The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-29
PERSONAL.
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Gen. Philip Sheridan is lying i'll OF
bronchitis in Chicago.
Miss Kate Field will return to this
country in December.
Mr.. John Bright, on November 18th,
reached his sixty-eighth year.
Captain Webb is going to California
to exhibit his swimming powers.
Hon. Alexander Fl. Stephens will be
sixty-eight years old next February.
Mr.. Joslin, of Fremont, Mich, is put
ting one thousand different woods into a
what-n0t.
VIM. Gale, of Livingston, Mich, car
ries load of shot, having been taken Tor
turkey. t5 .tI, ta.~
MIR. James Russell Lowell's house at
Cambridge, Mass, has been rented for
the winter by Mr.. Ole Bull.
President Hayes is said to have cast
his first vote in Cambridge, where he
was at the time law student.
Capt. Thos. Simpson, of Burnet, Tex,
lost his wife, and her remains are kept in
his parlor in an elegant metallic case.
President McCosh, though now seven
ty years old, is very fond of riding, and
goes out in the saddle every day for an
hour.
Mr.. John Bright is said to be deeply
read in Milton, and always carries with
him wherever he goes copy Of that great
poets greatest poem. a.
Henry Watterson, Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, thinks that in the next
election three or four Southern States
may 60 for the Republicans.
Louis A. Wilt, Democratic candidate
for the Governorship of Louisiana, has
been compelled by i'll health to retire
from an active canvass of the State.
Gov. Colquit, of Georgia, is said to be
the handsomest Governor in the United
States. He is also the most pious. Eli
Perkins is still the champion go-as-you-
please truth eyader.
Senator Beck, while deer-hunting be-
tween the rivers, in Lyon County, was
seriously, but not dangerously, hurt by
his horse falling with him. Fourteen
deer were killed by the party.
Of Victor Hugo, Mr.. Boyesen says in
Scribner that there is nothing in his ap-
pearance, except his close-cropped white
hair and few expressive wrinkles, to
betray bis age-seventy-seven years,
Captain Crokat, who witnessed the
, death of Napoleon /, and who was the
, original of the "Officer on Guard" in
Steuben's well-known engraving, has just
died at Edinburgh, General of ninety
one years of age.
Mr.. Caswell, the founder of the firm Of
Caswell & Hazard, of New York, has
taken possession Of his new villa at New.
port, which has been in course of erec-
tion for over year. The estate is worth
, about 100000. The house cost about
$45, 900.
Mr.. George H. Boxer, the Philadelphia
! Press says, declined to be considered /,
T candidate for the United States Senate
! He enjoys his leisure and his books, ant
while he would not object to be repre-
senting the people at Washington, h
| regards the rumor as absurd.
Y Rev. Sir Henry John Cunning was
t on October 23rd, married to France
d Rose, daughter of Hon. and Rev. w. II
= Spencer, rector of Great Houghton, North
/ amptonshire, England. Sir Henry Gun
8 ming is in the eighty-third year of his age
f and his bride was born in the year 1916
:, Mr.. Edward Whymper, the first Eng
W lishman who successfully assembled tn
:, Matterhorn, has gone to South Americs
y where he intends to utilize the expert
u ence he gained in the Alps by explorin
> and attempting the ascent of the Grea
d Andes. He is accompanied by two q
:, J. his old Alpine guides. ,....
If Admiral Sherer, one of the last SUI
re vivors of Parrys Arctic Expedition, an
ys who was an English midshipman on tn
=. Spencer during the last war between tn
70 country and Great Britain, has just die
ar on the Isle of Jersey. He rendered 9
" one time great service in the suppressio
" of the slave trade in the West Indies.
General Garibaldi, in newspaper lie
ter complaining of the Roman post
authorities, says: "Considering the col
- dition to which Italy is reduced, it is NJ
T. difficult to find robbers even in the Pos
a Office. Every post lose your and 9TH
~ y journals. During life, yours,
H. "G. GARIBALDI."
" On William Ellery Channing's cente
ar NAL birthday, next April, the corne
Nv stone of the Claiming Memorial Chur.
Al at Newport is to be laid with due cer
no no mony. DR.. Channing's nephew, the Re
he w. H. Charming, Of London, will gi
Of the address, and DR.. Bellows will pos
It. bly, speak on the evening before the Gel
o. mony. '-.'
ID Mr.. A. Bronson Alcott will be on 81
IT urday eighty years old. He is b
tn slightly stopped, and his voice in lectr
IN ing is clear. He said in lecture t
rit other day, Of Emerson's method
nd writing, that every thought is pal
of g, ,aph, and that to him it makes
is difference whether he reads the ess
st. backward or forward. 3D..