The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-26
COVINGTON.
Council meeting tonight.

The trial Of Ira PeroiVal will be held
in Boone County.
Mr.. Fred. Schafer has young
daughter at his house.
Nothing new in the Chancery or Cir
cult Courts this morning.
Ex-Councilman John Kearney leaves
tomorrow for the Hot Springs, Ar
kansas.
Mr.. Joseph Grunkemeyer has been ap-
pointed letter-carrier in place OF Mr..
Herman Meyers. ...
The residence OF Henry Howard, in Mt.
Sterling, was destroyed by fire Monday
night. Loss $1,000.
A moral show under the supervision
OF the lrrepressible Dan. Rlce is billed
for Paducah on the 3lst.
Mr.. Joseph Schlosser has just com.
pleted a half-mile race track on his farm
on the Lexington Pike.
Counterfeit halves and quarters are
being circulated extensively in Pendle-
ton County, Kentucky.
POLICE CoURT.-Mary Bernes, dis
orderly conduct, dismissed; Thomas
Glendon, on similar charge, was also
dismissed.
Miss Blanche sthwaite, who has
been visiting friends in this city, re-
turned to her home in Bourbon County
this morning.
Rev. j. M. Worrall is announced to
deliver the annual address before the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at
OanViue, next Wednesday.
An open-faced gold watch that was
lost IN 1861 was recently plowed up in a
field at MI. Sterling. The watch was the
property OF Dr. Penn White.
- VIM. Tarr, who resides on the line OF
the Maysville and Paris Road has a
mock OF seventeen deer on his place. He
don't state what kind Of "dears" though.
Judge j. X. Hollingsworth, of Bowling
Green, late Elector on the Republican
ticket, has been appointed UniLed States
U0hsui TO Lima, Peru, and will accept
The salary is $4,000 per amman.
One hundred thousand pounds OF TO-
pacco mas Deen received at Catawba STA.
tlon, on the Kentucky Central Railroad.
this season, fifty thousand pounds OF
which has been shipped to Cincinnati.
A foot race between Mr.. Thomas Alex
andria and Lum. Rouse was run ou the
race course in The fats yesterday,
distance one hundred yards, tor $40
side, and was won by Alexandra by
eight yards. Time, 1:10.
The young daughter of Ex.Constable
Frank Berte, who had her lett arm
broken few days since by falling down
the stairs at his residence, met with a
similar accident yesterday, which re-
suited in the breaking of her right arm.
The nuptiais OF Mr.. Fmnel MADEIRA
and Miss Birdie Owens are announced
tor to-day at 2:30 Z. M. Rev. George f..
Bugbee is the officiating clergyman. No
attendants. Mr.. and Mrs. Madeira leave
at O'Clock on a bridal tour of several
weeks duration.
The new steam fire engine, "Robert
Howe" built by Ahrens & Co., of Gin.
Dinnati, was accepted by the Committee
On Fire Department yesterday. Two
tests were made. Through the 100 feet
OF hose the l3 I6-inch stream reached $50
Ieet, the N inch stream 23S feet and the
~ stream 20 feet. Through 800 teet Of
Aose the lT-lnch stream reached 1877
1eet. Two N-inch streams were pro-
1ected 200 leeG through 100 feet of hube
AT the second trial through 100 feet OF
hose 13-l6-inch stream Was thrown 264
1eet. Wafer was thrown in 3 minutes
anu AZ seconds.
NEWPORT.
Johnny Pryor sayshe will be squelched
ii it haiIt u boy this time.
The commission of Mrs. Mary L. Ross
as Postmistress has been signed.
Mr. Patrick Callahan, OF this city, is
elected Safe Secretary of the A. o. IL.
The CoviDgton Gas Company has
seven miles Of gas mains laid in this
city.
The first concert of the Waldenmayer
Amateur Orchestra takes place This
evening at Red Mems Hall.
Rev. Chas. e. Clausen left yesterday
to attend the German Evangelical SynoL
OF the West at Portsmouth,
Asneak-thief entered the shop of j Jacob
Schwaegerle on Monmouth street, near
Madison, and stole pair Of pants worth
$12.
CITY CoURT.-Charles Turner, disor-
derly conduct, continued; Andy Moran,
and Tommy Lawlor, petty pillering,
continued.
The Board of Equalization has closea
It's laborS Tor this year. Assessor Bra
zier has increased the valuation Of prop
erty $4,000.
The funeral of little Albert Reucher.
who died Tuesday from the effects of a
fall from the third story or the Corpus
Chrlsu School-house, took place this
morning.
Colonel W. E. Merrill, Judge J. h.
Hallam, and 2. B. Coffin, were chosen
delegates by the yestrymen Of ST. Paups
Church to the Diocesan Convention to
be held at Louisville May 16.
Marshal Lock, this morning, received
from the Sheriff Of Dearborn County,
Indiana, full description of the follow.
Ing prisoners who made their escape
from the Lawrenoeburg jail last night:
Thomas Ferrill, Frank SHELTON, Wesley
Ferriil, Banks Ferrill, Hiram McFar-
land and Lorenzo Jones.
Ernst. Clark, a colored youth, came to
town last night to see his Lucinda, but
shortly after his arrival he was nabbed
by the police on an old charge of a
breach Of the peace. He was let of at
the time on the condition that he leave
the city, never to return, but his Lu-
clnda lived here, and that settled it.
Mr.. Robt. q. Hemingway, of Coving-
ton, and son of Robert Hemingway, the
glass merchant, and Miss Mamie Tim
berlake, ot this city, were married last
evening at st. PauPs Church by Rev.
W. M. Pettis. Among the bridal pres
nnk o