The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-02-27
WHAT THE WIREs Whisper.


Walston's cotton mills, near Phladei-
phia, burned last night.
Mrs. George Reed committed suicide
at Gaysport yesterday. Mental uerange-
ment.
Angus Cameron, Carpenters success
sor, announces that he Will act Win the
Republicans.
Gordon Claude, Naval Cadet at An
napoIis, was expelled for refusing 10
fence with the colored cadet.
A coal-oil lamp in Hosmerss crockery
store, Cory, Penn, exploded, settlhS
fire to the building, which, with three
adjoining ones, was destroyed.
The tobacco factory of Glenn, Pretty
man & Co., at Louisiana, Mo-, burned
last night, together with large amount
of leat and manufactured tobacco. Loss,
S25, 600; insured for about $lS, S,0o0.'
The General Assembly of Virginia
Yesterday elected State Senator Henry
Y. Thomas Lieutenant-Governor, TO NIL
the unexpired term Of Lleutenant-Gov-
epnor r. u. Withers, United States Sem
| ator-elect.
Charges of astounding rascality are
made against the management Of the
Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Rail-
road. The road is only 1873 miles long;
it's entire property is returned at S56l,-
1T, and its debt at over $9,O00.000.
Intelligence has been received that the
| steamship Hong Kong, from San Fran
cisco for Japan, foundered Off the Island
of Abdel Curia, in the Indian Ocean.
Nineteen persons are reported saved,
and six are known to have been drowned,
and eighteen are missing.
The stockholders of the Northern Cen
tral railroad met in Baltimore yesterday,
when the annual report. was read, show
ing the totalreceipts tor 1874 to be $4 646,-
500; expenses, $3, $50, ,553; net earnings,
81, 292 94b. The entire Board of Directors
was reelected, and these reelected Col
Thomas Scott President.
I The ice on the Schuylkill, at Mana
yunk, broke up Thursday. The water
during the night rose rapidly-twenty
feet above its usual hight, and only foul
ieet below the highest point ever reached
l--submerging all the houses in the low
Ell part OF the town ami forcing the oc-
cupents to abandon them. The flood has
lsince subsidized, after doing considerable
damage.
Yesterday morning, about two O'Clock,
the Buckeye Mine Of Smith, Reed u BIZ
efly. the Neach Mine, of Veach, Hall u
Co. and the Cornwall Mine, belonging to
the Jackson Coal and Mining Company,
in the Brazil coal district, of Indiana,
was set on tre and the shafts completely
fburned. Loss about 100000. 1t is sup
posed that the shafts were tired by the
strikers.
II The river at Knoxville is as high as in
1867. 1t lacks fifteen feet of it here. No
further trouble is apprehended. Rail
roads are washed away on every route
l ttHt.z Man, hIa nd
/ nessee roads will be all right in day O.
, two. The Atlanta and Alabama ant
Chattanooga routes will be longer II
, ! getting repaired. There are five branche
l OF the latter.
/ A fire at Adrian, Mich, last night, or
: iginated in the boiler-room OF Maxwell 4
} Co.'s planing-mlll, destroyed that build
t | ing and contents; Babcock's factory fol
/ the manufacture of sewing machine at
tachments; Austin u Trests picture
l frame, sash and blind factory, and a por
t ton of Berry's lumber-yard. The tota
! loss is 10000; no insurance.
! The Georgia Legislature has declaret
! unconstitutional, null and void the sec
j ond series OF $600,0O0 in bonds, indorset
by the State in 1870, issted to the Macol
and Brunswick railroad, sal Indorse
lment having been declared binding b.
: the Legislature Of 1872. Tue first serie
b of bonds, amounting to $685. 900, are dc
clared valid and binding on the State.
A New York drummer named Well
= arrived in Akron, Wednesday, accompa
= MED by young woman whom he claime'
: as his vile. The woman was arrested
afterwards by an officer from Rayenna
!, She had been induced by Wells to ru
= away from her friends with him. Sh
!, was returned to her family, who ar
among the most respectable people o
i Ravenna. Wells escaped.
q In the Kansas House resolution wa
|, adopted instructing the Committee
q WAYS and Means to report bill imme
diately, appropriating 100000 out g
y money in the State Treasury forShe re
!; lief OF the suffering people of the State
d The resolution was the result OF lntorma
, ton received that the destitution IN val
! ious parts of the State is extreme, an
v that several persons have died OF starya
ton, pending the discussion OF relief Dill
in the Legislature, and the difference
between the House and Senate as to hoy
II bonds shall be issued.
8 Hon. Dougherty White. proprietor
II the Manchester (Ky. Salt Works, an
II father of Hon. John ID. White, recent
l. elected Republican Congressman froI
t the Ninth Kentucky District, committe
3 suicide lew days since by drowning
J. Before throwing himselfinto the watei
e he tied himself so that he could not Ell
- cape. For several days pre- vious he ha
s. acted queerly and was evidently suffel
n ing under temporary insanity when h
d committed the act. His brother, Hol
). John White, once Speaker of the Unite
States House Of Representatives, te
d minated his lie by suicide.
r. Tho Rinht Hon Snencer COMMON Ci