The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-20
FLASHES.

Memphis prophets announce that the
fruit in that section is all killed.
John H. Keyser, OF Tweed notoriety,
has been taken to an insane asylum.
The rumors that Servian troops had
entered Turkish territory are untounded.
The Massachusetts, Republicans hold
their State Convention Aprih 70, at Bos-
ton.
1t was Aaron Arnold, and not Aaron
Constable, who died in New York Satur-
day.
1t is feared that the British ship Lake
st. Clair and the bark Walton are lost
at sea.
Gen. George Lewis Cook declines the
Democratic nomination for Governor Of
Rhode Island.
The old Catholic Convent and the St.
Charles Hotel stables at Scranton, Pa,
burned yesterday.
Rev. Thos. Galbreth, the new Catholic
Bishop, of Hartford, Conn, was conse-
Grated yesterday
Charles Brent, the Louisville forger,
| was arraigned in London, Friday, and
committed for one week. ~
Local trains commence running ON the
Erie Road again to-day, owing to re-
sumption Of labor In the coal fields.
Nearly all the st. Louis ticket .offices
of the Missouri State Lottery were
raided by the police OF that city Satur-
day.
The Elmville W6olen Mills, near
Providence, II. L., burned Saturday
night. Loss $4,000, insured to nearly
iut value.
The French Expedition exploring the
Desert OF Sahara has returned to Toug-
CERT after fifteen days march from
Rhadames.
The Spanish residents of New York
last evening celebrated the return OF
peace to Spain by a Grand gathering al
Delmonico's.
Republican Conventions will be held
on. Saturday at various. points through.
out the State to appoint delegates to the
State Convention.
General Schenck is staying quietly at
the Breevoort House, in New York. He
mad many callers yesterday, but declined
to talk with reporters about his case.
The last batch Of affidavits in support
OF n new trial in the Mckee case were
filed in the United States Circuit Court
at st. Louis Saturday. The motion for
new trial will be argued to-day.
Governor Ames, it is said, will make
no appointment to the vacancy created
by the resignation OF Lieutenant Cover
nor Davis, as an appointment would
raise complicated legal questions.
Phelps, one OF the eonvicts who killed
the warden of the Salt Lake Peniten.
tiary and escaped few days ago, was
shot by Sheriff Halliday, OF Sartoquin,
Utah, last evening, he having resisted
the efforts to take him. @
Surveyor-Genera Babcock, of Kansas,
says that when all the facts regarding
the $3.50 per quarter which ne received
from Durfee & Pecka are known, it can not
be made reflect upon him self, Durfee u
Peck, or the Administration.
The charges of conspiracy made
against General Cox, Chairman OF the
North. Carolina Democratic Central
Committee, were examined by the
Judges Saturday and ordered with
drawn, as no proof was produced.
J. d. Bell, proprietor OF the Peoples
Defense, q newspaper at jackson, Miss,
shot and killed Augustus Carey, prin.
ter, yesterday. Carey was on the point
OF leaving for Memphis, and the dificu'.
ty originated in a settlement OF account.
Bell was arrested.
The testimony taken before the Sen.
ate Investigating Committee In regard
to the Spencer case showed that Spen.
Ger had promised Barber a position
before his election, and that he was
afterward appointed Inspector of Gus.
toms at Mobile, and that he drew the
salary as such but did not 20 to Mobile
or render any sercice.