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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1872
Page
4
The Evening Star weather note by Henry Twitchell reports clear skies and cool, with a 2:50 p m reading at TAM 20.48 80. Cloudy conditions follow. Wednesday forecasts fair weather with sunrise at 6 38 and moonrise at 0 45.
Shiply and Smith, stationers, assign for creditors. Max Bruch may move here. Board of Education meets with 21 attendees and adjourns. Mozart Quartette to host a four mile grounds picnic. Regatta group to meet at Oberly House. Waterworks chief offers access to investigators. Cincinnati and Red River Transportation files incorporation with $200,000 capital. Bond Hill’s first birthday gifted with a silver cup. Organ built for New Orleans synagogue impresses with four sixteen feet stops. Calls for improved railing at Waterworks wall. Council quorum issues leave charges against McCaffery unresolved. Counterfeit bill arrest leads to jail. Bond Hill pioneer Dennis receives silver cup inscription.
A city observer describes a sunset that surpasses Sunset Cox's name in fame. The western storm clouds fade to a pink glow that brightens toward molten gold, with quivering rays across the horizon. Clouds overhead gleam burnishedly as the mellow light creates an awe inspiring scene beyond words.
The following marriage licenses have been issued since the last report listing couples such as Bauer with Martha Schumann Hemp hill with Elizabeth Morris Tomaske with Mary Steinecker Herz with Barbara Ermentraut Cohn with Rachel Stein Haun with Mary Belz Hay with Agnes Dick Westwood with Nettie Horsley OConnell with Annastatia Ryap Weyand with Carrie Schwein Walsh with Mary Madigan Wiefering with Mary Dickmas and many others across numerous pairs including DeSerisy with Janet Thompson and Minerva Pharis, among additional names.
The wife of Louis Aschmann, 74 Bremen Street, died after pouring coal oil on a fire in a stove that failed to draw. The blast ignited clothing. neighbors and a bystander helped extinguish flames. She died at about 4 AM after hours of pain. She was 39, mother of eight, five surviving children.
On opening day Professor Orton of Antioch College spoke on the Animal Kingdom from Protozoa to Vertebrata and split divisions into seven. He tied hills of Ohio to geography. Other sessions covered penmanship elocution music and chorus led by Burnett Stevenson Mueller Kinney and Aiken.
Sixty one new cases were heard in the police court this morning with sixteen continued. Several defendants faced fines or workhouse sentences for drunkenness and vagrancy while others were committed for trial on assault and grand larceny charges. A Grant Club meeting is planned and German emigrants continue to arrive via major Western railways.
Ludwig Prophet files for divorce from Catherina alleging forged or misrepresented chastity before marriage. The article notes a will of J H Herbes admitted to probate and the intestate will of Mary Haupt admitted as well.
A heavy shower with hail broke glass and moved items in the suburb. The Methodist Episcopal Conference session will meet in Eaton on Wednesday next. Half fare arrangements have been made on the road.
A Cumminsville canal picnic raised sufficient funds for the Catholic school. The event went smoothly with pleasant weather and harmony, meeting its financial goal for the stated object.
A Cincinnati youth visiting Harrison sought a horse for a ride. He hired a bayside horse from the daughter’s father after a sly introduction. The old man feigned anger at first but later invited the suitor to tea and a buggy ride, while keeping the horse as the prize.
A gathering of friends of Greeley and Brown is set for this evening at Arbeiter Hall to formalize the Kenton County Greeley and Brown Club. Speakers include Hon. W. E. Arthur John G. Carlisle Robert Simmons and others.
Esquire J. T. Maphet returns from Louisville after his son dies of smallpox. About 1,500 feet cross Newport and Cincinnati bridge daily. A brakeman on Short Line, Frank Dowden, dropped a mushmelon to the engine crew and lost three fingers when the locomotive passed over his hand on Saratoga street. An inquest into John Murnan’s death at Harris Street boarding house returned a verdict of death by apoplexy. O’Brien’s Moral Show to exhibit at Concert Hall next Thursday.
The column muses on which patent medicines will endure 100 years and highlights Dixon's Blackberry Carminative as a product likely to stand the test. It notes 25 years of public use, steady gain, and strong endorsements from users. It cautions this medicine helps bowels and urges readers to keep a bottle at home for potential illness.
Area edition reports light demand with steady prices across commodities. Notable items include oats, flax, hemp, and rope with varied receipts. cheese, coal, coffee, yarns, and coopers’ supplies showing steady or modestly altered markets. fruits and vegetables steady with fair demand, and mixed grain prices reflecting cautious trading in the Youghiogheny and Ohio regions.
The report lists firm quotes and steady trade for sugars, coffee, salt, seed, flax, rice, starch, tea, vegetables, and tobacco. Notable values include New Orleans sugar at 10 113 per cwt, Porto Rico 10 11c, coffee around 12 120, salt at $17% per bri, seed clover and timothy modest, rice prices unchanged, tea with Hyson and Oolong ranges, and tobacco auctions showing overall quiet activity with varied lots from Kentucky and Ohio.
General Freight announces the completion of the Lafayette Indiana to Kankakee Illinois link connecting Cincinnati to Chicago via the Indianapolis Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad. The line, called the Kankakee Line, offers faster through service with improved handling and reduced losses, and invites public traffic and inquiries on rates from G L Barringer and H J Page.
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