The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-21
LOCAL BREVITIEs.
LONGEST day OF the year.

PRICE I'LL Concert This evening.
The shady side of the street is in de-
manu.
JONES has "struck out" again-for
Chicago.
THE wagon incline at Prices Hill is
success.
AMOS QUTo, ESQ, is coming to settle
his little Dnl.
THB city stables are not leased yet.
$40, 900 is a good deal of money.
THE United States Court will proba-
bly, close for the summer this week.
CAPT. w. S. CAPPKLLAR will deliver
an oralion at Mt. Pleasant on the Fourth
of July.
DIR. FRED. ANDERSON is on tho bond
OF John w llsOn, the assassin OF Charley
Thompson.
EXCURSION train to Columbus Satur-
day on the Panhandle Road. Fare
81 round trip.
IT was VIM. Freeman, OF Mt. Adams,
who fell from a scatfold at Strobel &
WilkeWs place yesterday.
THE Colerain Avenue Improvement
question will come up in the Aldermanic
Board Tomorrow afternoon.
NURRE's picture frame factory or
Broadway, recently destroyed by fire,
will be in operation again in thirty
days.
THE Sinking Fund Commissioners
have fixed the levy for the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad bonds at l cent $40
mills.
MARY COLLINS, at her own request, in
the Police Court this morning was SEN
fenced to fine OF $50 and imprison-
ment for 80 days.
EDWARD FARRELL, of Milford, aged
ten years, was induced to come TO this
city with stranger, who aban doned
him. The boy was kept at the Oliver
street Station-nouse awhile and then
sent home.
MRS. ISABELLA MATTHEWS, mother of
Senator Matthew'S, died yesterday at
the residence of her son, G. Bently Mat
theWs, in AVondale. Her sickness was
typhoid pneumonia. Mrs. Matthews was
in her seyenty-thlrd year.
THE beer brewers are still discussing
the question whether or not retail deal.
ers shall pay $l2 or $40 barrel for beer.
If they settle down on the lower figure
it will not be asking too much of the sa-
loonists to sell Two glasses Tor 3 cents.
CHRIST. WERTHNER a workman at NJ.
Werk " Co.'s soap factory, was badly
burned by the ignited gas escaping from
receiver. The flesh ON his face, neck
and arms was completely roasted. He
was taken to his home at the corner of
Bindlay and Liun streets.
THK certificate of the Madison Build
ing Association was filed i'll the II =
corder's office yesterday. Capital stock
$440, 0UU, divided into shares OF $40 eacn.
TNe papers are signed by j. Il. Crusar,
10. Marsh, James Julien, l.. Balley,
and q. +. Law, as inoorporators.
THE articles found on the Ludlow fer
rybUat Ellen Mccoy, as mentioned IN
tuesdays STAR have been identified as
the property OF Miss Lizzie Grunme Ter,
daughter OF Nichola, Gruumeler, of
Ludlow. She has been missing from
home since Monday night, and her par
ents are in great distress about her alb.
sence.
FANNIE BAKER, a white woman. while
alta picnic yesterday az Parker's Grove,
became involved in quarrel with "a
colured woman named Sarah Williams,
and cut her i'll the arm with knile.
She was arrested on the arrival oil the
boat and charged with cutting with in
tent to wound. The case in Court to-
day was postponed to July 3.
GEoKGE EIsKIRCHEN, a gas-ftter liv-
ing with his wire on The corner Of Bank
and Clarkson streets, took q large dose
OF paris-green yesterday with intent to
destroy himself. His vile detected the
symptoms OF The poison, and ply sician
was called in, who administered an anti
dote. Eiskirchen took the poison on ac-
count OF quarrel with his wiie's rela.
tiYes. He is now out OF danger.
CITY SOLICITOR BATES states in a let.
l,,I 1 ,,,n
the Board OF Public W orks, that all bills
of the city incurred without money be-
ing set aside for the purpose Of paying
them are illegal and involve no llabilit,
to the city. AS the money which will
be received by the June taxes will al
be used lor the payment Of bills already
incurred, no expenditure can be mad
for gas to ligNt the streets until the ent
OF the year. The Gas Company of course
Will shut of the light, aud the city viii
either have to 80 unlignted or be lit Will
other means.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has authorizes
Assistant Treasurer Slt IN 10 receive cou
pons due July l, 1877, without rebate. II
payment Of subscriptions for the nev
1our-ptr-cent. loan, now being offered
By this means persons holding calle(
tive-twenties can at once take steps |
convert them into the new loan. Th
coupons que July l will furnish the two
percent. deposit required, and the pay
ment of the bonds by the Department a
the date OF their maturity will provid
the balance within the Time prescribed
before October IL, 1877.
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