The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-07
LOCAL BREVITIES.

DEATHS last Week-elgnCY.
No GAME at Ludlow yesterday.
The Cliftonites want city water.
MORE rain, more rest-ior base ball.
SCHEDULE time now on the l., G. & L.
,EPH. HOLLAND in U. S. Court to.mor-
row.
CLEMENT OLHABER's new fire insur-
ance company will begin about June l.
THE transfer OF the property bought
tor The Old Mems Home on Walnut
Hills has been made.
LITTLE shooting affair between two
boarders Of the OOerly House last night,
but nobody was hurt and no arrests
made.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT has been view
ing several farms in the Blue Grass re-
gion OF Kentucky, and it is rumored that
he will purchase one 70 reside there in
the future.
THE Committee on Public Buildings
and Offices meet at 1880 this evening to
appoint an Assistant Sergeant-at-
Arms, two watchmen and a janitor for
The City Buildings.
AN unfinished residence on Mt. Tus-
culum, the property OF Mr.. j. N. Doni-
phan, OF No. 10 East Pearl street, burned
Saturday evening. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $4,000. Incendiary.
The excursionists who go over the
Chesapeake & Ohio Road to the cities Of
the Southeast will start tomorrow even
ing on the steamboat which connects at
Huntington with the railroad. About
sixty persons are expected to go from
this city.
THOMAS WILLIAMS, a stone.cutter from
~ isn. hY,
johnson and Detective Wappens lein in
the attempt of trying to pick the pockets
OF some ladies' who were coming out Of
RoblnsoTs Opera-house yesterday about
noon. He was given time to catch the
next train and get out OF this city to
avoid going to the Work-Aouse.
LAST Saturday night party OF seven
stole keg OF beer from the saloon at
the corner Of Elder and Green streets.
They took the keg to an alley and got
drunk on it's contents. The police
scooped down on The crowd, but all OF
the boys, except one, named Mich.
Ef1ein, escaped. He was locked up In
the Bremen-Otreet Station, but his
parents paying the amount Of the beer,
the lad was not prosecuted.
THE annual spring festival Of the Ger
man Protestant Orphan Asylum occurs
next Sunday. This is always one Of the
most popular events OF the year, and, as
usual, will be literally patronized. The
familiar lace OF Officer Fred. Won Seq
germ, who has been identified with these
fsasts for The last eighteen years, will
pc seen ut the gate as usual. He's the
right man in the right place.
THE BARD BILL is law. II Will take
effect at the next municipal election (in
April) when eighteen Aldermen will be
elected at large, not by wards. The SIX
receiving the highest number Of votes
serve for three years, the next six gel
two years Of flee, aud the SIX who are
next in po ,,ularity are to serve one year
Al each subsequent election six Alder
men will be elected for three years.
HANsELMANN CoMMANDERY, No. 16
Masonic Knights Templar, will observe
Ascension Day Thursday OF this week,
by procession from the Masonic TEN
pie through the principle streets to 81
Paul N. E. Church, where devoliona
exercises will be held at 2. Nj. The
Sir Knight Joseph W. Foote, Captain
General. Music by Curriers' Band.
THE Vorort OF the Cincinnati Tur
ners, at their meeting yesterday after
noon, decided 10 hold a Bt BtZirk's con
vention at Turner Hall on the first Sun
day in June, to discuss the question
whether the Cincinnati Bezirk shall re
join the National Bund, from which i
had withdrawn, on account of tn
political course of the Zukunft, the OF
RInof the Turner'S.
THE body of John Conlon, alias "Jacl
Of Clubs," one of the two Souther
Rallroaders run down by the steame
Fawn while attempting to GROSS the rive
in a skitf two weeks ago last night, wa
found at Andersons Ferry Saturday
and through the charitable exertions
Councilman Birkenoamp, OF Ludlow
KY, the poor fellow received decen
Christian burial in the German Catholi
cemetery, on Madison Pike.