The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-06

turerB OF CnlS city against t0e BJTlkeFe.
The large tobacco manufacturing firm OF
Straitor g. Storm, Pearl street mer-
chants, sent q telegraphic dispatch to
San Francisco. ordering the employ
ment Of four hundred or five hundred
Cinnamon and their immediate transfer
to the city to take the places LEFT vacant
In that establishment by the withdrawal
OF the strikers.
This house had in Its employment on
the first day OF the strike one thousand
and nine persons, about one-halt men.
The average wages earned under re.
duced rates by these persons were ~
per day. The strike caused loss OF
$1,000 to the finn in consequence OF the
spelling Of tobacco prepared for manu-
facture. Over q half-dozen cigar manu-
faeturers opened their shops tnis morn
ing with Am erican girls. The shops at
an early hour were besieged With Amerl-
can applicants Tor work.
Among shops employing American
hands were Edward N. Smith, eighty;
Litchenstein Bros & Co., one hundred
anu five; 8. Jacoby, one hundred; Chas.
Bondy, seventy Ave. AS girls were en-
tering Litohensteins' shops gang OF
about two hundred strikers both men
and women threatened the new hands
| with violence. The timely arrival OF a
One of the women strikers on picket
duty In Bowery said that the employ
ment Of American girls il taking bread
out of tue strikers mouths. She ex-
pressed herself as willing to resume
work, but intlMated that she was over
awed.
Fast Mail.
Postmaster James received dispateA
tau afnr nu n N "a N N
that the Australian American mail had
reached there in the quickest time ever
made. 1t was only iorty-two days from
Sidney, being sent by way of San Fran
cisco and New York. 1t was only one
lday behind The British Australian mail
which was dispatched twelve day ah heao
OF it by the route OF the Red and Med
literranean Seas.
A Wonderful Invention.
The Scientific American of this weel
con ntains the first announcement Of wha'
may be the most wonderful invention
Of the day, Edlson's phonoGraph. TIT
Sun says nothing could be more inored
ible than the Likelihood OF once NOR
hearing the voice OF the dead, yet th'
; Invention Of the new instrument ts sale
10 render this possible hereafter. 1t II
true that the voices are stilled, but VINO
ever has spoken or whoever may speal
into the moHth-piece Of the phonograpl
and whose words are recorded by it hat
the assurance that his speech may b.
produced audibly in his own tones loni
after be himself has turned to dust.
Samples of Grain
| from Winnipeg and Manitoba were ex
hibited at the Produce Exchange, AM
referred for examination to the Gran
Committee, who pronounced IL equal q
the finest spring waeat that comes t.
( this market.
| A Little Female
~ sneak thief admitted her guilt before th
, Police Magistrate yesterday, aud tn
i scene in Court was extraordinary. He
t thefts amount to about 81, 800, and he
. numerous victims who appeared agans
her were many of them moved to tear
by her seeming innocence.
A Hoax.
: NEW YORK, Nov. 8.-The dispatc
= about the murder of Augustus Schel
published yesterday, was hoax. N
such dispatch was sent out f ON the o
, hca of the National Ass sociated Press
!. nor is anything Of its origin known 9
| this end of the line.
John BrOuR ham HI.
r A private dispatch received fror
Cleveland, Ohl0, states that job
Brougham, the veteran actor, Ia lynn
l dangerously ill in that city. An al
3 tempt will be made to move him to New
, York, as 1t Is his desire to die there
his end is near. It Is doubtful If he ca
stand the Journey.