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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1872
Page
4
Notice to railroad agents and responsible parties along lines of different railroads that copies of the Daily are to be delivered at the rate of one cent per copy. Instructions emphasize proper handling and payment at delivery.
Next Friday the Second Battalion holds a picnic at Parker's Grove. The Montgomery Station post office name is now Remington. A boy named Patrick Garney fell from a bus on Columbia Street and broke an arm. Thieves stole clothing from the Hummel House, plus a silver swatch and a gold chain. A strike begins in the Indianapolis and Cincinnati railroad shops with a 25 cent daily raise demand. Michael Corfield fell while tearing down the Orphan Asylum building and broke an ankle. Dr. J J Quinn, injured recently, is able to move about again. A marriage occurred in Munich to Benjamin Kissane of Brooklyn. A strawberry gathering event includes music and readings at Orchard Street Church. An ex-employee was cut during a quarrel at a rent street factory. St Xaviers opening at Mozart Hall tomorrow night. Coroner Underhill investigated Frances Young's death ruling natural causes. Cincinnati Zuaves fundraiser netted a sum for uniforms. Alfred Gaither possibly first to cross the Newport and Cincinnati bridge. Walnut Hills M E Church canceled Sunday services due to mud. Bishop Willey plans next Sunday dedicatory services. A new conical lamp shade with white dome shown in Lincoln Park promises brighter light.
The letter urges the Superintendent of Street Cleaning to address filthy alleys in the lower city, noting Columbia Street near Park and Mill with neglected green gutter scum. It also covers the McCaffery investigation rerouted for more power, plans for a mid November city fair, a donor table pledge, and penmanship scores across public and district schools with a general average of 78.2.
The stove molders strike continues as workers refuse to resume duties while the firm discharges non union members who worked during the dispute. Tensions remain high and production is disrupted as talks stall.
Manning's Minstrels 2 opened at Wood's Theater to a full house with new acts and songs well received. The bill includes Billy Manning and a strong supporting cast, plus a noted concert by Mr. Joseph Parry at Welch Presbyterian Church with Miss Lizzie Parry. The Normal School Alumnae formed an association, electing Miss D Lathrop as President and Miss Newhall as Secretary, with addresses by John Hancock and J B Powell and a fine supper closing the reunion.
Mary M Garrath was found drunk in the gutter on John Street and jailed ten days. Others include James Lynn fined fifteen dollars and costs for drunkenness. several defendants—Garily McLaughlin Brown—each twenty days for disorderly conduct or resisting officers. Various smaller fines and dismissals follow, plus notes on weather, river levels, arrivals and departures of boats, and St. Xavier College commencement actions.
Delegates announced for all wards in Hamilton County to attend the State Convention in Cleveland. Ward leaders include J H Redmond, J B Hoffman, L Schwarz, W J O Neill, G W C Johnston, James Sherlock, H Wehage, W L O’Brien, Robert Hill, John Rieder, John Godar, A B Ratterman, Anton Buening, Thomas Hartshorn, A H Kloine, Henry Varwig, Thomas E Snellaker, Geo W Atkinson, E M Williams, A J McCaffery, Hy Bowmer, A B Champion, James Smith. township delegates include Philip T Turpin Spencer, Clayton Ebersole Columbia.
Community notes report Higby Vansant as candidate for marshal with second seller share at Friday’s meeting. Discussion on the steam ferry has subsided. Weather favors the annual railroad squabble as parties prepare for business. Counsel met last evening. The boys spoke their pieces and left without notable damage.
Citizens under the Christian Association plan a July 4 event in a grove east of town on the State road. A 9:00 A.M. procession will start at Town Hall to the grove. James Carlin reads the Declaration, followed by addresses by J Scott Harrison and I J Allen of Cincinnati. Prof. J W Fox conducts music. Refreshments managed by the association. all invited to attend and bring baskets.
Judge O Hara files judgments in Brazee vs Stone Bertram vs Hahn and Maxey vs Wheeler ruling minority council action illegal and majority meeting not properly called. Brazee gains clerkship and one cent damages. Bertram and Hahn dismissals favor defendants. Maxey ruled illegally elected. Local notes mention banquets and school exhibition.
In Covington County Court yesterday a bastardy case involving Susan Rogers and William K Hay was discharged after Susan did not appear and testimony failed to convince the jury. The report suggests Susan was deterred from testifying. The note adds a remark about cigar business profits in Covington.
In County Court the motion by Martin Deussur to set aside the appointment of Harris Levy as guardian was sustained, with the Levy party appealing. The case concerns custody and whether the orphans should be raised Christian or Jewish, as both parents are dead and they reside in a Catholic Orphan Asylum.
The Neptune Fire Company of the First ward proposes a grand Fourth of July balloon ascension with readings from the Declaration of Independence, speeches by local leaders, music, and a large picnic at Dick Hood's. Another item notes the arrest of David Geiler on suspected carriage shop burglary and a school year summary shows ward enrollments. A lone man was found dead in Dick's Woods from a self-inflicted pistol wound, unidentified, with a pocket mirror bearing the name Alex Holler.
Missouri real estate and personal property totals show taxable wealth of 568 million with land of 36 million acres, 558,878 horses, 1,248,632 cattle, and 622,860 personal property. Mile Smaragdan wed Warner Heront in London as Turkish ambassador. Queen Victoria attended a bridal show. A Yankee editor quips about dying laughing and chasing a sign for a pocket handkerchief.
A long transcript discusses Crossness near London and a native guano firm processing Southern London's sewage with the ABC process. It details daily volumes, purification steps, yields and profits per ton, and potential national gains. It also touches on deception in jugglers vestibule and petrified corpses in Florence hospitals and ends with barley harvest notes and promising rye and wheat yields in New Albany area.
Market briefs show dull grain and flour trading with mixed butter and cheese values. Prices listed for bran shipstuff butter dairy fruit and dried goods along with lard, pork, poultry, and petroleum margins, reflecting a generally soft, unsettled market with selective firming on some staples.
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