The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-26
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER

The furniture store of Il. Skees, CALI
polls, o., was destroyed by fire yester-
day.
A rainstorm at Baltimore, Monday
night, has made necessary postpone
ment OF the Pamlico races.
The Toledo Board of Trade resolved
to hold no session on Saturday, which
will be observed as Decoration Day.
A number Of bank cashiers met in New
York City, yesterday, and perfected ar
rangements for banking Convention at
Saratoga.
The trial Of Jacob Hade at Mansfield,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from the
Farmers National Bank, commences
this morning.
William Meredith has been appointed
store-keeper for the First Missouri Dis
trict and Linden A. Smith gauger for the
same District.
! One Of the most prominent citizens OF
| Youngstown, o., VIM. Bonnell, Of the
firm of Brown, Bonnell 81 Co., died last
night, aged 65 years.
Hon. Buford Wilson, Solicitor Of the
Treasury Department, is in Chicago to
aid in the investigation Of the whisky
frauds in that section.
A fire on the tow-boat Aspinwall, at
New Orleans yesterday, caused damage
to the amount OF several thousand
dollars. Fully insured.
Schuyler Colfax and Grand Sire Dur
ham, Of Kentucky, delivered addresses
on Monday at Whitly, Ontario, on the
dedication OF an Odd-fellows' Hall.
John Blodgett, of the Treasury De-
partment, who has been Investigating
frauds in the importation of silks, etc.,
in New York, arrived in Chicago yester-
day on tour OF inspection.
The body of Michael Moir, a Detroit
carpenter, who disappeared about three
weeks ago, was found at Detroit yester-
day in the here. He was probably
drowned while intoxicated.
The Corn Exchange OF Toronto held a
meeting yesterday and resolved to ap.
point q solicitor to protest, before the
taxation OF grain stored In elevators.
Friends of the late General John G.
Breckenridge met at the st. Charles
adopted resolutions eulogizing the life
land character of the deceased states.
man.
The General Assembly Of Rhode
Island, in Grand Committee, elected
Henry Lippett Governor, and Henry L.
Sisson Lieutenant Governor. The Off
GERS were sworn in and the election com.
lpleted.
| An Executive Committee of one hum
dred and twenty-five Of the most promi-
nent ladies in st. Louis, headed by Mrs.
General Sherman, has been appointed to
take charge of the Centennial interests
In Missouri.
The recent sale Of the Memphis Water
j works has been set aside by consent Of
!; counsel, owing to the injunctions grow
ing out Of the sale.. Trustees will hold
} possession Of the Works, and sell again
on sixty days. notice.
Rev. w. X. Copeland, who recently
figured in tho scandal ease in Baltimore,
and who preached In one of the Baptist
churches Of New Orleans ON Sunday
last, has, ID is reported, left that city,
though shadowed by the police.
Justice Bradley, of the United States
Court of Georgia, and District Judge
Erskine, have refused to enjoin the sale
Of the Macon and Brunswick railroad
or to appoint a receiver, as petiti0ned
for by John P. Branch, of Virginia.
The suit Of Douglas county, Kansas,
against the Leayenworth, Lawrence q
Galveston Railroad, to recover lands
fraudulently issued to that road, was de.
cided BY the county receiving verdict
for 100000.
| Walter Stanley, contractor on the
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, will be
in Sandusky in few days, and will al
once commence building the road from
there to Zoar, 100 miles. The prospects
are 1attering for speedy completion OF
the whole line.
General r. F. Patterson, Collector oil
Internal Revenue in Memphis, yester-
day, seized and libeled sixty-one barrels
Tons, of that city, purchased by them OF
G. Bensberg, OF St. Louis. Mette & Sons
are believed to be innocent holders, hay
ing purchased it in good faith.
Letz, Bowman & Co.'s collleries, al
I MahOny City, resumed operations Mon.
day at 20 per cent. reduction on the basis
of 1874, tor one month, after which per.
manent arrangement with the men will
probably be made. Early resumption in
the entire anthracite region is ex.
pected.
A special r,nating of the State Dental
Association of Michigan was held at
Detroit yesterday, and requested the
Regent of the State University to ap-
point j. Taft, OF Cincinnati, Professor
Of Dental Medicine and Surgery in the
ucM uoutol ecuOoi JubI oIBduAZeu Ill COu.
nection with the institution.
Post-mortem examination ofthe horses
that have died by the disease prevail
1 ing in st. Louis VAS made by number
OF prominent physicians and veterinary
surgeons, and shows conclusively that
the diseaseis cerebro-spinal meningitis.
The malady is not spreading much, and
yields quite readily to treatment.
4 The stockholders of the United Rail-
road Companies OF New jersey yester.
day elected the following Directors for
the ensuing year: John J. Astor, VIM.
G. Cook, A. L. Dennis, Benjamin Fish,
Cambridge Livingston, Nehemiah Perry,
Isaac W. Scudder, George G. Stevens,
Robert A. Stockton, Ashbel Welsh and
Samuel Welsh.
Knt0hts Of Pythtas- Female 1hief-C Coun-
fy AudStors, eto.
Special to the Star
COLUMBUS, O., May 28.-One hundred
and thirty Knights of Pythias joined the
excursion to Cleveland from here last
evening.
framn who had hpan taknn in and