The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

WINE-MAKERs report a splendid crop
OF grapes.
THE October term of the U. s. Court
began to-day.
THE next musical festival In this city
will be held in May, 1878.
The work Of exoavating for the new
Music Hall is in full blast.
AARON CRAIG, OF Franklin, o., is in
the city, looking for his truant vile and
baby.
BRICKLAYING on the new Custom
house building was commenced this
morning.
ER. OTTO SINGER, OF this city, has
taken charge OF the Philharmonic Society
at Dayton.
DIR. DANDRIDGE, visiting physician Of
the Work-house, has two weeks leave
of absence.
The Hartford Baseball Club will be
IN Cincinnati Friday, Saturday and Mon
Gay to play the Reds.
PETER THINNEs, a prominent German
citizen, died yesterday at his home, No.
G99 Elm street, at the age OF thirty-nine
years.
The name of Jerry Mulroy in our
Police Court Docket of yesterday was a
mistake. 1t should have been James
Malloy.
M. ENNIS broom factory, No. 30 Wood
ward street, had small blaze in IL last
night at O'Clock. Alarm from Box Is.
Loss triting.
The grand Republican rally which
will close the campaign takes place on
Friday night instead Of Saturday night,
ms announced.
Mr. JAMES L. SAMPSON, or Jas. Wilde
& Co., was presented with solid silver
tobacco box last night by the employees
Of the house.
The Work-house is being improved by
the building OF eight dark cells for re.
fraotory convicts, tumigatlng appa-
ratus, and room for prisoners CLOTH
ing.
Mr.. W. II. WRLLMAN, Vice President
of the Cincinnati " Portsmouth Narrow
gauge Railroad, was married few days
ago to Mrs. S. A. Muir, Of JetfersonVille,
Indiana.
HENRY w. HoNsFELD, of No. 426 West
Court street, is locked UP in the Ninth
street Station-house on the charge OF
abusing his family. He was taken in
this morning.
The report to the Superintendent Of
our Schools since their reopening shows
an increase in attendance of children OF
nearly eleven hundred over the same
time last year.
ELIZABETH HUSTON WILLIAMSON,
mother of Paul and Albert Williamson,
Of the County Recorders Office, died last
Sunday at her home in Colerain Town
ship, aged sixty-three years.
GEORGE HUTZEL has sued the city for
$1,000 damages Tor injury to his son
Louis, aged sixteen, whose leg was trac-
tured last March by being thrown from
plank sidewalk on Gest street.
S. r. GUTHRIE, of Urbana, O., has
been missing from his home for ten days
or more, and his friends think he may
have been the person who jumped from
the Suspension Bridge recently and was
drowned.
GEN. f. W. MOORE, DR.. ]. T. Whitta-
ker, Dr.Wm. Judkins, Major II. p. Lloyd,
Mr.. Alexander Hill and DR.. Landon r.
LongwUrth are forming a German Lit
erary Club under the direction Of Prof.
Abrahamsohn.
A HORSE and buggy belonging to W. j.
Morris was lett standing yesterday al
the corner of Plum and Longworth
streets, when man, said to be George
Stephens, jumped in and drove off. He
has not been arrested.
GEORGE BAUMAN, who lives at No. 4O2
Linn street, who on the 11th of Septem-
ber so brutally assaulted his wife, was
this morning bound over to the Grand
Jury on the charge Of assault with in.
tent to kill. Bond $1,000.
Ara quarter to 4 o. clock this morning
nm alarm was turned in from Box 142,
saused by small fire in the second
ItorY OF John A. GalPs slaughter-house,
Dn the west side OF Clarkson street, be-
tween Bank and Central avenue. Loss
small.
Mr.. J. B. ENNEKING, a retired mer-
Dhant, EX.COunciiman of the Fifteenth
Ward, late partner in the firm of Hude-
pohl &. &.Ennehi 6, auctioneers, and Trus-
ice o. the st. Aoysius Society, died at 5
rclock this morning OF typhoid fever at
ais residence No. 131 Laurel street.
WARREN KENNEDY, o boy, was bound
over to the Court OF Common Pleas this
morning on the charge Of stealing a gold
watch and chain from the pocket Of a
lad named Henry Wellman. The watch
was alleged to have been taken from
Wellman's vest pocket as it hung on
lence during game OF baseball.
PAT. HARRISON, saloonist and ex-de-
kective, and Patrolmen James Lawler
were seriously injured yesterday in
CumminsVille, opposite the Tenth Dis
trct Station, by being thrown from a
buggy Wnlcn came III contact WITH pass
ing ice wagon. The buggy was made a
Total wreck.
JOSEPH FORD, whom Detective Steve
Mead says is lorger, loater and dead
beat, appeared in the Police Court this
morning, charged with tapping the till
Of w. R. johnson & Co., No. 100 West
Sixth street yesterday. He was discov-
pred before getting anything from the
money drawer. The case will be heard
pn the 9th.
SUPERINTENDENT JOHN B. PEAsLEE
who has just returned from Philadelphia,
where he went to examine the school
systems Of all the civilized countries of
the world, has found that the West is
not in the least behind the East i'll edu-
patton up to the point of our District,
intermediate and High Schools. Above
that We are far behind.
TlIE four year old son of Andy j, Null
lane was SO shockingly burned yester-
Say at their home, ia Dayton street,
while playing with some matches which
set fire to his clothes, that he died at 6
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