The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-07
NEW YORK.
Died of DestitutiOn.-NO Skating.-
Herald Discussi0ns---DOla has
Hope. etC.s etc.

AhvPct OtCss etCe
By American Press Association to the STAR.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA sad case OF des-
titution came to light here yesterday.
POSTMASTER James received letter
from the British Postmaster General
inqujring the Whereabouts of Mrs. Alice
M. Reed, of Glasgow, Scotland, who was
draft for fifty pounds sterling had been
sent here a few weeks ago, but the
sender had received mo acknowledge
ment of its receipt by her. The case
was given to the police and detectives
yesterday.
1t is learned that the lady had died in
utter want and in damp cellar in
Wooster street, three days before the
arrival of the draft, which had been
taken charge of by her husband. The
unfortunate lady was the daughter of a
Scotch Baronet named Agnew, and con-
tracing marriage that was distastetul
to her relatives she became estranged
from them, and with her husband came
to America.
There will be no skating in Central
Park this season, the Park Commission
ers having begun to clean the beds OF the
| lakes In the park for the first time in
fourteen years. The task will not be
completed until April. A large force oi
men and teams are engaged on the work,
| This is of course a great disappointment
| 10 skaters, but the work is sanitary ne
lcessity.
The Herald, discussing the prospects
of the coming Cincinnati Convention
strongly favors the candidature of Z onk
ling for President, as the best way OF
drawing the third term question out OF
the canvass. 1t thinks that IL Conkline
was selected as the Republican can di
date the Democratic candidate would
certainly be taken from the West.
John Dolan, who is undr sentence o1
death in the Tombs for the murder o
Mr.. Noe, in August last, has received 9
letter from Lizzie Watson, otherwise
called Mary DEAN, of Brooklyn, il
which she makes several statements
which, il proved in Court, must be o
Importance to the case. She has made
affidavit fatty contradicting the evi
denees of the woman Mary'Reed, upon
whose testimony, principally, Dolan was
| convicted. Another new witness has
| turned up in the person of J.-W. Irving
| the substance of whose testimony is salt
| to be to the effect that one evening ht
| passed two women who were wranglins
on the street, one of whom accused thu
other OF hanging John Dolan. The &C
| cused woman answered with an oatl
that she would put rope round tht
other girPs neck ii she said to her wha
John Dolan bad. Alter this the two VIC
men came to blows, and some one in th
crowd remarked that that was Mar
Reed, who testified against Dolan. 1t i
probable that Dolan will be resentenced
After this, application will be made
pro forma, in the Court Of Appeals at
| Albany for a STAY of proceedings
News was received In this cit,
yesterday, from Liverpool, that tht
former Mate OF the packet ship Harves
Queen belonging to this port, had recog
nized the blocks found on board th
White Star steamship Adriatic. Tht
owners of the lost vessel will libel til,
Adriatic for the sum OF $l75, 600.
Mrs. Thomas or Th6masson, wife o
VIM. X. Thomas, whose dynamite plo
resulted SO fatally both to the victims O
the explosion and author OF it, arrive,
ON the steamer Willard from Hamburg
yesterday afternoon.