The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-05-13
LOCAL BREVITIEs.

+. THE Ludlow Baseball Club will be re-
organized.
MR.. j. 8. BoYNToN opens the Yellow
Springs House May 20.
PHIL. TIEMAN's billiard hall will be
re-opened this evening.
Box 52-last night 7:30-burning CHM
ney-Eighth near Baymiller.
A CINCINNATI clothing house is max.
ing the uniforms for the New Albany
(Ind. police.
WILLIAM SLAUGHTERBEcK heroically
saved a boy from drowning yesterday,
in the canal at the corner of Plum and
Findlay.
THE new appointees around the City
Buildings will commence taking their
provender from the public crib next
Monday:
F. SCHMIDT, of Seventh aud Race, has
opened restaurant and ice-cream sa-
loon purely on temperance principles at
Prices Hill.
MRS. M. ]. RoCKEY's boarding.house,
No. 119 Elm street, has been visited by
robbers. Loss-a watch, clothing and
some money.
GEO. H. DEAN, the queensware mcr
chant, who had his foot crushed by an ele.
yator, some few weeks ago, Is ON the
streets again.
THE City Dads have decided by a
vote to permit cigar smoking on the
floor OF the Council Chamber during
business hours.
The Trustees Of the Southern Road
expect by the 1st OF June to commence
track laying at Cincinnati, Nicholas
vile, and South Danville.
= CAPT, w. H. HIGDoN and Mr.. Marshall
We're "spllled" on the avenue yesterday
by their " ehicle coming in contact with
q heavy wagon. No bones broken.
JOHN RABE, aged sixty, whose home
Is ON Madison street, fell from building
on which he was working yes sterday after
noon, and suffered q broken leg and
crushed hip.
MEssRs. REFS, Hollingshead, Young,
: Wells and Mullaney, OF the Board OF
Aldermen, have been appointed COM
mittee to consider a plan for celebrating
the Centennial Fourth OF July.
CHRISTIAN JOHNSON, who boards at
462 West Front street, had his left leg
broken last evening by a~block OF stone
which he was handling falling on him,
while at work at Mueller u COPS works
at the foot OF Park street.
THOMAS GRAY, ESQ, of the Joint Com
mittee OF Council on Public Buildings,
thinks that the five daily papers which
are paid Tor by the city for the use OF
the city officers should be paid for by
those officers. "Tommy, make room for
your uncle"
NJ. BAUMGARTEN, artist, No. 80 West
Fourth street, has on exhibition in the
window of the At ans Express Compa-
ny, Fourth street, a magnificent crayon
portrait, llte-siZe and two-thirds length,
pG Phil. Tieman. 1t is very artisJically
executed, and a most perfect likeness.
MIR. Baumgarten excels in this peculiar
class OF pictures, which is becoming
more popular every day.
THE alarm from Box 80 about s
o'clock last night, was occasioned by q
lmall fire caused by the leakage OF gas
from lead pipe leading from the meter,
in the Children's Home, on Third street.
The meter is under the front porch
among lot OF kindliDg wood, and from
the fact that the pipe shows evidence OF
being cut with a knife, there are strong
suspicious that some iend has been at
Work again.
In the Board of Aldermen meeting last
evening, ordinances to establish grades
were read once, as follows:. Center
street, Camp Washington, from Fourth
avenue TO Miami Canal, Fifth avenue,
Camp Washington, from Charles street
TO Center street; Gage street, from
James street to McGrew streets; North
Wendell alley, from East Evans alley to
Its northern terminus: W oodward ave-
nue., from Beresford avenue west TO COR
poration line.