The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-31
LOCAL BREVITIES.

mighty DOLLAR" for this week only.
THERE are five hundred cigar facto-
ries in this city.
THAT mob Of pickpockets has departed
for fresh fields and pastures new.
SEvENTY-EIGHT cases before His Honor
Judge Lindemann this morning.
MR.. RIGNOLD at the Grand Opera.
house this week in "King Henry ""
MRS. EMERY, relict OF the late Thomas
Emery, died in Philadelphia recently.
The officers of the "Washington
Dragons" have received their commis s.
sions.
ONE HUNDRED and sixty-six deaths
In the city last week-seventy-fy
from smallpox.
TwENTY-TMREE thousand EIGHT hun.
dred and twenty more hogs were slaugh-
tered in this city this season than last.
YESTERDAY in the Walnut Hills M. E,
Church collection OF $500 was raised
for the Ladies' Home Mission of this
city.
WILLIAM CHEsLEY, for manv wears
one OF the foremen at Miles Greenwood's
foundry. died very suddenly Saturday.
Ihe body was taken to Rochester, New
Hampshire, for interment.
AT meeting OF the Board of Trade
Saturday evening to consider the tinan-
cial condition OF the Southern Road the
sentiment prevailed that ssthe road must
be built even though it does cost $6,OOO,-
900 more.S
TWELVE able bodied tramps, who have
been Fostering the Sisters in charge of
the Warsaw Hill Seminary by daily beg
ging for a square meal, have been ar
rested and placed in Storrs Township
Station-house.
THE Water-works Trustees received q
mass OF bids for concreting the new res
ervoir and for supplies for 1875, at
meeting held on Saturday, but they did
not make any awards. ALI the bids were
Laid over for two weeks.
THE alarm from Box 157 at 2 O'Clock
Sunday morning was occasioned by
fire at t. j. McGowan's Pump Works on
East Front street, Fulton. The loss will
reach $3,000 fully insured. Work will
be resumed in day or two.
The "Boys OF New York." a weekly
paper for young people, recently con-
tained excellent portraits of Miss Clara
Baldwin and Miss Emma Gazlay, of
Cincinnati, late pupils in our High
School. The portraits were accompanied
by short sketches.
ABOUT daylight Sunday morning a COL
'ored woman found the body OF IA white
male infant in an alley leading north
from Seventh street, few doors west of
Broadway. 1thad evidently been born
but few hours. An inquest will be
held tomorrow morning.
JOHN HOLMES, Jas. and Hugh Savage,
Henry Lampke and Eugene Sullivan, ali
boys apparently under age, have been ar
rested on the charge of stealing lot of
lead pipe, brass faucets, &C., from Mr.,
Geo. Z. Orr. They will be heard to-mor-
row, their bonds being 5000 each.
JOSEPH BRocKMAN, a wicked look
Ing young man living at 457
Broadway, has been applying
castigation to his old father. For being
drunk he goes out for thirty days; for
the assault on the old man he goes out
for thirty days and pays fine OF $75.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railroad Company, in order to re-
tire number of bonds and construct q
double track from Carthage to Dayton.
have executed mortgage for SO, 900, 900
to the United States Trust Company OF
New York, to secure bond of that
amount payable in October, 1905.
ONE of those simple acts which speak
30 loud OF mothers watchiul care
was witnessed by the argus-eyed
reporter in the Police Court this
morning. An anxious and griet-
stricken mother slipped up slyly behind
the prisoners bench and handed her
boy "a youthful offender up for triaD
clean handkerchief, and turned away
with fearful eyes.
A MAN named John Lipps was arrested
yesterday for the double crime OF rape
and incest. The victim OF the outrage
Is his own daughter, Mary Theresa
Lipps, about sixteen years old. The af-
fair occurred on the 21st inst, while
Mrs. Lipps was attending market.
Lipps, after the accomplishment Of the
deed, induced his daughter to keep it a
secret, and the daughter did so until
last Friday, when she revealed the hor-
rible story to her mother. Lipps was
quietly arrested by Constable P. Dohm
and taken to the TWenty-frst Ward Sta
tioE-house. He did not deny his crime,
but pleaded drunkenness. The warrant
for his arrest was issued by Esquire
PAUL., of Delhi Township.
The Great Republic.
This great entertainment, Allegory