The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-15
LOCAL BREVITIES.

GET READY to tatten your ThanksgiV-
ing turkey.
HENRY WILSON, from Buoktown, will
be tried tomorrow for carrying con.
oealed weapons.
PRIVATE W WATcHMAN BAKER, OF Fourth
street, was taken i'll yesterday and is
now In dangerous condition.
The Harvard Club had Its ninth an.
nual supper at the rooms OF the Cinoin-
natl Literary Society last evening.
THE different station-houses gave pro-
tection from the rain to one hundred and
forty zone homeless persons last night.
A LARGE plate-glass window In George
Lewis dry-goods store, on Fourth street,
was broken last night, evidently by a
burglar.
AGENTS have been IN the city for few
days, their object being to purchase
q Cincinnati fire-engine for shipment to
Germany.
THE heirs OF Oatnarine Eversole, nee
Smith, may obtain information OF IL
small legacy by applying to W. 5. Cap
peller, County Auditor.
JOSEPH j. DAY, cooper by trade and
3 barrel thief by profession, as several
officers testified, received sentence OF
thirty days this morning.
In paying The men in Lhe Slreet-cIeaning
Department from The guarantee fund OF
5000 raised few weeks ago.
THE water-main at the corner Of Sixth
and Main streets burst early this
morning, tearing a large hole under the
oar track, and flooded the cellar Of the
Gait House.
GEORGE WALTON fell from cliff near
Dayton, yesterday, breaking his arm.
Walton is a Cincinnatian, and was hunt
ing rabbits at the time, with friends
whom he was visiting.
THE Rive-king testimonial benefit last
night AZ Pixies Opera-house was a very
brilliant affair. The audience was large,
cultivated and fine in appearance, and
the music most excellent.
MAGGIE LAWRENCE, who once belonged
TO u respectable family, but OF late years
has taken many ride to the Work.
house, was sent out again this morning
Ion ten days for drunkenness.
CHARLES WENDERwoKTH, another
DVercUat thief, was gwen three months
this morning, to repent of his folly, at
the Work-house. These cases are mul-
nplying as the winter approaches.
YESTERDAY on sixth street John Will
Jams snalched a pocket-book containing
Rsmall sum OF money from the hand OF
Matilda Brown. He was arrested and
will explain the matter November 20.
JOHN COLLINS, residing near the city,
gave Peter Long authority TO sell bug
ny for him, yesterday, for 500. John
disposed OF the buggy for $40, got drunk
OH part OF the money ana pecketed the
rest. So COLLINS says.
ANOTHER family quarrel, in which
Peter Long figured cOnspicuously, was
ventilated in the Police Court this
morning. But the Judge concluded that
lheIe was too much mother-in-laW In il,
and dismissed the case.
The alarm of fire at 6 O'Clock last night
was caused by a coa!-Oil explosion in
the grocery store OF X Rolling, No. 10
Abigail street. The damage amounted
to about 500. Mrs. Rolling, While fight
ing the flames, suffered severe burns on
both arms.
CASES of petit larceny are increasing
as winter approaches. A dozen or more
parties We're locked up in the different
5tatlon-houses last night on suspicion,
and several more had dehnite charges
against them. Some article of clothing
10 generally what is taken.
AN inquest was held at 10:30 A. NJ. to.
day on The body of Mary McManus, a
married woman forty-slX years of age,
who died suddenly at No. so Mill street
yesterday morning. The jury rendered
, verdict OF death from heart disease
superinduced by asthma.
JAMES STOKES, one night of late, went
into the Green Tree Inn, on Gilbert aY-
Bnue, to get a drink, and was seen to
put his money in his boot leg. He was
followed, thrown down, and So taken.
Iwo men were arrested, one was dis
missed, but Edward Lanahan will an
over before the Grand Jury.
MIR. JOHN BUTCHER, son of John
Butcher, OF the firm of Butcher & Wiede-
man, brewers of Newport, KY, and Miss
Mary Snyder, daughter OF the proprie-
Tor Of the Snyder Hotel, corner of Pearl
and Broadway, will be married tonight
at the church, corner Of Twelfth and
Elm streets, Rev. MIR. Scholz officiating.
The Mayors office for the past few
days has been tiled with the old and ill.,
frm, asking for help. Tne Intirmary
will not take them, the Hospital will not
take them, there is no transportation
found for such cases, and 1t seems hard
TO send them to the Work-house. In
this predioament they are left without
help, and In suffering condition on the
Rppfoach of winter.
WILLIE, twelve-year old son OF a
taDoloA hoMou MeyeIs, VINO llVe6 on
Burns street, near the River Road, was
Kicked by o boy named Fritz,
at school. The lad complained
30 much of his hurts that DR.. Culver was
Dalled in, but the boy died about 8
oclook last night. A post mortem and
An inquest was ordered by the Coroner.
Board of Police Commissioners,
The Board Of Police Commits sic II ers