The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-08-21
FLASHES.

Col. A. p. Field, Attorney Seneral oil
Louisiana, died yesterday, aged sSyenty-
SIX.
J. W. Kurner, late Of Allentown, Pa,
was killed by a switch engine at Dayton,
o., yesterday.
Con. Mcguire says that when he gets
out he will tell some things that will
make the boys sQuirm.
Robert A. Thatcher (Democrat) has
been nominated for Congress in the
Fourth Missouri District.
A house belonging to Mr.. Kelly, at ST.
Lawrence, N. F., burned down on Fri
day, and two of his sons perished in the
flames.
Lewis Myers, another OF the conspira
tors in the Colonel Dawson murder, was
on Saturday sentenced TO two years il
the Peniteutiary.
The La Crosse match for the cham.
pionship of the Dominion, between the
OnGarios and Torontos, resulted in a
victory for the latter in the three straight
games.
Sam. Camden, who committed an out
rage on daughter of Marshal Hatfield,
of Huntington, W. Va, was taken from
the calaboose by crowd early yester-
day morning and hanged.
Advices received from Lisbon an
nOunce that the Government has issued
decree for the suspension of all en-
gagements for two months-consequen
ly the financial crisis is considered
over.
The Children's Home, magnificent
ediiice, nearly Completed at Ports
mouth, Ohio, was destroyed by fire Sat-
wo,lId bn va hoo ~ rontv far, n "a
cupation in September. Loss about $S,-
600; no insurance.
The Commissioner OF Internal Reve-
nue. says reduction OF the force OF
gaugers will be gradually made, such as
are designated Tor discharge under the
retrenchment order to be dropped when
their present duties are fulfilled.
The Republicans OF Franklin County,
at their convention last Saturday, uom-
mated l.. Z. Stradera as County Auditor,
w. Z. Guerrin as Prosecuting Attorney :,
Wm. Shrum for County Commissioner
and John Il. Shuttliu for InGrmary Direc-
tor.
A wagon containing John Shoar, wife
and child was struck by Il train at
Middletown, N. Y, yesterday, and the
horse killed. The occupants were thrown
twenty feet. The man and woman re-
ceived trightful wounds but the child
was unhurt.
A dastardly attempt was made Satur-
day night to wreck a train near Roches-
ter, New York, by running it down a
embankment. The men
who laid the rail for that purpose were
discovered and the catastrophe ayerted.
There were one hundred passengers on
the train.
John Woodbridge, Esq, OF Paxton
Township, Ross County, died at his resi-
dence, near Bainbridge, Saturday, of
typhoid fever. Mr.. Woodbridge was
one OF the leaders of the Democracy in
old Ross, and was sent by them to rep
resent his District in the State Senate
in 1871 and 1872.
The second Exposition of the Trades
mems Industrial Institute, of Philadel-
phia, opened at noon yesterday. Nearly
all the space is already occupied, and !,
is expected that all exhibits will b in
place in few days. The time Of clos.
ing the Exposition has been extended
to the last OF September.
General James NJ. Comfy, the editor
of the Ohio State Journal, was presented
with a handsome gold-headed ebony
cane or Friday, it having been voted to
him by the Ohio Editorial Convention,
which met at Put.in-bay several weeks
since. The presentation speech was
made by Mr.. Lecky Harper, of the Mt.
Vernon Banner.
. John Sullivan, OF Portsmouth, N. H -,
while attempting to recover dipper
from the bottom of an old well Friday
was buried alive by the caying in OF the
earth. A large force Immediately went
to work to dig him out, and at midnight
the following night he was extricated
alive. He was buried under forty feet
of earth and stones.
The whaling bark Catalpa has arrived
in NeW York from New Wales with the
Fenian prisoners who escaped from that
country some time since. The names OF
the men are: Michael Harf iDgton, Thos.
Darragh. James Wilson, Robert Grams
ton, Thomas Henry Hassett, J. Breslin
alias Collins, Thos. Desmond alias John-