The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-31
LOCAL BREVITLES.

THE Union Board Of High Schools
will organ re this evening.
CORPORAL !ANNER, Decoration Day
orator, lett for nome last night.
A STABLE belonging to f. Williams, on
Terrence Road, was destroyed by fire
last evening.
A REDUCTION of ten per cent. goes into
effect tomorrow on the Little Miami
Railroad.
THE Police Court docket, an unusu-
ally tame one this morning, was dis
posed OF in an hour.
The Catholics to-day are celebrating
the Feast OF Corpus Christi. Services
are being held in all the churches.
THE "Cantata of Esther" by the
Welsh Church on College street, which
took place last night, will be repeated
two weeks from Tomorrow.
THE General Committee Of the Sol
diers' and Sailors Memorial Associa-
tion will meet on Friday night at their
hall, to hear final reports.
A SMALL FIRE was discovered yester-
day evening lii line root of u house on
MaeGregor avenue, Mt. Auburn, and
extingulshed without the aid Of the en-
gines. Alarm from Box "a.
WALTER ROBINSON, formerly a waiter
on the liable at various restaurants in
this city, has just been notified that by
the deatn Of his grandfather at Cinoin-
natl, Ohio, he falls heir to about $l1, 900,
as his share of vast estate POI tlaud
Oregonian.
JOHN b. COOKS chair factory at No.
13l Linn street, was discovered on fire
ABOUT O'Clock Lnis morning. AS there
was no fire used i'll the building, the
origin of the trouble is mysterious. The
bulIding and contents were almost en-
tirely destroyed.
Mr.. JOHN II. GRAFT, whose name was
mentioned i'll connection with an un-
pleasant embezzlement matter, was not
the successor OF the late Jacob Graf,
and has had no connection with the old
reliable establishment Of JACOB Graft &
Co. since some years previous TO his
fathers death.
JOHN KIsTNER, ayoung man employed
at Hestennelmer's paper warehouse at
No. II Main street, while hosting load
on the elevator yesterday evening, fell
from the fourth story, sustaining such
serious internal injuries that it is feared
he may not recover. He is u resident oil
Fourteenth street.
ABOUT 1880 O'Clock this morning Rob-
ert Ford arrived with his family at the
u, ii. & d. Depot on his way 10 Rich
mond, Va, to which place he had a
through ticket. He inquired for 'bus
No.5 when an eXpressmau named Jerry
MCCARTHY hustled the party into his
own express, stating that it was the ve-
hiole wanted. When they got near Main
slreet Mccarthy wanted 81 so, and re-
fused to take the party any further.
Ford was up to the swindling game, and
had Mccarthy arrested. The latter was
afterwards released, but got no pay tor
conveying Ford from the uepot. This is
an old game with the eXpressmen at the
aboVe-named depot.
The jolliest fishing party of the sea-
son went from the Twenty itth Ward
yesterday to the renowned "BIue Bank"
fishing grounds in the Great Miami,
headed ny Bertus Gale, Esq, who so
recently sent his friends from KelIey's
Island about five hundred pounds Of
black bass, the result of a few hours
fishing there. Gale is truly disciple
OF Walton, and, when assisted by Char
ley Marshall, never fails tO add an i'm
portant sus gGstion to the works on FISH,
ing. Beck and Monroe proved them
selves expert oarsmen, and, with their
yawl laden with pretty ladies', went
merrily skimming the waters of the
'deep blue Miami" One of the COM
pany noticing a suspicious movement
uurlng the day OF Charley Marshalls, 8,
explained IL i'll the following lines:
Charles hid away from the SUMS bright beam,
Then cast his line INTO the stream;
Soon large fish gave Charles the wink,
When he and the fish bo "took drink"