The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-19
LOCAL BREVITIES.

lVOho hb bhOuBu APhs AANH~h~ A"SA
jumped the town.
MARTHA ADAMS, aged fifty, is miss
ing from her home in Ludlow, Ky.
MEDICAL and law students are now
admitted free to the Cincinnati Uniyer-
sity,
WE are to have an Amateur Baseball
Leag1e Association in this olty next
Pear.
tSWM WHALEN, a steamboatman, is
now in the City Hospital stricken with
paralysis.
n. PAGES store, corner Liberty and
Erseman, has been burglarlzed of $75
worth oil furs.
|. THREE thousapd Sabbath-school chill.
aren will take their Christmas dinner
kt the Bethel this year.
MIKE CoNNoLLY'S two hundred and
6fty-dollar dray-norse slipped on the ice
and broke leg yesterday.
PRICES HILL SKATING RINK was
Thrown open TO the public this morning.
1t is two hundred feet long by one nun
dred and fifty feet wide.
GEORGE WILLIAMS intimidated lot
OF brass yesterday from Freiberg's tam
merry. To-day His Honor buli-dOZed him
$50 days aud $lO0' worth.
''DEM GOOD OLD DAYS AGo de War"
as sung by the New Orleans Tr0uba-
uours, just published and for sale by Il.
w. Helmlck, No. 81 West Fourth street,
Cincinuati.
Elk PATROLMAN HENRY STAUFFER
died last night at No. All West Fourth
street. He is the father OF Albert Slauf-
fer, by whose carelessness Jennie Mar
Quette lost her life.
ELLEN HUZzY, lone old woman from
Covington, took ride in the Black Ma
ria to-day for stealing a lot of clothes
from line in the yard OF Mrs. Ii. May,
Of No. SO Mound street.
JOHN Ii. RICHARDSON and Aaron Hem
: derson got Il dose Of ''30.$20O' this morn
Ing on conviction Of stealing a caddy of
tobacco from the store Of John Kirk, No.
81 Vine street, last evening.
The Young Mems Democratic Club,
\ at tbelr meeting last night, drew up and
adopted resolutions of Indignation, TO
be presented to the citizens meeting at
Pixies Hall tomorrow night.
LAST evening about O'Clock thief
uutasrened tue showcase in front Of the
hat store Of II. Pape, corner of Liberty
and Freeman streets, carried 1t into
khe side-yard and there rihed it OF its
contents, valued at $l00. No trace to
she roDber.
! AN alarm OF fire was sounded at half
pAst9 from Box IL, corner OF Walnut
and Second streets, caused by fire in
q. B. McMeekin's tin store, at No. 40
Second street. The damage done is
about $4,000. covered by insurance. The
6re started from stove in the fourth
story.
AN inquest was held last evening on
the body Of the man who was found tied
Hp in a coffee sack in ditch near
Fleischman's distiIlery, as mentioned
yesterday. The verdics was death from
causes unknown to the jury. 1t is sup
b6sed that the body came from dis
secling room.
=: THE Harmonic Society gave private
concert last night at Melodeon Hall, and
drew large number of the members.
The programme consisted of extracts
IRON Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schu.
mann. The affair was under the direc-
Zion OF Mr.. Otto Singer.
VIM II. FoELLERMAN, a storekeeper at
the corner of Central avenue and Clin
toh street, caused the arrest OF
Samuel Brooks, his seventeen-years-
old clerk, OF stealing q lot of small ar
ticles, and this morning Sammy STUN.
bled into a sentence of thirty days in
tuG w OlAS1 anu u uHC VI PIOOs
THE Directors of the Work-house held
their regular meeting yesterday, at
which the following officers were elect
sd; James Morgan, Superintendent; W.
L.Thompsou, Assistant superintendent;
Captain Robert Kidd, Captain Of the
Guard; Dr.. N. =. cambridge, Visiting
Physician; Mics Shatfer, Matron.
THE Inspectors of Buildings have con
cluded to compel the owners Of Dixon's
barracks. on Sycamore street neal
Eighth. better known as the Big Mis-.
ROuri, to do away with those dangerous
wooden porches and bannisters and sub
Btitute those of iron. The Orpheus Hall
has also been declared unfit for use until
additional stairways are provided.
DR. RAPHAEL brought suit against
VIM. Corbstt for libel, some time ago,
the latter having published an account
OF the DOCTORS practice. The suit was
then dropped. Corbett now brings suil
III Squire Evitts court for $500, which
he alleges, is due for his services. He
states that he was clerk for Raphael in
Chicago, anu that the latter owes him
k4OO Of which he drops $100 in order tC
be able to bring suit before a justice
Raphael demanded jury and the trla
was postponed to Thursday afternoon.
The General Freight Agents, at theil
meeting yesterday, in accordance with
orders from the East, advanced prices
on freights to 80 cents to New York OIL
iourth-class, 2611 cents to Philadelphia
and Is cents w Baltimore. On cotto1
[compressed) the New York figures
Stand at AZ cents and grain az 20 cents
the other points being slightly below
tie PROPORTION being the same as il
those fixed above. These figures are
about the same as those prevailing las
winter. The rates from New York tt
Cincinnati are rs cents on fourth-clas
and 20 cents on specials.
THE Regulars" in the Mercantile
Library contest have the following Ex
ecueiVe Committee: Myron Banning, S
q. Drew, VIM. McAlpin, r. Williams
EhSfles B. Wilby, W. +. Pruntz an,
Joseph L. Anderson. The 'Independ
ents" at their meeting last night put il
the field the following named candi
dates: Charles P. TAFT, President; E
'. Cherry, Vice President; Brent Al
mold, responding Secretary; samue
W. Ramp, Treasurer. Directors, Il. II
GalbrGath, A. Howard Hinkle, ]. N
SiminGh, Griffiu L. Miller. No Record
Ing Secretary nominated.
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