The Morning Star

LOCAL NEWS.

-The Central Station had four prisoners and nine lodgers last night.

-The mud-digger is relieving the harbor of vast quantities of that article.

-There is talk of a trial of the steam fire engines in Pawtucket on Thanksgiving forenoon for a prize of a silver trumpet.

-The indications are that a much larger amount of money will be spent for amusements this season than ever before in Providence.

-The Odd Fellows will take possession of Warren Monday evening. They intend to have a glorious time of it after the work is done.

-Rudolphe, the great billiardist, is coming to Providence next week, and will give an exhibition of his skill at the Lafayette Billiard Hall.

-The singing school of the Union for Christian Work, commences Friday evening next, at Union Hall. See advertisement in another column.

-To-night Lillie and Charlie Wilkinson, at the Opera House, in the fine old drama of "Rosina Meadows." Give them a rousing good house.

-Mr. P. C. Courtrey lost a horse and team on Broad street, South Providence, last evening. He left it before a house, and presto! it disappeared.

-The Neptune Line is still doing a fine passenger business, notwithstanding the cold weather. The managers provide every comfort possible for their guests.

-Turkeys are plenty in the market this week, but the price for good ones still remains at thirty cents per pound. Next week they will probably advance.

-Messrs. Tillinghast & Mason have made a "hit," by the introduction of some nice little white rabbits, having rattle boxes inside of them. They sell like hot cakes.

-A gentleman in East Greenwich was seized by a ruffian, a few evenings since, on the street, and his money demanded, but he caned the would-be robber and saved his scrip.

-All of the mills in the Blackstone Valley, it is reported, complain of being short of water. It would seem as if we had had sufficient rain recently to supply the deficiency.

-The Boston Traveller says: "Those who advertise most are most successful in business." We could give several practical illustrations of that without going far from home.

-The City Treasurer paid the city officials and employees yesterday, much to their satisfaction. The four hundred persons employed by the city have been without pay for two months.

-Now that winter is commencing, Turkish baths will be found a certain remedy against taking cold, besides bracing the system. Dr. Dow, 210 Benefit street, gives the baths in a complete manner.

-The handsome business blocks on Westminster street have increased rapidly within the past two years, but there is room for more of them, and we hope the good work will be allowed to progress.

-Dr. E. C. Wines, Secretary of the New York Prison Discipline Association, and President of the late Prison Reform Congress, is visiting Mr. Dorsey, the well-known prisoner's friend at Pawtucket.

-It is a singular fact that nearly all the weekly papers of the State publish without comment the absurd rumor that there are 200,000 Catholics in Rhode Island. The entire population of the State amounts to only 217,319.

-Messrs. Cory Brothers have laid upon our table a new piece of music, entitled "She Tossed her Curls at Me," composed by Charles E. Pratt. It is one of Bobby Newcomb's favorites, which is sufficient to recommend it.

-A youth named Dennis Flynn was arrested yesterday, on South Main street, for indecent exposure. He came from Charlestown, Mass., and has several times of late insulted ladies in this city. He is supposed to be insane.

-Mr. Henry Essex of North Kingstown, was seriously injured last Tuesday by being thrown under the wheels of his wagon loaded with wood. The wheels passed over his left thigh and wrist, causing a compound fracture of both. His case is critical.

-Parents cannot benefit and please their children better than by providing for their attendance this afternoon upon the scientific matinee at Roger Williams Hall. Prof. Richards will be certain to fill the juveniles with wonder and delight. His illustrations are beautiful and his explanations easy to comprehend. Another opportunity like this may not occur again in a lifetime.

-An old landmark, with which is connected a curious history, may be seen in Gloucester, at the point where four roads meet intersecting the ancient line of travel from Douglas to Providence. This spot has long been known as Douglas Hook, but many are ignorant of the circumstance that gave it this name. A long time before the Worcester and other railroads were built, the only method of transportation from Northern Rhode Island and the bordering towns in Massachusetts, was by teams, and a great deal of teaming of wood, lumber and country produce was done over this road. At that time Moses Cooper, whose grandchildren are now living in the neighborhood, owned a great deal of land, and the angle of the roads where so many teams came along daily, belonged to him. To save a few yards the teamers were in the habit of cutting across this corner. Indignant at this aggression, Uncle Moses forbade their crossing, but they did not heed him. At last, out of patience, he obtained a rough stone post some 12 feet in length and set it, the large end down, directly in the angle of the roads, projecting out of the ground some four feet. The teamers came along, and were exceedingly wroth to find this obstruction in their way. Old people say they waited, one for another to come up, and doubled up their teams, till they had twenty yokes of oxen, and then attached them to the post to pull it from its place. But Uncle Moses had put it there to stay, and after a long trial they were forced to give it up, and Douglas Hook bids fair to stand for a century to come.
-Capt. Buckley wishes to present his compliments to the citizens of Providence for their liberal patronage extended to him during his short visit here. To-day is the last day, and school children will be admitted for five cents to see the "little boat."

-Tenements to rent are much plentier than they were one year ago, and unless the land lords soon reduce their prices many more will be standing empty before the season is over. People cannot afford to be so extravagant in rents as they were in war times.

-Mr. H. C. L. Dorsey of Pawtucket, brought to our office yesterday a pair of splendid strawberries, grown in the open air and picked yesterday morning on the grounds of Mr. Pardon Jenks, at Pawtucket. Each of them measures full three inches in circumference.

-Some fifteen hundred dollars' worth of tickets have already been sold for the two entertainments by the "Irrepressibles," to be given at the Opera House on Monday and Tuesday evenings next. If the houses are not crowded we shall be greatly disappointed.

-Mr. Barstow's new hall, which will probably be completed in February, will seat about twenty-five hundred persons, and have standing room for about one thousand more. The ceiling and walls will be entirely of wood, which will add materially to the acoustic effects.

-An exchange says that mothers will be interested to know that turpentine is a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flannel on the throat and chest. In very severe cases, from three to five drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly.

-On Tuesday afternoon next there will be two races at Narragansett Park-one a match and the other for sweepstakes. Entries will close at the office of the Union Horse Railroad Co. this evening, at nine o'clock. The list and the amount to be trotted for will be published Monday.

-The First Light Infantry have recently purchased of the Messrs. Cory Brothers a splendid Chickering piano, seven and a quarter octaves, rosewood case and carved legs. It has been placed in their club-room, and will be highly prized by the glee club connected with the corps.

-A team belonging to Albert Barrett of Attleboro, was considerably smashed up yesterday afternoon, by coming in contact with coal cars on the Providence & Worcester railroad track. The horse had walked over to the cars from Canal street, and became "mixed" with them.

-The lecture of Dr. Alexander King, of London, at Roger Williams Hall, last evening, attracted an audience which nearly filled the body of the hall. The eloquent gentleman spoke for over an hour, in an earnest manner, of the life and labors of St. Patrick, relating many interesting incidents of the patron saint of Ireland, and presenting many new facts of the thirty years of his missionary labor. He then spoke briefly of the progress of religious liberty in Ireland, completely interesting and entertaining his audience. Rev. Mr. King proposes to continue the subject in a lecture to be given here at some future time.

TEMPERANCE.-The Sunday Evening Temperance Meeting, under the auspices of the several temperance organizations of this city, will be held in the First Baptist Church, North Main street, Sunday evening, Nov. 13, at seven o'clock p. m. Good speakers will address the meeting. Friends of the cause and the public generally are cordially invited to be present.

Mr. William Wright of this city will deliver a lecture on temperance in the Temple Hall at Simmonsville, Sunday evening, Nov. 13, at seven o'clock, p. m.

EDUCATIONAL NOTICES.-The Commissioner of Public Schools will address the citizens at Tiverton Four Corners, Monday evening, Nov. 14; at North Tiverton, at Baptist Church near Stone Bridge, Tuesday evening, Nov. 15; at South Portsmouth, Wednesday evening, Nov. 16; at Middletown, at Methodist Church, Thursday evening, Nov. 17. The annual convention of school officers of Rhode Island will be held at Providence on Tuesday, Dec. 13. The Teachers Institute at Warren will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 15, 16 and 17.

Go and hear those Canaries sing at Gilmore's Trunk Store, and you will buy one.

THE TURKISH BATH is natural, doing no violence. It accords with all the functions of the body. It is therefore an agency of power in healing. Administered by Dr. Dow, 210 Benefit street.

The largest assortment of Bird Cages to be found in the city, selling cheap, at Gilmore's Trunk Store.

HIBBARD & HAWKINS-THE DECKER PIANO.- Remarkable success crowns the efforts of this firm in introducing the piano of Decker Brothers. It is first class in all respects, finish and quality. Its merits are so decided and obvious that they have led to its rapid introduction. It is seldom that an instrument attains such popularity in so short time.

They also have the Case Piano, a very meritorious instrument, at the low price of $275. It is not cheap only in price. Their warerooms are in Low's Block, Westminster street, room No. 2.

100 Canary Birds, warranted fine singers, selling cheap at Gilmore's Trunk Store, 225 Westminster street.

PIANOS AND ORGANS.-A new lot of those splendid Hazelton Brothers' Pianos has just been received by Wm. E. Gilmore, at his wareroom, 207 Westminster street, and they are very handsome in finish and design, as well as beautiful in tone.

He has also an entire new lot of the Peloubet Organs, including one high top case with six stops, which is a splendid design, and the tone is superb, the makers seeming to outdo themselves in that particular. Peloubet, Pelton & Co. kept steadily at work until they produced the finest toned cabinet organ made in this country, and then determined to make the handsomest cases of any makers, and they have succeeded, as all who have seen their new styles of cases pronounce them the richest looking of any they have ever seen. The price of the new styles is no higher than the others.