CINCINNATI DAILY ENQUIRER
September 27, 1864
News
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Ruth Adams-Battle

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Major General STEADMAN was in the city yesterday.
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The annual re-union of the Woodward Club takes place on Thursday next.
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The Methodist Protestant Conference closed its session in this city last evening.
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The 176th O.V.I., mostly from voluntary enlistments near Springfield, passed through the city Sunday morning for Sherman's front.
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A man named Peter KRAMER was crushed to death last Saturday, by the falling of a bank that he was excavating at Alford's brick yard, in Storr's Township. Deceased resided at the foot of Gest street.
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The Fourth Ward will not be drafted on Wednesday, and if the proper exertions are made she will escape the draft altogether, as will also the other wards that have not filled their quotas.
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ENROLLMENT OF STATE MILITIA IN HAMILTON COUNTY - Auditor Bell furnishes us with the following figures, which exhibit the enrollment of State militia for 1864, as returned to the Adjutant General of Ohio:
Cincinnati................................................................................................................22,498
County Townships.....................................................................................................6,659
Total.........................................................................................................................29,157
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RUNAWAY. - An old gentleman named Phillip MOSSER, a resident of the Seventeenth Ward, was badly injured Sunday afternoon by being thrown from his buggy while driving along the Colerain Pike. A little soon of Mr. MOSSER, who was also in the buggy at the time the horse became unmanageable, escaped slightly bruised.
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ARRIVAL OF THE SECOND O.V.I. - The galland 2d Ohio arrived unexpectedly in the city on Saturday afternoon, and at 9 0'clock in the evening left for Columbus, where it will be mustered out.  It will then leave, probably, for the homes of the various companies.
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SUICIDE. - Sunday morning, while the 176th O.V.I. was being marched on board the boat Tyrone for the purpose of proceeding to the front, an unknown soldier committed suicide by throing himself on the bayonet of his musket, which was fixed to the piece. The bayonet point entered the heart, producing instant death.
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On the last trip of the Steamer Anna, from Pittsburgh to this city, a vote was taken on board to test the Presidential preferences of the passengers, of which there were over one hundred. "Little Mac" had 65 majority. All the ladies voted for McClellan but two. One of the latter was a refugee from South Carolina, and the other was an alien.
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OVERTURNING OF AN OMNIBUS - ONE OF THE PASSENGERS KILLED - About 11 0'clock on Saturday night, one of the Walnut Hills omnibuses, passing out of the Deer Creek road, overturned, instantly killing a boy named George CADMAN, one of the passengers, who was riding on top.  The head of the unfortunate youth was crushed to jelly, being caught between the top of the vehicle and the road.  Deceased was the son of a widow lady, who resides on East Walnut Hills.