The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-04
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

No Senator has yet been elected from
West Virginia.
The rails were connected through the
Hoosac Tunnel yesterday.
/. Specie shipments to Europe yester-
day, $685., $50; Of which 100000 was gold
coin.
Amount of bullion withdrawn yester-
day on balance from the Bank of England
was 95S0,
Frisbie's hay press in Chicago and ten
fine horses were destroyed yesterday.
Loss, $4,000.
The $685. 900 in Southern bonds lost in
New York by Adams Express Co.. have
been recovered.
John Fyfe, one of the principal dry
goods merchants of Newark, Ohio, has
made an assignment.
The Arkansas Senate has passed the
House bill exempting meats and manu-
tactures from taxation Tor term OF seven
years.
Wolfe, Radical Representative in the
Pennsy ylvania Legislature, who raised
the row Tuesday, has been censured by a
vote oil 94 to "a.
The residence of e. Ward, NOrwalk,
Ohio, was burned yesterday afternoon.
The loss was 81, 200, fully insured. Gale
blowing, and intensely cold.
A large piece of rock fell at Cape
Blanc, crushing number of people. So
lar eight bodies have been found. No
particulars have been received.
The funeral of John Haugh took place
at Fort Wayne yestel day, and was large
ly attended. He was prominent busl-
ness man and wealthy citizen.
The residence OF George Ferner, Buoy
rus, o., was damaged bv fire yester-
day afternoon. Loss not heavy; insur-
ance in the Home, Of New York.
Very high winds prevailed at Tiffin all
day yesterday. In the afternoon a por.
tion of the Ohio Stove Works was un.
rooied, doing considerable damage.
Angus Cameron was elected Senator
from Wisconsin to succeed Carpenter
yesterday by the following vote: Cam.
eron, So; Carpenter. 80; scattering, 4.
Division Superintendent Wallick, OF
the W estern Union Telegraph Company
| was removed from Cambridge City TO In
dianapolis on special train yesterday.
The office OF the Advocate at Taleguah,
i. r., the organ OF the Cherokee nation,
was burned last night. There will be
great trouble in replacing the Cherokee
type.
Senator johnson will leave Nashville
| for Memphis tomorrow. He is expected
TO speak in that city Saturday. He will
return to Greenvilie, and 20 to Washing
Ington IN few days.
Disturbances are reported in Aspin.
wall, in consequence OF the imprison-
ment of DR.. Piggott, British subject.
A man-Oi-war has been ordered from this
port to Aspinwal to support the British
Consul, who has been assaulted.
The Tribune dollar subscrip ption fund
| for the relief Of the grasshopper suffer.
crs in Kansas and Nebraska now ex
ceeds ten thousand dollars, and is stead
| lily increasing, the receipts averaging
nearly two hundred dollars per day.
A meeting OF the Masters OF subor-
dinate oranges of Seneca county was
held at Tiffin yesterday. G. e. Park,
Wesley HoIton and u. ]. Neikert were
elected delegates to the State Grange,
to be held at Columbus OH the och OF
March.
At Chillicothe, Ohio, last evening,
about ten o'clock, some unknown woman
jumped into the canal, close to the Fifth
street bridge, and, before assistance
could reach her, was drowned. Her body
fioated under the ice, but thorough
search to-day failed TO discover its where
ab0uts.
The Western bound train on the Mid
land Pacific road was thrown down an
embankment, last night, by broken
rail, near Bennett, Nebraska. The bag
gage and passenger cars were completes
~ wrecked, and several passengers
wounded.
The Coroner's jury in the case of Con.
stable Clifford, who was killed during
the school riot in Bathurst, N. b., has
returned a verdict OF willful murder
in which Clifford was shot. Thirteen per-
sons have alreaoy been committed for
trial.
Charity Hospital at Chillicothe, Ohio,
took place last night at Summers Opera.
house. 1t was magnificent affair, and
a financial success. Over one thousand
people attended. The number of tickets
sold was over four hundred, The net
proceeds will reach 81 900.
James Young and Thomas Beall, two
young men confined in the Jail at CAM
bridge, Ohio, ior burglariZing a jewelry
store there, made a bold attempt, yester-
day, to escape by cutting out a section
of the iron lattice work around the cells.
They woul0 have gone through the brick
wall in an hour had they not been dis
covered by the Sheriff.
A largely attended meeting of bond
holders Of the Chicago, Clinton and Du-
buque, and Chicago, Dubuque and Min
nesota Railroads was held in Boston,
yesterday, to take measures for protect
ing their interests in view of the forth
coming sale of both roads under fore
closure. Resolutions were adopted pro-
yiding for the purchase of these roads
by the Eastern bondholders on such
terms as the Committee appoined for the
purpose may deem expedient.
At q Washington reception the other
evening, gentleman entered upon a.
sharp criticism of the prevailing fash
ions in female dress, but his remarks
were abruptly cut of by q sad-eyed