The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-19
LOCAL BREVITLES.


day attire.
The Daily Commonwealth OF CoVing-
ton bias ceased publication.
The champion skater; where, OBJ,
where Is he, and why don't he skate?
DRESS PARADE OF the night men of the
Police Force Friday afternoon on Prices
Hill.
No cases will be heard in the Probate
Court until after the funeral OF the late
father OF Judge Matson.
THAT big grizzly bear at the Zoologi-
cal Garden will wrestle Mr.. Bauer for
any sum. He's not afraid.
FREIGHT train on the Ohio & Missis-
sippi WAS throw from the track west Of
Lebanon, ILL.,, yesterday. Nobody hurt.
MR.. SAMUEL L. HAYDEN delivered an
address last night a. OId-lelloWs' Hall
on the "Life and Character or Oliver p.
Morton"
THE annual exhibition OF the Junior
Class of the Cincinnati Wesleyan Col
iegs was given las evening in the hall OF
the seminary.
A HEARTY welcome was given last
evening III the lecture room of St. Paul
Episcopal Church to the new rector, DR..
Samuel Benedict.
A FORTY-PoUND box of candy was sto-
len fIOm an East Filth street store last
night and found by the police on the
dump. Who was the thief?
"THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD" a re-
Nglous newspaper, has been sued by
SIMON 5. Bartlett, minister OF the
Church Of Christ, tor $40, 0OO for alleged
libel.
CLIFTON HALL, which has been re.
Moueled and repaired, was opened last
a =,
The elite of the city and subul bs was
present.
ADAM STENGER and Charles and Otto
Gelrnardt viii ansW er tomorrow to the
charge Of stealing a set OF harness from
a huokstsr-Woman named Sophia Gamer
last nigut.
THOMAS YHoMAsEEK, a four-year-old
boy, WA.Ie playing in the yard OF a
brewery on Mohawk street, fell of a
beer cask yesterday evening, and was
seriously injured.
A MEDALLION face OF Washington has
been lrescVed OH the ceiling of the Coun-
Oil Chamber, and the faces Of Governor
Bishop and Mayor Moore will soon keep
company with IT.
A BUST of President Hayes Is ON eX-
hibitlon in Wiswel's window, executed
by Leopold FettWelss, the sculptor, who
received the order from the President
on his last visit TO this city.
THE Grand State Lodge, A. o. U. W.,
which was to have met yesterday for the
purpose of electlng u Grand Master Of
the State, failed to get a quorum, They
VIII try it again the 22l OF next month.
HENRY CORDEMAN and Henry Richey
were dismissed yesterday by Commits
sioner Hooper from the charge of pass
ing counterfeit money, but Joseph Kobe,
less fortunate, was sent 10 jail TO await
he airing OF his case tomorrow.
CHAs. ALEXANDER, the colored youth
VINO was l0cAed in Il third-story room OF
NO. III W est Fourth street by a young
lady lew nights age, suppostng him ~
be burglarizlng, received sentence OF
900 and thirty uays this morning.
j. f. SCHMITr, of $40 Wade street, 1t is
claimed, ODlaIned a suit OF clothes rem
Peter Bitter, Of PA West Sixth street,
Dy rep eseutlng himself TO be d member
OF the firm of b. X mixer & GO. On this
charge ne will be tried January g.
A SUSPICIOUS character entered sever
al offices III The Arcade yesterday under
the pretense that he wanted 10 measure
the building for Christmas decorations.
After having been kicked down stairs he
concluded that he had measured the
AIcaue.
The Independents of the police force
yesterday nominated the following
ticket for members Of the Directory Of
The Police Relief Association: Sandy
BAIT, Jacob johnson, Theodore Gibner,
Harvey Millar, James f. Sargent, Chas,
Ziplinski and W. j. Richards.
YESTERDAY some furniture belonging
10 bet Z, j. Miles, manager of the
Grand Opera-nouse, Was being taken to
his home, when the driver of his wagon
went in 0 Andy Gilligan's for a moment,
When he returned the horse and wagon
Ead disappeared, END no trace OF them
have yeL been found.
AN inquest was held this morning on
the body OF Christian Weber, VINO was
thrown out Of Il buggy last Friday after
noon while returning to this city from
his farm, AT MadisonVllle. From an ex-
animation made it WAS found that the
deceased suffered q conclusion OF the
brain, and the jury rendered a verdict
accordingly.
LAST night Lieutenant Meyer, with
Sergeant DeVine and company of otIi-
GERS, called al No. 50 Longworth street,
where doc" Wilson, alias " Black
Doc.,' had been reported as
keeping gambling-h0use, at
winch tne lowest class of gamble RS con.
gregated. Alter some opposition they
gained an entrance and found and took
possession Of ali the gambling tools
about the place. No arres,s were made.
A MEETING OF the officers OF the Catho.
lie Institute look place last night in
the Grand Opera-h0use building. Charles
c. jacobs, President OF the Board of
Directors, stated that the total indebt-
edness Of the Institution amounted to
$4,000 Alter considerable discussion
1t was finally resolved that, in order to
cover the floating Indebtedness, bonds
should be issued 70 the amount of $149,-
300. The above proposition will be
placed before the stockholders for their
consideration at q meeting which is
called for next Friday.
The REOst for the Money.