The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-15
THE DAILY STAR
OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHB0RS,
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boring Cities and Towns.
LawRENCEnURG. iND.

The Mclean Chair Manufacturing
Company received an. order for fifty
patent chairs, for Chicago firm. The
firm sent their own model.
The operators and agents of the 0. q
NJ. Railroad here and all along the line,
will have their salaries raised Is and 20
per cent, making it the same wages re-
ceived before July, 1877.
The Democratic Central Committee
met at the Courthouse in Lawrence
burg Saturday. The 22d day of May was
selected for holding primary elections to
elect delegates to the County Conven-
ton, which meets June 9th, 1880.
NEWARk.O
Mr.. Job. Paige has opened colored
billiard parlor in Wilson's Block.
AT the Democratic Primary Election
Yesterday Mr.. Isaac Bigelow was nomi-
mated for Mayor.
Mr.. Charles Rider, the jeweler on the
south side, will sell his stock and 60 on a
farm near Columbus.
The new Music Hall was crowded on
Saturday night to see Haverley's Min
strels. 1t was simply immense.
DIR. Charles A. Hatch was nominated
as Councilman for the Fourth Ward al
tha Republican Convention Saturday
night.
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Charles Phelp;
passed through this city on his way tc
Bowling Green, KY, where he will be
employed as Train Dispatcher for the
Cincinnati Southern Railway. Charles
is an old Newark boy.
~ LEXINGTON. Xxx.
Hemp land is renting for from $12 tt
f15 per acre.
Miss Lizzie Nicholas is visiting friends
in Covington.
1t is feared that the late freeze will in
iure the fruit crop.
&c. Monfort, State agent for the
STAR, is home from Danville.
Theodore Tilton will lecture at Har-
rodsburg the 25th of this month.
The new Phoenix Hotel reflects great
credit on the architect and builders.
Mr.. Clugston and her son John have
returned home from visit TO Harrods-
burg.
M. V. McAndrew will raise large
crop of broom corn for manufacturing
purposes
Judge Hunt appointed w. H. Miller
to fill the vacancy in the Circuit Clerk
ship of Madison County, caused by the
death of w. P. Embery.
James Fl. Bracken, timer, working
for Houlihan, on West Main street, Sc
riously wounded himself with hatchet
while trimming a plank.
John VIM. Lell bought the old frame
building just above the Post-office, on
Broadway. from DR.. Warnock. 1t is to
be torn away and nice brick erected in
its place.
The farmers are complaining of old
iron thieves. They are not only stealing
all the loose iron that can be picked up.
but are breaking to pieces some very
valuable machinery, such as reapers,
cutivators, threshers, plows, etc.
Colonel DELPHI reports Saturdays sales
as follows: Mules, 154 to l6 hands high,
$115 to S125; common horses, $55 to $50;
stock hogs, from $3 rs to 81 per hundred;
ewes, from SO 80 to IS; lambs, engaged
at from So so to So; hemp selling at from
SO to SO so.
MIDDLETOWN.O ..
Miss Sallie McGee has returned to her
home at Oxford, 0.
Mrs. II. Logan is visiting friends and
relatives in Dayton.
Take the Cincinnati Daily STAR for
the most news of the day.
G.. H. Harvey, of our city, paid fly.
ing visit to Dayton last Saturday.
Mrs. Randolph, of Main street, is Wis.
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Coles at Franklin, O.
Mr.. Elias Folk and family, of Frank.
lin, spent Sunday in town with rela.
tives.
Mr.. AL. Marsh, proprietor of the Gait
House in Cincinnati, was on our streets
Saturday.
Rod. Brashiers has struck it. Struck
the little gem puzzle and can work it
out Ikea top.
There was no foot ball game played
Saturday On account of the inclemency
Of the weather.
G. H. Bundy has returned from Phil a.
delphia, where he has been attending to
business for several days.
Mr.. Samuel McFall has staken the con.
tract for driving the street cars from
Middletown to Madison, Ben. Smith re-
firing.
Mr.. Joe Sharn, the champion pool
player of Middletown, has taken an oath
to the effect that he will never play an
other game while in our city.
VIM. Marshall went to Cincinnati
Saturday morning, for the purpose oi
having tumor taken off just above the
left eye. DR.. Williamson performed the
operation.
Charles Costigan, resident Of Aman
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