The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-30
COVINGTON.

last evening.
Mr.. John Seller is digging two large ice
ponds in South Covington.
Mr.. Edwin Cleary is playing at the Broad
way Theater, New York. 'v.
Miss Maggie Stevens, daughter of Senator
Stevens was serenaded last night.
The Pioneer Society meets in Inde-
pendence on the 9th of November
The ever popular Emerson Minstrels and
Big Four at Odd-fellows' Hall Tonight
Dr. w. A. Hall is, we regret to say, worse,
and fears are entertained for his recovery.
Christian Won Gundy's bar-reom was
burglarized of lot of whisky and cigars
last night.
Mr.. H. S. Malcomb of Cincinnati has been
awarded the contract to heat the new Gov
eminent building.
The Globe Dancing Circle will give re-
peption at Turner Hall on the evening OF
the 11th of November.
Miss Kate Gronetti entertained number
Of friends in elegant style last night Dane
Ing was the order of the evening.
CHANG ERY CoURT.-Amanda Mccoy was
granted divorce from John Mccoy. +. E.
Bage has been admitted to the Bar
The Twilight Assembly have issued nobby
invitations for their terpsichorean tete at
Drexelius Hall on Thanksgiving eve.
The surprise given by the Socials last
night at Drexellus Hall was a recherche
affair. Everybody enjoyed themselves.
Mr.. Hugh Kelly arrived this morning
from Lexington. BY request of many la
dies he will attend Father Smiths soree.
For the contradiction of false reports we
4, 10 c1trin 1n nlln iron
for supper at Father Smiths soiree to-
morrow night.
Bob Jessup and John Clancy were ar
rested this morning for vctimizng an
oyster vender. officers OHare and Bolan
made the arrest
The Greenup-street Hose Reel collided
with Geo. Berry's wagon, on Madison street,
last night, and demolished it quite badly.
Chief Glore bears the expense of fitting it
up.
Twelve barrels of whisky arrived on the
Kentucky Central Railroad this morning
from Paris, KY, consigned to firm in
Santa Fe New Mexico There were also
thirty car loads of stock on the same train
for New York
Judge Geo. G. Perkins, of the Criminal
Court, yesterday granted writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Harry L. S. Campbell,
boy of seven years of age living with his
grandmother, Mrs. Lucy e. Devers, in Har-
rison County.
Several Cincinnati creditors of G. L. Pratt
and A. L. Thornbury, of Greenup, KY,
among whom are Hanks Durham & Co.,
Max, Stadler & Co., and Tolle Holton G.
Co., yesterday filed objections in the office
Of Mr.. Bostwick, Clerk in the United States
Court, to the petition of Pratt & Thornbury
lsking to be discharged from bankruptcy.
NEWPORT.
John Allowys was fined So and costs for
lbreach of the peace.
The plans for a depot, to be erected in
Newport at cost Of $4,000, have at last ar
lived.
Geo. Birthstone was sent to jail for three
hours yesterday by Judge Boyd, of the Cir
cult Court, for contempt of Court
Messrs John R. Hugle, John Bodley and
Ed. Mariana were appointed by The County
Judge yesterday appraisers OF the Caldwell
estate.
Mr.. John Shuman, of Newport, and Miss
Lille Witte, of Cincinnati, were united in
marriage last evening at st. Johns German
Church.
Colonel R. w. Nelson has the sympathy
Of his numerous friends in the great loss he
has sustained in the death of his estimable
wife, which occurred at l o'clock this morn
Ing.
Philip Mangan, living on Central avenue,
ell from the roof of two-story building in
Cincinnati yesterday, sustaining a com
pound fracture of the left arm and a
prained ankle
Police Lieutenant Connolly has received
letter from his brother-in-law, Capt. Jas.
Wise, dated at Memphis, October 25th, tell
Ing him to warn all refugees not to return
Tor at least two weeks.
Rev. C. F. S. A. Bersch has been elected
pastor of st. Johns Protestant Church, on
The Licking Pike. Rev. Pohlmeyer, of St..
Peters Church. Cincinnati, will install him
as pastor next Sunday.
Thieves attempted an entrance to Feths
drug store corner of Columbia and Madi-
son streets, last night, by prying open a
shutter with jimmy They were fright
ened off before effecting an entrance.
A Number of the surviving Of the
Twenty-third Kentucky Regiment met at
the Engine house last evening and passed a
resolution inviting all old soldiers of the
Army of the Cumberland to join in paying
last tribute of respect to the memory of
their deceased comrade, Jacob Gugel.
THE KRAMER CAsE.-The case of the Com
monwealth against VIM. Kramer, who is
charged with shooting his father with in
tent to kill, was called in the Mayors Court
this morning A number Of witnesses were
examined, but their testimony was in sub
stance the same as that already published
In the STAR At the conclusion OF the ex-
animation of witnesses Major Frank SUIT
ton, counsel for defendant, stood up, and
with the dignity of lord burst forth in
flow of the most polished Ian
guage over the gigantic outrage
that ! has been perpetrated on this
glorious old Commonwealth by keep
Ing in custody this innocent-looking
youth (poining to his clientl "Why,"
continued the noble Sutton, "in this glo.
rious and advanced age of civilization.
when the noise made by the brushing Of q
fy's wing can be band-boxed and S.nthum.
ming over the universe; when the touchine
strains Of the nightingale heard in the mid