The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-07
LOCAL BkEVITIES.

last night
FIDDLR-DE DEE was out on the loost
AGAIN yesterday evening.
COUNCIL took no action yeste day or
the city advertisement ordinance.
A PARTY of deaf mutes from Colum
bus are plcnicking to-day on Prices
Hill.
KENYON COLLEGE has conferred the
degree OF LID. upon Rufus King and
Stanley Matthew'S.
W. W. WRIGHT has been dismissed on
the charge OF passing counterfeit bill
upon Alderman Dicks.
CHARLES DENNIS, sixteen years Of
age, mas been mlesing from his home,
NO. 344 Clark street, since July 4.
MR.. AUGUST LABRoT, who, as mem
toned yesterday, was struck with par
alysis, died at Yellow Springs yesterday
evening.
JOB D. JEFFRIEs, OF Darke County, o.,
was bound over to the United States
Grand Jury, on the charge of selling
leaf tobacco without having paid the
special tax.
A MAN by the name Of Shea fell from
his one-horse chalse at the o., Ii. 4 d.
Railroad Depot yesterday, and was 80
seriously injured that he was taken to
the hospital.
MIR. JOHN R. BEATTY, who was well
known as merchant and AN exemplary
clhzen, died suddenly of heart-Iisease
yesterday at his residence, No. 3Sl Long
worth street.
NJ. CLEMENTS has been awarded the
contract lor lining the Jail with CORFU
gated iron. S. W. Meyers received the
contract for constructing the gas-works
1or the Courthouse AZ his bid of $3.50.
YESTERDAY EVENING about 8 O'Clock
young man, aged eighteen years,
named Albert Lyons, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by jumping into the OlIo
from the Newport ferry boat. lie was
rescued.
The following officers were installed
at Damon Lodge No. s, h. F., last even
ing: Y. O., George W. Morris; V. g.,
William BOyce; r, j. l.. Cilley; NJ. A.,
T. Heider; o. g., W. F. M, Hill; T. G..
!. A. Smith.
FRED. ZELLER, aged eight years, whose
parents ieelue AZ The corner OF FInulay
and Dunlap sLree,s, Is not expected TO
survive his injuries received by being
run over ty u horse and buggy last
Wednesday.
JOE Goss' time in Burlington Jail ex-
plres on the 10Th inst, and then, unless
ne can raise $3.50 to pay his fine ia Ken
ton County, ne will be brought 10 Gov
ington and be compelled 10 serve out
one hundred and twenty-five days
there. icon
J.H. RorMER, of Covihgtoh, a brick
layer, emp!oyed as contractor on
school building attached to The ST.
Francis Catholic Church, East Walnut
Hills, tell from high sCatfoldiug, yes
tsrday afternoon, and was fatally in
jured.
THE sale OF four-per-cent. bonds by the
Assistant Treasurer yesterday were ill.,
creased very considerably, making the
aggregate OF sales here over $200,O0O.
THIS new loan of the United States is
selling quite as rapidly as was expected
by the secretary OF the Treasury.
GEO. W. LONG, notary public, has
brought suit before squire Scnwab to
recover from X. E. j. Miles the sum OF
$50, alleged 10 be due him as a ptJz.
awarded to coach dog belonging To
him, but entered for him by Dave Ken
dali. The case will come up n xt Mon
day.
Mr.. A. f. MUELLER, who contested
the seat Of Peter Lauer, Jr., as member
of the Board OF Education from the Filth
Ward, and who won the case, refuses to
pay his lawyers their lee Of $l00, ana
they have brought suit in Squire john
sons Court tor the recovery OF that
amount.
ONE OF the most remarkable floral
curlosltIes, perhaps, is d nignt-DloOming
cereus owned by Mr.. Henry Schuelz, OF
No. 1883 Scott street, CoVington. Last
evening there appealed, contemporan-
eously, three magnificent blossom and
the plant contains four healthy BUDS. 1t
is eXpt cted that all lour Will bloom to-
night. the blossoms are at perfection
about 0 O'Clock and begin to c.oss at
about Il O'clock.
LIEUTENANT RELY and two other
officers maue "a ralu last night about ~
O'clock, on Tom Lylle's sporting house,
n o. 1853 Race street. They hammered
down d door, st"utly barred, at the top
OF the stairs, but by the time they gained
entrance the game was over and the
players fed. "a line table, layout and
other things used in nice, genteel
game oil tarv, were captured and taken
to the Central Police Station.
ITis feared that Mrs. Mary Shaffer has
committed suicide. She has been en-
,uluyed in the Kitchen of the Arctic Beer
Hall in this city, but disappeared last
Saturday and has not been seen since.
She is said To have been somewhat de-.
mented, having been once in the iunatic
asylum. Sne has on several occasions
recently suggested that she would jump
in the river, aud it is feared that she has
committed suicide by drowning.
A FEW months ago, the Storrs q Sc.
damsyllle Street Railroad Company dis
covered that some one was stealing
packages OF tickets, and finally had an
empl0ye named John Wagner arrested
for the theft. Wagner was indicted on
the charge by the last Grand Jury. Soon
alter his arrest, Wagner came to Squire
Anthony's and swore out warrant,
charging Ross, the Assistant SuperiE.
tendent, with the theft. On the 17lh oi
May, Constable McGranahan searched
Ross home and found lot OF stolen
tickets in his coat pocket. Ross denies
that he put these i'll his pocket himself
but claims conspiracy. The case ha:
hung fire ever since, but yesterday Ross
waved an examination and WAS bound
over.