The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-06
LOCAL BREVITIES.

WoRK.HOUsH Board failed to quorum
ize.
HERBERT's danoe-house in Cummins-
vile na, quit.
WESLEY CHAPEL will be reopened to-
morrow evening.
LUCIEN MARC, the wrestler, has a
double set OF ribs.
SIX hundred and forty-two inmates n
LongVlew Asylum.
A PASSENGER elevator is being placed
in Pixies Music Hall Build ing.
CINCINNATI will have a course of lee
lures on Natural History" next WIN
ter.
THE Shakespeare Club has been incor-
porated. Capital $4,000, in shares of
500.
LEXINGTON, KY, will probably get the
machine shops OF me Cincinnati South
ern Road.
The coal-shed of the Baymill ler-street
intermediate School was destroyed by
fire yesterday.
SPECIAL Officer Wm. Fl. Devine has
been appointed Sergeant at the Ninth
street Station, vice Schafer, appointed u
special.
WHEN the flag at the Burnet House is
up, the races VIII come off. If it is not
out, it is sign that the races are post
poned.
The TWenty-second International
Convention OF the Young Mems Chris
tian Association is In session to-day at
Louisville.
JACOB SCHNEIDER escaped in his uni
form from tne W k-Auuse yesterday,
but was caught in the evening and sent
back to that institution.
MIR. CURTIS is taking immediate steps
to build a four or tive-story brick house
on the southeast corner OF Elm and
George streets, the scene of his late dis
aster.
The ticket Offices of the l., e. q L..
and o., IL. " |. Roads have been consoli-
dated, anu will 20 TO the corner OF
Fourth and Vine streets. MIR. Devenny
will have charge OF the place.
MIR. f. 4. FOSTER, Chairman OF tn o
Finance Committee on Decoration oil
Soldiers Graves, has made his report
which shows: amount collected $164 13 !;
expenses $135 80; balance ON hand
k2S 80.
A SNEAK-THIEF on Monday night en-.
tered the premises Of Fred. Scnalstall.
grocer at the corner OF Green and
Race streets, and stole coat and pants
belonging to boarder, and also $40 in
money.
LIGHTNING yesterday morning struck
q detective rod on the rear Of the house,
No. 444 West Eighth street, occupied by
air. j. ID. Abraham, and demolished a
chimney and the free-stone Gaping Of
the wall.
VARINA GOLDENBERGER, fifty-two
years old, was Iound very Ill from the
effects OF starvation, on u heap Of
straw in q small room in Gamble alley.
Officer Schneider conveyed the woman
TO the Hospital.
AT meeting Of the German Pioneer
Society last evening, the following
officers were elected: President, +. VIM.
Gerstle; Vice President, NJ. Bettmann;
Secretary, Fred Blum; Treasurer, God
frey Weber; Executive Board, W {.
Gruesser, Jacob Meyer, Julius Hoff-
mann, +. kallenuori, Adolph Krebs,
AMI Chas. Doerr.
TELL PETIT, an engineer on the av-
enue, chased Leonard Vonderheide, a
fellow workman, with carving-Knite
yesterday. Vonderheide, who was al
most scared 10 death, sWore out a war
rant for Pettips arrest upon the charge
Of assault. In the Police Court this
morning Petit was put under bonds to
keep the peace for year.
PATRICK kENNEDY, a pickpocket, wa,
arres.eu this morning by jacob Birn-
baum, superintendent of Markets, and
his assis ant Micnael Welsh, at the
conner VI Plum ana SIKH streets. Ken
nedy was caught in the act OF robblng
a lady's POCKET, but The latter re. used TO
prosecute The man, as sne got back her
money. The man was locked up at the
Central Station on suspicion.
JOHN HARPER and David 9. Shingle-
ton were arrested vest ruay by Officers
Knox and Brazell on charge of having
stolen five hundred teet OF rope from the
New Orleans Wharfboat. About seventy
pounds of the rope were recovered in a
secondhand store on Front street.
where the same had been pawned by the
above parties. The charge OF grand lar.
Ceny was preferred against Them and the
case continued until tomorrow.
The following remonstrance signed by
NUN Irous FuurtE-street business men
has been received by the Board of Pub
lie WORKS, and was to-day transmitted u
to the consolidated railroad companies.
"The cltlz ms and business men on
Fourth street, between Central avenue
and Race street, are seriously incon-
venienced and suffering damage by rea
son OF the obstruction OF said street in
tearing up the street and relaying rail.
road tracks. And we hereby give you
notice that we shall hold the city and
the street railroads responsible for the
damage which has and may hereafter
accrue by reason OF such obstruction"