The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-05
OUR NEXT.DOOR NEIGHBORS.
Pickings by Star Reporters in Neigh
boring Cities and Towns.
LEXINGTON. KY.

LEXINGTON. KY.
The Kentucky chestnut crop is fail
ure. '.... -
Senator Beck has gone to Washington
City for a few days.
Messrs. Headley Il Peek are about to
erect large warehouse.
The severe cold the past Two days seems
80 have depressing effect OH business gen
orally.
The best quality of potatoes were selling
from wagons yesterday at sixty cents per
bushel.
Our enterprising merchant, Mr.. Thomas
q. Calvart, left yesterday on business
tripto New York.
Mr.. Geo. +. De Long has returned to Lex
ington, and taken his old position in the
house OF ii. 4 |. Lovenhart.
A negro named Tom Ferry was up be-
re the Recorder yesterday on the charge
OF petit larceny. He was sent on for further
trial.
Mr.. Alex Williamson caught q black
ha,s in Licking River, near Cynthiana, a
few days ago that measured twenty inches
il length.
The German Hotel on Broadway near the
p' stoifice, kept by Mr.. Gugg.sberg, is said
to be the best managed house OF the kind
ia the city. t .-r0.t& a
Several lots of extra fine cattle passed
through this city Monday for Cincinnati
and the East. The price for which they
were sold at the scales was 81 per hundred,
i1st from the grass.
Two Car loads Of Pulaski County coal ar
-, Al ;r n ~
natl Southern. Yesterday fifteen car loads
arrived from the mines Of MI. j. H. Baker.
TIE coal is said to be of superior quality,
having the appearance of first-cass camel
eoal. There is no danger Of coal famine
III Lexington now.
nELLEvUE. kY.
Mr.. EyerIarts little girl is in fair way
{, feCoyer. -5E r.-
Mr. Flurry Adams will shortly leave on a
v',jt to friends in Henry County, KY.
Temperance meeting tonight. Mr.. Stan.
ey (the masheT will probably be present.
The Knights Of Honor propose giving On
entertainment for the benefit of the Lodge.
Mr.. William Dresser, who had his left
(, / badly mashedl last Saturday, is around
again.
Regular meeting of Council will be held
to morrow evening. The meeting will be
important.
A number of our citizens, whose cisterns
gave out, are now having water hauled In
barrels from the river NH
A special meeting OF Council was held on
Monday night, which was devoid Of inter
est, but a stormy session was held, all the
same. .........
The NJ. +. Church Extension Aid Society
of Philadelphia some time ago granted the
Trustees of the Church $500 to enable them
to bhld the new church. The Trustees o
the Church give the Aid Society mortgage
On the property for the amount above
stated r
GKEENFIELD. b.
William Holmes, laborer on the Day
ton Southeastern Railroad, was pretty bad
ly cut to pieces while in fight. HoIme,
has q wife and two children living in Green
field
Coal is very scarce. 1t can not be got fol
ioye or money. There is plenty of Goa
passing over the NJ. &C. Road, but it al
goes past. 1t is selling for 13 cents PEI
bushel and still advancing.
L. r. Saxton, the baker and music ex
FOUNDER, has changed his boarding house tt
VIM. Davis, on east end OF Church street
where he can be found at his room ever,
evening from to 10 clock. a% .'.,'
Peter Anderson, one of ,Greenfeld's no
bipst sons, has gone TO Cincinnati to attenC
step In the right direction, and may man,
saore follow Peters example.
rf WILMINGTON. o..
Miss Mary Fuller returned home from
Newport Saturday after q long stay will
friends and relatives. Many friends me
her at the train. 49,.
Thomas Il. Outcait," conductor on th,
Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe Railroad
while coupling cars on that road yesterday
was crushed to death. He was native O
this city.
The meat shop Of Mr.. John Stewart wa
robbed few days since. The thieves wer
caught by a boy, .Milard Martin, a BRAY,
young man about eighteen years old. HI
run them about two squares, knocking on,
down with his fist and brought him bacl
TO the County Jail.
LUDLOW. KH. w.. l.l..
The Presbyterian Church Social will NEE
+ next Friday evening at tile residence O
Mr. W. T.. Closson, to which the public i
most cordially invited. E
WEST C6vINGToN.
Mr.. J. Arnold, Of Western Row, was mai
y ried last night 10 u charming belle of Gov
ington. ,t
The Rev. DR.. Bartholomew, of Coyipgton
preached a'very able discourse at the N. Z
! Church on Sabbath afternoon, and Dr. But
preached at o'clock.
I HAMILTON.
! Peter Murphy, Of Princeton, WIS in tow
yesterday. &
Mrs. Gratbwhole died Monday night a
her residence on Vine street. "''
Mrs. JOS King OF MEANWHILE, isyisitin
Mrs,J. r. Gibbons, Of the Third Ward.
| Miss Ella Smith has returned from Rict
moItl, Ind, where she has been visitin
friends.
Only one drunk registered Tuesday. Al
nuiet along the line save tbe auatare mn,