The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-02-15
THE DAILY STAR
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY is
LOCAL BREVITLES.
TIE river is on a decline.

The river is on decline.
THE Police Board will meet again
next Monday.
PATRoLMAN W. P. MCCAIN has been
dismissed from the force.
The Police and Prisons Committee
were to meet this afternoon.
TIE Committee on Law and Con-
tracts meet this evening at the City
Building.
THE Southern Railroad Bridge over
the Kentucky River will be completed in
q few days.
OFFICER JAMES KELLY has been sus-
pended Tor twenty days. Mr.. John ii.
Mann is acting in his place.
The Enquirer's dog is dead. A dose
of blue glass was administered too late.
ReQuieS dog IN bologna sausage.
PATRICK MULCAHY, a boy living at N o.
262 Water street, is IN the City Hospital
with broken leg-teil from lumber
pile.
MICHAEL RYAN was arrested in New
York yesterday on the charge Of COM
pllcity with Eph. Holland in the election
frauds.
wendell SEYLER, member OF the
German Pioneer Association, was buried
to-day from his late residence, No. II
Peete street.
The Health Officer complains tlat
there is carclessness on the part of m n
Listers Of the gospel in reporting prompt
ly on marriages solcmnized.
ACCORDING to DR.. Kearney, Health
Officer, ABOUT one-fOurth OF the persons
dying in the city or sent here for burial
are inferred within the city limits.
Ino ;0h
nament, between Messrs. Cameron and
Baumgarten, was won by the former, POO
10 174, in l26 innings. Average, N.
VIM. CONNOLLY, the fourteen-y ear-old
boy who lives at 400 Fulton avenue, and
VINO was run over by a Walnut Hills
street car on February 3, died at S:59
last evening. An inquest will be held
this evening.
THE goods (about $75 WORTH which
were stolen from j. Yergers store, No.
Az Front street, have been recovered Ly
Officers Sheedy and Streeter, who found
them hidden under a plank at No. S96
East Front street.
CANCELS Met Him at the Gate," a
tribute to the memory Of 2. 2. Bliss,
just published by F. W. Helmick, 81
West Fourth street, Cincinnati. A very
excellent photograph of Professor Bliss
appears on the title page.
THAT colored kindling-splitter, named
j. Ii. johnson, on conviction to-day Of
stealing an eIghtdoIlar-pair Of pants
and a twelVt -IOllar-ring from Mr.. Stud
debaker, OF No. 3l3 Race street, has
gone out OH sentence Of "thIrty days
and $780,"
THE third game OF the series OF bill.
iards at the Atlantic Billiard Hall came
of last evening. The game ended in
twenty-four innings, making the winner,
Charles Davis, average So in 200 points.
Charles Curtis scored 49, making an
average of As. Tonight Fred. Acker-
man and Harry Groueweg will contest
THE following is list of cemeteries
within The limits OF the city: Wesleyan,
Twenty fifth Ward; German Protestant
and Hebrew, Walnut Hills; Hebrew,
Lick Run, TWeuJy-fourth Ward; Fulton,
On Madison Pike; Lane Seminary ana
St. Peters, Reading Road; Rashis's,
Grandin Road, Columbia (2); st. Jc-
sepRS (old).
A CURIOUS marriage took place last
TUESDAY night at the Indiana House,
tae parties welded being VIM. Smith, "a
wealthy farmer, and Phebe Johns, u
Young woman about seventeen years
old. Smith is about seventy, demented
and deaf. His M irriage was brought
about in this way: Two years ago his
wife died, and not long ago he offered TO
pay any one who would get him a wi:e
The sum OF 50 700. Mr.. Powell S!ade,
with whom Miss Phebe ohns was work
ing as serVant-sirl, induced her 10 COR
sent to become Smiths wife, on payment
of S., 900 to her father. The terms were
accepted, and the couple united as
stated above. Both parties hail from
Liberty, Indiana.