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

CHAUTAUQUA LAKE has twenty thou
sand tons OF ice ten inches thick.
DIR. Won BULow, the great pianist,
will be at Pixies Music Hall next week.
The ground hog saw his shadow-look
out Tor six more weeks of the polar wave.
A BURNING CHIMNEY on Oregon street,
near Observatory road, caused an
alarm at p. NJ. yesterday.
THE fire in McGiPs pork-house, north
side Of Court, near Race, at 5 o'clock
yesterday evening, did not amount TO
much.
IT COST VIM. Kopp twenty dollars and
costs for working his lame mule in
dirt cart. The S. P. e. A. Society made
the charge, Officer Smith the arrest, and
Squire Evitt laid on the fine.
CHAs. REGLIN, foreman of j. L. Keck
& Co.'s slaughter-house, died suddenly
yesterday Of congestion OF the brain.
Rcglin was member of the Thirty
fourth Ohio Infantry during the war.
DIR. SHEPHERD, of Glendale, the Presi-
dent, and Peter Keam, OF Cincinnati, the
counsel of the Lawrence-T0wnley Asso.
citation, left last evening to attend
special meeting of the heirs of the es-
tate, to be held at Buffalo on Thursday
next.
The Commissioners ON the Compensa-
tion of the Trustees OF the Southern
Railroad have failed to agree, and no re-
port will be made at present. Their
figures varied all the way, as to the
proper payment OF a Director, from
B11,O00 to 81 900.
JOHN THOMAS, Superintendent of the
Cleveland and Plttshurg Railroad, noti-
lied Col. Snelbaker by telegraph that
Daniel Dixon, freight clerk at Steuben-
Vile, had absconded with $1,000 of the
Company's fund. Another chap who. was
not contented TO Winslow.
ARUNAwAY team, belonging to Albert
Schwill, of MI. Tusculum, was captured
on Spring Grove avenue last evening by
the police. The horse had collided with
street-car and broken the shafts of the
buggy. The horse and vehicle Were lett
at Miller's livery stable Tor safe keep
ing.
OFFICERS for the Consolidated Street
Railroad Company were yesterday
elected as follows: President, A. ID.
Bullock; Vice President, John Kilgour;
Secretary, q. q. Cove; Assistant Secre-
tary, James A. Collins; Treasurer, Robt.
. Dunlap; superintendent, Charles r.
Ehesley.
THE following is the list of officers
elected for the Grand Encampment OF
Ohio OF the l. y. y. f.: NJ. X. Marshall,
ls
High Priest; e. z. Moorehead, Grand
Senior Warden; L. Ii. Cahoon, Grand
Junior Warden; Joseph Dowdall, Grand
scribe; Anthony Wright, Grand Treas
urer; james A. Armstrong, Grand Rep
resentaliSe.
GEO. WoLFuss, agent for Mr.. Fister, a
produce merchant at Mount carmel, o.,
was dispatched to New Orleans with
S67O to purchase goods. He made no
purchases, but claimed that he lost the
money. That story being too trans
parent, he was arrested in this city and
taken to Clerm0nt County to answer
the charge of embezzlement.
OFFICER SEWERS, about O'Clock last
night, found man almost frozen, lying
on the sidewalk on Sixth street, be-
tween Vine and Race. He was taken
to Ninth-street Station-house. where,
after thawing out, he gave his name as
Murray. He had been under the intiu-
ence OF drink, and falling on the ice re-
manned there unconscious till found.
SOME of the influential citizens of
Cumminsvlle are making efforts to Sc
cure u branch OF the Public Library in
their midst. Librarian Vickers has
promised 10 use HIS influence in their
behalf, provided they will raise guar
antee fund Of 5000 TO pay Tor the first
years rent. Tue old Knowlton resi-.
dence, known as the 'sInstitute Build
ing,' next to the Tenth District Station.
house. is the proposed location.
The Superintendent OF Eongview Asy.
lum presented the following monthly re-
port Tor January: Patients received
Discharged during January cured
males, l; females, 2. lmproved-males
2, Unimproyed-fe l. Died
males, /; females, 2. Total discharged
g. Remaining at the end of the month
white males, 2S4; white females, 27S
colored males, Il; colored females, "
Total, 594.
The Board of Park Commissioners
have, by the abolition of the Office o.
Park Engineer, the proposed combining
OF Burnet Woods and Eden Park undel
one superintendency, and the discon
tinuance OF Fisher in Washington Park
together with salary reductions, reduced
their annual expenditures, IA 262. Ii
addition to this there have been re
trenchments made in the discharge o
police some months since. So far, there
fore, the annual retrenchments amount
in all, to $7,G62. In this is included tht
salary paid t0 MI. Strauch, who has re
signed. ~.-e.-,>- .--,-ss'r
The Mardi Gras Executive Committed
met last night at the Walnut Stree
House. After discussion in regard tt
the ''bar privilege" 1T was resolved to lie
it go to the highest bidder. Captain
Bachelor, Colonel Roberts and Fred
Roos were added to the Executive Com
mittee. Messrs. Renner and Reinbold
were appointed committee to receiv,
bids for the bar, aud Captain Heffermal
and Golonels Ball and Roberts were ap
pointed a Committee on Printing.
report was made that force OF men wef
engaged in preparing decorations for tb
Exposition Hall.
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