The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-03-03
LOCAL BREYTTTES.

AT the City Infrmary there are 613 in
mates.
THE fare on Route No. 9, is reduced to
four cents.
THERE were four lost boys at the Sta
tion-houses last night
No QUORUM of the Board of Park Com
missioners yesterday.
AUGUSTUS ToLKE, boy from Kenton,
10 ut Ninth-street station.
TwENTY-THREE feet of water in the
new reservoir, and no leak.
REV. E. MCHUGH led the prayer meet
ing at Y. NJ. q. A. hall to-day noon.
DURING the past year 1O2 deaths oc-
CURED at the ln1irmary institution.
The Station-houses are draped in
Grape since the Death of Capt. Farrell.
ONLY 81 cases in the Police Court this
morning, Of which Il " ere for drunken
ness.
The Gambrinus Benevolent Society
celebrated its twenty-third anniversary
yesterday.
MISS l.. L. b. BENT carried off the S.
prize at the Finley Chapel spelling match
last night.
REV. G. o. KING breaches his farewell
sermon at Ninth-street Baptist Church
on sunday next.
The Society of Natural History held
the regular meeting last evening at the
College Buildings.
A SUIT of clothes was stolen from
George Clarke's room at las West Fifth
street, yesterday afternoon.
HON. JOHN M. WILSON, of this city, U.
5. Consul at Bremen, has arrived in New
York, and will be in this city soon.
The annual meeting of the Natural
lists Society for election of officers will
be held on the first Tuesday OF April.
BIDS tor 100000 bushels of coal for the
Longyiew Asylum will be open March
10th at the Eagle Insurance Company.
A DEPOSITION covering 275 pages of le-
gal cap was filed in the U. 5. Court yes
terday in the case OF Husin v. Blair g.
Hill.
The Board of Directors of Longview
Asylum met yesterday at the institu-
tion, transacting little business OF i'm
portance.
THE Southern Railroad bridge will be
finished by June 1st, 1876. 1t is to cost
S663,010. Work will be commenced in a
short time.
CHAs. HARRINGTON, charged with al
tering bill and thus obtaining So, the
property of one Miss Vessel, mad his
case continued till tomorrow.
Mr.. DUDLEY BUCK, the musical COM.
poser, is to attend the May Festival and
perform upon the organ. He is said to
be one of the finest organists living.
The contract between the Southern
railroad Trustees and the Keystone
Bridge Company (of Pittsburg) for the
Ohio river bridge is fully completed.
DR.. L. NJ. WISE lectured to the German
Pioneer Association yesterday on "The
Influence of German Art and Science in
America during the last quarter of a cen
tury."
WYLIE has played 4,667 games of check
ers since July last, losing twenty-one,
in which twenty-one he counts the one
given our Cincinnati players to keep
them from feeling badly.
The Board of Directors of the In1irm-
ary, ON the 1st of April, will submit to
the Mayor their annual report of the sta
tistlcs of the institution, the number of
patients, and Of everything else of i'm
portance.
DAN RICE, Sam Stickney, and Uncle
John Robinson, three OF the old shOwmen
of the country, met at Aug's last even
ing. Dan is on his way to the Pacific
having collapsed.
No ONE should fail to attend the Com
menoement Exercises Of the Miami Med
ical College at Pixies tonight. The pro-
gramme is an excellent one, and the ex-
ercises will doubtless be Of a highly in
teresting character.
SARAH HICKS, colored, got on the war
path and assaulted Martha Wood with u
hatchet, and treated the arresting Off
GER, who attempted to check her course,
to kettle OF hot water. For her enjoy
ment she was sentenced TO pay "a tine of
20 aud costs.
THE Executive Committee of the La
dies Centennial Ass JciatiOn has decided
to make their entertainment in May an
International exposition, with table to
represent each nation and filled with
products, natural and manu- factured, OF
that country.
AT two O'Clock this morning Robert F.
Thornburn, man 81 years OF age, and
employed as collector, was hurt by a fall
at the corner OF Fifth and Elm streets,
breaking his leg at the ankle-bone. He
was brought to the Cincinnati Hospital
by officer sullivan.
THIS morning, early, at s O'Clock, two
unknown rowdies assaulted man
named Adolph Stoll, 2S years old, at the
corner of Liberty and Walnut streets,
and knocking him down broke his left
leg, causing fracture of both bones.
No arrests of the parties.
A REQUEST for discharge from the
Longview Asylum was received by the
Board yesterday from Mrs. A. Bennett,
stating that she was illegally confined.
If she be not discharged Judge Pruden
will have her brought before the Probate
Judge and released on writ OF habeas
corpus.
ROBERT B. WARDER, who is in Europe
in pursuit of knowledge respecting the
sparrows and their usefulness, sent a
communication to the Society of Natu-
ralists, giving description Of the three
different species of the German sparrow,
the Fringilla domestica, the Fringilla
montata, and the Fringilla petrona, an d
their habits, costumes and manner OF
living.
VIM. III. TRIMBLE and Frank Hyre, the
former charged with the theft of 1900
cigars, valued at $50, and the latter of
1000, (the particulars of the case were
mentioned in The STAR ON Monday were
arraigned in the Police Court this morn
ing and their cases dismissed, as it was