The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-24
COVINGTON.

COVIEGTON.
Miss Lille Swinney has returned home.
Judge w. E. Arthur has gone to Frank
fort
Pat Handy and Celia Kain were licensed
to marry this morning.
The will of Catherine Weber was admit
ted to probate this morning
The State Baptist Association meets in
Harrodsburg ON the goth day of May.
Mr.. Frank Riggs, Jr., of Kansas City, is
In the city on visit to his old friends in
this city.
EVIL Reading will be discussed by Rev.
W. w. Ramsay next Sunday at Union M.
Z. Church.
Mr. H. S. Percinal still stands solid for the
6heriffalty in spite of Lowe, who Fosters
his chances.
Sam. Gaines wants the Kentucky editors
to have a jollifcation at Hopkinsville on
the 9Th of June.
Luther Benson didn't promulgate eff
teen Years in Help last night, owing to the
slim attendance.
Bully Blakely's bouncing baby boy, and
he is APPARENTLY happy over the name,
Dewitt Clinton.
The Little Gem Baseball Club will give
Hall Saturday night.
w. J. Camnitz, the efficient agent of the
American Express Company at Columbus,
Ohio, is home on visit.
POLICE CoURT.-Hardy Langdon, drunk,
81; Kate Sooliman, breach OF the peace,
filed away; John Dorm, drunk, 81.
+ Something that speaks for the popularity
of the Alphonso Dramatic Club was the
hat had at MarV'S
last night.
In the case of Catherine Glarfdon against
John w. Wheeler for damages for the Sc
duction of her daughter Alice, verdict for
Sl0,000 was returned.
Miss Ada and Pauline Keller, the accom-
plshed pianists will take part in the con-
cert tomorrow night at Riverside O., given
by Miss Jennie Edwards.
The damage suit of H. J. Steinborn
against Mullings & Crigler for that wrong
full attachment went to trial yesterday af-
ternoon, and is III progress
And now Mr. Averbeck claims that Car
ter had no gold watch few hours previous
to his death; while nephew of the de-
ceased testified that he had
A soul-thrilling narrative is to be pub
lished in a San Francisco paper The
heroine is the daughter of Covington
clergyman and the hero a California des-
perado named "Devilish Dolph.".
VIM. B. Powell, the youth who testified
that his age was twenty-one in order to pro-
cure a marriage license, was remanded to
Jail this morning to await requisition from
Cincinnati. The time given for the requisi-
ton IS sixty days.
The members of the Grave Hair Lodge,
No. 4, A. O. D., elected the following officers
al their last meeting: E. E., VIM Streut-
ker; U. E., Jacob Schakner Secretary,
George Fuger; Treasurer, G. j. Zeisz; .J.W.,
VIM. Hartman; A. W., Caspar Bach.
A prominent man on the police force ex-
ercised himself the other day by pulling
half of the hair out of his wife's head
This makes the second charge we have
heard against this egotistical individual,
and the next time we will publish his
name.
On account of the death of Harry Rife
The Office of Constable, in the Second Dis
trict, is vacant, and Mr. John Rife, who has
filed it satisfactorily during his fathers i'll
ness, is candidate for it, with good pros
pect of success. He is certainly deserving
Df it.
We regret to chronicle the death of Mrs.
Mary Il. Shanks which occurred yesterday
evening The deceased was in the forty
be held at Taylor-street M. E. Church, in
Newport, tomorrow afternoon at balf-past
Eoclock.
A rule has been issued against John Hol-
lenkamp, principal, and his bondsman,
Fred. Hockstatf, to show cause why the
Judgment against Hollenkamp in favor of
Helena Grimmeson had not been paid
The rule is returnable at the next term of
The Court.
Patrick Bolan, who is under arrest in In
hianapolis charged with killing one Ma
honey. sets up as testimony in defense a
letter written by one of his principal wit
nesses, declaring that he is afraid to come
to indianapolis from Mississippi, his life
having been threatened if he did.
NEWPORT.
Mr. Taylor Thornton, Jr., was handsomely
raned last evening by Hon. Z. H. MORN.
+ Valentine Hoeffer was granted license
this morning to wed Elizabeth Stephens.
A second lot of steel rails for the Short
line Road arrived from Pittsburg yesterday.
The report of a suicide in the upper end
of town this morning could not be traced to
reliable source.
The pupils of the York-street Congrega-
tional Sabbath-school will give an entertain
ment tomorrow evening called Mother
Goose Melodies and Tableaux"
The alarm of fire sent in from Box II last
night about 8 o'clock was caused by the
burning of quantity of straw at the corner
of Isabella and Southgate streets.
Last night some scoundrel bent on mis-
chief threw huge bowlder through a large
plate glass in Mr.. Hagemann's cigar store,
on Columbia and Southgate streets.
Company II, Eighteenth United States
Infantry, commanded by Captain McLaugh-
lin and Lieutenant Warwick, held a rifle
practice on Mill Bottom yesterday. Ser
geant John Connell was pronounced the
best shot and Private Ingletree the second
BEST.
Mr.. James Mehan, of the Short-line Road,
has in his possession copy of the Cincin-
natl Advertiser. published in 1926. Nearly
all the paper is devoted TO giving,an account
of the grand reception of Gen. Lafayette on
his arrival in Cincinnati. The document is
Rprecious one. r..r