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Newspaper
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1875
Page
4
The edition urges turnout and organization to back Hayes in Ohio with a target of a 40,000 majority in October. It criticizes rival papers for bias and calls for investigations into the Water Works mismanagement. Dan Worr promises testimony on Ninth Ward election conduct as part of the political battle.
The piece discusses how Cincinnati Germans influenced a Columbus decision and criticizes park music arrangements at Eden Park versus central city parks. It argues for public funding of music in Washington and Lincoln parks and condemns lenient sentencing and moratoriums on capital punishment, urging harsher, more certain punishment and rejecting insanity pleas without solid evidence.
J A Wallestod, editor of the Pioneer-Press, is removed as St Paul postmaster after Senator McMillan pushes for his brother in law Dr Day’s appointment. Wallestod cites civil service principles and personal dignity, while McMillan’s backers press a replacement. The resignation is accepted amid dispute.
The article advocates a businesslike approach to an industrial and music festival hall project. It proposes offering a premium for the best architectural plan or inviting plans as contributions to a building fund. It emphasizes selecting plans with functional detail and plans to oversee construction by the winning architect.
The article argues the project must stay within proposed costs and be secure, handsome, light, and warm in winter yet cool in summer. It cautions Americans overestimating lay design skill and urges consulting top architects and studying international experience for guidance.
A Times letter reveals a rising trade in ready made sermons in England and notes the hardship of clergy who rely on borrowed ideas. It details the financial lure and coercive methods of sermon purveyors and argues for stricter seminary standards to curb the practice.
The trustees voted to raise the medical staff from fourteen to sixteen at the Cincinnati Hospital. Election results list the new medical staff including Drs. Com, Carson, Murphy, J. B. Davis, Holdt, Underh, surgeons Muscrott Massey Young Con Bor, obstetrics M. B. Wright and Young, oculists Aub Ayres, pathology McKinzie N. P. Dandridge, plus Superintendent H. M. Jones, Matron Agnes Rose, and Clerk T. E. H. McLean.
Ohio Sunday-School Union leaders Clifton M Nichols and H P Lloyd spoke at the Seventh Street Congregational Church. Lloyd urged keeping older scholars in Sunday schools and lifelong service, while Nichols cited a Springfield destitute neighborhood case and the impact of D L Moody. Rev Eben Halley closed, stressing religious instruction amid secular public schools.
The Democratic County Executive Committee outlined delegate rules for the State Convention on June 17. Primary meetings are set in the country next Saturday 4 to 8 pm and in the city Monday 4 to 8 pm. The committee proposed doubling delegate numbers but giving each delegate half a vote and will bring a brass band to Hamilton County events. Apportionment lists wards with two delegates in several districts and one to others including Coleraine Delhi Riverside Springfield Spencer Anderson Green Columbia Symmes Millcreek Sycamore Miami Crosby Harrison.
Mr D J Kenny prepares an illustrated descriptive and statistical guide to Cincinnati and its suburbs. The book will feature over three hundred engravings of city scenes and surroundings. Also reported are arrivals of Bismarck the elephant and relatives, a jewelry theft on Walnut Street, college commencement events, a Sycamore Street fire, a shooting incident involving Mary Riley, and various local notices including police, theater, and church activities.
In Gloucester County New Jersey in November 1783 he arrived in this county later moved to Butler County and finally settled in Colerain Township where he spent the rest of his life. He served in the War of 1812 in Captain Joel Collins company and was the last pensioner of that war but one in Colerain Township.
The summer timetable lists through trains at 6:05 a.m., 8:30 p.m., and 9:10 p.m., with arrivals at 5:35 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 7:10 p.m. The 11:10 p.m. train stops en route to Loveland for local traffic. Evening trains offer scenery views on the B and G Railway. Daily service includes Loveland and other accommodations with specific departure and arrival times. Plans are under way for a Brighton to Cheviot line with dummy power.
For the Gulf and South Atlantic States Tennessee and the Ohio Valley expect rising barometer with northwest to southwest winds, cooler and cloudy with occasional rain clearing in the afternoon. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys see rising barometer cool clear weather. Lakes region shows rising barometer with variable winds, occasional rain, cooler and clearing. Middle and Eastern States face mixed skies cool with occasional local storms then clearing. Lower Missouri and Lower Ohio rivers likely rise while Lower Mississippi remains steady or falls.
Loxpox June 5 The Earl of Home and Dalhousie and Viscount Grey of Scotland have been raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom. AN INVITATION TO THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK Lonpoy June 6 The corporation of London has resolved to invite the Mayor of New York to a international municipal banquet next month. RATES OF OCEAN PASSAGE Liverpool transatlantic steamship companies reach accord on freight and passage rates.
The Prix de Paris at Paris on June 6 saw Salvator win easily with Nougat second and Perplexe third. English horses Claremont Camballo and Seymour were far behind at the finish. Death of De Remusat reported. The Assembly invalidates M Burgoing's election in Nièvre. Gen Jovellar appointed to command the Army of the Center. Rumors of royal and noble marriages dismissed.
Reports from Australia include gold exports of 198,278 ounces this year and 316,557 last year. Madame Rastoul claims her husband escaped New Caledonia to reveal starvation in prisons. Parliament opened on April 27 and Clifton mine coal tests beat Newcastle coal. Port Pirie suffered flood damage from a tidal wave. The Vignerous Club plans to promote Adelaide wines at the Philadelphia Centennial. An earthquake sequence on Loyalty Island caused widespread destruction and loss.
A dispute between Frank Rosefield and saloonkeeper Ross ended when Ross ordered Rosefield from the Aurora saloon. Ross drew a revolver and shot Rosefield above the left eye, killing him instantly. Ross was jailed at Lawrenceburg after the shooting.
A Miss M from Cincinnati wooed by a Polish Count demanded dowry and yearly income. The father paid to end the contract, the couple separated, and the Count kept the money as the panic ruined the estate. The Count later pursued a Bohemian baroness and remains living on the American fortune.
The itemized column relays eclectic notes from the era including the sale of a skeletal figure for 40000 dollars, a bride-to-be Miss Coleman of Vidalia, La. dying on her wedding morning, and various witty quips about public figures. It also mentions prize winnings for humane draymen in Augusta, Pope quotes at audiences, a fatal pistol incident in Boston, and juror literacy in a Boston Superior Court panel amid a slander case involving a Roman Catholic priest.
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