The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-01
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
MAT CRAIG, a young colored rough,
was arraigned in the Police Court this
morning on charge of manning.
He Is accused of having assaulted
colored woman named Cynthia
Woods about five weeks ago, striking
her IN such manner as to cause the loss
OF her left eye. His case wars continued
till the 9th inst. under bonds of 81, 900.
In default Of this sum he was locked up
WALTER ALIAS "KID" ENGLISH, the
young lad recently committed to the
Work-nouse for disorderly conduct in
his mothers establishment on George
street, became Intoxicated yesterday,
and having gone to a brothel on L'Hom-
medieu alley. broke in the doors of that
place. He was arrested by Officer Hill
berger and arraigned in the Police Court
on charges of drunkenness and mali
cious destruction of property. On the
latter charge, for want of prosecution, he
was dismissed, but on the former he was
sentenced to pay fine of $40 and costs.
THE cornerstone of St. Joseph's
Chapel, of the Litile Sisters of the Poor,
on the Montgomery road. will be laid TO-
morrow afternoon at O'Clock. Dele
gates from the Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans, the Holy Family Sodality of st.
Xaviers Church, st. Aloysius School
Sodality, of st, Xavier Church, and St.
Aloysius Sodality of st. Thomas Church,
met at st. Xavier's School.house last
night and elected M. Muhrhild, jr.,
Grand Marshal. A grand procession
will be formed, and after passing through
the principal streets, attend the ceremo-
MES. A large attendance is expected.
The semi-annual festival of the Ger
man General Protestant Orphan Society
will be held one week from tomorrow.
The principal income OF the society is
derived from donations received from
the public attending their festivals, and
from meals served during the day in the
dining-rooms of the Asylum. There are
at present nearly 100 children in the
Asylum, and the expenses for the past
year have been 50, l74. During the year
1874 the common schools were visited by
81 children, 90 visited the district, 13 the
intermediate, and 2 the high schools.
rhe Sunday-school, which is held every
Sunday at the Asylum, is in charge of
students from Lane Seminary. The So
ciety numbers about 600 members.
OFFICER PFITzER, this morning about
O'clock, saw suspicious looking char
acter coming out of Adam Works board
lng-house, on the corner of Storrs and
Neave streets, carrying well-flled car
pet-sack. The officer took him in, and
opened the carpet-sack, when he found
that it contained q lot of perfumeries,
groceries, shoesblacking, gloves, revol-
yer, vest, hat and coat, and several
other articles, worth in all about $2l.
The man gave his name as Henry Smith,
and had stolen the above articles from
four different parties at that place. He
was arrajgned in the Police Court this
morning and plead guilty to the charges,
and was sent to the Work-house for a
term Of five months.
THE entertainment at Pixies on Tues
day evening next for the benefit of the
Young Ladies' Branch of the Women's
Christian Association, promises to be an
unusually excellent one, and as such and
being given in the interests of most
worthy object, the public will not fail to
respond and to fill the hall on the ap-
pointed evening. The actors and ac-
tresses are prominent members of Gin
cinnati society, and the entertainment is
under the patronage of the following
well-known ladies': Mrs. w. W. Scar.
borough, Mrs. r. M. W. Taylor, Mrs. A.
S. Winslow, Mrs. DR.. e. Williams, Mrs.
VIM. FL. Davis, Mrs. 6. X. Shoenberger,
Mrs. VIM. F. Irwin, Mrs. D. X. Este,
Mrs. Thomas Emery. The Committee OF
Arrangements are Mrs. I. NJ. Dayton,
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derson, Mrs. z. Short, Mrs. A. Howard
Hinkle, Mrs. VIM. Este, Miss Schooley,
Mrs. s. b. Warren, Miss Leide, Miss
Collins.
The Trustees OF the Southern Rail-
road yesterday awarded the contract for
the Kentucky river bridge to the Balti-
more Bridge Company, Of Baltimore,
Md, at their bid of 1900. The bridge
will be 275 feet high, and have two piers,
one on each bank of the river. These
piers will be ia feet long and SO feet
across the top of the masonry. The first
81 feet OF them will be masonry. Thence
each will consist of four iron pyramidal
columns, rising It's feet high, upon
which will rest the iron truss of the
bridge, which is thlrty-fve feet high.
The track will be two hundred and
twenty feet above high water mark.
There will be three spans, each of three
hundred and fifty six feet in length, maxi
ing the whole structure from end to end,
LOGS feet long. The bridge in many re-
spects will not have its equal in the
lworld, and there is no other like it in the
United States. The original plan gave
the bridge three piers, but was finally
changed to two, leaving navigation un-
obstructed.