The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-13
MINOR LOCAL MENTIONS.

Mr.. Malcolm Frazier, nephew OF
General Frazer, an old Scotchman who
commanded troops at the battle of Water
Ioo, died on last Thursday at the Belts
Street Hospital, at the age of ffty.seven
years.
Mr.. Hiram D. Peck has withdrawn
from the Board of Directors OF Longview
Asylum, on account Of the increased de.
mands for his attention to his private busi-
ness. Mr.. Peck was President Of the
Board.
Or. UnderhilPs little three year-old
son, while playing yesterday, fell into pail
Of boiling water. He was terribly scalded
about the legs, thighs and back. The Doc.
tor thinks the scalding will Eot prove Sc
yiOu&
The lecture rendered by Colonel Hoy
hst evening at Lytle Hall, on Mistakes
and Blunders of Life" was we'll attended,
the house being almost full. The meetings
will be continued this evening and Sunday
afternoon.
On account of an oversight, the name
Of Captain H. R. Schroeder, the gentleman
ly and soldierly appearing Adjutant of the
Staff of General A. J. Hickenlooper on the
day of the reception to General U. s. Grant,
was overlooked.
A meeting Of Workingmen will be
held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock to
protest agains. the illegal appropriation of
funds 10 defray the expenses of the recent
reception Of Gen. o.. S. Grant. Andrew
Murphy, of the Central Workingmen's
Club will deliver the opening address.
If it were not too late to remark the
same to Bill Nye, We should feel inclined
70 express the opinion that for trains that
are fast and officers who know how to get
up an excursion in quest of an ex-Presi-
dent on his travels around the world the
Louisville Short Line Railroad is peculiar.
At a meeting of the Art Museum As
sociation yesterday it was decided to give
The Leap Year reception and German on
the night of the I'd of January. After
the appointment of several committees the
meeting was adjourned, and another meet
ing announced for Saturday, December
10th, at 10 o'clock. .,..... ~.
Professor Miller and McMahon, the
wTeatlers, are both in the city, and are
preparing for the contest next Tuesday
night at Robinson's Opera-house. Both
nen are in splendid condition and about
evenly matched. Miller is doing his exer-
else at the Gymnasium. Yesterday he put
up 100 pound dumb bell seventeen times.
Captain Zeilinski, the oldest news
paper man in the city, and who was en-
ployed on the reportorial staff Of the
Abend Post is now lying seriously III at
the Cincinnati Hospital, to which he was
taken yesterday. severely suffering from in
hammation of the bowels. He is believed
70 be much over sixty-four years of age, but
is registered at the Hospital as being sixty
four.
The floral designs of the banquet to
Gen. Grant at the Grand Hotel, on Thurs
day evening, were so universally admired
for their exquisite taste, and the freshness
Of the flowers of which they were composed
that we are glad to be able to satisfy the
curiosity of those present by saying that
al the flowers we're grown here, that is to
ny, by the Cincinnati Floral Company.
whose sixteen large green houses enable
them to furnish orders, however extensive,
for floral decorations without sending to
the East for flowers.