The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-25


foundry.
Mr.. Charles E. Nagel will leave next Tues,
day on a two weeks tour through Missouri
Illinois and Kansas.
Hr. James Fogarty, Jr.. of the commission
house Of Fogarty d Co.. of Walnut street
Cincinnati, has taken up his residence in
town.
The picnic of the Union Sabbath-school
will start from the Council Chamber on
Saturday morning at s o'clock sharp for
Stanbury's Grove. Wagons will be fur.
nished for the little folks to ride in.
LEXINGTON. KY.
The wheat crop is turning ont much bet
ter than was expected, and will be largely
above an average.
On Monday articles of incorporation fo'
the new Phoenix Hotel Company were filed
i'll the County Clerks Office.
If the merchants of Cincinnati know
what is to their interest they will help the
business men of Lexington to "bust" that
pool.
The County Jail is a model Of cleanliness
and neatness. There is some humanity in
the large hearts of Jailer Wilkerson and
his Deputies.
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day for the purpose Of raising the capital
stock for the erection of a new hotel. Sue.
cess to the enterprise.
The brick of the old Phoenix is well nigh
cleaned, and the debris principally re.
moved. We hope in Il few weeks more to
see the walls OF a new hotel rapidly grow.
ing
st. Johns Day passed away without eel
ebration Of any kind here. but enterprising
Richmond employed Wolf & Trosts cele.
brated band of music and had gay time.
Poor Lexington.
The State Sunday-school Association of
the Christian Church is in session at Dan
vile this week. An excursion is being ar
ranged from this city for Friday, the last
day of the session.
Several Of our good citizens have gone
to Danville to attend the Christian State
Sunday school Convention. Among them
we note the names Of VIM. Van Pelt, ID. W.
Stamford, J. d. Batson and others.
"Wednesday next the little folks, compos-
ing the Sunday school of the First Baptist
Church, will be made happy by free ride
to the woods of Mr.. Ben. W. Smith, on tile
Winchester Pike, to epioya tirst-cIass pic
mic. Such of them as have no conveyance
of their own will meet at the church at 8
O'clock where transportation will be furn-
ished them free.
The Kent Brothers, John w. and George
W., are among the self-made young men OF
Lexington. Eeginning life poor boys, they
have, by industry and strict attention to
business, built up characters for honesty
and sobricty that few young men can boast
of. We are glad to note these facts. Let
others follow their example.
We learn that costly and handsome
residence will be erected by DR.. Dudley on
the garden lot Of Mrs. Henrietta Morgan.
The work, which is to begin immediately,
will give employment to quite number OF
our hungry mechanics A few more like
Improvements would check the fast depict
ing rank OF Lexington's laborers.
Monday evening as Mr.. Robert johnson,
in company with another gentleman, was
on drive To his farm, his horse scared at
an old COW, and making a sudden move to
the left, threw the gentlemen from the
buggy. Mr.. johnson was badly bruised,
but not dangerously hurt. The other gen
tieman escaped without injury.
In the Evening Transcript of last Satur
day, under the head of Dog Fennel News, y
appeared the following: Farmers wives
are noycomplaining because they are com.
pelle'fSO arise at O'Clock in the morning
in orGer to see that breakfast is ready for
tie harvest lands. 1t is said that the early
bird catches the worm, but we prefer to
take ours in bed" And this in the lead
ing Democratic Christian paper of Lexing.
ton. That substitute" will, we opine, he
Knocked into p when Benny Deering
comes marching home.
TROY, O.
David Wilhelm, who carved his wife on
last Saturday with butcherknife, was cap.
tured to-day. Dave is n. &.
SPRENGFHEED. O.
Murphy picnic July 4th. Sure crack.
The trotters of DR.. Seys and John
McGarr colided while exercising on the
Fair Grounds on Monday and both were
badly shaken up.
Oscar U. Dudley, convicted of grand lar.
ceny, and sentenced to fifteen months
term in the 'pen," departed for his new
home on Tuesday
The Colored MasonS celebrated st. John S
Day on Tuesday by parade and observance
ceremonies. Everything went off in capital
style, but that band.
Wittenburg has tumbled to it. Messrs.
Mitchell, Delo and Behrends, of that house,
INDUCED in wake-up walk of ten miles ON
Tuesday morning. All doing well, with
the prospect of speedy recovery.
D. Levi, a sheeny man, is the latest cam
didate for stone-pile honors. He fell into
the clutches of Prof. Tempest Wilson, whose
inspection brought forth certain articles
properly belonging to a notion house,
Somebody on Center street wants to rent
furnished rooms to gentlemen, and here is
the way they advertise upon slip in cor
ridor OF the Post-otiice: FURNISHED Rooms
For Rent, Gentlemen" Rather queer,
and don't take with the boys.
1t is said that Harry Carter has salted
away those tights taken in after the flight
of Fuller's Royal Circus on Sunday night
1t would pay the managers to see that Harry
was not "buzzed." The creme de la creme
of society might take the chills.
Mr.. John C. Van Gorder has returned
from the Canadian Shores and, in an inter
view had on Tuesday, states that the
walking-match between Messrs Castle and
CARRIER is not off, but that the parties are
so overjoyed at his return that they have
consented to compete for the empty key.
Anybody would be glad to see John, after
getting on to that suit
John Toner, a twelve year-old son of
Michael Toner, of East Columbia street,
while carelessly handling pistol on Tues
day morning, was shot in the abdomen, the
ball entering near the navel. DR.. Dunlap,
upon examination, expressed but little
hope for his recovery, but at midnight of
Tuesday he was resting easy-a change in
his condition perhaps for better or worse.
John Norris arrived home on Monday
evening from the West. On Tuesday he
drove to South Charleston and arrested at
that place Frank Canada, who is wanted at