The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-12-16
LOCAL BREVITIES.

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GOVERNMENT agents have found no
gnarled benzine is this city as yet.
THE fair and supper of the st. Paups
p. E. Church begins tomorrow noon.
THE Lady Teachers Association will
meet Saturday morning, December 18:h,
at 10 O'Clock.
Mr.. STRAUCH has written his resigna-
tion of the position of Superintendent Of
Parks. 1t has not been acted upon.
EFFORTS are being made to have Frank
Wilder, who shot May Riley last spring
on Longworth street, pardoned out OF
the Penitentiary.
A CINCINNATI firm has been awarded
a contract to erect two. thousand gas
lamp posts in Chicago, and to supply
the same with light.
Posi- STATION A, Cumminsville, is to
be removed, early next week, to the
brick building at the corner OF Knowlton
street and the Hamilton pike, about two
squares north of its present locality.
CAPT. MICHAEL GRoGAN, of this city,
is candidate ON the Republican side
for the position of Sergeant-at-Armso OF
the Ohio House Of Represent ntatiyes. He
regards his chances OF election as very
favorable.
Mr.. SIMON WELLER, OF the house OF
Fechheimer, Frankel & Co., of this city,
and his bride nee henderson, were the
guests of Mr.. NJ. Kahn at Montgomery,
Ala, the other day, having arrived from
New Orleans.
Mr.. B. F. SHoTT, Coroner NEaley's
clerk, left yesterday evening for the
home of his father, Moses Shott, Esq, at
Dilisborough, Ind. Mr.. Shout, ST., has
been lying very low with consumption
for a long time, and word reached his
son last night that he was dying.
AT the concert to be given tonight at
the Richmond-street Christian Church,
the vocal numbers are in charge Of Miss
Cora L. Dean, Miss Nettie Gordon, Miss
Clara Bernstein, Mr.. Harry H. and Sam
uel G. Harvey, Henry Wilke, George
Warner, and the Cruetzer Quartette
Club. Miss Gordon also plays piano
solo.
The Louisville Short-liDe, in connec-
tion with the Louisville and Great
Southern and connecting roads, have
recently perfected their running ar.
rangements, whereby passengers are
transferred in Pullman cars from Gin.
cinnatl to Jacksonville, Florida, dis.
tance of over one thousand miles, in
fifty hours.
AT the regular monthly meeting of the
teachers and officers Of the Bethel Sun.
day-school, held on Monday evening last
at the residence of Mr.. l.. E. Stevens,
l56 West Ninth street, it was resolved
unanimously to give the 5000 scholars
OF the school the usual Christmas dinner
this year. Appropriate committees were
appointed to make the necessary ar.
rangements for this great feast.
THE Irish-American Centennial Guards
turned out last night, thirty or forty
strong, under Capt. Welch, and marched
from their armory, over Hammond-street ct
Station, through some OF the principal
streets, up to Greenwood Hall, where
they had ball. This organization is
made up OF members of the police force.
They wear a uniform of blue, trimmed
with white. Tney expect TO turn out
sixty men on Christmas.
AT an election of the Cincinnati
Schuetzen Verein held last night the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: First President, F. GLEN
ser; Second President, z. p. Haldy
Shooting Masters, Julius Engelke, Jos
Schaller; Secretaries, Christian Kurtz
: Chas. Relnbold; Financial Secretary, f
Werner; Treasurer, e. Mayer; Direct
ors, G. Zehler, John Schneider, G. Refs
+. A. Schwill, r. Reinbold.
JOS. l.. SMITH, officer of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails, this city, has returned from New
York, to which city he took the boy AL
bert Talbert. The child was the com
panion to the little boy John Murray
alias Lazelle, who was killed at Cleve
land by trapeze accident. They wer'
apprenticed TO Lazelle and Millson Pill
larsl. Talbert was found at Pillars
house in Bellevue, Kentucky, havin.
been sent for by his parents in New
York, through the Intervention OF tn
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty t.
Children there. Mr.. Smith found Tai
bert, the boys father, to be coachmal
tor very wealthy family in New York
Jos. MCLAUGHLIN, Tom English an,
Richard Hurley were captured thi
morning, about, hali-past four O'Clock
by Officer John Mullen, while they wer
making raid upon the cigar store O
George Zumstein, IA West Sixth street
They mad broken pane OF glass an
made their way inside, and had posses
sion of about $40 worth of goods. Nc
Laughlin and Hurley were found insid
The store ana English on the pavement
where he dropped box Of cigars. The
appeared in the Polics Court this morn
ing and their cases were continued
timers, and have heretofore escaped th
Penitenliary on technicalities.
ON Saturday last a young man wen
to the house of Alderman Jacobs an,
asked to sharpen meat-saws or knives
He was given some work, and whe
dome he said the lady upstairs ha
bought sewing-machine Of him. Mrs
Jacobs said she had not; the lady uI
stairs was her daughter, and she kne'
she had bought no machine. The maj
IN an insulting manner. contradicte
Mrs. Jacobs and left. On Monday Sc,
eral men in wagon came, and insiste
on going upstairs to see the machine
but were refused. The next day th
kniie-sharpener again appeared, and il
sisted on going upstairs to see the m;
chine. When told that he was mistakeI
he had the audacity to tell the lady ths
she was lying. He left the house with
sound body, because nobody was ther
able to give him the treatment he ha
earned.
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