The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-02-14
LOCAL BREVTTIrTe

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ONE HUNDRED and seventy.fve deaths
DURING the first ten days of this month
The collection Of water rents footed up
aver $37, 600.
THE term for which Judge Matson was
recently elected Probate Judge com.
menced to-day.
ADvICEs from all points indicate q
big attendance Of strangers to the Mard
aras on the 29th.
The Lincoln Memorial Club met Sat.
uTday night at the residence Of the Pres.
bdent, A. s. Thomas, Esq, No. 2l9 Mound
street. v
MAGGIE KILcoYNE, aged thirty five
living ou the Colerain Pike, Twenty fifth
Ward, has been adjudged insane and
kaken to Longview. .AS
ELEyEN HUNDRED and twenty-three
hogs were disposed OF In nine hours at
M0rrison's slaughter-house by two scra.
perB and four shayers.
THERE are at present two hundred
hoys and forty girls at the House of Ref
uge. The expenses of the institution
last year were $50, ,79S s..
APARTY Of fifty ladies and gentlemen
trum Decatur, ILL.,, have engaged rooms
Rk the Gibson House SO as to be on hand
when King "Rex" makes his grand en-
Eree.
j. +. BLACKBURN, John Simpkinson
and Clement Olhaber have been appoint
I'd as committee to revise the Consti-
tuition and Bylaws OF the Board OF
Trade.
FROM the investigation OF the Coroner
Into the suicide OF Mrs. Flola Baldwin,
Etappears that the deed was caused by
@ental alteration brought on by con-
HnRed Illness.
THE alarm from Box 213 yesterday
morning was caused by the discovery
uf flames In the roof OF the kitchen at
n. q. Deitrichs house in Corryyille.
Cause, defective fiue. Loss, $500.
A TELEGRAM from Morrisania, New
York, announces the death Of the come
dian, Charles Hale. Mr.. Hale was, DUR
ing the days of Pixies old Opera-house,
ffs first comedian, and is well known by
Ctncinnatians.
COOPER, BAILEY & Co., of the Great
International Circus. have rendered the
following animals and wagons Tor use in
the Mardl Gras procession: Four ele-
plants, two double-humped white cam.
eds, ten dromedariess six zebras, four
giraffes, four Roman chariots, and two
hbleau cars.
AT the meeting of the Old Volunteer
Riremen's Life Association Saturday
night. ID. M. Bleaks and Thomas Burns
Of w ashington No. !, f. Habbekotte of
Northern No. 7, and I. j. Sherlock OF
Jefferson No. 8, were elected members.
A dividend of twenty-five per cent. was
paid to all present.
MAYOR JOHNSTON reports returns
from the sales of tickets for the charity
concert at the different Station-houses
N follows: Ninth-street Station, $50;
H&mmond-sgreet,- $50; Bremen-street, no
aales; Third-street, $82; Oliver-street,
$h3; Fulton, $32; Walnut Hills, 500; Cor
Tyville, $40; Sedamsville, $40; Cummins-
vile, $3. Total, $500.
A MEETING of Irish-American citizens
was held yesterday afternoon in the law
Rfice OF j. W. Fitzgerald for the pur-
pose Of making arrangements for pub
Lilo meeting, to be held in some large hall
I'M the city, to memorialize Congress to
Intercede for the release Of Edward
VMeagher. Several committees were
appointed, who will report to meeting
next Thursday evening, when final ar
rangements will be made.
AT meeting of the Board OF Trustees
Ing the following contract work was
awarded, Concreting the reservoir, to
Michael Burns; iron machine castings,
t0 John Nash; hemp packing yarn, to
.. II. Bracker d Co.; street valve boxes,
to John Nash 81 Co.; bydrant stop boxes,
ta Mowry Car and Wheel forks; brass
stop cocks and ferules, to Thos. Gibson
q ACo.; cement, to the Western Cement
Company, Of Louisville; brass castings,
10 Samuel Cummings q Son; cast iron
water pipe and special castings, to Den
nia, Long u Co., of Louisville.
HR. GoEBEL has introduced bill into
the House. OF Representatives which pro-
vides that in counties having Work.
houses prisoners sentenced in Common
Pleas Courts to penal servitude for
term not exceeding three years, be COM
naitted TO the Work-house, provided that
ISey have not before served out SEN
benee In the Penitentiary, the pardoning
ef such prisoners to rest with the Gov
afn0K and not with the Directors of the
Work-house. This would do away with
me excuse for the failure Of the institu-
kion to support itself on account of short
time and Improbable prisoners.
THR wealthy villages of Avondale and
Clifton asking the Board OF Directors of
Spring Grove Cemetery Association to
M1ke appr0priations-one Of $1,000, to
mssist In the construction Of the bridge
on Crescent avenue, for the benefit Of
Chiffon; and the other, $4,000 more tor
the construction OF Mitchell avenue.
leading to Ayondale. The Board, by a
vsts Of six to nine, has decided to make
tbe desired appropriations, out OF the
eighty or ninety thousand dollars In the
Treasury Of the Cemetery Association;
Eesars. Anderson, Buchanan, Erken-
hRscher, Hosea, 6hillito and Shoen-
berger voting aye, and Messrs. Harri-
rens Probasco and Thomas, nay.
= THAvE for many years past used In my
p4n family, and recommeSai.u; 20 she
l1milies Of iny congregation, as the best
kennedy ! know Of for coughs, colds, and
Iioipient consumption, Df. Jayne,s
Elxpectorant, and also Jayne's Sanatiye
EilIs as a remedy for costiveness, bill
lgusness and impurity OF the blood. MY
BeBhdence In the great value of these
medicines increases the longer I use
them, and observe their wonderful
h9aith-restoring effects. They have given
universal satisfaction In all the families
20 whom ] have recommended them.-
Beu Or. D0iDltRg, late Pastor Of Berean
H1ptfst Church, Neso York.