The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-27
LOCAL BREVITLES.

FOURTH STREET is being cleaned BY
BteibePs street-s " eeping machine.
A POSTAL Commission is in session in
this city with u view TO reducing ex.
penses.
OWING to repairs which are being
made IN the Council Chamber there was
no session OF the School Board last
night.
The fair and promenade concert at St.
Francis School Hall, corner OF Vine and
Liberty streets, is being well attended
every evening.
NEXT Sunday the water mains and
CUTTERS OF the city are TO be flushed fl ON
The hre-plags with a iull pressure from
Eden Park Reservoir.
WENDELL PHILLIPS, the great orator,
spoke last night at Pixies Opera-h0use
to fully fourteen hundred people. The
theme OF his lecture was Daniel OCon-
nell"
JOHN ROBERTS was sent to the Work
house for thirty days this morning for
making a night visit to his neighbours
heL-roost and wringtng the necks Of
nine OF the chickens.
BURGLARS night before last cut out a
window in the showcase of II. BurcE-
aru's shOe-Store, No. 32 West Sixth
street, and stole pair Of boots. No
Clue.to the thieves.
MICHAEL GoRMAN and Melville Re-
gan, TWO OF the men connected with the
QUITTING atfray on Sixth street short
time ago, received sentence OF thirty
days each this morning.
A BET Of $50 Is offered by four black
smiths on Eighth street between Bay
miller aud Freeman, that they will turn
out one hundred horseshoes the best
and neatest, in the shortest space OF
time.
FREDERICK ToPHEIDER, a blacksmith
working at The Pendleton shops, fell
from a hand-oar yesterday and received, :,
what is feared, fatal injuries. He was
taken to his home, which is in the vi.
einity.
ROBERT CLARKE, ESQ has presented
to the University OF Cincinnati mag
nlncent present consisting of between
Two and three thousand species Of fine
and rare land, fresh water and marine
shells.
The Recorder received for record yes
rday The certificate of the National
Cigar Packers Union No. 4. The Trus-
tees are Joseph Bremmer, George Kup-
berle, and Fred. Bremmer. Clerk, +.
L. Kaiser.
A FEW days ago Jacob Schneck had
Ben. Link arrested for assault and bat
terry, but being offered money to drop
the case, he accepted the brioe. He will
now answer for this act in the Police
Court Dec. l.
JAMES O. BRIAN, an aged laborer, resid-
ing III an old house near the railroad
tunnel in Dcercreek Valley, fell while
descending into his cellar last night,
and broke three ribs and his collar. bone.
He was taken to the City Hospital.
MRS. MARY COBB, pioneer oil Cinein-
matt, died at hal-pAst l O'clock this
morning,in the eighLy fourth year of her
age. She WAS the reilct OF james Cobb,
t1e Main street saddier, and came to
this city from Pennsylvania in 1905.
The Cincinnati Evening Post will
appear next Monday ana thereafter as
morning payer. This is now fully de-
cided upon, and the arrangements have
been completed. It's name Will be
changed to the Cincinnati Morning
Post.
MILE. DUCLos' troupe of blondes ap-
pear again THIS evening at the Nation al
YAeater. Last night the house was
crowded from pit 10 dome. The per-
formanCe was somewhat lnodined and
Police.
OF course it is wrong, but it is hard to
be honest on an empty stomach, and
consequently The Juuse let John Con-
ners of, this morning, who was charged
with stealing some sausage to satisfy
his hunger, on condition that he would
leave the elIy.
THE November meeting of Sunday.
school Association OF the Presby terry OF
Cincinnati was held in the ieclure-room
of the First Presbyterian Church last
evening. The topics lor discussion were
"Lessons Help and lhe.r Use" and
"Chrislmas Festivals"
The evidence against the supposed
bank robbers, who were sent to the
Work-house yesterday on the charge OF
vagrancy, is fast accumulating. A small
chleel has been found in the cell they
occupied, and three false keys behind
the bar where they had been drinking
previous 10 their arrest
The detectives laid their hands on
two more vagrants whom they had good
reason to believe were pickpockets,
named Joseph Summers and George
williams. One Of them is said to have
recently escaped from Chicago, and the
other had little good TO say concerning
months each.
THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD, which hae
heretofore been published, together with
several others by the Eim-street Print
ing Company, will this week commence
an Independent ex stence. Its reading
matter Will be entirely it's own, The pa
per will be enlarged, and the adyertia
ing taken into its ewn hands. Isaac
Errett will remain as the managing
sditor.
PETER LENHoTE, the Vice Presiden
oil the Twenty-tiith Ward Working
mems Club, got into trouble yesterda!
with Mrs. Lohrum and her daughte
concerning the house in which he lived
NJ bones were broken, but there wal
considerable excitement in that part 0
the neighborhood and considerable NUT
wiped up from the street. Lennon wa
arrested, and ne Will come before Cour
December 4.
YESTERDAY afternoon Mr. Nevin
stopped at the Twenty sixth Distric
Primary S0hOol-house with u spring
wagon to take some of the children
hume, and just as he had got six Of then
aboard his horse took fright and starte,
to run, upsetting the wagon and throw
ing all the children out. Mono were sc
riously injured, but all were covere
with mud and more or less bruised.
AN old ,oiior named John Weige