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

YESTERDAY $s,sO3 in silver was paid
out.
THE Knights of st. James will parade
tonight.
MRS. JOHN NAsH's seventeenth child
is a boy.
THE sub-Treasurer has 100000 in sill
yer dimes ON hand.
POSTAL CURRENCY Is selling at three
per cent. premium.
WALTER T. Cox has been appointed
Master Commissioner.
PAT. SAVAGE seems to be the most
popular boss teamster.
THE polls at the Atonement Bazaar
close tomorrow night at II O'Clock.
DIR. VIM. JORDAN has been appointed
District Physician for the Second Dis
trict.
HON. j. W. FITZGERALD has returned
from Kansas, and is looking well and
hearty.
A. & G. W. Ross, coal dealers, have
made an assignment to II. Nj. Cist,
whose bond was fixed at $4,000.
JOHN H. STEINER, ESQ.,, it seems, is q
Titiin boy, and was never charged with
having too much brains." That's rough
on "Handsome Mat"
TIE Methodist denomination have
twenty-seven regular colleges In the
United states, and sixty-nins female
colleges and academies.
OMNIBUsEs are now running in con.
nection with the Mt. Auburn Street
Railroad to and from the entrance
to the Geological Garden.
BIDS for one million and a half OF Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad bonds, six per
cent. gold interest, will be opened in
New York on May 16 at noon.
A DEFECTIVE FLUE caused a small fire
last night above Pixies printing office,
northwest corner of Front ard Syca-
more. No alarm was turned in.
OFFICER BROTHERS, of the First
Police District, has been appointed Ser.
geant of Police on Lieutenant Spaeth's
watch, at the Ninth-street Station.
ALL the matter pertaining to street
improvements, light, claims for damages,
&C., which came upin Council yesterday
evening, was referred to the B. z. w.
THOMAS SUTTON, Ex-Captain of the
Ellsworth Rifles, has been chosen First
Lieutenant, and Instructor Webster, OF
the Sinton Cadets, has been elected
Second Lieutenant OF the Robinson
Light Infantry.
THE Bridge Committee from the Cham.
ber OF Commerce, to go to Washington
at the request OF Hon. Milton Sayler, has
been named by President Holloway as
follows: Hon. Benz. Eggleston, S. F.
Dana, and Daniel Stone.
THE Centennial will be reinforced in
month or SO by j. G. Temple and Thos.
Wilson with their wheelbarrows. The
men have tramped all the way from JAS
per County, Missouri, to this city, and
they intend to keep on tramping until
they reach Philadelphia. Full distance
fifteen hundred miles.
AT the meeting OF the Mission Work.
ers yesterday at Trinity Church, Rev.
II. ID. Fisher presiding, a committee
consisting Of Rev. DR.. Fisher, II. How
ard, Rev. j. Emery, Mrs. Whitridge and
Miss Forbes was appointed to present
to the next meeting (the first Thursday
in June) plan for the benefit of persons
discharged from our public penal insti-
tutions.
FRED. FRIEND, a notorious thief, Is in
trouble again. Yesterday he and a pal
named Thomas White entered the
house Of Mrs. Il. r. Miller. No.
300 George street, and made off with all
the silver they could lay hold OF. Both
men were subsequently arrested, and
are now in custody. On the person Of
Friend was found a watch, which
the owner can see at the Chiefs Office.
1t is small open-faced silver watch,
Tobias make, the inside cases
scratched and the number is 6O,O33.
On the back Is engraved a scene of a vii
lage with q bridge and stream in the
foreground. A vest chain and charm is
attached to the watch.