The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-03
FLASHES.

Harry Bryant, aged fifteen, suicided
at Bloomington, ILL.,, yesterday.
Gen. Carl Schurz will not be inter-
viewed ON the Presidential question.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the Greensburg Ind. Post-ofice.
The proposed State Constitution in
Colorado is accepted by large m mdjority
The business portion of the village of
st. JohnsDury, VT, was burned on Satur-
day. Loss 100000.
The Louisiana Republican Convention
has permanently organized by electing
Pinchback Chairman.
Edgerton Leigh, Conservative member
Of the British House of Commons, and
Joseph Ferrari, the Italian philosopher,
| are dead.
Governor McCreery and staff left
Louisville for Philadelphia yesterday,
to attend the celebrations there on the
3d and 4th inst.
The storms Saturday night and Sunday
morning did great damage in all direc-
| tions. Bellefontalne, Penn, and Dan
| vile, ILL.,, especially suffered.
The horse-thiet who shot and killed
Sheriff Mitchell, near Huntington, West
| Virginia. was taken from jail at Winfield
and hanged by mob on Saturday.
| John McKenna, a young man twenty
| one years old, was run over by a train
| on the st. Louis, Kansas City & North
ern Railroad in st. Louis yesterday and
| killed.
Ratifi cation meetings for the indorse-
ment of the ST. Louis nominees were
| held at Columbus and Findlay, Ohio.
| Memphis, Tennessee, and other points,
on Saturday night.
The July celebration began at Phila.
delphia on Saturday by addresses, read.
Ing OF sketches of the lives oil the signers
OF the Declaration of Independence, and
| other pubic ceremonies.
A large meeting Of Republicans and
Democrats was held at Terre Haute.
Indiana, ON Saturday night, to repudi-
ate the st. Louis and Cincinnati nomi.
nations, and declare for Peter Cooper
and greenbacks.
The office of Chief of Revenue
Agents, made vacant by the removal of
Yaryan, will not be filed. The duties OF
the position will be performed by the
Chief Clerk and Deputy Commissioner.
as before Yaryan's appointment.
The Irish National Rifle Association
mas appointed the following gentlemen
W. ~SPASOOus Ai iOAuh0 III VIC OoHt6uulai
matchesin America: FentGn, VIM. Rig
by. Johnson, Ward, Joynt, Cooper. Guff.
Greenville, Milner, Pollock, Young ana
John Rigby.
The appointment OF Don. Cameron as
acting Secretary of the Treasury until
Mr. MerFilps acceptance has been de-
clareo illegal, as IL was not within the
required ten days of BristOw's resigna.
tion. Mr.. New is to hold over as Treas.
urer until the Office OF the Secretary OF
the Treasury is permanently filed.
The Union Trust Company of New
York, as mortgagee in trust, took posses.
sion yesterday of all property of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Company, and appointed W. A, Bard.
late Receiver, as General Manager.
There will be no change of officers, agents
or employees.
The Conference Committee on the
Post-ofice Appropriation Bill has agreed
upon report. They compromise on the
rates OF compensation to P0stmasters,
The pay for railroad transportation was
reduced ten per cent. below the. present
rate, and q commission is provided to
take this subject into consideration and
report at the next session. Third-elass
mail matter, transient newspapers, mag
AGNES, pamphlets, books ana all printed
matter, except circulars, to pay / cent
ier every tWo ounces.