News article from the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Monday Morning, September 24, 1877. Scandalous Reception to a Company of Serenaders "George H. SMITH, Matt HOBAR, and Henry SPECKERMAN, a company of Covington and Newport amateur musicians tried a serenade on a bad-house kept on Sixth street, opposite the Market-house, yesterday morning. The proprietress of the bad-house being an Italian, with a fine ear for music, was offended with the playing and expressed her disgust by hurling from the window, not a rotten cabbage-head, but a half-filled and tolerably heavy spittoon, right into the midst of the band of minstrels. It landed square on the head of George H. Smith, the flutist. The amateurs didn't like this reception, and being a little under the influence of beer, were ready for a muss. The police arrested them before they had an opportunity to pay up the score. All day yesterday and all last night the flutist played dolorous music in his cell. With the instinct of a true musician they all three held on to their instruments, just as a true soldier holds fast to his gun." Phyllis