The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-02-28


subsequently appeared in Laramie, Wy,
where he established himself on terms of
! intimacy with members of the Legislature,
and was enabled to get a charter for the
lottery known as the wyoming Lottery"
He afterwards started the Black Hills I'm
provement Company. This was succeeded
by the American Gold and Silver Mining
Company, whose pospectuses announced
that it owned rich mines in the Black Hills,
but had no money for machinery to devel-
op them. His next scheme was the Bull
ion Gold Mining Company, which was fol-
lowed in 1876 by the Terris Centennial
Mining and Carbon Company.
The FOick Disaster.
Seven of those on board the schooner
Folk, which went ashore at Barnegat, lost
their lives, including the Captain and his
wife, who were frozen in the rigging. Five
sailors and the two-year-old daughter of the
Captain, who were saved, are doing well.
Birth, Death and DestitutiOn.
Mrs. McKerns yesterday gave birth to
two female children, and being stranger
i'll the house and too poor to hire attend
ance, she died from lack of necessary as
sistance soon after the birth of the children.
She was found some hours after her death
by neighbOrs who went to see how she
Jared. The babes were nearly dead from
exposure, being but poorly covered, their
unfortunate mother not having had the
strength to wrap them up nor call for the
help she so badly needed
A Young COlored Orator.
J. D. Hayes, the young colored orator,
and Vice President of the Young Mems
Union Christian Association. last evening
| delivered lecture on the Modern House
of Bondage, or the New Enslavement of the
American Negro" He argued that the ne
groes of America could only improve their
present low condition by acting for them
selves and putting forth their own efforts to
secure the elevation of their fellow men,
instead of trusting to any special legislation
to accomplish that end.
lodgings for Two Cents.
There are a number of places in New
| York now where tolerable lodgings for
males or females can be had for 10 or even
5 cents, and meals at the same rates, but it
is asked, ''How is the following for low?"
| The proprietor of the clearinghouse into
which the old church at Prince and Marion
streets was metamorphosed, appeared be-
| fore the Health Board recently to request
permission to extend accommodations. In
| cidentally, he said, he charged 8 and 2
cents for lodging, and penny for break
fast. His guests either pay in cash or work
out their indebtedness in the morning by
saving wood. The landlord of this hostelry
does not pretend to be philanthropist.
His was merely business enterprise he
had begun, entered into as money-mak-
ing operation, and the subscription of $50
that had been sent to him from some char
| liable person he had returned to the donor.
Another anonymous gift he handed over to
| the Children's Aid Society.
A Frantic Bedfell0w.
Ellen Moran last night choked streams OF
blood from the nostrils of Annie Murphy,
and started her eyes from their sockets.
They were servants, sleeping together, and
Ellen had suddenly become demented.
A Badger Brewer BrOOms licked.
! Heinrich Besold, the lager beer brewer
of Milwaukee, arrived on Wednesday en-
route for Germany. Having sampled our
beer, he took a stroll through the town.
He met the pretty Miss Donahue, and, with
out an introduction, addressed her. She
rejected his advances, and took refuge with
her friend, Mrs. Walsh who got broom
stick for Besold. The brewer drew a re.
volver, and he was imprisoned. The pistol
was produced in Court, and Besold stated
it was present to him from Chief of Police
Kennedy.
A Pair of Bad Men.
The Sun says: 1t is difficult to believe
| that two men, for the object of obtaining a
paltry reward would deliberately plot to
send an innocent man to the gal.ows; yet
the evidence against the Boston detectives,
Cohen and Conway, seems to establish
their guilt ola conspiracy to procure man S
conviction of murder in the first degree on
false and perjured testimony. 1t also APP
pears that these two men were trusted
| agents and confdants of Col. Stephenson,
| head of the Massachusetts State detective
| force.
Railroad Telegraph.
The American Exchange to day says that
| it is the design of the B. &. o., Pennsyl-
| vania and Erie, together with any other
railroad companies that may decide to
unite with them, to form a telegraph COM
| panv as soon as practicable after the rail
road measure has become law.