The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-05
WHAT THE WIRES Whisper.


The Guernsey county Changers are ac.
lively at work.
Thomas Stevens, an old and wealthy
citizen OF Fort Wayne, died yesterday.
The next Convention OF the Butter and
Egg Dealers will be held at Davenport,
Iowa.
The Louisiana Legislature adjourned
last night, and that OF Arkansas at noon
to-day.
The Pennsylvania Democratic Conven.
tion will meet in Erie ON the Sth Of Sep.
tember.
The Pennsylvania Republicans will
hold their State Convention at Lancaster
May 26.
Several more attempts have been made
to fire the coal shafts of the Brazil min
Ing district.
The Adams Express clerk wanted at
Fort Wayne can not be found. Detec-
tives are still at work.
The residence of A. Snider, in the
northern part of Fairfield county, was
entirely destroyed by fire Monday even.
ing.
The United Kingdom Grand Steeple
Chase at Croydon yesterday was won
by Lowell, st. Aubin second, and Belle
third.
Specie in the Bank of France has in
creased six million one hundred and
eighty EIGHT thousand francs the past
week.
The Standing Committee of the Dio.
oese OF Texas refuse their consent to
the conservation of Bishops Jaggar and
De Koven.
Advices from Buenos Ayres state that
the palace OF the Catholic Archbishop OF
that city was sacked and the houses OF
|'Jesuits set on fire.
Sharkey, the escaped murderer, ar.
rested in Havana on complaint Of the
Captain Of the steamer Crescent City,
has been released.
VIM. Lose, Of Tiffin, o., while endeav.
oring to harness vicious colt, was
kicked in the head, fracturing mis- skull,
and he Will die from the injuries.
The fraud who has at various, times
swtndled the public under pretense OF
being a nephew of Gen. X. Il. Lee, last
made his appearance al Cambridge, o.
The store room and entire stock of
goods owned by Pitts, Fenton g. Co., at
Edinburg, Pa, was burned yesterday.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000. Origin OF
the fire unknown.
The .bullion in the Bank of England
has decreased 922S, 900 the past week.
The proportion of Dank reserve to liabil-
ity, which last week was 431z per cent,
is now 39H per cent.
Captain General Concha, before leav-
ing Cuba for Spain, pardoned Senior Mic
eto Sola, formerly editor of the Republic
can journal, Ell Tribune, sentenced to
two years banIshment.
! Brown, to be executed March oath, at
Pottsville, Pa, for the murder of an old
couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Kramer, has made
full confession of guilt, stating that he
committed the murder and had no ac-
complice.
Four colored men demanded admission
to the new Memphis theater last night,
and were given seats in the dress circle,
Manager Dovey having abandoned the
idea OF contesting their right to do so in
the courts.
A double tenement house in Port Full
ton, an eastern suburb Of Jeffersonville,
Indiana, belonging to McMinus Il Nanny,
valued at $1,000, took fire from detect
i've flue and was totally destroyed, be-
sides $500 worth of wearing apparel and
furniture badly damaged by nre and wa
ter. Insurance $500, in the Royal of Liv-
erpool.
The meeting of miners of the Scranton
region, called for the purpose OF effecting
a strike or a curtailment of the produc-
ton of coal in aid of their brethren OF
the Schuylkill, Wilkesbarre and Lehigh
regions, resulted in the passage of a
mere resolution OF sympathy, the men
feeling that they can not strike without
causing misery to their families.
The wife OF James Wester, of Grand
Rapids, cut her throat with razor, and
made terrible wound, from which
blood poured in perfect stream. She
can not possibly recover. No real cause
can be assigned for the act, except that
she had been suffering from alteration
OF the mind. She has family of five
children, the eldest but six years of age.