The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-10-11
LOCAL BREVITIES.

"THE colored troops fought nobly."
WAIT for the official returns before
you pay those bets.
ONE hundred and seventy-one. citizens
have been naturalized in this city in the
last four days.
JABEz REYNOLDS, JR., OF this city, mas
fled petition in bankruptcy; liabilities
E9, 1000, assets $3.50.
}, THE docket in the Police Court sthis
morning was small, considering that
yesterday was election day.
II. ELLICH's place at No. 107 West
Fifth street, has been robbed OF clothing
and money to the amount of 500.
JOHN GAYLORD, Of No. 100 East Third
street, arrested yesterday for illegal
voting, forfeited his bail this morning.
MIKE GRIFFIN, of the Adelphi Theater
on Vine street, was shot last night by
Jim Crawford. The wound is not seri-
Gus.
The Law School assembled at noon
to-day. The opening lecture tonight
will be by Rufus King, Dean Of the Fac
ulty.
J.E. REMLEY was accidently shot in
the leg by his pistol falling out OF his
pocket yesterday at the Fourth Ward
polls.
ANTHONY WOoDFALL, aged one hun
dred and two years, voted in the Second
Precinct of the Eighteenth Ward yes
terday.
A BOY named Rllston, aged nine
years, who was seen playing on coal
HOat yesterday afternoon, near Sedams-
vile, is missing.
MAJOR TRAVIS did vote in the Ninth
Ward yesterday, and had right so TO
do, the Enquirer to the contrary not.
withstanding.
jim DEERwATER was badly beaten by
aparty OF roughs last night, In the vicin-
ity OF Court and Race streets. His as
sailants are unknown to him.
PRESIDENT ToRRENCE and the other
officers of the Ohio & Mississippi Rail-
road have arrived in this city to attend
the annual election, which Is set for to.
morrow morning.
HENRY STANM was bound over to
the Court OF Common Pleas this morn
ing on the charge of illegal voting in the
anywhere, in partic'lar."
LEWIS SMITH, a colored missionary
preacher, who says he lives at No. S19
Vine street, got into trouble yesterday
by attempting to vote in the Second
Precinct OF the Twelfth Ward Yesterday.
His case will be heard on the 10Th inst.
GERHARD TENNER, on complaint of s.
Do y, was fined $50 and costs by Judge
Llndermann this morning on the charge
Of cruelty to animals-drivlng pair OF
mules with CALLED shoulders. (The
mules shoulders were CALLED, not Ten
ners.)
A TYPO named John Conway, who
lives al No. 651 Sycamore street, is labor
ing under the charge OF "Attempting to
vote illegal y" In the I'd Precinct OF the
9th Ward. John will tell how it WAS
next Wednesday.
E. SCHUMACHER, a chair-maker living
at the corner OF Seventh and Broadway.
is bound over to the Court OF Common
Pleas on the charge Of voting at betn
precincts Of the SIKH Ward. Mr.. Alfred
West, OF Berry avenue, Bellevue, KY,
spotted this repeater.
OFFICER RITrWEGER, OF the District
Telegraph Company, arrested colOred
man named Chas. Berry, yesterday at
the Frederick House. He IVES accused
Of stealing an OVercoat and apair Of
pants from Jacob Dig. This morning
be got sentense OF $50 days and $3.50.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, last evening
was presented with fine oil painting ol
himself, valued at $400. The donors were
Joseph II. Rogers, III. Hart, 2. Poland,
B. Dougherty, James Walsh an4 John
Keeshan. The portrait was painted by
Mr.. Israel Quick.
CHAs. Hooking, OF I'll Mound street,
will be examined on the 18th inst, on the
charge OF voting in the First Precinct Of
The Sixteenth Ward yesterday, swell
knowing that he was not then and there
twenty y-one years OF age" That's the
way it reads on the affidavit sworn to by
Hon. Alex. Long.
AN accident occurred yesterday after
noon, at the bridge which crosses Fifth
street, over the old canal bed, by which
an employe OF the Dayton Short-line was
knocked off a freight train and seriously
injured about the head. He was taken
to DR.. Cleveland's office and his wounds
dressed.
FRANK. E. BISHOP, alias f. E. Brehn,
has succeeded in swindling several
banking institutions of this city out OF
nearly $4,000, by making small deposits
in each bank to gain the confidence, and
then succeeding in getting money on
certified checks. He has not as yet been
caught. .
THE alarm from Box 80 (Fourth ant
Race) at 9 o'clock last night was occa-
stoned by the discovery Of fire in ar
old building in the rear Of 173 and 175
Race street, buildings occupied respect
lively by Nathan Well, as a cigar store
and the Cincinnati Railroad Omnibus
Company. The fire was confined to the
old schooLhouse building, where it orig
mated. Loss small.