The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-24
COyINGTON.
No Police Court this morning.

No Police Court this morning
Milk thieves are what is bothering the
people of the West End.
MIR, Hugh Kelly mas retired from the
firm OF Kelly 81 Mccormack.
Or, ID. b. Virgins, OF Buffalo, N. Y,
is visiting his brother, o. b. Virgins.
The alarm of fire this morning was oc-
casioned by the repairing of the battery.
Twenty cars OF stock arrived on the
Kentucky Central Railroad TINS morn-
ing.
Mr.. j. Troeggs, Of this city, has pur-
chased at Master Commissioners sale
the Licking Rolling Mill for $35, l25.
The Alphonso Dramatic Club will give
an entertainment at st. Joseph Hall
Sunday evening for the benefit OF the
Hall.
b The new Turner Hall will be dedicated
next Sunday week. The various socie-
tie from the three cities have been in
yited to participate ON the occasion.
Mr.. B. f. shott was tried in this city
yesterday for violation OF the Sabbath
in a game OF baseball. A jury of eight
men found him guilty and fined him $50
and costs.
The ladies OF the Fourth.street Pres
byterian Church give their annual straw
berry festival at the church Tonight, a
dinner tomorrow, and a promenade con-
cert, in which the Mendelssonn Club
takes part, tomorrow evening.
Baseball and doll baby manufacture
ing seems to be good business in this
city. Messrs. Fletcher & Goldsmith
have leased the entire three-story brick
building on the southwest corner Of Sew
enth and Madison streets, where num-
ber OF our fair sex are engaged in that
occupation.
NEWPORT.
Sixty cases were submitted to the
Chancellor in the Chancery Court yes
terday.
Miss Geneva Thompson, of Columbia
street, leaves this evening to visit
friends at Portsmouth, Ohio.
Mr.. Sebastian Kramer brought suit in
the Circuit Court yesterday against the
city Of Dayton, KY, for 81, 400 due on
contracts lor street paving.
CITY CoURT-Wm. Prather, drunk
and dlsoruerly, So and costs; George
Connolly and John Sellman, drunk
and disorderly, $50 and costs eacn; John
Sellman, resisting officer, $40.
The Tnespians are obliged to postpone
their entertainment announced for this
evening to Thursday, the 31st inst, on
account Of the severe illness of two
members who take leading characters.
A knockdown occurred at the saloon
iof John Hammell, on Monmouth street j,
yesterday, in which Hammell was the
knocker aud George Como ly and John
ebelman knockees. These latter refused
TO pay for drinks, hence their tumble.
A petition, addressed to the President
and asking that Judge Bland Ballard, OF
this State. be appointed Judge of the
United States Circuit Court in place OF
Hon. Ii. Ii. Emmons, deceased, received
the signatures Of all the lawyers of the
Newport bar, except one. The solitary
Exception, Gen. Hodge, does not recog-
Aize Hayes as President.
Some time ago the STAR gave the par
ticulars ofthe alleged suicide by drown
ing of man named Scnarstein. Recent
ly body was found in the river and
identified by Scharstein's wife as that OF
her husb band. Coroner Stich gave her the
remains, Which were inferred in Ever
green Cemetery, this city. Yesterday
i've OF the local benevolent societies in
which SchaTstein had an insurance, had
the body exhumed. Coroner Winston
held an inquest, and then it was dis
covered that the body was not that Of
Scharstein, who is alleged to be now at
large, in Canada.