The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-11
NEWS FROM POINTS AROUyD.

WILMINGTON, O.--J. Y. Van Pelt, soi
crusade lame, who was at work break.
ing rock in the calaboose, under sentence
for thirty days for disturbing colored
meeting, escaped last night. No attempt
will be made to arrest him, as iG adds
much to the quiet and good order Of our
town to be without his distinguished
presence.
The spelling match last night in Pres.
toms Hall, for the benefit of the poor
was quite a success. The prize, five
dollar gold piece, was won by Miss Effie
Mcmillan, which was by her donated to
the poor.
The snow has almost disappeared.
The grand jury returned thirty-one in
dictments.
FRANKLIN, O.-The spelling match fe-
yer has at last broken out here. On Fri.
day night last the Presbyterian Church
was crowded by an interested audience
Miss Lucy Schenck gained the prize, a
copy of Shakespeare.
Another "spel" took place on Tuesday
evening at the same place 'just for fun.'
On Friday evening next at the Methods
Church there will be another match. 81
you see the fever is upon us, most as baG
as the smallpox was.
The smallpox has about left us, only
one case remaining, and that is half a
mile below the southern boundary of the
corporation.
We had our share Of the big snow.
storm on Sunday afternoon. The heavy
tall of snow is last disappearing.
Mr.. Jacob Miller and Miss Mollie e.
Ackley were married on Sunday even-
ing, Feb. %, by Rev. 5. Brewster.
/ Mrs. Debora s. McCabe died on Satur-
day, Feb. 27, in her I'D year.
URBANA, O.-The travelling public will
read with regret that Mr.. Thomas D.
Downing, Junior proprietor OF the Weav.
er House, is lying seriously Ill with in.
hammation Of the stomach. He was at.
tackled suddenly while at church, last
Sunday.
Ubana's latest sensation was that lee.
ture on "Auricular Confession" deliv-
cred by one j. G. White, last Thursday
evening. "Admission 25 cents" 1t was
an indecent TRADE against the Catholic
Church, interspersed with beastly jokes.
Hear what gallant Gen. Ben. P. Run
kle, editor of the Union, says Of this
slanderous peddler of lascivious lies,
and his lecture. Runkle, himself, has
no prejudices in favor Of Catholicism, as
he tells us in his scathing two column
review of the "Rev." White, that he is
s.the son of a Protestant father, raised
in the Presbyterian Church, taught III
the Presbyterian Sabbath-schools, and
educated at Protestant College," The
General says: ave can not report this
villainously indecent harangue. 1t was
utterly unit to read or hear. If every
word he uttered had been true, it would
have been nevertheless too vile for utter
ance."
'"The true character OF this man stood
boldly forth in all its ghastly deformity
when he said. "the women OF neighbor-
ing town Piqua we suppose he Deant)
tramped down the snow all around the
house when l lectured there, trying to
hear what sort OF instructions their hus-
bands were getting; but If any are out
there and can stand it l can. Gentle
reader, think of that; in the next town
he comes to he will say the same thing.
"He then proceeded to make an out
rageous attack on the Sisters of Charity,
an attack which would have cost him his
life had he made it in any Union hospital
during the late war; why, ,the blue-coated
cripples woula have beaten him to death
with their crutches. Attack the Sisters
of Charity, accuse them. of keeping
Founding Hospitals for the care of the
offspring Of priests and. nuns, the scoun-
dreiW
The General goes on TO say: "The
writer OF this, in common with thou
sands of soldiers who wore the blue, and
are ready to wear it again, owes his life
to the Sisters OF Charity, and OF the two
that cared for him when half naked,
bloody and dirty, he was taken from the
deck 6f the steaher to the hospital, one
was niece OF one of Ohio's great
est statesmen, and the other one
OF the play mates OF his early
youth, and any man who says that these
devoted, seli-sacrificing women belong
to any order that is not pure in its teach
&ng. it's precepts and principles, speaks
falsely and the truth is not in him. For
thirteen years he has awaited an oppor-
tunity to give them some faint assurance
of his gratitude, and he here says that
nothing but the respect he has for the
house of God. prevented him from de-
nouncing the slanderer where ne Stood"
HAMrLroN.4The jury in the case OF
Lehman, indicted for obtaining money
under false pretenses, returned yer-
dict of not guilty.
A call has been made, by the Demo-
cratic Advisory Committee ier. q meet
ing to be held IN Beckett's Hail, Satur-
day night, for the purpose OF consider