The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-11
PERSONAL.

halph WALDO emerson Ii 1f, anu
enjoys good health. !
Ole Bull. the King Of Fiddlem, was N
years Of age Tuesday.
w. II. Vanderbilt is in Florida with
his wife and children.
Ben Butler has one eye on next years
Gubernatorial nomination. /
Ex-Governor Rice of Massachusetts,,
is for Grant. So is "Boss" Shepard. !
Governor Gear, of Iowa, thinks his
State ranks as No. 6 in Importance In thejl
Union. q. rHa
Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has
sufficiently recovered to resume his epis-
oopal dnties. tea.5n oa
King Alfonso has been shot at for two. !
weeks, and begins to fear that things are1
going wrong in Spain.
Captain Carey, Of Zulu fame, is at
Malta, where his brother officers are very
courteous toward him.
General Robert Toombs is to give the ]
address this year before the Literary So
cieties of the University Of Mississippi.
Peter Cooper was eighty-nine years of
age week ago, nine years older than his
only brother, VIM. Cooper, who died
Monday night.
Ex-senator 'Conover, of Florida, is ,arl-
thority for the statement that he re-
Gently made respectable fortune" in
patent for coupling freight cars.
Judge S. H. Huntington, formerly Of
Che United States Court of Claims, and
the Oldest member of the Hartford
Conn bar, died last Wednesday.
F. B. Nance, one of the most promin-
,ent Irishmen in Canada, President Of the
st. Patrick's Society, Montreal, is to pre-.
sent the address of welcome of that city
to Mr.. Parnell.
Lord Beaconsfield' 3 face is getting to4
be covered with Fuckers and wrinkles,
but his hair is little changed from its
youthful raven black. His health is said
to be failing. i
Herr Ritter, the Prussian Minister of
Finance, has a considerable reputation
in Germany as musical critic, and the,
second edition of his 'Tife Of Bach" has
just appeared at Berlin.
Lord Beaconsfield as host lis amiable
but,not companionable. He seldom joins
in conversation, sitting wrapped in his
own thoughts, and if addressed replying
with some mystic truism.
David Stuart, the noted merchant of
Philadelphia and Liverpool, has just
died in England in his seventy-third
year. He was man ofstrong character
and excellent business talent.
Mr.. Harris, formerly Of Preston, Eng
land, has left that town 81, ,250, 900 for
educational purposes, and i$500,000 to
what is known as the Queen Anne's
Bounty Fund for aiding poor clergy.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair is reported by
the Washington Star as saying that Mr..
George Bancroft is even ,prouder of own
ing his new thoroughbred, which he daily
rides, than Of writing the;history of the
United States.
Clark Mills, the venerable sculptor,
who now lives at Washington, offers
Tennessee counterpart of his $4,000
equestrian statue of Andrew jackson, in
front of the White House, for $4,000,
to be placed On the Capitol Grounds at
Nashville.
Charles Jones, q third owner of Lead
Vile mine worth 81, 900, 900, died with
out making q will. A lawyer, taking
advantage Of asmall mortgage, gotfraud-
,ulent possession of the property: but
some miners discovered the scheme, and
have found heirs in apoverty-stricken
Vermont family. '.a.l.
Mr.. 'Ruskinis quoted as saying: "You
fancy you are sorry for the pain Of
others. Now I tell you just this, that if
the usual course Of war, instead of un-
roofing peasants houses and ravaging
peasants fields, merely broke the china
upon your own 'drawing-room tables, no
war in civilized countries would last a
week." ..5...- ..9 I
Mr.. James Knox Polk, namesake and
granddaughter of the late ex-President,
has just been married at Nashville.
Colonel Polk, the father of the bride
groom, is State Treasurer of Tennessee.
The venerable widow of the ex-Presi-
dentsis greatly attached to his nephew,
and tits Ito him that her husbands es-
tate will probably.go, some'day.
DR.. Gerhardt Rohlfs, The eminent AT
rican traveller, has returned to Berlin
from his last unsuccessful attempt to
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