurgeon
: who preached somewhere in Norfolk. The
doubt. however, was resolved by further
, corypspundenre and the young preacher
from the fens soon settled nIo his ordained
D0sitiOn, and made his marx as one UI lh,
, foremost pulpit orators of his age
: An hony rroilope, writing of novel read
E ing. SAYS that good novel should be botf
realistic and sensational in the highest de
$ oree Ifanovel fails in either, lie adds
= "there is failure in art let those readers
, who fancy they do not like sensationa
: scenes, thinl; of some Of those passages from
our great novclists which have charmed
them roost--of Rebecca in the castle witt
lvanhoe; OF the mad lady tearing the vel
I of the expnclant bride in Jane Eyre; o
Y Lady Ca lawoOd as, in her indignation, sh,
: explains to the Duke Of Hamilton Harr,
'. iSmont'S right 10 be present az the mar
: riage of his Grace with Beatrix
J. Truth lei there be--truth of description
n truth of character, human truth us to mel
e and women. If there be such truth | d.
a not know that a novel can be too sensa
t tional."
/ The highest salary ever paid in Bosto
|, was that OF Wiley Edmonds, who at til
time of his death, was receiving $5Q9G0 pc
= annum as treasurer of the Pacific Mill,