Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-11-22
Correspondence.
For the Meigs County Telegraph.
CITY ITEMS.
CINcINNArr, o.. Nov. rs. $50.

aHu INV tiIouSh tne StTeeIs Ol tnlS Wiynty
Metropolis of the West, am domiciled
in its heart! AT l09 west Fifth street, which
is one of the principal arteries for shop
ping. counted, from my balcony. during
one hour, four thousand pedestrians pass, in
the pursuit Of their various vocatons Of
life. '}E "a T3ttf (
1 visited last week tie us. Court room
over the Post Office, whele Isaw and heard
The notabes who figure in that sacred
tribunal Of justice. The case on trial was:
One Mclean leased to the Commissioners
Of Hamilton County twelve acres of side
Hill, adjoining this City, for Eve years, to
work the stchain-gaug" upon, and dig
stone, to build court house and jail. The
Commissioners bound themselves, by a
contract. to grade said side hill, after
taking out the slone., They failed to make
the leuel, aGoediag 20 Gilberfs grade.
Therefore, Mclean sued the County for
one hundred and niniy two thousand dol.
lars, which sum he claimed it would take
to make the grade accordingto agrsem ent.
U. S. Senator Pugh, Hon. Stanley Mat
thews and N. G. Mclean, Esqr., conduct
ed the prosecution, and the Hon. II. Stan
berry, Judge Key aud A. E. Ferguson de-
Tended the County. The Jury, after being
out twenty four hours, in this case, could
not agree. '.n. s 49,.
l spent an evening in the room of the
Young Mems Mercantile Library AS
sociation," which is truly literary and
brilliant place, with Its two hundred gas
lights, brightly burning, nightly. This
Association was founded in 1886. and now
numbers membership of three thousand
and three hundred. The Library contains
more than twenty thousand vulums, and
is the largest and most complete in the
West. The reading room is supplied with
two hundred and fifty Newspapers and one
hundred and fifty Mag gazines, Of our own
and foreign e'nnlries, and affords the
Arrest opportunities for this description Of
reading. Tie room contains number OF
line Works Of Art in Marble, Plaster and
On Canvas. The Scientific Cabinet in
Natural History embracing collection Of
many thousand specimens of Shells,
Fossils and Minerals, presents itself as an
attractive feature of this Institution. The
payment of one dollar as an initiation fee.
and three d5ll.rs annually thereafter will
constitute one Member, entilling him to
all the privileges of the Institution. Ladies
may become Members upon the same
terms. The room is free, day and night,
TO literary piSitors. The literary results
Of this Institution will permeate into com
ing generations here. aud it's good influence
VIII grdle the Glube. .r.. 4
The Germans celebrated the hundredth
anniversary Of the birth day Of the Poet
Schiller, BY a grand ch-ight procession,
of several thousand in it, and the day fol-
lowing. Thy another truly imposing pro-
ression Of three-fourtbs Of a mile long. Tn
the column observed the Washington
Dragons and the Lafayette Guards"
and large Car drawn by six dappe gray
horses. The Car was elegantly decorated
In its center was constructed pyramid,
on the summit Of which rested bust of
The German poet. At the base Of the
pyramid were seated four young ladies,
and around these were other young girls,
dressed IN spolless white, with wreaths Of
flowers on their brows. Another Car was
drawn by four beautiful white horses,
richly attired. This Car had in i. prin.-
ing press, with its pressman working off,
and distributing to the multitude, sheets
rnted in German Still another triumphal
Car, in honor Of che giant poet, passed
with a bakery on it; and lis baker throw
ing cakes and crakers into the crowd, as
it moved onward Each Society, number
ing seven or eight, was hea ed BY iuIl
band Of music, which played their 4udest
above the din of the City
The whole was a gorgeous spectacle, and
was concluded at nigh. by a grand ball,
and by literary, and musical entertain
ments. gua ass
A few Sabbaths ago, heard Arch.
bishop Purcell preach a most eloquent
and instructive sermon, in the Cathedral,
TO cores more than could find seats in
that gorgeous Temple of sacred Worship.
The music performed on that day, by the
Orchestra, was above my comprehension
aud description, | will venture he asser
ton. however, that the music was suprem
ly grand Iattended on Sunday forenoon.
the 13. inst, the New Jerusalem Temp
Swedenburg-( (built 1885, on Longworth
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