The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-04
NEW YORK CITY.
RumOred that Madame Rcstell Is
Still Alive.

National Associated Press to the Star.
New YORK April A sensational rumor
was current yesterday to the effect that
Madame ResteIfs death was false. 1t was
intimated that Madame had hoaxed justice
and the public, and instead of cutting her
throat had really sailed for Europe on one
of the steamers that started from this port.
The rrmor stated that the body of pauper
| woman had been substituted for that of
Madame. The scheme was furthered by
the marvellous resemblance existing be-
tween the two women. Diligent inquiry
fails to lend color to this latest and widest
romance. Coroner Waltman, when ques-
toned, declared he knew nothing Super
intendent Walling said he regarded the
rulnors that Restell is still alive as utterly
absurd and groundless.
The WOman'S Hotel
was visited yesterday and to-day by large
number of ladies, but no one was permitted
to go through the building. Applications
by guests were quite numerous but most
of them were rejected, references as to char
acter not being satisfactory. One hundred
and fifty have so far been accepted and as
signed to apartments in various parts of the
building The hotel will be in full working
order by the end of the week.
Possible Solution of the Freight
Rate Trouble.
| 1t was reported in the Board of Trade
yesterday that VIM. H. Vanderbilt had pur-
chased the Port Huron Railroad which is
the connecting link between the Grand
Trunk Line of Canada and the West, and
that such purchase would set at rest the
| freight rate discrimination war, as the New
York Central Railroad would find it to their
advantage to give equal rates to New York
as compared with other seaboard cities.
The Murdered Earl of Leitrim.
A writer in the Herald to-day says the as
sassination of the Earl of Leitrim was the
result of feeling entirely personal to him
self, and is not by any means q symbol of
any organized system of agrarian outrage.
Lord Leitrim was for tho last thirty years
more or less out of his mind, and at inter-
walls committed acts which only make it
wonderful that he did not earlier meet the
dreadful fate which has befallen him. For
some time, as Lord Clements, he repre-
sented Leitrim in the House of Commons
on.t1re Liberal side as fyflower of Mr..
OConnell. But he broke into wild acts
and expressions which made necessary his
retirement from the House. He subse-
quently was removed from the Deputy
Lieutenancy and Commission of Peace for
similar outbreaks and has acquired notori-
ETY. in Leitrim, where his property is chiefly
situated, for atrocities which would rival
those of Bulgaria. At the same time, like
men of such ungoverned and misdirected
tempers, he was capable of kind and gentle
acts when better feeling seized him.
Advice to NIr. Blair.
The Herald says: OF course it would be
as idle to assure Mr. Blair he is mistaken as
it would be to call the attention of the
chronic policy-player to his threadbare coat
and soleless boot. Yet we venture to ad.
wise the EX-Postmaster General to purchase
a whole ticket in the next grand drawing OF
the royal swindle lottery, capital prize
winner in this venture just about the same
time he succeeds in his Presidential suecu
lation.