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Epidemic or Asiatic cholera also came this year, to add another scourge to the calamities of 1873. The first death from this source was reported on the fourteenth of June; the last fatal case terminated October 18th. Mean- while two hundred and seven persons died of it in the eity, being one in every one thousand one hundred and ninety-three of population, besides some deaths probably
of this disease, but reported as caused by cholera infan- tum, cholera morbus, and acute diarrhœa. These, it was noted, were greater in number than the average from such reported causes in other years. The Board of Health was active and efficient in sanitary precautions for the city, in exhortations to citizens and otherwise; but all their efforts were unable completely to avert the scourge. An interesting and elaborate special report upon Cholera in Cincinnati in 1873 was subsequently made by Dr. J. J. Quinn, health officer, and is embodied in the annual reports of the city for this year. Some deaths from the disease also occurred at Carthage, seven miles from the city.
This year was comparatively uneventful. January 9th four fires occurred in the city within twenty-four hours.
February 4th the Globe rolling mill was burned, with a loss of seventy-five thousand dollars; ninth, the new rooms of the McMicken School of Design were formally opened; twentieth, the County Infirmary, at Carthage, was opened.
March 12th, the ordinance for the annexation of Cum- minsville was adopted by the people; fifteenth, Judge Humphrey Leavitt, formerly of the United States Dis- trict Court for Southern Ohio, died.
May 6th, the Musical Festival was hopefully opened; ninth, the funeral of Bishop McIlvaine, who died March 14th, at Florence, Italy, was attended ; sixteenth, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals began active operations.
June 8th, a great fire occurred in coal-oil stores, de- stroying one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of property, and turning thirty families out of doors; thirteenth, second coal-oil fire, costing thirty-five thousand dollars; sixteenth, the cholera appeared in the city.
July Ist, five of the street-railway companies consoli- dated; twenty-fifth, death of Stephen Molitor, a promi- nent German editor; twenty-eighth, the corner-stone of the Second Presbyterian church is laid.
August 14th, Probate Judge William Tilden died at Sandusky; seventeenth, death of Major Daniel Gano, for many years clerk of the county, from paralysis; twenty- eighth, the corner-stone of Mt. Lookout Observatory is laid.
September 2d, the Cincinnati stock-yards are opened, and the Fourth Industrial Exposition.
October 13th, the City Council appropriates fifteen thousand dollars for the relief of the sufferers from yellow fever at Memphis, and there is general resumption of payments by the banks.
November 7th, death of Platt Evans, sr .; one hundred thousand dollars city bonds voted for park improvements.
December 12th, the first contract on the Southern railroad is awarded, and the amount allowed by the courts to owners of the site of the government building is fixed at six hundred and ninety-five thousand one hun- dred and thirty-three dollars and sixty-three cents; fif- teenth and sixteenth, workingmen's troubles-a com- mittee wait upon the mayor to demand relief, and issues a manifesto; seeond and twenty-third, the adjourned
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session of the State Constitutional Convention meets in the Spencer House; twenty-sixth, general strike of en- gineers and firemen on the Panhandle railroad.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR.
January 5th the Zoological Society was organized. On the sixth and seventh there were thirty hours of continu- ous snowfall, and telegraphic and railway communica- tions were mostly suspended. On the nineteenth ten thousand dollars' worth of diamond rings was stolen from Duhme's jewelry store. On the twentieth the ladies' temperance crusade began to awaken general attention. On the twenty-ninth the Strobel picture-frame factory was destroyed, with a loss of sixty-five thousand dollars.
In February, a notable religious revival occurred in some of the city churches. On the thirteenth the struct- ures on the site of the new government building were sold. On the twenty-fifth the Public Library building was formally dedicated; oration by the Hon. George H. Pendleton.
March 5th occurred the first mass meeting of the tem- perance crusaders, in Wesley chapel; seventh, the gift by Mr. Joseph Longworth of fifty thousand dollars to the School of Design ; twelfth and sixteenth, visitation of sa- loons by temperance ladies, and twenty-seventh, wild ex- citement in Fourth street over a temperance prayer- meeting; twenty-eighth, great mass-meeting at Exposition Hall in favor of liquor license.
April 9th, large anti-license meeting at Pike's Opera House; 14th to 16th, session of the Cincinnati Presby- tery, which approves the women's crusade ; 16th, mass meeting at Pike's to promote municipal reform, com- mittee of safety appointed ; 26th, grand State convention at Wesley Chapel, in opposition to liquor licenses, with enthusiastic meetings in various churches.
May 4th, a praying band at a saloon is wet down with a hose; IIth, one hundred thousand dollars is given to the Bethel by David Sinton; 12th, Lanning's planing- mill, on Plum street, is burned-loss sixty thousand dol- lars; 14th, excitement and mobs occur in the West End over the temperance prayer-meetings, and there is a riot on Freeman street from this cause the next day ; 17th, forty- three female crusaders are arrested, and have a prayer- meeting in the station house ; 20th, they are dismissed, with an admonition by the Police Judge; 28th, another municipal-reform mass meeting, at Wesley Chapel.
June Ist, new building of the Y. M. C. A. dedicated; June 4th, reunion of the Pioneers of the Miami Valley.
July 27th, great flood in Licking river; heavy loss of barges and coal.
August 13th, mass meeting in behalf of temperance at Pike's, and another on the 27th to celebrate the defeat of the license clause in the new State Constitution; 26th, Burnet Woods Park opened to the public.
September 2d, the Fifth Industrial Exposition opens with great eclat; 7th, the Grand Opera House opens ; 14th, the Grand Hotel opens ; 24th, Exposition regatta.
October 26th, new Mozart Hall opened ; 30th, Dumont & Company's machine and boiler works burned-loss seventy-five thousand dollars.
November Ist, temperance crusade temporarily re- vived ; 6th, Werk's soap and candle factory burns-loss two hundred thousand dollars ; 9th, Mr. David Sinton gives thirty-three thousand dollars to the Y. M. C. A., and the Cincinnati Orchestra gives its first concert ; 20th, deaths of S. B. W. McLean, formerly of the Daily En- quirer, and of Peter Ehrgott, a prominent German resident.
December 2d, death of Rev. Charles B. Davidson, D.D .; 11th, Griffith's planing-mill burned-loss seventy- five thousand dollars; 22d, general raid of the police upon the gamblers ; 29th, the Secretary of the Treasury visits Cincinnati ; 30th, death of Judges J. Bryant Walker and Jonathan Cilley.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE.
Some of the events of this year were peculiarly notable. September was rich in public events-particularly open- ings. On the 7th of that month the Fifth Industrial Ex- position was opened ; on the 9th the Cincinnati Base-ball Park ; on the 18th, the Zoological Garden ; and on the 27th, the Chester Driving Park, with races. October 3d the Hebrew Union College was opened, with exercises in the synagogue of Rabbi Wise. January 3d, the Second Presbyterian church, on Elm street, was dedicated. · On the 13th of the same month the Queen City Club selected the site for its club-house. March 29th, ground was broken on the Kentucky side for the Cincinnati Southern Railway bridge. April 11th, Mr. W. S. Groesbeck made his gift of fifty thousand dollars for free concerts in Bur- net Woods Park, and May 17th Mr. R. R. Springer his of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the Music Hall. November 28th, the fund for the hall neces- sary to secure Mr. Springer's gift was raised. At the Zoo a unique event occurred March 24th, in the com- bat of an escaped lioness and a donkey, in which the former was ingloriously defeated. Both have since died, and their stuffed skins are fitly mounted in the Carnivora House, at the Garden. April 17th, an infernal machine was exploded in St. Xavier's Catholic church building, in course of erection, but without doing serious injury. June 18th, a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Cin- cinnati. In May, a remarkably successful Musical Festi- val was held. The greatest fire was that in John Hol- land's gold-pen manufactory, which was damaged to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, January 9th.
An unusual number of noteworthy deaths occurred this year, including those of Hon. S. S. L'Hommedieu; Father William Taylor, believed by many to have been the first male child born in Cincinnati ; Dr. Thomas E. Thomas, Professor of Biblical Literature in Lane Semin- ary ; Rev. C. H. Taylor, D.D., pastor of the Third Pres- byterian church ; Rev. Erwin House, another well-known clergyman ; Judge Bellamy Storer, one of the most famous jurists in Ohio ; Judge Robert Moore, formerly of the court of common pleas ; Benjamin Pine, an old pioneer, and Charles Avery, a centenarian ; Robert A. McFarland, financial editor of the Daily Enquirer ; Mr. George Dominick, a prominent business man ; General McKee, and many others.
A fresh visitation of small-pox added again to the
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customary mortality, some weeks furnishing at least one- third of the deaths. The Board of Health exhibited great energy and skill in checking and preventing it.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX.
The centennial year was not signalized by events of commanding importance in the Queen City.
On the fifth of February a panic occurred at Robinson's new opera house, through a false alarm of fire, by which several persons were killed, and the whole city put for a time in fear. Washington's Birthday was celebrated by an important social event, the Continental Costume. Re- ception. The twenty-eighth of February, Mardi Gras, was devoted to a ridiculous street-parade and other mummeries, during which Mrs. Mary A. Thornton, one of the earliest and oldest residents of the city, was killed by falling from a platform while viewing the procession.
March 14 a further loan of the city's credit to the Southern railroad, to the amount of six million dollars, was voted by the citizens.
May 15 Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil, visited the city. On the twenty-first the Catholic societies had a parade, through pouring rain, in honor of Archbishop Purcell, whose fiftieth anniversary of accession to the priesthood was celebrated two days thereafter. On the twenty-sixth a fire occurred at Melodeon hall, destroying, with other things, Dubufe's famous painting of the prodi- gal son ; loss said to be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
April 4 the College Hill Narrow-guage, and June 6 the Westwood Narrow-guage railroads were opened to the public.
June 14 the National Republican convention met in Cincinnati, and on the sixteenth nominated Rutherford B. Hayes, a former Cincinnatian, President, and William A. Wheeler, of New York, for Vice-President.
July 4, the Centennial anniversary of National Inde- pendence was enthusiastically celebrated. The First regiment Ohio national guard went into camp the same day at Oakley, and remained three days.
The remainder of the year was comparatively unevent- ful. The necrology of 1876 includes the names of Judge William B. Caldwell, deceased March 21, and Judge David K. Este, April I, at the advanced age of ninety- one. Mr. John Gerke, an ex-treasurer of Hamilton county, also died this year, and Dr. Stephen Bonner, a well-known philanthropist of the city.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN.
This was an average, but not an extraordinary year, for the number and importance of its local events.
On the twelfth of January two steamers, the Calumet and the Andes, were sunk in front of the city by the breaking up of ice in the Ohio and its tributaries.
March 25th ex-President Grant reached the city, and on the twenty-ninth was honored with a reception by the Queen City club, which opened its superb club-house at the corner of Seventh and Elm streets with a reception on the twentieth of December.
April 4th, a banquet was given to A. T. Goshorn, in token of his successful and eminent labors as director-
general of the Centennial exhibition. On the twentieth the first passenger train passed over the entire length of the Cincinnati Southern railroad. Four days afterwards, the corner-stone of the new government building was laid with due ceremony.
A vigorous temperance movement, under the lead of Francis Murphy, began May 22.
The Cincinnati & Eastern railroad (narrow guage) was opened to travel June 3.
July 23d the corner-stone of the new structure for the Children's home was laid, and on the corresponding day of August the McCook monument in Washington park was unveiled.
President Hayes visited the city September 15th, and was received with great acclamation. On the fourth of the same month the Ohio Archaeological association met in Cincinnati, and on the next day the National Anthro- pological association. On the twenty-sixth of September the Ohio College association opened a three-days' session in the hall of the old college building.
The Caledonian society celebrated its fiftieth anniver- sary November 30th.
The greatest fire of the year occurred December 10th, in the burning of the Meader furniture factory, with a loss of one hundred thousand dollars.
Among the dead of 1877 were Mr. and Mrs. Vachel Worthington, who died July 7th and September 9th, re- spectively; and Mrs. Deborah Sayre, of one of the pio- neer families, December 29th.
There were some labor-strikes this year, and at times a great and dangerous excitement prevailed, threatening the peace of the city. One extensive strike lasted ten days ; but no life was lost nor any property destroyed. The cit- izens made up a contribution and bought a Gatling gun, which was presented to the police force for use in case of an emergency; and one hundred of them were sworn in- to service as special policemen, and were on duty for ten days.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT.
A yellow-fever year in Cincinnati. The first case was that of a merchant from New Orleans, named Hines, at the Grand hotel; the last October 9th. A quarantine was or- dered August 17th, against all steamers arriving from the South, which were to remain five hundred feet below Keck's Landing until visited, inspected, and officially per- mitted to land. In all thirty-five cases occurred, of which but two were those of residents, the others coming from abroad. Seventeen of them were fatal. The fever also appeared this year at Gallipolis and other points on the river.
The notable events of this year, as summarized by the daily papers at its close, were as follows, in chronological order : January 12th, death of Mrs. Angela Podesta An- eta, a native of Italy, aged one hundred and nine years; January 22d, organization of the Builders' Exchange; January 23d, David Sinton gives ten thousand dollars to the Bethel; February 17th, assignment of the Catholic institute, liabilities one hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars; February 17th, death of Hon. Larz Anderson, an old, esteemed, and wealthy citizen; March 4th, the
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Miami Valley Savings bank suspended with a deficiency of eighteen thousand dollars; March 14th, formal open- ing of the Builders' Exchange; April 8th, Music hall opened to the public; April 26th, death of Mrs. May A. Slough, of a pioneer family, aged seventy-four years; May 2d, proposal to grant two million dollars more bonds to the Southern railroad defeated, on popular vote, by a majority of two hundred and nineteen; May 6th, open- ing of the Women's Loan exhibition; May 17th, Ameri- can Social Science association meets at Cincinnati; open- ing address by the Hon. W. S. Groesbeck; June 5th, the Music hall is pronounced a success by the experts; June 12th, the Republican State convention is held at the Music hall; June 15th, death of Dr. O. M. Lang- don, Ex-Superintendent of the Longview asylum; June 16th, burning of the Co-operative foundry, loss forty thousand dollars; June 20th, first commencement exer- cises of Cincinnati university; July 16th, death of Mrs. Nancy W. Miller, a pioneer, aged eighty-two years; July 17th, National Narrow-guage Railroad convention at the Highland House; July 22d, death of Mrs. Elizabeth Yeatman, aged seventy-one years; August Ist, yellow fe- ver in the city, two cases, one fatal; September 2d, opening of the new store of John Shillito & Company; October 14th, opening of the College of music; October 16th, Fifth annual congress of the Protestant Episcopal church, at Pike's Opera House ; October 24th, the Wood- ward statue unveiled; November 30th, death of Profes- sor Arthur Forbriger, Superintendent of drawing in the Cincinnati Public schools; December 5th, formal open- ing of the Children's home; December 16th, Bodmann tobacco factory burned, loss seventy-five thousand dol- lars, insurance full; December 22d, funeral at Sedams- ville of Mr. Thomas H. Yeatman, of the well-known pioneer family; December 29th, completion of one hun- dred thousand dollars subscription for Exposition build- ings. In the autumn months diphtheria and scarlet fever extensively prevailed, with a fatality from the former of fifty-eight, and one hundred and eighty-one from the lat- ter.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE.
The Fire Underwriters of the State met in convention at Cincinnati February 12th. On the fifteenth Henri- etta Wood, a colored woman kidnapped twenty-six years before by Zebulon Ward, opposite Cincinnati, was awarded two thousand five hundred dollars damages against Ward by the United States court sitting in this city.
April 19th a blackguard journalist named Lester A. Rose was soundly beaten in the streets by a son of the Hon. Alphonso Taft, in punishment for a scurrilous pub- lication reflecting upon Judge Taft's domestic relations.
May Ioth a lecture by Henry Ward Beecher in the city was made the occasion of a "bread-and-water ban- quet" by the Cincinnati Socialists, in memory of a re- mark attributed to him. National conventions of A. O. H. and Railroad Master Mechanics meet in Cincinnati.
June Ist John King, a crippled newsboy, achieved greatness by presenting his library, a valuable collection of twenty-five hundred volumes, to the public library.
July Ist the national convention of music teachers met in Cincinnati. On the twenty-first the city issued quar- antine edicts against arrivals from Memphis.
On the fifteenth of September the seventh industrial exposition was opened with great eclat; many distin- guished persons, including the President and several gov- ernors present, and an immense multitude. .
November 7th General Joseph Hooker was buried with solemn and imposing obsequies at Cincinnati.
December 7th a temporary closing of the Sunday theatres in the city was effected; on the ninth the last rail on the Cincinnati Southern railroad was laid. On the eighth of the same month Gaff's stockyards, with nine hundred and fifty head of cattle, were destroyed by fire.
For ninety-two years the annals of Cincinnati, as Cin- cinnati, come down-nine decades, and two years, in part, to spare. As an appendix, therefore, to the story of the Ninth Decade, we supply the historic notes of
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY.
January 8th, a freshet submerges the northwestern part of the city. The next day the treasurer of the produce exchange defaults in the amount of thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. On the fifteenth a reception in honor of ex-Governor Richard M. Bishop, then just re- tired from the executive office, was given at Lytle Hall ; sixteenth, Bishop Elder was appointed coadjutor to Arch- bishop Purcell; eighteenth, the superior court decides in favor of the validity of the street railroad ordinance passed by the city council; twenty-first, the National Association of Distillers meets at the Burnet house, and the semi- centennial reunion of the First Congregational church occurs.
February 6th, the city council passes an ordinance fix- ing the price of gas at one dollar and seventy cents per thousand feet; nineteenth, the net profit of the Seventh Industrial Exposition is announced as twenty thousand and forty-two dollars and twenty cents; thirteenth, the Cincinnati railroad company receives the right to operate the whole Southern railroad; twentieth, the Irish agita- tor, Parnell, arrives in the city, and a great meeting is held by his countrymen in Music Hall; twenty-third, e x- Mayor Robert M. Moore dies; twenty-sixth, the first cot- ton reaches the city over the Southern railroad ; twenty- ninth, Colonel Enoch T. Carson is appointed chief of police, and the public schools celebrate Longfellow's birth- day.
March Ist, the free kindergarten for poor children is opened in the old Spencer house; third, the trouble in the college of music develops, resulting afterwards in the resignation of Theodore Thomas, musical director; sixth, the Hamilton county Republican club opens its doors, with Judge Taft as president; eighth, the first through passenger train from Cincinnati to Chattanooga departs; seventeenth, the grand reception and banquet in honor of the opening of the Southern railroad is given to three thousand Southerners; twenty-second, a formida- ble strike of cigar makers ends; twenty-ninth, the fair for the benefit of the Widows' Home opens.
April 5th, the fortieth anniversary of the Union Bethel
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is celebrated; sixteenth, a destructive wind and rain storm occurs in the Ohio valley; nineteenth, the total receipts of the Widows' Home fair are announced as thirty thou- sand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and three cents ; twentieth, the new board of health is organized; thirtieth, the Methodist Episcopal quadrennial conference opens in Pike's opera house.
May 4th, John Short, millionaire, dies; fifth, the Pot- tery club gives its first reception; ninth, the German Protestant Orphan Asylum gets its semi-annual benefit, with receipts two thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-five cents; twentieth, the Methodist conference votes, by two hundred and twenty-nine to one hundred and thirty-nine, that the denomination shall not have a colored bishop; twenty-fourth, the conference lays on the table the question of lay representation; twenty- seventh, the profits of the May musical festival are four- teen thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents; twenty-eighth, the cooperage com- pany is burned out, losing fifty thousand dollars, and four hundred men being thrown out of employment.
June 6th, the affairs of the Consolidated Street Car railroad company are wound up, and the Street rail- road company begins operations, with a capital of four and a half millions; ninth, the exhibition of the school of art and design opens; on the nineteenth, the Sunday- schools celebrate the Robert Raikes centennial at Music Hall; twenty-first, the two leading English evening papers, the Times and the Star, consolidate under the name of Times-Star; twenty-second, the National Democratic convention opens at Union Hall, and on the twenty- fourth nominates General Hancock for President and W. E. English for Vice-President; twenty-ninth, George M. Herancourt, the oldest brewer in the city, dies, leaving a a fortune of one million dollars.
July Ist, the Cincinnati Northern railroad company is organized, to complete and operate the Miami Valley Narrow-gauge road; fourteenth, Henry Kesting, the heaviest man in the city, dies; thirty-first, the county commissioners authorized the issue of fifteen thousand dollars in bonds, in aid of the county Agricultural society.
August 16th, the elephant "Hatnee" arrives at the Zoo- logical gardens; twenty-fourth, the annual convention of deaf mutes is held at the Highland house, and the State tournament of Ohio archers occurs at the Zoo; twenty- seventh, the College Hill club wins the championship at this tournament.
September 7th, the old-time telegraphers have a reun- ion in the city; eighth, the annual Industrial Exposition opens, and Mr. Charles W. West offers one hundred and fifty dollars toward the founding of an art museum; tenth, Hon. William M. Corry dies; fifteenth, Thomas Le Bou- tillier, prominent business man, dies ; twenty-second, Gen- eral B. F. Butler delivers a Democratic campaign speech to an immense crowd at Fifth street market space ; twenty- third, Marmet's coal elevator burned-loss seventy five thousand dollars; same day, the Bell and Edison tele- phone exchanges are consolidated; twenty-ninth, the eleventh annual meeting of the American Bee-keepers' society occurs at the Bellevue house; thirtieth, reunion
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