The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-02
HOUSE.
FLASHES.

George D. Monroe, New York stock
broker, suspended. -
The news from the interior Of Mexico
is unfavorable to Diaz.
P. 7. WiItbank q Co., Philadelphia
stock brokers, suspended.
1t was announced in London on Sat
urday that the protocol had been signed
The State National Bank of New
Brunswick, New Jersey, closed iti
doors.
The Russian authorities positively
deny that the Bank of France advanced
500, 100000 to Russia.
The Murphy temperance movement is
spreading extensively throughout the
interior cities of ONO.
Eight hundred thirty-year bonds oil
the Louisville Water Company were
sold to home capitalists yesterday al 90
cents.
Joseph P. Clarkson, the Chicago law
yer who accidentally shot himself
Thursday, in EvanstoG, died yes terday
morning.
A majority of the students of Glasgow
University have signed a declaration
that they desire GlausLone's election to
the Rectorship.
The Rocky Mountain Quartz Mills, OF
Georgetown, Colorado, were totally de-
stroyed by fire Saturday morning. Loss
100000; insurance SIS 600.
l: is claimed that the reduction of mu.
nicipal and parochial expenses In
Louisiana already made by the Nicboll
Government amount to over 5000, 900.
The frame house at Rhine Cliff, oocu.
pied by Peter Burns and family, was
burned Friday night, and Mrs. Burns
ana louf children perished in the flames.
The troor-ship Simoom picked up a
boat containing two deserGers who had
been fourteen days at sea, ten without
food. and only small supply of water.
The men were landed at Sierra Leone.
Goldsmith Maid trotted at San 10 Sc.
Cal, against Rarus, the Maid winning
IN three straight heats. Time-2:22X.
2:16A 2:lSL AS the Maid did not beat
2:l6A the purse was reduced TO $1,000.
Iue Postmaster General has forward
ed to the Netherlands copies of the
plans and specifications OF various new
pOs-JtticeS, Tor use In the preparation
Of designs for such buildings in that
country.
A dispatch from Kischeneff says: Gen.
Skobeletf has been nominated CON.
mander of the tour corp, winch form the
first line. Concentration towards the
frontier is ordered TO be complete by the
9Th OF April.
The sixth annual Directory of St.
Louis shows considerable increase OF
names, and computed by the usual rule,
makes tine population OF the city nVe
hundred and one thousand four hur-
dred and eishty-nlne
Friday night the son of Alfred Cox, OF
West BOwdoin, Maine, aged fourteen,
killed hi, father as he was returning
from church. The lather had reproved
the son tor making disturbance in
church, anu tne son snot him.
TIE Court in New York has en-
powered Receiver Jewett, of the Erie
Railroad Company, to compromise aud
discharge the claims in the suit of the
Company against the London Banking
Company Limit d) pending in London.
Ceylon advices Say by the end o,
March twenty-five thousand laborers
will be paid of from the coffee estates,
and in a month or two there will be
some sixty thousand to D Ovide for,
Meantime gangs OF starving men, wo-
men and children are coming over from
India.
The French Budget Committee, though
almost exclusively Radicals, refused 10
adopt the draft OF report Oh puDlic
estimates drawn by Guichard;
on account OF It's violent noslli ty g.
and directed Gu.chard 10
re.Aodel the report.