The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-07-28
From Dayton.


ments, &C., &c. e
Correspondence of the Star
DAYTON. O., Monday, July 20.
Rain and picuics, interspersed with
some picnics and numerous rains, have
been the order of pretty much every day
1 since our "glorious Fourth" Indeed
on that noisy day the gentle showers
came down in damp benedioites upon
the long procession line, hanging liquid
diamonds on the brassy trappings Of the
fire engines, washing white channels
adown the sooty faces Of workingmen
who had fallen into line In anything but
their go-to-meeting rigging. and more
than all metamorphosing the lovely
crinkles and curl-paper ringlets Of our
improvised Goddess Of Liberty into
dank. Indian-iike lengths Of hair, until
poor Miss Columbia felt herself In rather
Strengthened circumstances.
And since then-rain, rain, rain. A
little sunbeam peeps in now and then, but
seemingly only to find out whether there
was picnic on the books for tomorrow.
And II there be, and you rub your eyes
open at the unchristian hour Of A. NJ.
and bound to the window with q strong
inward prayer that the weather be se-
rene, O gentle, though very penetrating
drizzle and inlet, with now and then an
angry mutter somewhere near in the an.
CRY heavens, sends you creeping back to
your pillow, and, in another ten minutes,
you are dreaming Of how you went to
that picnic and wore that pretty new
hat, with the dainty blue harebells, and
your new "Paris suiting" skirt and
making kept you up till 1890 A. NJ. the
night before, how the thunder, lightning
and rain-and the breakfast bell breaks
the spell of 80 horrible a nightmare.
But the average Dayt0nian knows no
.spostponoment on account OF the wealth
err" and the barometer may take care OF
itself. Witness: last Thursday four
churches and Sunday-schools- Cad
die, Union, Dawson and Broadway
started in dashing shower for Yellow
Springs, and, as sad consequence, were
switched OF on side-track at the fellow
Springs station, and spent the live long
day just a-staring out of the dripping
panes of the car windows, q forlorn
party. And the Shelbyvillian Hoosiers
are of about the same cloth, since, on
(. nat very same ulSCy,- InOlSJy morning
came an excursion to visit our Soldiers
Home. They returned home wilteder II
not wiser people. Speaking OF Soldiers
Home, it is whispered that we may
probably expect a grand reunion at that
place of all soldiers living at this time in
he several adjoining couRties.N
Speaking Of reunions, must mention
the reunion of the Kumler family, Mr..
John Kumler, the father, is sixty years
yf age, and has had the bliss of watching
eight little heirs and three little heir
.sses mature to fine and handsome men
md women, the men especially. being so
taIl and broad-shouldere that it makes
rue think that there are giants In these
lays as we'll as there were in "those."
Why, Just think, dear STAR, there's P.
Il. and j. f. and A. L. and d. B. and f.
\. and w. A. and G. H., and Miss Mary
and Jennie, not to speak of the married
laughter, Mrs. d. l.. Surface, whose hus-
oana is editor of the Richmond Ind.
Telegram. Mr.. p. II. is an attorney In
Mr.. j. f. an attorney in To-
ledo; Mr.. A. L. an attorney in Lafayette,
Ind; Nj. w. A. an attorney in Dayton,
while Mr. +. A. is a real estate agent in
Toledo. Dear. dear, ii one of the Rum
iers should some time be President of the
U. s., how many offices-but the mere
hought 10 appalling -.