The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

TOW,
Now bury that historical hatchet for an
other year.
A LARGE attendance is anticipated at the
Charity Ball.
SEvENTY-FIvE deaths have occurred dur
ing the week.
THE Dickey-Tytus case will come up in
, the Hamilton Courts next Monday.
THE Board of Aldermen failed to quor-
omize yesterday for regular meeting.
FATHER HIGGINS, of the Jesuit College, is
rapidly recovering from his serious illness
REHEARSAL for soprano and alto voices at
Melodeom Hall this afternoon for the May
Musical Festival.
THE Remington Bridge across the Little
Miami will in all probability cause suit
for an injunction.
Mrs PORTER, living at 274 w. Fifth street
was robbed yesterday of jewels and money
amounting in value to $500
'Hts not all serene on Change in regard
to the Johnson matter. 1t is claimed that
some of the votes we're cast by men eligi-
BILE.
Rev. J. W. KRYTER, of the Protestant Or
phan Asylum, will preach tomorrow in
place of Rev. Ruof, the latter being con-
fined to his bed by sickness.
DURING fight in Bucktown last night
young lad named CASTILLO was cut in sew
eral places with pen-knife in the hands of
another lad named Ed. Gang.
WILLIAM OBRIEN, George Bell and Jacob
Lenhart were held to answer this morning
to the charge of burglarizing the store at
No. East Third street last week.
A LITTLE lad named John Seegar, living
on the Walker Mill Road, fell from stone
pile this morning at an early hour and suf-
tered fracture Of his right arm.
THE Wholesale Grocers Association held
meeting last evening and ordered circu-
lar printed against the exorbitant express
charges and exchange or remittances
REV. J. c. CHAPMAN, of Nova Scotia, has
accepted call from the Reformed Presby-
terian Church on Plum above Eighth, and
will be installed some time in March
The Catholics in general, will meet to-
morrow afternoon in the Catholic Insti-
tute to discuss the means by which the
building can be saved from being pld.
A LARGE box of tobacco in a cellar on
Sixth street, east of Mound, took fire yes
terday in some mysterious way, but sex
tinguished in few moments by hand.
PETER JOHNSON, who was reported miss
ing from his boarding place, No. I'll Court
from. He is rusticating on Walnut Hills.
THE musical and literary entertainment,
followed by a social good time, which was
given in the basement of St. Johns M. E.
Church last evening was an elegant affair.
AT 3 o'clock tomorrow at Arbeiter Hall
the Chinese labor question will be taken
up for discussion VIM M Cory is eX-
pected to be present and engage in the de-
bate
DURING the week two hundred and four
cases have been before the Police Court
and sentences to the amount of 81 $40 and
fifteen hundred and eighty days have been
passed.
JAS KELLEY, the young clerk in the shoe
store of J. N. Dohan on Central avenue
who was charged Yesterday with embczzling
81 from his employer, was fined $25 this
morning.
A GOLD WATCH, which was found upon
counterfeiter recently, is supposed to be the
property of a school teacher of Falmouth,
KY, and is awaiting Identification at the
Chiefs Office.
Tomorrow Engineer Warden, of the
Water-wOrks will make repairs on the Mt.
Auburn service, and residents supplied by
that branch would do well to lay in sup
ply of water to-day.
HE awarding Ol lue COHlTdC lOl lllc SUI
perstructure of the bridge spanning the Lit
tie Miami at Remington is not settled yet
The Crane Steel Bridge Company are threat
ening an injunction.
THE young gentleman of Gaines High
School (cOlored) have drawn up resolutions
censuTing Mr.. Peter II. Clark for his alleged
ungentlemanly conduct to Carrie Hubbard
one of the pupils. The Trustees of the
school will investigate the case.
Mrs. JOSEPHINE NIEHoUsE of No. 101 FL
der street, was the recipient of surprise
party by her children and many friends, on
the anniversary of her iifty-eighth birthday.
They all came with well filed baskets.
They enjoyed themselves nicely until the
wee slna' hours of the morning.
AT noon to-day when Mike Sculley had
finished four hundred miles of his walk,
Carrie Rose, the female pedestrian who
walked against Jack Price last fall, began
the task of walking one hundred half-miles
in as many hours, on the same track with
Sculley, at Hibernia Hall. At $50 this
evening Sculley will have stone broken
upon his breast
THE seventy-eighth birthday of Arch
bishop Purcell will occur next Tuesday, the
26th of February. He was borne in the
year 1900, at Mallow, Ireland, and Was Or
dained priest at Notre Dame Church. Paris,
on the 2lst OF May, 1926. lie was conse-
Grated Bishop of Cincinnati, October 18th,
1883 and on the 18th of July 1850, was
made Archbishop.
THE officers of the international Base
ball Association for the ensuing year are:
President, J. w Whitney, of Rochester n
Y; Vice President, II. S. White, of Syra-
Cuse, N. Y; Secretary and Treasurer, J. A.
Williams. Judiciary Committee, H. Gorem,
of the TeCumschs; L. R. Spaulding, Buff
alo; L. C. Waite, st. Louis; w. s. Kelley,
Manchester Josiah Butler, Lowell.
A DELIGHTFUL time was had last evening
at the residence of Mr. Louis Huedepohl,
Jr., corner of Young and Liberty streets.
1t was the celebration of the tifty-third an
niversary Of the birthday of his wife. The
friends of the family were present in full
force. The happy lady was agreeably sur
prscd by valuable gift from her sons-an
oil painting Of herself. The affair wound
up with serenade by Morelli's Band
New Music.