The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-30
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

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Mrs. frankie Williams of Muhlenberg
County, KY, is 104 years old. Her hus-
band, who died only few years ago, was
soldier of the war of 1872.
Mrs. Edmunds, the wife of the SEN
ator, will sail for these shores with their
daughter on the Sth of May. They will
spend the summer in Burlington, VT.
Mrs. Hepworth Dixon is to receive
from Queen Victoria grant of $500 a
year from the Civil List, in considera-
tion of her late husbands services to lit
erature. s'-H
Mary Beane deemed herself neglected
by her lover at Denver, and shot the
man with whom she found him play
cards when he ought to have been visit
ing her. .=. .#h
The Queen has declined to let the
Prince and Princess of Wales occupy
Windsor Castle during the Ascot races
unless they will allow her to revise the
list OF their guests.
The Duchess of Marlborough has de-
clined to receive "testimoniap for her
energy in the work of Irish relief, on the
ground that she has simply done her duty
and desires no reward for it.
Princess Victoria of Hess, the eldest
of the two young ladies whose confrma-
ton their grandmother, Queen Victoria,
attended the other day, is to be married
to the heir to the Dukedom of Baden.
Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Palmerston's
last surviving daug ghter died last month
at Cannes. She was very dear friend
of Queen Victoria, who is rapidly losing
the circle which surrounded her in her
happy married life.
Miss Emily Faithful, whose visit to this
country seven years ago is remembered
with pleasure, now has it in mind to re-
turn to the United States in September
next for the purpose of repeating lect-
ure on "Modern Extravaganza; Its Cause
and Cure"
Mrs. Cavendish-B Bentinck, stepmother
of the Duke of Portland, has been made
peeress in her own right, as sop for
missing Duchess coronet. 1t is proba-
bly, chiefly due to Lord Beaconsfeld's
friendship for Lord George Bentinck,
and desire to conciliate very power
full connection.
Miss Alice Blaine, the eldest daughter
of the Senator, is described by the Wash
ington correspondent of The Albany
Journal as not pretty, but tall in figure,
and having face intense and fascinat-
ing. 1t is a coloress face, long oval in
shape. with magnificent black hair and
eyes, and glowing, scarlet lips.
Miss Louisa Alcott is said to object
extremely to lionizing by summer pill
grims to Concord, and when she sees them
coming she slips out of the back door, as
Hawthorne used to. When the Sum-
mer School of Philosophy begins she and
her sisters close the house and flee to the
seashorc, leaving Mr.. Alcott sole ruler.
Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton, whose
marriage with the Hereditary Prince Of
Monaco was annulled few months ago,
was Detrothed to the Hungarian noble
man, Count Thassilo Festeties, on the
last day of March, at Baden Baden,
where she has been residing with her
mother, the Dowager Duchess Of Hamil
ton. ..,
Empress Etgenie's crown, which has
Just been presented to the Church of
Our Lady of Victories at Paris, is COM
posed of a row of large brilliants, alter
mated with golden eagles, whose wings
meet above and support a cross of dia-
monds, while the bandeau contains sew
eral large briliants and superb emeralds
set in gold.
Consuelo, Viscountess Vaudeville,
while canvassing energetically for her
husbands election recently, was told by
rough that "they didn't come there to
hear girls talk" Lady Vaudeville, it
is reported, was not at all abashed.
"Come, come" she said, "give us a
chance! This is Leap Year, and if we
don't talk now we never shall againv
Miss Hill sued Mr.. Harrison at Say
brook, Conn, for $4,000, because he
failed to keep his promise of marriage.
She testified that she was twenty-one
years old and he sixty-three. She loved
him, she said, notwithstanding the differ
ence in their ages, though she was greatly
shocked when she learned how old he
really was. She supposed him to be
about forty, until he took off black,
curly wig, and showed a small remnant
of gray hair. She tainted at the sight,
but afterward became reconciled to him.
Then he in turn grew cool.
Princess Metternich is clever actress
The Sunday night that the news of the
Crown Princes betrothal came to Vienna
she was just about to go on the stage
erected in her own palace for private
theatricals to sing ballad adapted tc
her part, and ending with the refrain
''To that we'll all say hurrah." On she
went, according to Octavia Heusel, but
not word of the original song did she
sing With her charming talent for i'm.
provisation she made up some pretty
verxes announcipp the enpaoenent al