The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-21

The Russian gun-boat Lounganss
sailed from San Francisco under sealed
orders.
The forest fires have been spreading
rapidly between Shenandoah and Maha-
noy Planes.
The meeting of the Grand Lodge OF
Knights Of Pythias takes place in Toledo
! Wednesday.
The United States sloop-ot-war Ply
mouth sailed from New Orleans Satur-
day for Pensacola.
General Sherman and Secretary Nc
Crary inspected the Notifications at
Newport on Saturday.
Charles Bryan, an Indianapolis
laborer, long suffering with the ague,
committed suicide on Saturday.
E. H. Waldron has been appointed
General Superintendent Of the Lafay-
cite, Bloomington h Muncie Railroad.
day In Columbia, S. O., and are now on
their way to cincinnati. They will not
stop over.
The potato-bug has appeared on Long
Island, and all hope oil good crop Is
abandoned. In 1874, 1910 and 1876 the
bug ruined the crop.
Abe Jones, victim of the Wades.
vile mine disaster, died at ST. Clair
yesterday. The remainder Of the in
jured will probably recover.
James Vaudeville Carlisle, for many
years a leading member Of the Bar oil the
District of Columbia and the Supreme
Court, died yesterday, aged sixty five.
The investigation Of the Rockford
| Courthouse disaster is proceeding
slowly. Experts divide the blame be.
tween The architect and the contractor
Captain A. E. Lee, late Private Secre
tary OF President Hayes, recently APP
pointed Consul-General to Frankfort-on
the Main, sailed yesterday Tor mis- post
In a trot at Chico, California, or
Saturday, between Goldsmith Maid and
Rarus, the Maid won the first two heats
and Rarus the third. Time-2:l9H
2l4H, 2:l7.
The Latest information from the Ar
kansas duelsts is that they lei
Memphis Saturday nigat tor some poin
in Mississippi, where 1t is expected 8
duel woulA Do lous sht.
The culvert under the canal at Day
ton, carrying away the drainage OF th
city, broke Saturday, suspenulng navl
CATION for week, anu also shutting
down all factories, mills and shops de
pending upon hydraulic water-poWer.
The New York Tribune says that from
, information obtained 1t has reason II
believe that the Russian feet is nov
keeping watch along the coast for tn
purpose Of intercepting vessels haVin
munitions OF war on board for Turkey.
Saturday afternoon bridge neal
FrackVIl!e, Pa, the timbers of whic
= We're smoldering, gave way while tn
q shenandoah stage was passing, and al
unknown man on the bridge was crushe
4 to death. The stage passengers es
capped.
An excursion train on the AtchisOr
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad ran into
. wash-out near Ellenwood, two hundre
y aud twenty miles west OF Topeka, OF
a Friday evening. Ole passenger name
Miller, OF Fond uu Lac, Wis.,, was KILLED
and several injured.
2 Collector NJ Ills, OF the Lynchburg (Va,
2 District, says the shooting affair in Lhs
: District recently resulted in the shoe
y ing OF four illicit distillers and one ci
izen, and the not mvrtaily wounding {
one, and not the shooting vi four Unite
8 States officers, as was at first supposed
+ There is great exciteme Mt in Baltimol
: County, Md, over the burying of gil
alive. The girl was buried III roug
board coffin by one Staples, with whol
8 she lived. Two ladies heard sound
Q while the cctiin was being lowered dow
V which induced them 70 believe the gl
g was alive. The next day it was e.
: humed and the body found to be turne
! over in the coffin, the flesh OF the arm
n lacerateu and the hands clutched in he
: hair, and her shroud and cuttin coYere
e with blood from her mouth and nOs'
Z These are the rumOrs in brief.