The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-12
WHAT THE WIRES wHISPER.

reported all killed.
Horace White sailed. for Europe yes
terday, to be absent yeay.
There is still nc change in the West
Virginia Senatorial struggle.
Specie shipment to Europe yesterday,
$2oS,O00, In silver and gold bars.
A shooting match at Greenfield, O., to-
day, is attracting large crowd.
The specie in tho Bank of France has
increased 72,021 900 francs the past week.
An effort is now being made to locate
the West Virginia capital at Martins.
burg.
Thomas Fetters, Of Lancaster, Ohio,
fell from scaffold yesterday, breaking
two ribs.
The tobacco men Of Louisville protest
vigorously against the proposed tax as
ruiLous to the trade.
Several persons were hurt, but no one
Killed, by an accident yesterday on the
Iron Mountain railroad.
A daughter OF Mr.. Samuel Glass, of
Wilmington, o., fell ON the ice, breaking
her arm and collar bone.
The Alton and St. Louis Railroad has
declared five per cent. dividend on the
earnings OF the iast SIX months.
Monday, March 1st, will be observed
by the African Methodists as day OF
fasting and prayer for the Civil Rights
Bill.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
is said TO have sold its wharf property
and franchises in San Francisco, valued
at $500, 900 Tor $ij0,0U0.
The sixteenth joint ballot for the Min
nesota Senatorship was without siguifi-
canoe; Ramsey had Al, Cochron 46, Davis
33; scattering, about as usual.
john W. Minehart and Win. Hampton
had difficulty i'll Brownsville, Pa, last
Saturday night, and the former received
injuries from which he died yesterday.
The puddlers in Painters and several
other Pittsburg furnaces have resumed
work on terms offered Dy the proprietors,
aud indications now are the strike Is
about at an end.
The followingis is the vote in the Florida
Legislature for U. s. Senator: 9. w.
Jones, Democrat, 40; Brisbee, Radical,
rs; rest scattering. Jones had the sup-
port of the Democrats and Independent
Republicans.
TIE National Association of Stove.
makers, in session at Chicago, yesterday
fixed the prices at which stoves are To
be sold as follows: 81 cents per pound
tor common, cents lor medium, and I
cents for best.
The smallpox has made is appear
ance in Logan, Ohio. AS yet 1t 10 con-
fined to one family, there being three
members OF the family afflicted. The
City Council are taking measures to pre-
vent its spread.
The verdict of three hundred dollars
in the Williams case against the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad
Company, at Bucyrus, Ohio, was set
aside by the Judge yesterday, it not be-
ing in accordance with the charge OF the
Court.
James Young, indicted for burglary
and larceny at Cambridge, Ohio, was
tried yesterday and found guilty. Thos.
Bell, indicted Tor the same Offense, came
into Court and plead guilty to the
charge. Both were remanded to Jail for
sentence.
A fire took place in Cambridge, Pa,
yesterday, which destroyed b. M. Sher-
wood s. Co.'s saw planning mill and shOv.
el-handle mandatory; also, Pendleton
& Snerwood's large cheese factory.
Loss over $4,000; no insurance. The Or
lgin OF the fire is unknown.
A dispatch from Laramie City, Wyo-
ming, states that as an emigrant train
bound west was leaving Table Rock Sta
tion, yesterday, u passenger named
Charles Mcfarland, of Addison, o., shot
himself through the heart. He was much
under the influence of liquor.
The National Hotel, Spring Lake
Michigan, was entirely destroyed by fire
last night, caused by defective Chin
ney. Scarcely anything was saved.
The same was nearly destroyed last Au-
gust, and had recently been reopened.
Loss $4,000; covered by insurance.
John W. Minehart, aged about twenty
six years, died ut Brownsville, Penn,
yesterday morning, from injuries sup
posed to have been received ut the hand
Of William Hampton, ,saged about 19, on
last Saturday evening. Hampton gave
himself up yesterday, aud is now in the
Jail. An inquest was held
yesterday at 3 O'Clock, but up to that
time nothing definite had been ascer-
tanned.
Mayor Zollinger, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
yesterday received a telegram from In
dlanapolis apprising him OF the passage
of Mr.. Belps bill in the Senate. The bill
DTOvlQcS lOT lu6 ulStIlCbluS Vi tue DtaGe,
and requires the location of an asylum
in the Northern and Southern Districts.
The passage OF the bill is regarded as a
victory over Indianapolis, and was gain
ed by only small vote. 1t probably as
sures the location OF the Northern insti-
tuition at either Logansport or Fort
Wayne.
The National Grange, in session at
yesterday authorized the
Executive Committee to select loca-
tion Tor the offices of the body, and to
lease the necessary buildings. The ac-
lion with reference to the loan of money
by the National Grange to State
Oranges was so amended as to make the
oan Tree of interest. Two additional
members of the Executive Committee
we're elected, viz: D. T.. Chase. New
and John T. Jones, Arkan-,
,as, Tor three years each; ID. W. Aiken,
Of South Carolina, was reelected for
,hree years, and VIM. Sanders, of WASH
ngton, and E. B. Shankland, Of Iowa,
leld over, making the committee five in
all. An appropriation was made for the
oranges Of Kansas and Arkansas.
What becomes of all the French that
s taughk in the United States? For the
number of our home-educated country
men and countrywomen in Paris who
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