The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-29
LOCAL BREVITIES.
OCTOBER 90


The need OF praise at least is thine
AS the club that never wins.
But ali these cruel knocks
And sad defeats are DER,
So fold away thy crimson Sook3
And don't play any more.
HALLow E'EN next Wednesday.
EIGHTY-oNE deaths in the city lasl
week.
THE Zoo.zoo had another big day yes.
terday.
THE excursion on Saturday over the
Southern Road was a success.
MoLLIE ANDERSON died yesterday at
106 Central avenue, from an overdose OF
opium.
THE public lamps will be lighted Mt 6
O'clock this evening, and eXtingulshed
at 1880 A. NJ.
SQUIRE ANTHONY fined John Gilt,
hit, AIRY dairyman, 500 and costs for
cruelty to animals.
The concert and fair held at Jefferson
Hall, for the beneht of the Protectory,
shows anet profit OF 81, 700.
TIE WorkiDgmen were addressed
yesterday at Arbeiter Han by Judge
hilton, L. j. MARYLAND and L. S.Tyrrell.
VIM, SMITH, a painter, while at work
at No. AZ West Eigutn street, fell from
the roof on Saturday and fractured his
ankle.
]. L. Fox the man arrested Friday as
suspicious character, has branded the
'Unitad States Tea importing Compa-
ny" as traud.
REV. DR. Il. B. RIDGAWAY last night
at ST. Paups NJ. E. CDurch answered tn
question, "What Shall the Girls DoW
The attendance at the church was large.
MIR F. S. SPIEGEL, on the local staff
of tue Abend Post, while climbing the
cliff at the Kentucky River Bridge on
saurday fell down and hurt his head
badly.
MANY man has his disposition
0 ured lor the whole day BY picking up
silver dime on the street and discoy-
ering it to be the tin stamp from plug
of tobacco.
EUGENE ARAM was sent to the " ork-
house Lhis morning for stealing sA
buckets from Walters Il Co. The pris-
Oner pleaded guilty, anu gave as his ex-
puse-desitutton.
The ST. Cecilia M@nnerchor gave a
rare entertainment last night at Wash
lpgtou Platform. Among others they
sang q chorus from 'Tannhauser,"
Under Prol. BfusSeIOaon.
THE German Pioneer Association on
Saturday evening presented Mr. Gotl-
fried Weber, their Treasurer, with a
silver medal, the occasion being his
seventy fourth birthday.
JOHN SCHWARTZ, Chas. Golrecht and
VIM. GalsCh palu the costs of the case
tnis morning for trying to "boss"
Madame Metz "maison de joie," at the
corner Of Walnut and Mary streets.
sUNDAY-soHooL prayer-meetings yes
terday were held in many OF the
churches, and were well attended. To-
night a Sunday-sohool mass meeting
will be held at Trinity NJ. E. Church.
AN aged lady named Behring, while
getting of a car at the corner Of Main
and Court streets yesterday, slipped
and severely hurt her foot. Sne was
taken in Il carriage to her home on Mt.
Auburn.
LIZZIE kUnL says she had a "kinder
hankerin4" Tor pie last Saturday, so she
Sided into Chas. Kuchenbuch's and
Jagged of ID nincG 10 cent one. She will
have an examination Nov. 7 on the
charge of petit larceny.
ST. XAvIER's CHURCH was filed last
night by u large and select audience to
hear Father Mageyney's discourse upon
the subject Of "Baptibm-Its Defni-
tion." Next Sunday night the subject
will be "The Necessity of Baptism"
NEARLY six thousand persons as.
sembled at the Bellevue House yester.
day afternoon to witness the balloon as
cension by Prof. Gilbert, but owiHg to
The strong wind the trip was postponed.
The ascension will come of to-day.
MILE MARIE ZOE, in the military
drama Of the "Fremch Spy" this wee k
at the National ThGater. The bill in
pludes such performers as Fletcher and
Neil, Miss Jessie Adams, the dance
team Wesley and Eluridge and others
LIZZIE WATKINS, a servant at No. 126
Long worth street, attempted suiCide
yes ierday by taking audanum, because e
sne supposed that her lover had
t'droppeu" her. DR.. Knight pumped hel
put, anu she was resting well last night
A YOUNG man by the name of Charles
Campbell, living near California, OHIO
attempted suicide few days ago b.
drawing razor across his throat. DR.
Gaines saved him by sewing up the
wound. Charley says he won't try i
again.
The body of Tommy Serena, who was
drowned on the 10Th at the loot OF Gem
tral avenue, was tOunu yesterday In the
river, near the fertilizer whart-boat, be
low the Fifth-street Landing. An in
quest will be held tomorrow morning al
10 o'clock.
JEFF. DICKSON, formerly good boy
but recently u rowdy "booked for tht
dogs" was arrested night or so age
for raising disturbance in Jane Hutch
inson's palace, on Third street. He will
be tried November 8 for disord erly con
quot and car! ying concealed weapons
MARY JACKSON was to have beef
tried This morning for being drunk, &c.
but when she brought up to take ne
seat in the "bear pen" it was discovered
from her shouts and swearing that tht
t'bad whisky" had not soaked out o
her; consequently the case Was as
signed Ior November s.
VIM. POWELL, colored thief, wa
6ned $25 aud costs, this morning, !oI
having three chickens in his possession
last Saturday night, that he was total.
unable tc account for. William claim
thai he bought his feathered tribe from 1
man on Warsaw Pike, but he couldn
tell his story straight.
CHAs. MCFARLAND and Fred. Tece
melr, 'sot on' This morning by the ski
of their teeth, on the charge Of tapping
q till Of q shoemaker OF York street, b,