The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-22
LOCAL BREVIDIES.
SPLENDID day.


THE Democratic Convention on Satur-
day will be held at tne Colosseum, onVine
street.
HENRY WHITEHoUsE, OF No. 1872 West
Fifth street, Is in the City Hospital with
"a broken leg.
HELEN JOHNSON, an incorrigible girl
OF fourteen years, was sent out to the
House OF Refuge this morning.
The Collectors Office of this District
has been removed to the Carlisle Build
ing, Fourth and Walnut, Rom No. A.
SAMUEL STICKNEY, the Snowman, will
be buried to-day from the residence Of
Uncle John Robinson, on West Seventh
street.
NOT prisoner to be taken to the
Work-house this morning. This ia the
first time within the last i've years that
such thing occurred.
The trial by jury, Of Harrison Lud-
wig, VIM. johnson and e. A. Wyatt,
charged with exhibiting gaming de-
vices, is set Tor this evening.
A RECEPTION will be given TO Hon.
Stanley Matthews by the Hayes and
Wheeler CLUB Of Glendale on Saturday
evening in the Glendale Hall.
CD. COLEMAN, VIM. Taft, Il. R. Ellis,
W. Il. Lowe, K. E. Taylor and Herman
Merrell have associated themselves
together and organized the Cincinnati
Choral Society.
KIRKPATRICK, the notorious from
BucktJwn, was arrested last night for
beating his wife. The woman, though
found welUering in a pool OF blood, re
fused to prosecute him.
THE Republican primaries will be held
throughout the city this evening for the
election of delegates and Executive
Committeeman to the City Convention,
which takes place at Turner Hall tC-
morrow.
JOHN PARKHURsT stole a coat, um-
brella anu some boots from a fellow
boarder, at No. 1853 Elm street yester-
day, and was taken to Ninth-street Sta
tion. The case will be examined into
next Saturday.
THE surviving members Of the Fifth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment will
celebrate the anniversary of the battle
Of Winchester Friday evening, March
70, at Major h. Nj. Hayes, No. 80 West
Seventh street.
THE "Sunday school Encampment
Journal" is the latest newspaper ell
terprise in this city, edited by Rev. Jas.
Gilbert, of Lexington, KY, and published
by Messrs. Hubbard & Todhuuter, at 81
Walnut street.
THE resolutions adopted by the last
Grand July, censuring Judge Linde-
mann for taking $1,000 bail iu the case Of
Charles Dodsworth, were yesterday Or
dered by Judge Avery to be expunged
from the Court records.
MANY churches In all parts OF Ohio
will respond to the appeal of the officers
Of the "Ohio Sabbath-school Unlon,"
and devote next Sunday evening to
prayer for, and consideration of the
Sabbath-schoOl cause.
WHILE saloonist named Sebastian
King vas showing an admiring knot OF
tulks how 10 cut up meat in an amateur
way In the butcher shop OF Fred. Belt
bell, No. 70 Thirteenth street yesterday,
he severed one Of his fingers with a
cleaver.
ANDREAs WIRTH, farmer from Wa
bash county, illinois, was victimzed
yesterday at the l., e. & l.. Depot by a
confidence man named Chas. Bell out OF
$30 on the old splel-mark dodge. Bell
was taken in, and his case in the Police
Court continued till tomorrow.
THE Police Commission were to meet
this evening in the Fire Department
headquarters, for the purpose of organ
izing under the law giving it charge OF
the Department. 1t is the purDosn .
thereafter TO hold its meetings on each
alternate Wednesday in that place.
NEWS reached this city late last night
that me Touring mills OF Leon Houston
& Co., located at South Charleston, in
Madison Township, Clarke County,
OHIO, were burned. The village is situ-
ated on the Little Miami Railroad. The
property was totally destroyed, and the
loss is estimated at $4,000.
DURING the matinee performance at
Woods Theater yesterday afternoon, in
raising the curtain, part OF the ma
chinery gave way letting the heavy
roller to the stage with a tremendous
force. Henry Miller had his arm broken
at the wrist. Henry Whitehouse, his
assistant, suffered a fracture of the
ankle, and Henry Melmer, an actor, had
his loot crushed and his ankle dislo.
Gated.
A wIFE-BEATER comes to grief once in
q while without Judge Lipnemann's in.
reference. Here's case in point:
VIM. Schnif, keeps q boarding-house
at No. 2O6 West Sixth street. He has
been in the habit OF chastising his wife
with pokers and things, but last night
during a little jamboree between the
pair, Mrs. Schnif gathered up that poker
and laid her Iiege lord out with a broken
skull. The woman was not arrested
Clear case of retributive justice.
Fires Last Night.
A fire broke cut about s O'Clock las