The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-04
OUR NEXT.DOOR NEIGHBORS.
Pickings by Star Reporters in Neigh
boring Cities and Towns.
LEXINGTON. KY.

LEXINGTON. ne.
Watermelons are making their appear
ance in our city.
Decoration Day passed by unobserved.
Alas, how soon we are forgotten.
The commencement exercises Of Win
chester High School took place yester-
day.
Since the multiplicity of telegraph Off
GERS in our city, rates have been greatly
reduced.
) Rev. H. NJ. Scudder, of Elizaville,
KY, will deliver poem to the Alumni
Association of Center College at Dan
vile, KY, June 18th.
The army worm and potato bug are
doing sad work, but we wouldn't trade
them even for the Kansas grasshopper.
Hon. John F. Philips, of Missouri, will
deliver the address to the graduating
class of Center College at Danville, KY,
June 17tE.
Some of our citizens are complaining
of their fruit trees and strawberries be-
ing raided and foraged upon by lot of
bad boys. These must be some of the
children who do not go to school.
The cool weather of the last few days
has facilitated the devastating progress
of the destructive army-worm. This
new enemy in our locality is making sad
havoc with the wheat and barley crops.
DIR. R. G. Chenault, late Superintend-
ent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, of
this city, is now located in Cincinnati.
His office is at III Ninth street, between
Race and Elm, and his residence in
Clifton.
The excursion from Lexington to
Chattanooga via the Cincinnati South
rrn will leave Lexington Thursday, June
10th, at o'clock a. M. arriving at Chat
tanooga at 7:30 p. m. ExcursionisIs can
leave Chattanooga either on the 11th,
18th, or 18TH Fare for the round trip,
IS.
The ITALIAN Literary Society of Lex
ington Female College held an open ses-
sion at the First Baptist Church in this
city last night at o'clock, and was ad-
dressed by Rev. w. H. Felix, of Coving-
ton. The commencement takes place
this evening at 4 o'clock.
The address of Rev. J. G. Young, of
Danvil,e. at the commencement exercises
of Hamilton Female College was very
fine indeed. This school is fourishing
under the supervisory of President Pat
terson, and the result of the past session
lust closed has been highly gratifying
to himself, the Trustees and all con-
cerned.
Don't depend on borrowing your neigh
boris paper; of course he will have the
courtesy to lend it to you, even to his
own detriment, but subscribe for it your
self, thereby contributing mite to a
meritorious enterprise and have the sat
isfaction of being independent and not
discommoding anybody.
Hon. Thos. S. Jones will deliver the
annual address at the commencement ex-
ercises of the Agricultural and Mechani-
cal College in this city Wednesday, June
9th. Governor Blackburn will be pres
ent and deliver the diplomas to the grad
uating class.
Yesterday evening at 8 o'clock the
Philotechnian Society of the Sayer
Female Institute held an open session in
the Institute Chapel. Tonight the COM
mencement will be held in the First
Presbyterian Church. The address will
be delivered by Gen. Fitz Lee, of Vir-
ginia. The principals reception will be
held at the Institute after commence
ment until II o'clock.
1t has been developed by the enumer-
ators that hundreds OF children in our
city of sufficient age to attend school.
both white and colored, do not attend
any school but are growing up in perfect
idleness, ignorance and imbecility. This
is burning shame. Their parents
ought to be held responsible for it.
Crime in all of its grades, different col
orings and hideousness is the offspring of
ignorance. Enlarge our schools and de-
crease our Penitentiary.
URBANA. o.
J. HI. P. StoRe has returned from New
York, where he has been selecting new
goods for the store of S. M. Rock.
The funeral of the youngest son of H.
Mcdonald will take place this afternoon
from The residence on North Main street.
A strawberry festival will be given by
the ladies of the Presbyter an Church
in their lecture room Thursday evening,
June 10th.
The man Lawler, who attempted to
commit suicide Saturday, May 29th,
was pronounced insane, and will be re-
moved to the Columbus Asylum.
BELLEFONTAINE. o.
Mrs. S. G. Hovey is visiting in Toledo.
Misses Ella McIlvaine and Lizzie Ivens
are visiting in London, 0.
M. D. Brown is in Toledo attending U.
&. Court as Grand Juror.
Miss Name Buchanan, of Huntsville,
aas returned from Tennessee.
Rev. w. I. Lawrence and wife are Wis
ting in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
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