The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-25

Saturday, during service In the syna-
gogues.
st. Johns Day was very enthusiastic
cally and successfully celebrated by the
Masonic fraternity and their friends at
Louisville.
The President has promoted NJ r.Cham-
pion from the Chief Clerkship of the st.
Louis Pension Agency to succeed Il.
Eaton, resigned.
Damage to the cotton crop on the Ar
kansas RIVER by the flood Is estimated
at from twenty thousand to thirty
thousand bales.
The jury impaneled to investigate the
recent accident at the Point OF Rocks,
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, failed to
agree, and were discharged.
The Superintendent OF the Brooklyn
police issued an order to enforce an or
dInance prohibiting the use OF arms and
fireworks on the Fourth Of July.
The lessees of the Ohio canals threat
en- to surrender their leases unless iE-
demuifed for the action of the State in
cutting of the basin at Hamilton.
Three attempts were made on Satur-
day by incendiaries to burn the remain
der OF st. John. 0le of the scoundrels
was caught i'll the act and arrested.
Francis Avery Madison, who during
the war assisted in issuing the bogus
proclamation calling for three hundred
thousand troops, died at New York,
Friday.
George Davis, well-known among the
horsemeu of the State, as a driver and
trainer OF trotters, was found dead in
bed, Saturday morning, at Springfield,
ONO. Heart disease.
The report Of the Silver Commission is
still hanging fire, because Senator Jones
OF Nevada does not return the proof
sheets. 1t will not, however, be delayed
longer than a month yet.
The President has commissioned DAN
iel l.. Boynton Pension Agent at Knox
VILE, Tennessee; Samuel Post, Pension |
Agent at Detroit, Michigan, and Rufus |
Pension Agent at St. Louis.
A large number of the operatives EN-.
ployed in the iron manufacturing estab-
llshments in ScnuylkIll, Lehigh and
Valleys are now on a
strike against an announced reduction
)f wages.
Lexington trotting meeting Saturday.
rhree-minute class, Lucy Flemming,
2:29 class, Lady Lumber, viii,
Ter. Cleveland erdigris, H.
Ipiration and Port Leonard were the
Winning horses.
Mrs. Cook, daughter of Mrs. Avery.
ib9rtionist, has given the City Marshal
II Lowell, Massachusetts, all the par
icuiars concerning Miss Harrington,
rom the time she entered their house
lntil her death.
Subscriptions Saturday for relief Of
it. John sutfe rers: Philadelphia, $4 225;
\ lonlreal, 500, 900 pledged; Halifax, $l5.-
90; Boston, $l3, ,269; Portland, $4,000;
4cwiston, 81 800 Many other cities ave
esponding nobly.
1t is probable that Schurz and Kew
Vill be the only members of the Cabinet
Who will accompany the President TO
lew England. Mr.. McCrary goes nome |
}" short vacation, and Nj. Sherman]
leads pressure OF business.
There is a little quiet disgust among
le machine politicians, win reference
} the PresIdents order fOrbidding
ederal officials from taking a manag-
lg part in politics, but they can moi,
'lth Dropriety, say much about it.
Seneca County Democratic nomina-
Ons Saturday: J. A. Norton, Repre-
.ntatiye; j. W. Barrick. Treasurer; S,
ambee, Commissioner, G. b. Kepple,
rosecuting Attorney; l.. Splitter, II.
rmary Director; VIM. Smith, Coroner. I
A Pottsyille (Pa.) dispatch says:
+eorge FistIer, teller of The Mahoning
lty National Bank, was taken sick,
last night, and his physicians ]
ay he is suffering from hydrophobia. He
Ias bitten by pet dog seven months
60.
Miss Maud Oswald, formerly with
'arnum's Hippodrome, commenced the
eat of riding three hundred miles in
wenty-six x hours, on mustangs, at Chi
ago Friday. Alter riding one hundred
nd sixty-three miles in tweuty-lhree
nd three-quarters hours, she was taken
1 IL