The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-15
PERSONAL.

PROFESSOR John flsKe Is occurring III
Buffalo.
Mr.. Simon Cameron was 81 years old
last Tuesday.
Senator Edmunds is member of the
Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Nathan Allen is with Comte De
Lesseps in Washington.
Mr.. Sala thinks that the American tel
egraph money order is a new wonder OF
the world.
Senator Hoar is in New York serving
on Subcommittee of Investigation into
Election Abuses
Bishop Paddock will visit st. PauPs
Church, Brookline, and administer the
rite of confirmation.
M. Victor Cherbuliez, the clever
French novelist, is just getting over an
attack of smallpox.
Lord Duferin is studying the Russian
language and can speak it reasonably
we'll. He gives an hour each day to the
work.
Mr.. Cutler, of the Nova Scotia Legis-
lature, has been member of that body
for forty-two years and is now ninety-six
years of age.
Cetywayo is reported to be anxious to
see England, and it is thought that he
will be permitted to visit that country
in the summer.
/
Mr.. E. B. Washburne has gone to the
Hot Springs of Arkansas with party OF
friends to spend month or two. 1t is
said that he will probably meet General
Grant before his return.
Mr.. Arthur Sullivan, who recently
visited the Princess Louise, is quoted in
the Boston Traveller as saying that the
Princess asked him to contradict the
report that she did not wish to return *
Canada. She loves it and came bach
with enthusiasm.
| Sardou, the dramatist, is described as 4
good talker; the only fault to be fount
with him is that he is little too quick
nervous and effervescent, and when spe
cially interested in conversation fie'
about the room like one possessed, ant
scintillating with wit.
Mr.. Longfellow has received a gift O.
beautiful book containing the name
Of 800 children who presented him las
year the chair made of the Cambridge
chestnut. The inside of the cover has ,
panel made Of the chestnut and carvet
in illustration of "The Village Black
smiths" forge.
Ex-Governor Alcorn is said to be
with one exception, "the most extensiv
and probably the most successful, cotton
planter in Mississippi" 1t was likewis
stated-by the Jackson Clarion-tha
Time has not written wrinkle on hi
brow since his retirement from politics
The Rev. William M. Baker, the au
thor Of "His Majesty, Myself" is tn
pastor Of small Presbyterian congrega
tion in Boston, and is a kindly maj
much liked in that pleasant city. He
, a slender, mddle-aged gentleman Of Vii
ginian birth. He preached in Louisian
and Texas during the war.
r Ex-Secretary McCulloch intends t
give up his New York house in May
and to return with his family to thei
t home near Washington. Mr.. McCul
loeb is quoted as saying that he prefer
r Washington to any other city; and hi
, household gods are to be set up ther
permanently, much to the regret of hi
s many friends in this city.
M. Meissonier, who owns to sixty
seven years Of existence, has handsom
! house full of beautiful artistic object
and though he has earned more moae
than any other painter in France, is $
!. fond of luxury that he is now not wort
Z! more than 100000. He receives froI
r So, 900 to 5000 for portrait. His Gu
sine is perfect, his wine-cellar "magnif
= cent" He paints very slowly, and u
y terly refuses to be hurried when execu
ing commissions.
. Mr.. Alvan Clark, the founder of IL
y y famous Cambridge Telescope Works, WE
y seventy-six years old on the 9th inst. Il
> is thoroughly stalwart man in spite {
L his many years, his gray hair being tt
only sign Of old age about him. M
: Clark traces his ancestry back to u
70 Mayfower. He is now waiting for I'll
arrival of material from Paris in ord,
= to proceed with the telescope which he
. making for the Russian Government.
| Isaac w. Hayne, Of South Carolin
4 died Sunday in his seventy-frst yea
e He was the grandson of Colonel Isa,
II Hayne, who WAS hanged ~ the Britis
'. during their occupation Of Charleston !
y the Revolutionary war, and he was
cousin of the distinguished Robert
Hayne, wbo originated the nullifcatic
resolutions of South Carolina, the su
, gestion Of which brought on the famol
q debate in the Senate between him ar
q Webster. Mr.. Hayne for twenty yea
T. preceding the reconstruction Of Sout
: Carolina was Attorney General Of tx
: State.
N Mr. r. q. NOrthrup. of Connection