The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-28
LOCAL BREVITIES,


THE night policemen were drilled to-
day.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL is seventy six
years old.
SEVENTY THREE marriage licenses is
sued last week.
mask tomorrow. |
THE Police Court will grind as usual |
tomorrow morning. |
FRED. VoGEL, 535 Vine street, has been |
victimized by burglars.
THERE were one hundred and eighteen
deaths in this city last week.
THE employees of the Public Library
will have holiday tomorrow.
TIE gas arrangements Of the Cincin-
natl Hospital are being inflated.
THERE are six hundred beds for pa
tients in the Cincinnati Hospital.
ALL the uptown railroad ticket offices
will be closed at O'Clock tomorrow.
THREE runaways occurred on the
Spring Grove avenue yesterday after
noon.
."B1a JuDGE' MARcHANT is now en-
gaged in commercial pursuits on Linn
street.
anu tine polar wave is not good combi-
nation.
H. II. HAMILTON, a defendant in the
whisky cases now in the u. s. Court, is
dangerously ill.
BY consent of Archbishop Purcell, all
the parochial schools will be closed to-
morrow at - O'clock.
The hotels will charge the ordinary
rates during the National Republican
Convention in this city.
The Cincinnati Ice Comp any has con-
tracted for thirty thousand tons OF ice
IRON the Northern lakes.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES every evening
this week at the Sixth Presby terian
Church, Eastern avenue.
The petition for the release of e. ON.
Condor has been signed by over i've
thousand citizens and forwarded.
The Fist Baptist Church at Avondale,
Elder X. W. Scott, pastor, needs $400
more to enable it to take care of itself.
REX will occupy Room No. 8 at the
Burnet House tomorrow. He will be
guarded by delegation Of "Beef Eat
ers."
NEARLY six hundred medical studen
have attended lectures IN this city this
winter. They came from all parts Of the
Union.
Ii, W. SABINE, of this city, who was
injured while getting OF a train Of cars
a. Greenville, Ohio, few days ago, dice
at that place yesterday.
The gay-works attached to the resi-
0ence Of the late j. Z. G. Holenshade, al
College Hill, exploded Saturday. The
hired man was severely burned.
The alarm from Box As yesterday af
ternoon called the engines to burning
chimney on Central avenue, near Sew
enth street. No water was thrown.
CHAs. E. MATTHEWS, at one time AS
sistant Professor in Mathematics il
Woodward College, and the editor Of
Rays System of Arithmetic, is dead.
STEPS are being taken with view to
secure appropriate legislation requiring
OF the City Intirmary Board greater eff
cheney in the relief of the outdoor poor
WHOEVER lost four new cross-cul
saws, New York make, some two mon th
ago, can probably learn something in re
gard 10 Them by calling on Colonel Snel
baker, Chief OF Police.
PETER BECKER, who was arraigned il
the U. 5. Circuit Court on an Indictmen
for selling liquor without paying tn
special tax, pleaded guilty, and wa
fined 500, and goes TO prison for thirt
days.
MRS. JOHN R. WRIGHT, the lady acc
denlally shot while passenger on
steamer on the st. johns River,
Florida, is doing finely, and no fears al
entertained that the wound may prov
fatal.
COLONEL RoBT. T. KELVIN, formerl
salesman OF HalPs Safe and Lock Con
pany, has mysteriously disappearet
His wife and child are said to be in
destitute condition at No. TIA PluI
street.
FRED. BERG pleaded guilty in the Pt
lice Court this morning to stealing Sl5 i
money from his father-in-law, Angus
Hug ,er, of sos West Fifth street, and b
goes to the house Tor thirty day
and pays fine OF $50.
COL. SNELBAKER is the victor in thu
gold-headed cane contest at the Walnl
Hills Church fair. He received 81
thousand four hundred and seven
votes TO Enoch Megrue's one thousaf
one hundred and ninety.
HARRY CoRDEMAN, a loafer who hang
around Court and Central avenue, is
chronic deadsbeat. Yesterday he got
'.shine" from little boot-black, and the
refused to pay for it. The refusal cos
him $12 in Judge Lindemann's Cour
He could buy good pair oil boots Il
that sum.
/, HENRY RAwsoN, the driver of hea,
transfer wagon, has been putting on
dead-lock to the injury OF the sire
(Sycamore) and obstructing the crossi
at the corner of Fourth and Sycamo
streets. Otficer Fox promptly arrest
him, and he was fined $3 and costs.
PHIL. ROSE and Frank Rlring, t'
bad boys living in the neighborhood
Seventh and Linn, escaped the House
Refuge by the skin of their teeth th
morning for pestering the shoe deale
j. Anton Lange, Of 46O Eighth stree
The burden Of their song to Lange wa
"Potalo Lang! Cheese 1t, cheese it,"