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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1872
Page
4
Notice asks railroad agents and responsible parties along lines to act as distributors for gratuitous copies. Agents will be charged one cent per copy delivered at railroad stations.
Tom McGrsax becomes a Fifteenth Ward resident as Sunday library readers total 3 6 periodicals and 163 books. The Walnut and Fifth street back stand grows fashionable among hackmen. A Crawford House hire links to Jim Fisk era hacks. Court actions include Russel vs Daffy continued to January 10. Damon Lodge hosts Kentucky lodges. Western Female College alumni meet and L M Wise lectures at Plum Street Temple. Panther coal steamer arrival. Irish regiments organized. notable men attend Board of Trade gathering. New safe factory planned by Macneale & Urban on Pearl Street. Patric OGrady wins $45 damages in Ohio and Mississippi Railway case. A domestic scandal emerges as a wealthy Western businessman faces a wife and Jennie amid infidelity accusations.
The Ferguson Plan to secure the Cincinnati Southern Railway was discussed at the Board of Trade Rooms with over a hundred attendees. Chai Mr Kinsey opened the session as the meeting considered amendments and steps the City Council must take to support the plan and issue ten bonds.
Speeches in opposition to substitute measures, estimates of costs, and debates on financing mark a Board of Trade meeting. The body adopted Macneale’s resolutions urging city support for the Cincinnati Southern Railway and opposing repeal of enabling acts, arguing the project benefits commerce, property values, and tax base.
Readers asked if US sewing machine prices differ from Europe. Special inquiry confirms sworn returns show substantial price disparity. An instrumentality lowering prices would be a human benefaction.
The city in Covington reports a dull business climate as voting opens at six and closes at seven with viva voce tallies. A councilman and school trustee are to be elected in each ward. The German American Protection Association backs its slate. Hogs crowd the streets despite the hog ordinance. Deputy postmaster Elwood Miller is considered for postmaster. The Grand Temple of Honor meets at Templars Hall. A mass meeting at Federal Co room features speeches by Rankin Burbridge Terrell. Mr Cree’s house burns with $600 damage. he was insured. Counterfeit charges target Willett in Madison County. U.S. Marshals pursue him. Knights of Pythias plan a Cincinnati visit. W. J. Rich declines school trustee nomination in Ninth Ward.
In Samuel M's docket seventeen cases unfold with drunkenness vagrancy and disorderly conduct. Sentences include workhouse terms of up to thirty days, fines from $3 to $10 plus costs, and waivers for some defendants. A riot at a Lock street coffee-house results in a broken glass spree and a split verdict for McCullin and Evans.
Dayton moves toward female suffrage with women owning real estate allowed to vote on the 15th. The Council calls an election on the 15th to gauge property holders on increasing bonded indebtedness to seventy five thousand dollars. A railroad inquiry and ferryboat service review are assigned to committees.
Newport City Council re elected Upton Clary Chief of Police and Chas Smith Lieutenant. Police were also re appointed along with several others. Wharfage income for December was 165.08 dollars. Street cleaning cost 57.50 dollars. Council seeks action to issue 200000 pounds in bonds for Water Works. Three citizens pledging to abstain from liquor for 1872 with a $100 forfeit for the first violator.
Readers argue over honoring Alexis in Cincinnati while other cities pursue invites. The missive recalls past refusals, social ambitions, and hopes for royal attention. A Newburgh owner shows a Washington era watch gifted to Martha Custis with a bull's-eye London make and inscribed letters.
River traffic shows strong movement with the Panther passing the city wharf around noon and the Telegraph bringing 200 tons pig iron and 70 tons manufactured iron. The Ohio No. 4 and Thompson Dean report good trips, while multiple packets prepare for evening departures from Pittsburg to Louisville and Arkansas river bound runs.
Market review lists prices for commodities and foods including sugar butter lard and poultry. It cites various per unit prices such as lemons per box and chickens per dozen along with points on refined products and fats.
Last night Rev. I. M. Worrall of Covington Kentucky delivered the final bell course lecture under the Wyoming Presbyterian Church. The subject was His tory of Language as illustrated by its Litera ture. The able talk drew an appreciative audience and accomplished two aims: neighborhood instruction and entertainment while raising funds for a dell for the new church.
Report discusses the alleged absence of honor among thieves with a New York case where two men were tried and convicted for stealing a pocketbook. They were subsequently arraigned to receive punishment.
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