The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-21
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

Hon. Jesse D. Bright died in Balti
more last evening.
The Lucas County Council of Patrons
of Husbandy meet in Toledo to-day.
Ex-Queen Amelia, widow Of the late
King Otho, of Greece, died yesterday.
Justice swayne, OF the U. 5. Supreme
Court, IS visiting his sons in Toledo. His
wife accompanies him.
Business in Nashville was generally
suspended yesterday in honor OF the
Mecklenburg Centennial.
Geo. Reber, a pioneer resident of San
dusky, and prominent member of the
bar, was buried yesterday.
John OFT, Of Macarthur, Ohio, hanged
himself in a stable yesterday. Finan-
cial and other troubles had driven him
deranged.
Charles Goudy, OF Ironton, was SEN
fenced by Judge Harper to the Peniten-
tiary for four years, for stabbing with in
tent to kill.
The contract for constructing the new
bridge over the Monongahela river AT
Pittsburg was awarded to the American
Bridge Company, OF Chicago.
John Bloker, proprietor Of the CoIum.
bia Avenue Restaurant, in Sandusky,
had his left hand crushed in the cog.
wheels of a large ice-cream freezer.
At Adair, Mich, Mrs. Giles and Mrs
Liss0n were thrown from a carriage by
runaway horse, and Mrs. Giles jaw
was broken and Mrs. Lisson severely
injured.
Mrs. II. n. X. Gof, President of the
Women's Temperance League Of Penn.
sylvanla, addressed a crowded house al
the Methodist EpiscopaI Church, this
evening.
Lima Chapter No. 40, Royal Arch M a
sons, went to st. Mary's yesterday
afternoon for the purpose of conterrng
the Royal Arch degree upon the breth-
rem there.
Messrs. Wbittle and Bliss, the evan
| gellsts, continue to draw immense
crowds at the Memphis Opera-house, buI
thus far their labors have excited but
little enthusiasm.
The Northwestern Ohio Medical Asso.
ciatlon meets at st. Mary's to-day. A
large attendance is anticipated, and the
session will prove the most interesting
and profitable of any yet held.
| Louis Grantich, Of Detroit, undertook l
to shoot his wife with a rifle, but sht
escaped, and he placed the muzzle of the
gun to his mouth and fatally wounded
himself. He was drunk at the time.
In St. Louis 665 bonds of $1,000 each
bearing 6 per cent. interest, We're award
ed to Netler & Co., New York, at 81, ,O32 3,
each bond. Drexel, Morgan II Co., New
| York, were the next highest bidders, a
~, ,022 go each bond.
Mrs. Nancy Madison, relict OF Lieu
tenant General William Madison, who
was a brother of Ex-President James
Madison, died at her home. near Lancas
| ter, o., on the 18th. She was, the las
Revolutionary pensioner in Fairfield
county.
I While two. young men from Bunke
Hill, were standing in the Touring mill
OF Nutter Brothers, at Brighton, Illinois
the floor of the second story tell, KILN.
one instantly and severely injurIng th'
other. Several other persons standing
near by were slightly hurt.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
watchman at Nef's siding, four miles
west OF Bellair, was attacked by a
tramp, last night, with intent to rob
badly cut up, but succeeded in beatins
him off, and the tramp escaped.
| At a meeting last night of the Commit
| Je6 VI New OTlCdHS ur6Enen laVIn,
charge Of the proposed excursion Of fire
men to Liverpool, a resolution wa
adopted inviting the fremen of Chicago
Cincinnati, st. Louis, Louisville, Mem
phis, Mobile, Galveston and other cite
| to participate. The excursionists leave
there about the 25th OF June.
A letter from lighthouse-keeper a
the southwest point Of AnticOsta Island
says that on the 22d of November las
the brigantine Orient ran ashore seyel
miles from that island. The Captain
and seven men were frozen TO death ii
the rigging, and six men perished in al
tempting to reach the shore. Joyce, tn
chief mate, and Moore, deck-hanJ
landed safely, but were badly frozen.
The Memphis Water-works were sol
at auction Yesterday for the benefit @
the first mortgage bondholders' aud wer
purchased by W. p. Wallace, Presiden
of the New York Guarantee and Indem
Unity Company; Chas. Keep, Manager q
4, the Holly Water-works Company, q
Lockport, N. T., and William Goodman
Vice President of the Third Nations
Bank, of Cincinnati, each of which inst
tutions held large amount of the bonds
The price paid was one hundred an
seventy thousand dollars, being littl
more than half the cost of the works.