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officers (elected annually) of the Cincinnati Cotton Exchange: President, Geo. Seeman ; Viec-Presidents, Win. Moffett, Geo. I. King ; Treasurer, Chas. C. Carpenter ; Secretary, Wm. S. Melleu.
COTTON TRADE .- There are at present eight houses in Cinein- nati regularly engaged as dealers or commission merchants in the cotton trade ; and with the rapidly approaching completion of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad the trade has the right to expect a very large increase in this branch of business, as that line will open up the heart of the cotton-producing section of the South to Cincinnati, and by giving more dircet transporta- tion facilities with the cotton mills of the North, than were ever before possessed, will naturally. lead in a very few years to Cincinnati becoming one of the leading interior cotton markets of the country. Cincinnati merchants are active and wide awake to the superiority of the geographieal position of the City, as a distributing market, and with unequaled eastern and northern railroad facilities, will be quick to press their ad- vantages to their utmost fulfillment. The business of 1879 shows a steady increase over 1878, and is illustrated by the following figures of imports and exports, from September 1, 1878, to June, 1879, compared with the same time in 1878. Imports, 1879, 244,- 296; 1878, 173,228. Exports, 1879, 239,302; 1878, 169,443. The course of prices so far this season, of 1879, muay be of interest, as it has been a very remarkable year in that respect. In Decem- ber of 1878, the lowest prices prevailed that had been seen for more than 20 years; Middling Cotton sold December 12 and 13, 1878, in Liverpool, at 4 13-16d ; in N. Y., at 8 13-16c .; and here at 81/8 c. per ib; from this point the market advanced with vary- ing fluctuations, until May 20, 1879, the same grade of cotton reached 7 3-16d in Liverpool; 1334c. in N. Y .; and 1312c. in this market, an advance of about 60 per cent. Since May 20, 1879, there has been a sharp re-action, and cotton has declined 114 to 11/2c. per fb.
COURTS OF LAW .- There are seven Courts of Law in the City, besides ten Magistrates' Courts. These are the Courts of Com- mon Pleas, consisting of five Judges; the Superior, with civil jurisdiction in the city cases, of three Judges; the Probate Court, one Judge ; the Police Court, one Judge; District Court, of three Judges; and the United States Circuit and District Courts, the latter for the Southern District of Ohio. The officers of the United States Courts are : Judge John Baxter, of the Circuit, and Judge Philip B. Swing, of the District, Thos. Ambrose is Clerk; Channing Richards, Distriet Attorney, and Joseph C. Ullery, Marshal. The District Attorney's assistants are : Richard Dyer, Charles Evans and Parker Dickson. The terms of these Courts begin on the first Tuesday of October, February and April, but the sittings are continuous, one term running into another, except during the Summer vacations. The District Court is presided over by Judges Wm. M. Avery, Jacob Burnet and Joseph Cox. The Superior Court Judges arc: Joseph B. Foraker, Judson Harmon and M. F. Force. The officers of the Court of Common Pleas are : Judges Robert A. Johnson, Jacob Burnet, Nicholas Longworth, W. L. Avery, Fayette Smith, Joseph Cox and Frederick W. Moore. Samuel H. Drew is Prosecuting Attorney, and Miller Outcault, Assistant Prosecutor. Louis G. Bernard, County Clerk, is Clerk of the District, Superior and Common Pleas Courts. The terms of the Common Pleas and District Courts begin in January, June and November. Judge Isaac B. Matson presides over the Probate Court; Daniel Herider is Chief Deputy ; Henry Rechtin, Marriage License De- puty ; and W. H. Sargent, Journal Clerk. The officers of the Police Court are : Judge, Moses F. Wilson ; Prosecuting Attor- ney, John P. Murphy ; Clerk, Samuel Smiley, Jr .; Michacl Spaeth and Wm. F. Doyle, Deputies. The ten Magistrates are : Nathan Marchant, John Authony, Frank A. Dorsman, Henry Harmeyer, Fred. A. Johnson, Vincent Schwab, Edward Gilligan, Leopold Block, Benj. M. Wright and F. H. Rowekamp.
and the census of 1870 gave it a population of 24,505. It is pro- bable that this was very mneh below the actual number, as the best estimates make it nearly double now. The City is eon- nected with Cincinnati and Newport by wire suspension bridges. The Kentucky Central connects the City with Lexing- ton. Covington is built upon a beautiful plain, several miles in extent, and in the manner in which it is laid out, greatly resembles Cincinnati, of which, indeed, it may be considered a suburb, and a very large number of its inhabitants are actively engaged in business in Cineinnati. The Court House and City Hall combined form a large and handsome edifice. The City is divided into nine wards, and is governed by a Mayor and Com- mon Council of two members from each ward. There are num- crous public schools, high, grammar and primary, which are supported by sufficient taxation levied by the City, aided by the State subvention. The Hospital of St. Elizabeth occupies a commodious building, with ample grounds adorned with shrub- bery, in the center of the City, with a Foundling Asylum con- nected with it. The German Orphan Asylumn is about four miles from Covington. There are a large number of churches, both English and German, of all the principal denominations. Covington was laid out under an act of February 1815, and in- corporated in 1834.
CUMMINSVILLE-Is about five miles from the Post-office on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway. The train passes through the exact site on which stood, in the year 1800, a forti- fieation called Ludlow Station. It was the nearest secure mili- tary post north of Fort Washington at Cincinnati. The army of General St. Clair was encamped on this spot in 1791. This was the place of last resort by the Indians of the Miami Valley. General Mansfield lived here for a number of years. Cummins- ville was founded in 1790. It was for many years an incorpora- ted village, but is now a part of the 25th ward of Cincinnati. It possesses seven churches, of different denominations, some of which are fine buildings. There are two public schools and a Catholic Orphan Asylum, managed by the Sisters of Charity. The Marietta Railroad and the Dayton Short Line have depots here.
DAYTON-Is a village on the Kentucky side of the river, east of Bellevue, and opposite Eden Park. It is well laid out, and growing rapidly. Owing to the comparative cheapness of house- rent and property it has become a favorite residence of numbers of the superior and most thrifty classes of the mechanics and artizans of Cincinnati.
DEBOLT EXCHANGE .- This time-honored headquarters for politicians and lawyers, judges and juries, is situate on Main street, adjoining the Court House on the south, or rather, separ- ated only by a narrow branch of Court strect. It has been for many years the lunching station of judges, juries, lawyers and chiefs, and was formerly celebrated as a headquarters of the Democratic party. It has lost its prestige in the late respect, however, and has been succeeded by Aug's Club House, adjoin- ing the Enquirer Office. It retains the patronage of the bar, as of old. The Debolt is conveniently arranged, after the European restaurant plan, and has numerous private rooms where meals are served, as well as a public dining-room. There is also a small hall for accommodations of political gatherings, caucuses, assem- blies, etc.
DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL .- Instituted November 8, 1875, and the only school of the kind in the country maintained by a municipal corporation. The school started with twelve pupils, but has steadily increased until at the close of the school year, 1879, thirty-two were in attendance. The school is in the Second Intermediate Building, on Ninth street, between Main and Walnut. The method of instruction is by sign language and the Manual Alphabet. The advancement made by the pupils has been very satisfactory. Owing to the difficulty of imparting in- struction to deaf mutes, fifteen is as many as one person can teach to the best advantage. The school began with one teacher -the principal, Mr. Robert P. McGregor. In 1878, an assistant,
COVINGTON, in Kenton County, Ky., is upon the Ohio river, immediately opposite Cincinnati, and below the month of the Licking, which separates it from Newport. Its growth since 1830, when it only contained 715 inhabitants, has beeu rapid, Mr. Robert King, was employed. There is but one colored
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pupil, a bright little girl of seven years. The Deaf and Dumb School is under the control of the Board of Education.
DEERCREEK VALLEY-Is a deep ravine, formerly the princi- pal seat of hog slaughtering in the city, but now being rapidly filled up. It is overlooked by the brow of the hill at one limit of Southern Avenue, Mount Auburn, on one side, and East Walnut Hills on the other.
DELHI .- A village, 11 miles from the City, on the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette R. R. It is beauti- fully situated on the Ohio river, and has three churches, a masonic hall, and some very tasteful residences. An effort was once made to change the name to Minncola, but it met with serious opposition and failed.
DEPOTS .- Cincinnati has not yet any central union depot, and the existing depots of the several lines are somewhat deficient in interior arrangements for waiting- rooms, refreshment-rooms, and other conveniences for the traveling public.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Depot, corner of Fifth and Hoadly streets, is within twenty minutes' walk of the Post-office. Erected in 1864; length 400 feet, width 60 feet. Has a ladies' and gentlemen's waiting-room, a restaurant
CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON RAILROAD DEPOT.
and a telegraph office. Sidings will accommodate 800 freight cars. Every twenty-four hours, twenty passenger and ten freight trains arrive, and the same number depart from the depot. The officers of the road have their offices in the second story of the building. A round-house, capable of housing twenty-five loco- motives, and extensive machine shops, employing forty-five machinists in building and repairing, are built by the side of the depot.
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The Plum Street Depot is the terminus of the Indianapolis, Cin- cinnati & Lafayette Railroad, the Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail- road (Vandalia route), the Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad (Kan- kakce route), the Cincinnati & White Water Valley Railroad,
THE PLUM STREET DEPOT.
and the Marietta & Ciueinnati Railroad. This depot is within four squares of the Post-office, and was erected in 1863. Length 400 feet, width 64 feet. Has a ladies' and gentlemen's waiting- room, an cating stand and a telegraph office. Sidings will ac- commodate 1,000 freight cars. Every twenty-four hours, twenty
three passenger and twelve freight trains arrive, and the same number depart from the depot. The officers of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad have their offices in the rail- road building on Central Avenue and Pearl street. The round-
THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI DEPOT.
house and shops of the different roads are down the track, about one mile from the depot.
The Ohio & Mississippi Depot is the terminus of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. All trains over the Ohio & Mississippi Road pass through the suburbs by the same route as Approach No. 2. The Ohio & Mississippi depot, West Front street, corner of Mill street, is within fifteen minutes' walk of the Post-office. Erected in 1873. Has a ladies' and gentlemen's waiting-room, restaurant and telegraph office. Every twenty-four hours six passenger and five freight trains arrive, and the same number de- part from the depot. Head offices and shops in St. Louis. Sidings will accommodate 600 freight cars.
The Little Miami Railroad Depot is the terminus of the Pitts- burg, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad (commonly called the Little Miami, and nicknamed the Pan Ilandle route); the Louis- ville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad (called also the Louis- ville Short Liuc). The depot, Kilgour and Front streets, is within 10 minutes' ride or 15 minutes' walk of the Post-office. Erected in 1851; length 450 feet, width 60 feet. Has ladies' and gentlemen's waiting-rooms, and dining-rooms and telegraph on second floor. Eating and news stand on platform-floor. Sidings will accommodate 400 freight cars. Every twenty-four hours thirteen passenger and ninc freight trains arrive, and the same number depart from the depot.
The Kentucky Central Depot is the terminus of the K. C. R. R. The depot, Eighth and Washington streets, Covington, is within 15 minutes' drive of the Post-office. The depot accommodations
LITTLE MIAMI RAILROAD DEPOT.
are rather limited, but there is a waiting room, telegraph office, and lunch-counter. Every twenty-four hours three passenger and two freight trains arrive, aud the same number depart from the depot. The round-house, which is a fine building, can house 30 locomotives. The sidings will accommodate 500 freight cars. Offices in the second story of the depot.
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The Southern Railroad Depot is a temporary building for the accommodation of passengers and freight on McLean Avenue. A more permanent structure has been delayed among other rea- sons from the expectation of the erection in the near future of a Central Union Depot.
DIKY CURAITY IIFREIGHT DEFOT.I
KENTUCKY CENTRAL RAILROAD DEPOT.
DENTAL COLLEGE (See Ohio College of Dental Surgery).
DEUTSCHER FRAUEN UNSTERSTEUTZUNG VEREIN -(Relief Society of German Women), meets on the first and third Thurs- days of each month, at Arbeiter Hall, No. 474 Walnut street. The membership is large, and as its name implies, is for mutual relief, after the manner of the benevolent associations prevalent among the Germans.
DEUTSCHER LANDWEHR VEREIN .- An association of natives of Germany, who belonged to the Landwehr in their native country. Its objects are beneficial. It has a membership of three hundred, and holds semi-monthly meetings at Washington Platform, northeast corner of Court and Elm streets. The sick benefits are $5 per week ; annual dues, $5.
DEUTSCHER MAENNER-(German National Men's Association), mects on the first and third Fridays of each month, at Arbeiter Hall, No. 474 Walnut street. It is a secret body, the object of which is mutual relief. It pays sick benefits of five dollars per week. The membership is about 200, composed exclusively of natives of Germany.
DEUTSCHER PIONIER VEREIN (See German Pioneer Assoc'n).
DISPENSARIES .- The amount of good done by the free medical dispensaries in this city may be imagined, when it is known that from eighteen to twenty thousand sick persons are gratui- tously treated and supplied with the necessary medicines free of charge. The cases treated are in large proportion those of persons who have no fixed habitation, are not totally disabled, and will not be received into the public hospitals. There are many poor residents, however, who apply to the dispensaries rather than to the ward physicians for the out-door poor, and it. may be stated also, that many well-to-do people, avail themselves this generous charity, rather than pay a physician or buy medicines.
The dispensaries are generally connected with a Medieal Col- lege, and during the lecture season persons applying for relief are examined in the presence of the students. The dispensaries are not closed, however, at any season of the year, but daily continue their work of charity. The dispensary connected with the Miami Medical College, on Twelfth street, opposite Cincin- nati Hospital, has perhaps the largest number of applicants for treatment, the patients numbering from eight to ten thousand yearly. An eye and ear daily clinic is held during the morning by Prof. E. Williams and Dr. Robert Sattler. The afternoon clinic is attended in succession by Prof. Thos. H. Kearney, Prof. Wm. H. Taylor, Prof. MeKenzie, and Dr. A. D. Bender. The principal diseases treated at the dispensary, as well as at the others, are malarial, nervous, pulmonary, venereal, liver, stom- aeh and bowel disorders, skin, eye and ear diseases, ctc. The dispensary connected with the Ohio Medical College is also an extensive one, and rooms have been especially fitted thercin for each particular class of patients. The number of patients treat- ed annually is very large. The various clinics are presided over
by Drs. W. W. Seeley, Samuel Niekles, C. D. Palmer, F. Forch- eimer, Jos. Ransohoff, George B. Orr, J. L. Cleveland, A. G. Drury, and Edward W. Walker.
The Cincinnati Homeopathic Medical Dispensary was incor- porated in 1867. It is located at the southwest corner of Seventh and Mound streets. Pulte Medical College building is in a very flourishing condition, and growing daily in the confidence of the community. Patients are received from all points of the surrounding country. The Medi- cal, Gynæcological, Ophthalmic and Aural and Surgical Departments, are always full of work. Each department is furnished with its own waiting, examining and prescribing rooms. These arc large, well ventilated, and have ample facilities, so that notwithstanding an average attendance of fifty patients daily, there is no crowding of the various clincial rooms. The poor are also visited at their homes by the internes of the differ- ent departments. The dispensary is open daily from 2 to 4 P. M. except Sundays. The officers are: Medical Department, C. A. Quirell, M. D., LL. D., Resident Physician in charge. Eye and Ear Department, T. P. Wilson, M. D., Surgeon. Surgery and Diseases of Women, D. W. Hartshorn, M. D., Surgeon. Assistants, Drs. C. H. Gilbert, C. M. Lukens and M. R. French. (See Aural Institute).
A free dispensary, also Homeopathic, for women and children, has recently been established at 306 Linn street, between Everctt and Wade, by an organization known as the "Women's Dispen- sary Association of Cincinnati." The dispensary is open daily, from 2 to 4 o'clock P. M., for the reception and treatment of all women and children who are in need of its charities. The mem- bership of the Association now numbers nearly one hundred earnest and influential women of the city, who have regularly organized, appointed their officers, committees, etc., and who have absolute control of the financial management of the dis- pensary. The movement was instigated by Dr. Martha May Howells and Dr. Ellen M. Kirk, who have charge of the clinical work, and whose time and services are gratuitously given. None of the dispensaries are open on Sundays.
DISPENSARY OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO (See Dis- pensarics).
DOCTORS .- It would be manifestly impossible, not to say in- vidious, within the limits of this work, to attempt to make any selection from the long list of competent medical men whose addresses may be found in the directory. The list contains 375 names classified as physicians. Of these, perhaps two hundred are men of medical education, and worthy to be called doctors. It may be of some assistance to the stranger in Cincinnati, how- ever, to refer him to the medical and surgical staff's of the various hospitals and dispensaries who render such good service in the cause of suffering humanity. It will, of course, be understood that there is no intention of suggesting that the list of physicians, whose names are appended, is at all exhaustive. It is simply printed here on account of the onerous official positions which they respectively hold, and have held.
Among the regular school of physicians may be mentioned Joseph Aub, 84 West Seventh street.
A. D. Bender, 532 Central Avenue. Louis Brown, 63 Webster street.
William Clendenin, 136 West Seventh street.
William Carson, 138 East Third street.
C. G. Comegys, 298 West Seventh street.
George Conner, 427 West Ninth street.
P. S. Conner, 159 West Ninth street.
I. L. Cilley, 245 West Seventh street.
John L. Cleveland, 547 West Eighth street.
A. S. Dandridge, 114 East Fourth street.
N. P. Dandridge, 114 East Fourth Street.
W. B. Davis, 310 Elm street.
John Davis, 323 Elm street.
A. G. Drury, 57 Gest street.
W. W. Dawson, N. W. Cor. Third and Broad way streets.
F. Forcheimer, 127 West Ninth street.
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James Graham, 266 Elm street.
W. I. Goodin, 448 West Ninth street. David Judkins, 301 Race strect. Thos. H. Kearney, 191 West Seventh street. W. H. Mussey, 9412 Auburn Avenue, Mt. Auburn. John A. Murphy, 163 West Seventh street. C. S. Museroft, 333 John street. J. C. Mackenzie, 163 West Seventh street. Samuel Niekles, 119 Everett street.
George B. Orr, 88 East Third street. C. D. Palmer, S. E. Cor. Baymiller and Findlay streets. Thad. A. Reamy, 278 West Fourth street. Joseph Ransohoff, 296 Walnut street. W. W. Seely, 118 West Seventh street. Byron Stanton, 690 Freeman street. Williamu HI. Taylor, 329 West Seventh street.
J. H. Tate, S. W. Cor. Fourth and Broadway strects. M. B. Wright, 357 West Eighth street. Elkanalı Williams (office) 64 West Seventh street. C. O. Wright, 76 West Eighth street.
I. T. Whittaker, 100 West Eighth street. E. S. Walker, 239 West Fourth street. D. S. Young, 248 West Seventh street.
them. The work of building sewers has now almost entirely ceased, though the inereasing population, and the settlement of unoccupied territory, has rendered more necessary. From Mound street ou the west, Seventh street on the north, to Co- Imubia on the east, drainage is into the Ohio river, nearly all the streets from Broadway to Mound being sewered. From Plum street to Broadway, and from Seventh to about Fifteenth there is surface draiuage ouly iuto the Canal. North of Fifteenth the drainage is by sewer into the mamuoth Liberty street sewer, which carries the water westward into Millereek. Lateral sew- ers carry the drainage of that portion of the City west of Central Avenue into MeLeau Avenue sewer, which empties into the Ohio river near the mouth of Millcreek. Portions of the West end are very difficult to drain, and in some places perfect drainage seems almost impossible. In many localities that were formerly traversed by ravines, and filled up as the march of building moved westward, there is a substratum of blue clay which is im- pervious to water, and the natural springs of water, which were numerous, although covered up, keep the cellars damp all the year round. To perforate this blue elay a hole forty or fifty feet in depth is often required, and many cellars in the city are drained in that manner. Unlike other large cities, Cincinnati is remarkably free from deleterious sewer gases, and but few eases
THE OHIO RIVER FROM GRANDIN ROAD.
Among Homeopaths .- Drs. Wilson, Buek, Beckwith, Owens, | of sickness ean be traced to that eause. The steep grades pre- Bradford, Ellen M. Kirk and Martha May Howells. All these, besides others in former years, have devoted a considerable portion of their time to the organized charities without com- pensation. Large as the number of charity patients in the hos- pitals and dispensaries has been, and the number will per- haps reach twenty-five thousand a year, fully as much charitable work is done outside those institutions by the noble army of physicians who have no connection with the public charities. The physicians at the County Jail, City Work-house, City In- firmary, House of Refuge, and the "Out Door" Poor, draw yearly salaries. There is only one regular lady graduate of medicine in the City, Miss Julia Carpenter.
DRAINAGE. - Cincinnati is admirably sitnated for perfeet drainage. In all execpt one loeality, the natural grades will quickly carry off all surface water; in fact, during heavy rains the currents are so swift as to seriously damage the bowldered streets and the side walks. The Miami Canal biscets the only district difficult of drainage, and into it the surface water is now drained. Notwithstanding these natural advantages, a sys- tem of sewers was found indispensable, and since the beginning of the work many millions of dollars have been spent upon of perfcet drainage may be solved. If it is not, Cinciunati's
vent to a great extent the collection of effete matters in the sew- ers. The laws regulating the tapping of sewers are also strict. Private attachments are required to have a water trap, and all connections are of glazed earthenware or iron pipes, properly jointed and eemented. The catchbasins for surface water have the gooseneek attachment, which prevents the escape of gas into the streets, and care is taken to have the manholes gas- tight. To her system of drainage may in great measure be at- tributed Cincinnati's reputation as a healthy city. A difficult problem will be the sueecssful drainage of Millercek bottoms, on which the City is fast trenehing. Eighth, Gest, Liberty and Bank streets have been graded above high water mark across the valley from east to west, the grade being in some instances as high as forty feet. MeLean Avenue, under which the great sewer is situated, and the Cineinnati & Baltimore railway fill, extend the length of the valley from north to sonth. Between these embankments are ponds, some of them stagnant, left by the backwater from the Ohio, after each reenrring freshet. When this ground is covered with buildings, as it must neces- sarily be within the lapse of a few years, perhaps the problem
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