The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-24
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.


Mrs. B. F. Wade, who was lately ill, has
recovered.
Mrs. southworth has Just finished her
tifty-ninth romance.
Lydia Thompson's husband is said to be
worth half million.
Mrs. Bradford, of Cortland, Ohio, lately
strangled in a coughing tit
Mrs. Martha Miller, the grandmother of
J. i. B. Stuart died in Gates County, N.
c., a few days ago.
Mrs. Catharine Chase Sprague is about to
leave her estate of Edgewood, and to live
in Washington City.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the
daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, has
completed her first novel, and it will soon
be printed as serial in the Boston Cour-
ier.
Miss Kitty Cooke, daughter of Ex-Gov-
ernor Henry D. Cooke, of Washington, was
married last Wednesday to Mr.. John Ma
gruder, a wealthy young citizen of the far
West
Miss Marietta Hawley, authoress of "My
Opinions and Betsy Babbitt's" Samantha
at the Centennial" etc, is engaged on a
work to be called "Samantha's Views on
Mormonism."
Mrs. Frank Ponche, of Miles, Mich, who
supposed her husband lost on the Pomme-
rania last November, has received letter
from him. He is in Germany, and has been
too ill to write since the disaster
Fanny Kembles "Records of Girlhood"
was published last week, and the advance
orders for it have been SO great up to that
time that the publishers were obliged to 60
to press at once for second edition.
Miss Josie Baker, daughter of Prof. 0. II.
Baker of lndianola, ILL.,, has recently been
appointed a tutor of the Greek language at
Simpson College in that place She is only
sixteen years old, but reads and writes
Greek f1uently.
Mrs. Nesbitt, a Kankakee 1ll. invalid.
was being kept alive by stimulants and
could have lived only few DAYS longer
under any circumstances. A blundering
druggist gave her fatal dose of laudanum
for port wine. His defense is that no real
harm was done.
Anna Darbie prosecuted Edward Boone,
in Owensboro, KY, for alleged SANDER An
ticipating verdict for the defendant, she
provided herself with rawhide before 60
ing to court, and Just as he began to smile
over his acquittal, struck him several blows
across the face.
Agnes Robertson Mrs. Boucicault) said
the other day: "For years we PLAYED The
Colleen BaWn, and it became almost insup-
portable. To illustrate how mechanical it
all grew, need only say that if there was
any sudden change in the cast, forgot my
lines utterly at the first sound of the strange
voice."
Mrs. Mayant McEllier native of Ire
land, died at Montreal, aged, it is said, one
hundred and eight years and ten months.
She leaves two daughters, aged seventy
eight and eighty-three years respectively
| four grandchildren, twenty three great
grandchildren, and one great-great-grand-
child aged ten years.
Miss Chloe Lankton of New Hartford,
Conn, has just completed the collection of
one million cancelled postage stamps. She
began in October last, gentleman in Phil
adelphia having offered her 5000 if she
would get the stamps for him, the money
to be used in getting for her life residence
in Home for the Friendless.
Nine. Christine Nilsson bought, in 1868,
from the City of Paris tract in the angle
between the Rue de lEmpereur and the
Rue de Morny, on condition that she should
within certain time place buildings upon
it. The lady having neglected to do so, was
lately condemned to comply with the con-
ditions or forfeit the ground, as in its unat-
tractive condition, with a board fence
around, it destroyed the harmony of its
surroundings.
Miss Fairbank, of Altrincham, was re-
Gently solicited for aims by a respectable
but destitute woman who could not bury
her husband. Miss Fnrbank went to the
house, found all the signs of abject poverty,
inspected the corpse, and being satisfied
that the woman was deserving, gave her
some money and departed. She forgot her
umbrella, and returning for it shortly af.
terwards found the corpse and widow boil.
ing drunk, dancing about the room.
Mrs. Hammond (Lou. Capsadel), the Sec
retary of the Authors Publishing Com
pany, of New York, was for long time 9
resident of Vincennes, Ind, and later was
for some time a school teacher in Ken
lucky. She afterwards became acquainted
with and married wealthy gentleman Of
Pennsylvania, who left her widow after .
short married life, and she invested largely
in the Company, and has already published
two volumes through its medium-"Hel
Waiting Heart and How to BE Beauti
full"