The Star, 1875-07-12

LEXINGTON, KY. The Southern Rail road Conuniebiouers on Saturday paid Mrs. Al. P. Logo it $3 SOti, and Dr. George - O. Graves, Admintstrator of tho estaie of the late Chief Justice RJbertson, ;4,04 - for right ot way for the road. ' . Mrs. P. Crottey entertained,. last Thursday evening, a few of her partied. tar friends very oieely at her residence , on Short street, ou the oceasiou of her eighty-fourth anniversary. ,Mrs. C. will - be recollected as .the sister re Mr. D. A. Sayre (now deceased). Iler friend. ea. ' tyed the entertitimneut,.and on retire. , mg expressed their et pyment of the eveninz and their b 1st wishes fer malty returns of her mutat day. The Decent act of, the City Council lit ' , ri.quiring persons opening stores to pay their store license advance berme they. sell a niebet's worth of goods is very , oppressive. A p widow woman wise wiseing - ing wiseing to open a little shop fur the sale of , This anti needles, tapes, etc., dare hot open her door until bile lirst walks up to - , ' the Captain's cilice and Planks tweuty dollars foothe privil ot treiirs t make,. an honeet Detnocracy ot despote, Republic. of tys rants)! , ' At a regular meeting Of. the Spot-Jess Men's Society, held on Saturday eves. , ing, it was reeolved that every inAnber be requested to continue his yearly soh-, scription to THE SfAll. -The heavy rain oit Sattnelay morning was a great blessing to our citizens by washing the dirt !Tem the streets and ' gutters . Up to noon on Saturday 192 dug tags r., were sold by the -Mayor and 4:9 dead were received aud kilted a't the pound.- Doge under three months old Will not ' be received at the pound. - A few Lays Stile.) a boy brought, it basket of pups there and demanded 2;3 cents apiece for them. which was refueeil. , ' The election of Cuter of Police wilt take place at the Council umettug on the 5...11 of August next. No candidates have yet been annouuced lor that position.- The Lexingtou merchants are bur. deued with store licenses, high rates ol interest extravagant rents and, gas '-- t tolls. They have a class of credit cus customer& - tomer& customer& wbo promise to puy every six ' months, anti sometunes never pay. Sonic - ot these slow customers Will take their ready cash awl go tu Cincinnati wilco making large purchases. These are a ' few reasons why the tradeed L-exingtout does not grow with her population. Tee present City Councii ot Lexington, are a body of small salary grabbera, In , drawing $3 a piece front the Treasury every Aline they meet. Years pain, im tact piping times of peace, no compeusit.- - tion was asked or received by Couac.1., - men,' who gave their time for the patine! good. The bad example shown by these. : honorable gentlemen has extended tc - our Plepoutli e megistrates who Toted; - themselves $43 day wade Atentling the. Court of claims,. when the. general. 7 statutes allow them only43 - - The city Detneccacy are a to tr , what to tlo about, ,,eettiug a catianiat4 run the race for Ropreeentative. lio.v Would Jerome Frazer dor The annuul retreat of the. Sisters , - Nazareth, engaged in teaching the Part). '" child schools in this city, Covington, Newport, Paris and Frankfort, coat, - menced last evéning and will continue o eight days.- The retreat is a week bt fastiag anti prayer, with religious 41. ' stNetion. , , Mr. W. W. Bruce will close his henip factory this week. There is only one more hemp factory now in operatiou ia - the city. The closing of these establis-- meats will throw six hundred men out tit ' work, all of whom are colored. The many friends of Mr. H. C. Met- , calte, who has been seriously ill for sev- - eral days past, wkil be glad to leara that , he isInuch better. . . , - Rev. J. S. Shipman, Rector of Christ , Church, iu this city, and Bishop elect of , the diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsie, has been on a visit to hie new aiocee.;, ;and was well pleased with the pros. pects. Me says that it,is a growing cum cummuulty, - muulty, cummuulty, witliap present strength about; equal to KettAteky, -but will deve'.op , much tuore rapidity. lie. had IPA siguified his iutention as yet to au,ept ; the poeition and his friends here are confident that they will bo able to retailt , - - , ,- : Dr. Maurin recommends placing la , the open windows of iovitleds Mineas, well wetted., ,As is- known,weiter, ' passing from a liquid to a gaset.us stale, ' absorbs caloric, That (mem:cal-4w. : cess lower in a few minutes Elie temperature (it rcium'by-fiva er Six de.. 'trees, and the humidity distributed : the air makes the heat more supperta. ble. By that system patieet.i find ' themselves. evell in the beiebt Wawa- - mer, in an atmosphere refresuet Anal, , - gous that which prevails after &sterna - ',- For Brigham Young: Whittla bike:Jul : Utah-Using the female sex.

NEWS FROH THE OLD WORLD. LONDON, July 12.--A spaqial dispatch to the Standard represents that the dis turbances in Herzegovina consist ap apparently - parently apparently of a numer of riots among the Sclavonian inhabitants ol the villages in the western district, who have been aroused' to resistance by the endeavor of Turkisn officials to collect arrears of taxes. Large bands of fugitives, com composed - posed composed mainly ot women and children, cross the border in Dalmatia daily. The Turkish troops, on the night of July 4th, made an attacs on the defenses erected by the insurgents at a bridge over the Krupa river, near Celexo. Alter a long and bloody conflict they were defeated, and fell back in disorder. The Radical ;Clubs of the Metropelis have held a conference, and decidedto call a mass-meeting ig Tralaigar for Wednesday next, to protein against the grant for the expenses of the Prince of Wales' visit to India., , The Cunard steamer Scythia, which sailed from Liverpool yesterday for New York, came in contact with a whale oft Roches' Point, and lost the blade of her propeller. bhe le detained at Q leens leenstown - town leenstown awaltingorders from Liverpool., VIENNA, July 12.The insurrection in Herzegovina extends along the Dalma Dalmatian - tian Dalmatian border. It is much more various than the usual disturbances in that quarter. The populace have attacked tile Turkish autheritlei lu the frontier towns, and lu many plaCes the Austrian flag has been raised. PARIS, July 12.A very passionate de debate - bate debate is expected in the Assembly when the Committee's report recommending the annulment of M. Burgoing's election in Nievre comes up. M. Rouller intends to speak. Ile will insist on the legiti legitimacy - macy legitimacy of the hopes entertained by the Bonapartists of the restoration et the Empire, and prediot their ultimate reali realization. - zation. realization. The semi-official Moniteur Univereale saYs the Vlench Goverument will be compelled to intervene if the Spanish inan-of-war, Vittoria, bombards the ports of Leguieto and Oudarroa, on the Biscay an Coast. . ! ADRID, July 12.--The Municipality ol Madrid have telegraphed congratula congratulations - tions congratulations to General Contreras; and voted rewards to the Lancers under his com command - mand command for Melt heroic conduct at Non Non!Wares. - !Wares. Non!Wares. Official dispatches announce - that the Carlists ,have attacked Guetaria and Iruu, aud have beeu repulsed at both places. WHAe TILt WIRES WHISPER. The funeral of Gen. Frank P. Blair, Jr., took place yesterday from the First Con Congregational - gregational Congregational Chtirch, St. Louis. ! All the foreign Mayors to whom were ' sent invitations to the International Ban Banquet - quet Banquet at Guild Rail, Loadon; on the 29,11 ult., have accepted, two only excepted. Edward Kelly, a bridge watchman, his wile and child were run Aer at Otsego, N. Y., by &railroad train. Friday night. Kelly and wife were killed and tile cuild eacaped. , - . '1'he Mtectotal ittitggie In tegfiRing tu !Bavaria. Tnere is great excitement be between - tween between the Ultrainoutanes and the Na Nationalists. - tionalists. Nationalists. Muchimportance Is attached to toe result. E. D. Raymond, a well-known commis commission - sion commission merchant of Chicago, was fouud dead in his room at the Snerman Rouse yesterday. It is supposed that he died from apoplexy. The Pittsburg & Fort Wayne and the Baltimore & Ohio roads Saturday-signifled tneir intention of reducing passent ger rates from Chicago to New York to that of the Michigan Central road; Anew' dollars. - A little girl named Noble, while play playing - ing playing near brush which was burniug near holland, Mich., her clothing becoming ig ignited, - nited, ignited, and before assistance could be had, was burned iu a terrible min minner. - ner. minner. Recovery very doubtful. The Carlists have retreated in disor disorder - der disorder toward Amezcovas, and Generals Quesada, Loma and Tato are pursuing tam. General Qaesada's victory at San Clares preveuied the Carlists from invading Santander and Asturias. Over one hundred and seventy'Carlist officers, together 'with their commands, have been captured near Cartavieja. .a, light, occurred on Wednesday near San Wares, which lasted live hours, and which proved very disastrous to the Carlists. Two more men were arrested on Sat Saturday - urday Saturday on suspicion ot having been con connected - nected connected with tile Long Point train rob robbery. - bery. robbery. The agents along the entire line have instructions to arrest and hold all suspicious persons found around their respective stations.

now General Breckenridge Escaped from Elor Ida to Cabs.' When the news ot the evacuation of Richmond and the capitulation of the remnant ot Lee's army at Appomattox Court-house reached Ganeral Breckin Breckinridge's - ridge's Breckinridge's headquarters, it was determined in a council of war, at which Gen. Joseph E. Johnson presided, that any further resistance to the overwhelming tome of the Federal armies would be a useless effusion of blood oa the part of the Confederates, who were already cir circumvented - cumvented circumvented by the enemy and suffering for Mod. It was at this period, about the middle of April, 1805, that General Breckinridge,, after a perilous ride of over a thousand miles on horseback, evading the Federal cavalry in his ' flight through North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, at last succeeded in reaching the mouth of the St. John's ' river, where be was joined by Colonel Wilson, of the Florida cavalry; J. Tay Tay. - . Tay. lor Wood, ex-commander of the Confed Confederate - erate Confederate privateer Tallahassee, and Cap Captain - tain Captain 0"roole, all of whom, together with his body servant, a negro boy, volun volunteered - teered volunteered to accompany him to Cuba. Se Securing - curing Securing a small boat of only one ton bur burden - den burden and but eighteen feet in lengththe only means of transportation at Omit; commandthese voluntary exiles brave ly launched their little craft on the treacherous waters of the Gulf of Mex. too. - After eight daye of adventure and al alternate - ternate alternate calm aud storm, during whicli time their supply of water and provis provisions - ions provisions gave out, they were at length hailed oft Salt Key, on the northwest coast ot Cuba, by a brig bound from Cardemts to New - York. Passing themselves oft tts fishermen from Florida, they procured some supplies and proceeded on their way. On the 11 of June, 1863, the party. reached Port of Cardenas, in the island of Cuba, without a nautical instrument to guide them over the trackless waters in that frail fishing boat. The party was hospitably received by the Spanish Governor of the place, Colonel Bard, to whom General Breckenridge pre presented - sented presented his sword and the arms of his party. These were Immediately re re,turned, - ,turned, re,turned, toil the hoepitalities of the party tendered te them. The party re remaiued - maiued remaiued two days at Cardenas. during widch a dinner and serenade were given to General Breckiurldge by tha tew American sympathizers residing at the place. A special train wag placed at their disposal, and, accompanied by the writer .and a guard of honor de de' - ' de' putized by the Governor, the party pro proceeded - ceeded proceeded to Havana. When the train reached Regis, on the opposite side of the bay, a large number of peo people - ple people were at the depoyanxions to get a glimpse ot the famous general conteder contederado. - ado. contederado. The ferryboat that Wok us across the bay was never kilOwn to carry so many passengers as she did on that. oc occasion. - casion. occasion. The tail, soldierly figure of General Breckinridge, clad In Dia bat batGowen' - Gowen' batGowen' unitorm of gray, towered above the crowd as he stood on the bow ot the boat gazing at the magnificent specta spectacle - cle spectacle presented by the thousands of shiPs of all natioualities, among which were the Confederate rain Stone wall anti other small crafts still floating the stars and bars. 1 A wealthy Cuban planter,an acquaint acquaintance - ance acquaintance of the writer, extended a most cor- , dial Invitation to the General to make his- headquarters with him 'while Mt Havana. Many other pressing invita invitations - tions invitations of a similar cuaracter were ex extended, - tended, extended, btit General Breckinridge courteously declined to accept any dem demonstrations, - onstrations, demonstrations, either publicly or privately. Atter stopping about a wee at Ahe He Hetet - tet Hetet Cuban, he proceeded to Montreal to visit two of Itis fibildren who were at school there. Front there he went to Europe, and returnect to Kentucky in 1807, where he lived quietly and un unostentatiously - ostentatiously unostentatiously until death closed his honorable career ou the Pith of May,

, Perkins' & Ce., counselors-at-law anti , solicitors for American and foreign pat pat, - , pat, euts, 513 Seventh street,. Washington, D. , C. .Copies of the drawings and speci specifications - fications specifications ot, any patent in this list fur. nished for 25 cents: , 161,850. Compositions for building pur purposes. - poses. purposes. Arza T. Lyon, assignor to the Indestructible Building Material Coin pony. Filed June 17, 1875. The compo composition - sition composition of matter for building purposes, consieting of asbestus, hydraulio ce went, coal-ashes. air-slacked' lime, and plaster-of-paris, about in the proportions specified, and thoroughly mixed and in. corperated with water, and molded or applied as specified, and saturated with soluble silicate of soda or potash, sub. stantially as described. 161,861. Hydrants. John G.Murdeck, Filed April 28, 1875. Brief.The hy hydrant - drant hydrant has a moving water-way, oper operated - ated operated by the mechanisms shown. A st id idable - able idable ring surrounds the stock; fastened to it by suitable means, and imparting finish and stabil to the hydrant. Tau valve-bridge and orts are cast with the shell, as shown. 'Phe wil,,etway commu communicates - nicates communicates with a - perforated sediment sedimentchamber - chamber sedimentchamber situated below the hydrant. 164,851. Paint Compounds. Al za Lyon, assigner to the Indestructible Building Material Company. Filed June 17, 1875. A paint or mastic coin.' position consisting of caustic lime, alum, sulphate or zinc, hisulphide ot carbon, chloride et zinc, nitrate of .lead, chlo chloride - ride chloride ot soditimovhiting and white lead, compounded said mixed with boiled lin linseed - seed linseed ell and a suitable coloring matter, substantially as set forth. 164,896. Binder Attachments for Sew Sewing.Machines. - ing.Machines. Sewing.Machines. George Wissler. Filed April 29, 18751 Briet--A binder attach attachment - ment attachment censieting of a bed-plate, tO Wiliell is adjusted a stetted wedge-shaped block, with a concave bearing en the end nearest the needle. Underneath the aforesaid bed-plate Is fastened an edgc edgcturner - turner edgcturner or lip, and a corresponding one is secured to the upper side of the wedge wedgeblock - block wedgeblock by the same 'common adjusting devices, one et which serves to regulate the longitudinal action of a slotted shackle upon the wedge-block, the other being connected with a tension.spring, which acts upon a vertically-slotted guide. 161,812. Ceffin-Handle. M. H. Crane, assignor to Crane, Breed & Co., same place., Filed May 12, 1875.) Briel-The handle ie made up of a IJOHOW ear, se secured - cured secured to URI coffin te receive a knot is the end et a cord, and a hollow handle, , which is held also to the outer end of tile Icord by a concealed knot, and depend from tho ear. - , 161,819. Watch-keys. John C. Due Due' - ' Due' bor. Filed April 28, 1875. 164,877. Rond-Raminers; Abbott Q. Ross. Filed April 12, 1875. Brief.--A road roller and rammer, in which the rammers have a vertical -rising and fall falling - ing falling motion, and also a swinging motion, the upper ends ot the swinging raminers being secured to trunnions with, spring cushions, guided by sliding heads upon vertical guide.bars. To throw the rain rainmers - mers rainmers forward or backward lit the direc direction - tion direction in willeh the machine is traveling, and thereby permit them to rest on tile ground while the machine is progressing, until lit1011 time as they are again raised and lowered. a series of adjustable springs are employed', which are made to bear upon either side of the falling rammer rode depending upon tne three threethin - thin threethin traveled'. When nut to be used, the rummers are suspended. by tilting spriug books. The returner-head is grooved, and a saw-toothed shoe, with rihs cor- ' responding Le said groovee,.is slipped on , the heads and secured by a set-screw. The peripheries of the rollers are pro provided - vided provided witii concavities. - ,4 161,895. Sewitig-Machine Binderti. Geo. Wissiere , Filed April 2t) 1870. -

' 7 BLACK BILLS NEWS, - 8101a CITY, U., July 12.S. W. Walk Walk'. - '. Walk'. "sr, nephew of Vinegar Bitters Walker, who went out with Witcheas, bull train with the intention of going to the Black ' Hills, has returned here. He tells a rather melancholy tale of his adven adventures, - tures, adventures, having encountered great hard hard, - , hard, ships, the weather being unpleasant the whole journey, and on his iftrival at , Jordon City he encountered fearful Storms of hail and rain, some hailstones measuring seven to eight inches in cir cir'Aumference. - 'Aumference. cir'Aumference. , : - He and a companion returned together, ',while many remained -at Gordon City, and fifteen started out to get into the bills. It was learned afterwarde that 1 several of the latter were captured by the military. Walker says that on the - way back he met a man from Chicago, who informed him that there were 8,000 Adventurers at Cheyenne, who would : start for the hills on the first favorable epportubityh, It is now definitely known that the military will leave Fort Randall sn Monday next to drive out the miners who are noi in the hills. ' firootortý Meeting-1h. CropsPosonodp , 'too otth owe to. the Star. Darrow; O., - July: 12.There was a very large attendance at the meeting oi , the Montgomery County Grangers' Cinb at Dodson Station, Saturday. Air in 'wresting essay on horticulture was read ' ay Mr.. George M. Vorhees. The occa occa. - . occa. Mon was a very agreeable one to all present. The next meeting will take t place August 14 at the resiaence of lir. foams Clopkier 'Brookville. - Farmers in 'this vicinity are now her her. - . her. teetink their wheat and barley. The . e wheat crop will be rather short. It has - - , been seriously damaged by the heavy : rain of the last week or two. There-will - be a good yield of barley. Mrs. Knecht, wife of Mr. Charles tneeht, residing four or five miles north , irf Dayton, and a hired mau named Jas. : Brady were badly poisoned on last Fri Fri' - ' Fri' day by eating what they supposed to be Mushroons, -but which proved to be toadstools. Mrs. Knecht le recovering, bot al last accounts Brady was still , aanithrously ill. , There were no applicants. for admis admis, - , admis, Man to the Ohio Agricultural and Me , abanical College last Saturday, the day , , appointed for their examination. , Barnum's Hippodrome le announced to exhibit here Wednesday ol the pres-,, ant week. , , z St. Louie lady reports that during a ' recent visit to-Italy she bad a "bust ot bes toot made."' , ,

of the churches of New York and Brook Brooklyn - lyn Brooklyn are gradually being vacated and pastors taking the summer vacations. During this seitoon various churches un undergo - dergo undergo necessary repairs. Many minis ministers - ters ministers are spending the summer itt vamp meeting grounds. Atm Sartori and tion LONG BittNca N. J., July 12.Mrs. Sammie, nee Nefly Grant, gave birth to a son yesterday morning at 8:10. Both are doing well. A Great Mind Unbalancyð . INDIANAPOLIS, IND., july 12.Robert Dale Owen, in charge of his two sons, Julian Dale and Ernest Dale, arrived hare, from New Harmony, Saturday, en route for the Insane Asylum. located two miles west of this city.. In an inter. view Ernest stated that his father's in insanity - sanity insanity disclosed itself in conversation rather than in conduct. He imagines himspif immensely wealthy and tbe sole heir to the estate of the Earl of Breadal Breadalbane, - bane, Breadalbane, and is continually telling bow he will dispose of his property by endowing colleges, building bottles for the poor, and benefiting humanity in many other ways. - - - He is restless and de.sires to be travel.' lug, and seems to have lost all idea of space and time. He speaks of going to , New York in an hour and of walking ,! over to Philadelphia in a few minutes. He is never boisterous, and does not be become - come become an&y, but is continually talking. At the breakfast table he harangued the waiter on the little difLrence which cothr of skin should make in our ebti. mate of man, to the great merriment of all present. Until their arrival in this city he bad no knowledge of the intended destina destination, - tion, destination, although he became aware several days ago that his family regarded him out of his mind. The asylutn physicians are ot opinion that he can be cured pro provided - vided provided there is no incipient paralysis.Ile requires to be closely watched night Rod day. Hts general health has greatly im improved, - proved, improved, almough there are. many traces of his recent mere illness. ,, Kansas City, inan has written three affecting letters announcing his suicide, and Is waiting for his father to send on time money for funeral expenses, which will enable him to begin lite anew,- -

The Constitutional Convention of Mis Missouri - souri Missouri passed appropriate resolutions of respect to the memory of Gen. Frank P. Blair Saturday, and resolved to attend his tuneral in a body. Gov. Hardin, ot Missouri, and the other Statti officers will also attend his funeral. - An immense water-spout descended on the track et the Kansas Pacitio rail railway, - way, railway, near Kit Carson, Saturday, and waebed away two hundred Wet ot road. Th4 blockade on the North Missouri and Hannibal and St. Joseph road contin continues, - ues, continues, aud no trains have been through for several days. , The West Coast Mall- ot the 29th ol June states that during the recent terri terrible - ble terrible storm in the harbor of Valparaiso at least forty boyer belonging to the train- , lug ship were drowned, and between enty and thirty sailors and from twelve to fifteen boatmen, exclusive of the eight persons who went down in the unfortunate Egerie. As train No. 6, bound east on thji To Toledo, - ledo, Toledo, Wabash and Western railroad, was nearing J acksouville, Saturday morning, the engine struck some cattle, throwing the train from the track, turning the en engine - gine engine upside down, and holding the fire fireman, - man, fireman, whose name is Roberts, and the en engineer, - gineer, engineer, Peter Teal, helplesa beneath, while the hot steam poured over them. When the men' were finally extricated they were so shockingly scalded that it is believed they can not live.. - Internal Revenue CollectionsNew Illetho diet Chapel. Special to the ittez COLUMBUS. O., July It The Internal Revenue Collections for thia District amounted, during the fiscal year ebding June 80th, to 8636,175. Ot this Franklitt county paid etutut three-fourtils. The now M. N. Chapel, on the corner of Broad struet and Washington avenue, was occupied for the first time yester yesterday - day yesterday by a portion of the congregation of Wesley Chapel. It Is proposed to erect a handsome church adjoining the chapel within the next Tear or tWite -