The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.

CITY AUDITOR HOFFMAN is Ill With
the diphtheria.
FORTY blooded horses from New Or
leans Will arrive here Monday for Ches-
ter Park. -..
THE spring meeting of the Kentucky
Racing Association will commence Mon
day, May 8.
The Rev. DR.. Stanton will preach at
the Madisonyille Baptist Church to-mor-
row Sunday morning.
No more smoking of cigars by the
members while the Aldermanic Board is
in session will be allowed.
Col. Il. DEB. CLAY, q native Of Gin
cfnnati, has been appointed to the COM
mand of the Centennial Department OF
Protection at Philadelphia.
MISS EMMA CRANCH, of this city, has
accepted the position of 'alto" in the
solo quartette of the Brooklyn Taber-1
nacle, Mr.. Beecher's church.
In the case of the United States
against U. II. Tucker & Co., illicit dis
tillers, the jury returned verdict of
guilty, and the property worth $3.50 was
declared forfeited.
! CAPTAIN JOHN F. GALLAGHER, who
served during the war in the Second
Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and
who is we'll known in this city, died at
his home in Franklin last Wednesday.
DR.. j. J. QUINN, recently appointed
member of the Board of Medical Exam
liners for the police force, rendered his
resignation to the Police Commissioners
yesterday, but it has not been accepted.
The Clerk of the Board OF Public
Works receives $4,000 per annum; Civil
Engineer, $4,000; Assistant Engineers,
$1,000 each; draugntsman, $1,000; first
rodmen, $500 each; second r0dmen, $500
each.
THREE colored men entered the boot
and shoe store Of Mr.. Burkhardt, corner
of Liberty and Elm street, last night,
asked for drink OF water, and while
the water was being drawn they hastily
decamped, taking with them fine pair
of boots.
MR.. ORsoN Y. CONE, at one time Vice
President of HalPs Safe and Lock Com
pany, and a gentleman widely known
and highly respected in business circles
in this city, died OF consumption, at the
Gibson House yesterday m orning, aged
thirty-seVen years.
MR.. OTTO SINGER yesterday received
the score of The Grand March, composed
for the opening Of the Centennial Exhi-
bitiou, by Richard Wagner. He has
been Commissioned to make the piano
forte arrangement, which will bs pub
lished by Messrs. John Church g. Co..
THEo. THAUwALD, present lessee of
the Geological Garden Restaurant, has
been awarded the lease for another
year from May /. He is to pay at the
rate Of So, ,O00 per year in the old (pres-
ent) one, aud s4, 900 per year in the new
one, which will We ready this summer
early.
ALEXANDER JOHNSON, John Hayden
and Joseph Elmore, the men who are
suspected OF being implicated in the
Post-ofice robberies at Franklin and
Batavia, Ohio, have been bound over to
the Grand Jury to answer the charges,
and in default of $4,000 bail they have
been committed to Jail.
In the case of the man who was found
under the Ludlow Grove Bridge, Coroner
Maley and Il jury returned the following
verdict: "After having examined the
body and heard the evidence we, the
Jury, do find the deceased came to his
death from injuries sustained by being
struck by train and thrown under the
railroad bridge OF the Dayton Short-line
at Ludlow Grove"
ONE of the editors of the "Sporting
World" has been arrested by Special
Agent johnson, of the Post-Jfice De-
partment, charged with sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails. He will
appear before Commissioner Hooper
Monday to answer the charge. His
name is Philip Marsh, of George street.
His partner, "Johnston," alias Terry
De Gau, is not in town.