The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-19
FLASHES.

! Nassau, tne TURKISH assassin, was
hanged on Saturday.
| Detroit Republicans understand that
Mr.. Chandler is to be transferred to the
Treasury Department.
The officers Of the Democratic National
COmnitIee are arriving in st. Louis, pre-.
pairing for the Convention.
The Louisiana Investigating Com.
fmittee have c0ncitided their iaDOrs and
are ON the way to Washington.
Secretary Brlstow placed his formal
| resignation in the hands OF the Presi.
dent on saturday. 1t taxes effect ON the
Doth inst.
Ex-Governor Johnson, Of Georgia, an.
nounces that he IL not a candidate for
Governor OF that State, Dus VIII serve
the people II elected.
Numbers OF ratification meetings were
held by Republicans throughout the
| country on Saturday, for the purpose OF
indorsiny the Cincinnati nominations.
A dispatch from ConstantinOple re-
ports that the Turkish feet, consisting
or eight frst.class vessels, will sail
thence for Crete within week ON an
important mission.
In an altercatiOn at Wheeling, West
Virginia, last evening, Thomas Welsh
struck Dick Heuuegan on the head, kill
ing him instantly. The murderer fsd
across the river into OhiO.
An attempt was made ON Friday night
to bnru the Catholic Church at Hentz.
vile, Penn, in which the contractor was
killed and thirty persons injured Sunday
last by the floors giving way.
A dispatch from Calcutta reports an
alarming outbreak OF cholera at Gul.
woda, q village on the Bombay & Boroda
Railway 0f TWO hundred inhabitants.
One hundred died In three days.
The Denver Il Rio Grande Railroad is
completed and running tO Levata,
twenty five miles southwest from Cuea-
haras, and seventeen miles from the
San Juan gold region by the Fort Gar.
land route.
A special train on the Anderson
Brancn Of the Greenville Il Columbia
Railroad In South Carolina was wrecked
Friday night oil a broken trestle, and the
engineer, conductor, fireman and two
train hands, the only persons ON the
train, were killed.
A correspondent at Berlin says: Some
scandal has been caused here by the
news that the German Minister at Wash
ington has charged some members Of the
German Commission to the Philadelphia
Exhibition with corrupt practices, and
requested their immediate removal.
The sun says that Henry Screiber late
assistant cashier of the New YORK
Branch Book Concern, has been lodged
in Ludlow-street jail on charge Of de-
falcation. 1t is alleged that Screibei
abstracted from The safe bonds belong.
ing to the Concern to the amount OF
$751; 900.
The sentence OF the court-martial at
Salonica, condemning the Governor Of
| that city to one years suspension from
Office, and three Turkish officers to for
ty-hve days Imprisonment. has been
set aside as insufficient on the represen-
tations of France aud Germany. The
parties will be tried at C0nstantin0ple
on the charges OF lack Of energy and
foresight.
The Grand Jury OF the District OF Co.
lumbia have indicted Richard Harrlng-
ton and Arthur B. Williams tor bribery
The first is charged with having, ON the
18th OF October, 1878, while Assistan,
United States Attorney, received S15, 900
to have his decision and action infu.
enced in the matter of a motion for O
new trial, BY Hope and Slater, con-
victed Of murder. Williams is charged
with giving the money to Harrington as
| bribe.
The President on Saturday sent a
message ttN Congress, calling attention
TO the near apprOaoh Of the new fiscal
year, and the failure.of Congress, 60 far,
TO make provision Tor the ordinary ex
penses Of tae Government; also, to laws
forbidding expenditure OF unexpended
balances, aud requiring them to be GOV
cred into the Treasury ut the end Of the
tiscal year. He iurther stated that,
the Approximation Bills ara aot matureu