The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-30

hali-grown boy, was drowned satur::
day afternoon while fsbIng in q pond
near Indianapolis.
Rev. IT. Baird of Virginia, former Sec
retary Of the Presbyterian Board OF
Publication, has been deposed rom the
ministry and suspended from commun-
ion.
The Khedive Is reported favorable to
the sale OF the Suez Canal, negotiations
tor which are progressing. He ls Will
ing to sell his fifteen hundred founders
shares.
Geo. A. Gustin, Private Secretary Of
Postmaster enerals Cresswell, Jewell,
Tyner and Key, has been transferred to
the White House as stenographer to the
President.
The stockholders Of the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Road in Baltimore have ap-
pointed Committee to confer with the
other stockholders tor the protection OF
their interests.
A ring OF California sharks have COB
bled fifty thousand acres OF land in Kern
County, under the prOyisions OF law
framed in their interests and passed BY
the last Congress.
The unexpected balance OF appropri-
ations for narbor Improvements, aggre-
eating 81, 124 900, is ordered to be made
available by the Secretary OF war, for
the purpose designed.
A dispatch from Alpena reports the
steamer q. S. Baldwin, iron-loaded, on
the reef near Thunder Bay Light, full OF
water, but lying easy, ana hopes are en-
tertained Of saving her.
A Boston girl named Barrett, aged
ing from school at Lancaster, was gross
ly outraged by Sam. freeman, negro,
| mas died from injuries Inflicted.
Mrs. Christina Frank, of Dayton, o.,
aged seventy -four years, mother oil Pro-
bate Judge j. l.. h. Frank, was burned
to death yesterday. She was living
| alone, and was dead when found.
Minort, colored man and Republi-
can. introduced resolution in the
South Carolina House Saturday calling
| upon that body to impeach Associate
Justice Wright, the black Judge OF the
| Supreme Court of the State.
Dayton was visited by heavy rain.
storm Saturday evening, flooding the
streets and cellars. The lightning was
very severe, and ran into the Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph office, burning the
wires and destroying the instruments.
| Mary Q. Newcomb, widow of Ii. D.
Newcomb, 0t Louisville, was married
| Saturday to Richard Ten Brock, the
turtman. Mrs. NeWcomb is twenty five
and her husband is over sixty. New
comb was also over sixty when she mar
ried him.
Colonel I. W. Higginson, one of the
old guard OF Abolitionlsts, has written a
letter approving heartily, cordially and
unreservedly, the, action of the Presi-
| dent In Withdrawing the garrison from
the State-houses Of South Carolina and
| louisiana.
Judge John e. King has been ap-
pointed Collector of the Port at New
Orleans. Judge King was a Judge OF
the Supreme Court OF Louisiana under
the Kellogg and Packard regime, who
resigned his seat in the House under an
appointment from Governor Nichols to
the same position.
The suit OF the English owners of the
famous Emma Mine against Trenor W.
Park and others, who sold it, to recover
| 100000 paid for 1t, alleging that there
was fraud, deceit and Misrepresentation
on the part of the owners OF the mine,
| resulted Saturday, alter four months
trial, in verdict for the defendants,
1t is stated that efforts are being made
in South Carolina to stop the prosecu-
tioD OF those engaged In the Ellenton
and Hamburg riots, in resolutions which
are now before the Senate. charging that
the prosecution is a political one, and
requesting the President to stop them,
in Iurtherance Of his policy of concIlia-
tion.
A Cleveland dispatch says q body
supposed that Of 2. Z. Bliss was found
i'll the lake at Euclid village Friday.
| Euclid is fifty miles from Ashtabula,
and the theory is that the body was
frozen to a cake Of ice and floated up the
lake, 1t was somewhat burned and the
leg broken, but the head and face unin-
jured.
VIM. Pintz, who killed Catherine
Burr, a cDilu about nine years old, i'll
BoIlinger County, Missouri, on the 18th
of May, 1875, was hanged at Marble Hill
Friday, before great crowd of people,
who came for many miles to witness The
execution. PIntz confessed that he
killed the girl, and had ALSO murdered d
man named William Gray, Tor which he
was paid $40.
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