The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-09-20
NEWS FROM THE METROPOLIS
horticultural Exhibition.
BY American Press Association to the STAR.

Dy AiheTlcah FresS Association TO the STAR.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20-The fall exhibi.
tion of the New York Horticultural So.
ciety opens to-day at Gilmore's Garden
with one of the finest collections OF flow
ers, shrubs, plants and fruits ever exhib-
lted. 1t is believed it will excel in beau
ty ana extent any exhibition of the kind
ever held in the United Statss.
Murder of an Ohio Man.
1t is now conjectured that the Com
missioner General of the Land Office,
5. 5. Burdett, who left Washington last
May to unearth frauds, and who disap-
peared from the Astor House in this
city on the 14th OF May, was murdered
by parties concerned in the frauds, who
are also said to have murdered a man
employed in the same business in War
ren, Ohio, last year.
A. Porter, OF Warren, Ohio, who has
been searching for Burdett, to-day
visited Jersey City and identified the
Dody of a man found drowned lately off
Bergen Point, with marks of violence on
his body, as closely resembling Burdett,
and he believes BurdetL was murdered
by men implicated in the frauds to OBJ
tain valuable papers which he had.
Other clues were being followed up to
ascertain the identity of the drowned
man.
Theodore TiltOn
publishes a card relative to the sleeping
car scandal, In which he pronounces
the story imputing to him dIshOnorable
conduct toward a lady in sleeping car
Oh the Hudson River Railroad to be alb
solutely false, and declares his readi-
ness to meet and repel any and every
accusation OF such conduct.
Book Publishers Fail,
Two large publishing firms in this city,
Ct. w. Smith and j. Cockraft & Co..
failed yesterday. Aggregate liabilities,
$15O,000.
Yellow Fever in Baltimore.
The Worlds Baltimore special TODAY
again reports that the yellow fever pre-
walls in that city. Yesterday DR.. Mas
ters visited twelve yellow fever patients.
They are in the most squalid part of the
city. Four new cases occurred yester-
day. The Injected are conveyed to
Marine Hospital, in that city. Until this
time there has been want OF sanitary
precaution. Most of the patients are
Bohemians.
Stabbed in the Back.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-At 2:4j A. NJ,
David IL. Peterson, aged twenty -eight
years, colored, during a quarrel with
Josephine Kelly, also colored, residing
1t 1,OO3 Taylor street, stabbed her in the
back with a large pair of shears, instant.
y killing her. Peterson was arrested.
PennsYlvania Coal
sold at public auction oil 100000 tons at
,he following prices: Egg, So IN; stove,
;3 6OaS %; chestnut, $3 1714 i 80. Ali
ne prices were higher than az the last
,ale.
Afraid of the Hell Gate Explosion.
So general is the apprehension from
he coming explosion at He'll Gate that
ninety residents of Astoria and vicinity |
re moving away until the explosion is |
Iver.
Several property-owners have ordered |
heir tenants to vacate temporarily in |
rder to be out OF danger. Many fam |
lies are removing their furniture to
lace OF safety, and others who cour. |
,ge"usly intend to remain, are taking
he precaution Of fixing everything SO as
o be prepared for violent shaking.
The alarm is increasing, aud it is not
Improbable that it may result in a gem
raj exit from Astoria, NeWtoWn and
ther places near He'll Gate.