The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-07-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.


reported last week.
THE Natural Historical Society will
meet Tuesday, the l1th inst.
ONE inch aud quarter ofrain fell dur |
ing the seventeen minutes OF the storm |
yesterday.
THK Young Mems Centennial Club
will hold its first annual reunion TO- |
morrow evening.
Box 56-Yesterday morning at quar-
ter past II O'Clock. A burning CHM
ney at No. % Milton street. No loss.
PArRoLMAN ADAM KRAUs, injured
during u ire at Aerancourps brewery,
has received $500, the result OF q ratfie.
The Post-orice will be open between
aud 8 O'Clock on the morning OF the
Fourth. No delivery by carriers on that
day.
REV. THOMAS II. SKINNER, DID,,
preached Centennial discourse yes
terday at the Second Presbyterian
Church.
JOHN WOLF, Of Chicago, was robbed
Saturday, on the steamer Potomac, OF a
gold watch and chain, worth $175, and
500 in cash.
PRICES HILL to-morrow-picnic, con-
cert, dancing, grand balloon ascension at
81 P. NJ, and magnificent display OF ire
works at night.
THE CHAPEL of the Cincinnati Union
Bethel WAS hllsd yesterday afternoon
on the occasion OF the Sunday-school
celebration of The Centennial.
MR.. j. X. sKAATs, proprietor Of the
Queen City Carriage FACTORY, iell
tnrough the hatchway Saturday even
ing, and narrowly escaped death.
The locomotive, "Robert Simpson,"
destined for the College Hill Railroad,
has arrived from the East and ls in the
yards of the g., II. & u. Railroad.
A LABoRER for MIR. Rlmplen, the dairy
man, was drowned last night in the Lit
tie Miami River, al Lawrence Station,
while attempting to swim across the
river.
A SMALL frame house on Ramsay
street, near Front, caught, OF was set on
Ore at half.past 2 yesterday morning.
Loss $3.50. Inc building belonged t0 MI.
Krautz, Of Newport.
THE Mohawk Fire Company was called
out last evening at 3 o'cIock OIL silent
alarm to extinguish 4 fire caused by IL
stove upsetting in a house on Moor.
street, near Liberty.
BURGLARS visited the tailor shop at
k1S sycamore street, Saturday night,
but obtained nothing. The residence oil
J. q. Butler, Mount Auburn, was bur
glarized the same night.
COMPANY b, OF Third Regiment, Con-
tinentais, will be presented with beau
siiul silk flag by the young ladies of their
vicinity, at their Headquarters. junction
Lebanon and Montgomery roads.
ALL the boys over fourteen years oil
age of the Eighteenth Ward who desire 10
participate in the parade tomorrow are
requested 10 meet in trout OF 176 Wesl
at
for organization.
LAFAYETTE ATKINSON. former po,
Nceman, claims that he was removed
from the force without cause, and claims
damages from the city in tue sum oil
$1,275. Philip Eckel brings similal
action, claiming $500.
THE summer trotting meeting at Ches-
ter Park begins July IL, and continues
tour days. Entries in the 2:22 class,
nrst day, purse 81 400, and the tree-lor-
all, last day, purse $4,000, will close al
Il P. Nj. next Monday night.
A NOTE was found on the Miami Canal
opposite Sharon, o., as follows: "Geo
Brown. am tired Of life and went to the
bottom OF the canal. Farewell, Jennie;
tits for you die. Write to r. Love, cor
ner oil Liberty and Price streets, Gin.
cinnati."
CAPT. SCHRoEDER's company Of the
Eleventh Ward ContineuLals went ou
yesterday tor a drill, preparatory toI
Fourth OF July celebration, were caught
in the Storm and received a thorough
drenching. The "drenching" was 81
thorough that several oil The boys could
hardly walk home.
The storm yesterday forenoon did con
siderable damage. East Third street
hear Baum, was torn up in seVera
hAIn hafN nnad
foot.bridge Oh East Pearl street oVel
Egxleston avenue is rendered impassa
bic. On Sycamore and Mulberry street'
most of the cellars were filled by thu
flood.
REV, j. Z. WRIGHT delivered dis
course at the First Presby terian Chur ch
Walnut Hills, yesterday. The text wa
the 18th and 18th verses of the XVII
Psalm: "Walk about Zion and go rount
about her; tell the towers thereof; mar
ye we'll her bulwarks; consider he
palaces; that ye may tell 1t to the sel
eration following" ...
A SON OF officer Donnelly, while al
tempting TO cross the railroad track O
climbed ON the cars and had his foo
badly mashed between the bumpers. II
was taken TO his home on James stree
where DR.. McMicken was called an
amuutated one ot the toes and rendere
ether surgical aid. The sufferer is d.
ing well to-day.
THE LOOKOUT HOUSE as resort offel
splendid Inducements for the Centenni
Fourth. Mr.. Frank. Aarf is always q
hand with a performance that can nj
be resisted; A salute Of one hundre
guns, grand concert by the CinciRna
Grand Orchestra, picnic, dancing 10
tiyities, and at night the grand ballo'
ascension and illumination.
LIEUT.. WERsEL's report Of the salooI
and dens oil iniquity In the Oliver-stre
Police District is as follows: saloo
in the district, Including groceries whe
liquor is sold, three hundred and III
ak; drug stores selling liquors for MI
icinal purposes, &c., twenty.thre
policy shops, two; houses OF lillian
nine; houses OF assignatlon, six.
CLEMoNs JoRDoN, q shoemaker,
over ths banister Of porch on
third floor OF the old Poskofiloe bui
..,A d.