The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-20
WHAT THE WIRES WHISP EB.

meets in Chillioothe, Ohio, on Monday
next.
Trinity N. Il. church, Madison, Indiana
Will be dedicated Sunday by DR.. B. j
Ives, of New York.
The Presbyterian Union Bill has
passed the Legislature Council OF Que
bee, and will become a law.
The Frankfort people are becoming en-.
thusiastic on the coal road subject, and
will hold public meeting in its interest
on Monday.
Rear Admiral Chas. Fl. Bell, U. 8. n.
died of pneumonia this morning, at his
residence in New Brunswick, New Jer
sey, aged II.
The jury in the case Of Belle Parrish
who has had her third trial for aiding tc
commit rape i'll Akron, returned yer.
dict OF guilty.
at Urbana, o., the Champion Build
ing and Loan Association, with a capi-
tal stock Of $500, 900, received their cerli-
hcate OF Incorporation Thursday.
Father O'Bryne, pastor of the Catholic
church of the Good Shepherd of Toledo
has resigned to return to Ireland, to Tin
ish a historical work on that country.
The roads leading east from Chicago
hogs as follows: TO New York, Albany,
Boston and Baltimore, 10 cents; TO Phil
adelphia, 7 cents; to Buffalo, B cents.
Robema Griese, Of Boston, aged six
teen, was committed Tor raising u Ger.
tifcate of stock of the Michigan Central
| railroad from one share to sixty. Upon
this well-eXecuted certificate Dy the girl
$4,000 was obtained.
n ha nII al Iruto
ing school in the City Hall attracted d
| large crowd Thursday night. Mrs. S. s
Knabenshew spelled the class down and
won the prize--a Webster unabridged
| dictionary.
Philip Levi, arrested last Saturday, il
| Sacramento, on a requistion from Cover
nor 1ilden, of New York, for oDtaininl
goods under false pretenses, and delayed
under writ of habeas corpus, starts
East to-day i'll custody.
The plow and wagon shop Of A. NJ
Mccoy, at Frankfort, Ross county, O..
was destroyed by ire yesterday. The
| fire communicated itself to adjoining
| buildings, and for time threatened =
become disastrous. The loss was abou
$1,000.
A bill has been introduced into tht
Tennessee Legislature, providing for thu
| purchase, by the State, Of the Hermitagt
| property on which jackson is buried
near Nashville, and the erection thereon
OF a state Hospital, to be known as thu
jackson Hospital.
The ladies of Washington, Po., gave q
| Yankee supper in the Town Hall las
evening for the benefit OF the, Kansas
sufferers. he supper consisted Of Yam
| kee dishes, and The gentlemen and lady
attendants were dressed in old COS
tunes. 1t was grand success pecuni
arily.
| At Akron, o., two men, Harvey John
and James Allen, had quarrel in Sisle
& Hays drug store Thursday night. The,
afterward met in the Post-otice and re
newed the quarrel, when Johns strucl
| Allen with slung-shot, intiiciing severa
severe cuts in his head. No arrests wer,
made.
| The statement that MeComb had beer
elected President of the Memphis & Pa
ducah railroad was an error. Il. Nortor
was reelected, under q contract that ht
was to be retained as President unit
the road was completed. There is con
siderable feeling ut the action of the Nc
Comb party.
| A new twO-story frame building q
Alliance, Ohio, owned and occupied by
| Thomas VatOms as a residence and gro
Gerry, was almost totally destroyed by
| fire yesterday. Loss about 5000; insured
for $7O0 in the Forest City Insurance
Company of Cleveland, .. The fir
caught in the second story from a de
tectiye tlue over the grocery.
The Pacific steamer Arizona, from
Panama and way points, arrived at Sal
Francisco yesterday. Among her pas
| sengers are forty live Sisters of Charity
expelled from Colima and GuadaIajara
anu Mexican Land Commissioners Il
settle the land difficulty of Lower Cali
fornia. The officers of the Arizona re
port trouble and turbulence along the
Lower Coast. A religious outbreak il
imminent.
The Standing Committee of the diocese
of Illinois, through Chancellor Judd
| have issued a pamphlet in answer to the
protest issued by the opponents OF DR.
DeKoven. They alIege in their repl.
| that the election was perfectly fair, ant
that it was conducted according to tht
Canons. They made the point that j
can not be known, since the voting was
by ballot, whether the chancelors voted
for or against the candidate, and quoteC
canonical law to disprove the allegations
of dissenting members OF the Canon.
Tn Baltimore there are no new develop
ments in the railroad war, except the
following reduction by the Baltimore and
Ohio in passenger fares: From Balti
more to Kansas City, reduced from $84
to $26; to Memphis, Tenn.. from $34 20 tt
$26 IS; Nashville, from $27 10 to SIT 45
New Orleans, SAG to $3S; Omaha, $35 TO
1926; St. Joseph, $34 to $26; and st. Paul,
$33 to $24; which. has been met by cor
responding reduction by the Pennsylya-
MIA road. The rates for Western freights
are nominal, shippers in many cases
naming their own terms.
The French Crown Jewels.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
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