The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-04-16
WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER.

A double daily stage line is to be put
on between Sidney, Neb., and Harney's
Peak, distance Of 1852 miles.
The Pittsburg Iron Workers Associa-
tion has determined to start their mills
at the old price, 50 81 per ton.
A fire at Sheboygan yesterday, de-
stroyed Croker, Bliss & CO.'S chair fac
tory. Loss, 100000. Insurance, $4,000.
General Crook, lately placed in COM
mand Of the Department Of the Platte,
Headquarters at Omaha, arrived there
to-day.
All the New York theaters will give a
benefit on the 10th ior the family of the
late Dan Bryant, who are lett totally
destitute.
Gov. Chamberlain, Of South Carolina,
has decided to veto the onerous tax bill
passed by the Legislature at the close of
the recent session. :.
A man named John Britton, living
near Elkhorn, Neb., committed suicide
by stabbing himself in the neck yester-
day. Cause unknown.
Two col0red murderers, named Bunch
and Hardee, sentenced to be hung to-day
at Charleston, S. e., have been rsspited
for one week by the Governor.
J.. W. Sneethe, supposed to be the se-
nior member OF the firm of j. w. Sneethe
d Co., BANKERS of San Francisco, shot
hln.self in New York on Wednesday.
Lewis Fogelsong, salOon-keeper, Of
Cannon, o., was yesterday sentenced to
fifty days imprisonment in the County
Jail hnd to pay a fine of $l00, for selling
liquor TO minors.
Henry and Eli Bond, Of Brownsville,
Tenn, who killed George Medlin, Clerk
OF The County Court there, last week,
have been admitted to bail in sums OF
$4,000 and $4,000, respectively.
There has been trouble along Bitter
Greek Valley for several days caused by.
high water. The Union Pacific track
mas been washed away in several places.
No trans over that portion of the road
to-day. and none expected for two days.
George Reynolds, of Salt Lake, sem
fenced several days ago to one years
Imprisonment and $500 tlne for polygamy,
was before the Court yesterday, and
bonds were accepted for his appearance
before the supreme Court, to which the
case has been appealed.
Hubbard Colby, of Mansfield, has CON-
menced suit against James Purdy, Esq,
the velierable EX-President of the Farm
ers' National Bank, Tor malicious prose-
cution in the case OF his arrest for en-
bezz .ement last week. Damages are
CLAIMED to the extent of $4,000.
The Congregational Council, called to
consider the resignation of Rev. e. b.
Falrcnild, d. D., OF. Mansfield, met yes
terday. After hearing the statement OF
both parties, tue Council reported unani-
mously approving the action oil both pas
tor and people, and passed resolutions
h trh Qnl1ult, nd a tOrV Of hath
All attempts to compromise the trouble
between the heirs OF the late Capt. T.. B.
Ward, of Detroit, have failed, ana it
seems certain that a bitter litigation
will follow. The estate is estimated at
"a, oU0,OO0, with debts of $1,0OO,OoO, and
there is danger that i'll chancery its
value will be greatly diminished.
James Sheridan, brakeman on the
Cleveland u Pittsburg Railroad, was i'll
stantly killed at the Federa-street
crossing, in Allegheny City,, yesterday.
He lost mis- ioOtlng and tell under the
wheels, the train passing over ham and
mangling him in a terrible manner. De-
ceased was about thirty years of age, and
unmarried.
The Defiance County Agricultural AS
sociation has purchased sixty acres of
land of G.. Holgate for the purpose of
holding an annual falr. A half-mile
track is to De built, and it will be one OF
the finest in the northwestern part OF the
State. The work of preparing the
grounds for the fair next iall will be
pushed forward rapidly.
Two bodies. were found In New river,
near Cotton Hill, W. Va, yesterday,
which proved to be those of two men
named Hugh Swope and John Thaekery,
who were drowned with three other men,
on the 7th OF March, between Hawks
Nest. and Cotton Hill. The body of Mr.
| Thackery will be taken to Ohio, where
he resides. The body Of Mf. SWope is
too mucn decomposed TO admit of trans
portation. He also lived in Ohio.
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A correspondent who has been to see
GariDaldi AZ his nome says: We alight-
ed and went up some stone steps into a
large, bare room, most poorly furnished,
in which was a long table covered with
q blue cloth, and holding a number of pa
pers, at which sat the General. He wore
black skull cap, embroidered in blue,
and was dressed in his red shirt and
trousers of a. gray blue, like our army
cloth. He was wrapped also in gray
cloak, lined with red, which was thrown
Fup .picturesquely over his shoulders. In
the back OF the room ON a low seat sat a
u WOLdtis uoiuiuS on uCl In q INA HILL
cent great sleeping boy, twenty Two
months old. This WAS his WiIe,an Italian
peasant woman; The child was Garipal-
dis baby. He welcomed us kindly in
broken English, and apelogized for not
shaking hands with us because he was
suffering with rheumatism in his hands
and arms. Afterward, when he took out
his hands from under his cloak to, get
his handkerchief, we saw that they
were frightiully affected with infamma-
tory rheumatism. They looked like the
hands the beggars thrust at you in the
street. But has tacel such a facet No
picture gives you the least idea OF it. i
lancied him rather a rough, bronzed old
fellow, but ihis complexion is exceed
ingly delicate, his features perfect, his
eye brilliant and gentle, and his manner
striking in a certain dignitied simplicity,
utterly without pretensien or common
ness. You at once become aware in ad-
dressing Garlbaldi OF that singular per-
sonal charm which has made him SO
powerful. He is wonderfully magnetic,
and as a grave, quiet, slow way of say
ing things that made them seem inevit-
able as fate. We talked to him about
his plan for changing the course of the
Fiber, and thus improving the condition.
of the Campagna, which he supposes
can be accomplished in about twenty