The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

CINCINNATI CADETS changed their name t.
Washington Light Guards.
MEETING of the assessors tonight a
Squire Schwab's Office. They want 81 81
per day.
JOHN CoNGRAvE was fined IS by Mayor
Probasco for indulging in fast driving OF
Spring Grove avenue.
HERMAN RoTHERT was elected the sixth
member of the Board of Equalization OF
Saturday in the Common Council.
THE case Of Henry Hoffman, of $50 Cen
tral avenue, charged with destroying Gov
ernment books, has been set by Commits
sioner Hooper for next Thursday.
THIS is the last week of the Ladies' Loan
Exhibition, and all who have not yet paid
it visit should not fail to do so during the
few days of grace which remain.
JACOB MEYER, degenerate looking tramp,
was given three months at the Work house
this morning for stealing old iron from the
railroads and attempting to sell it.
THOMAS MEAHER, a young lad living on
Eastern avenue, was sent to the House of
Refuge this morning for breaking into the
grocery store at No. 11S Eastern avenue.
CHAs. RENNER, who stole some money
and bonds recently from his father, who
lives on Webster street, was found Saturday
evening in st. Louis. His father has gone
to that place.
The VIM. Carroll, arrested Friday for
passing s. counterfeit note must not be
confounded with that honored citizen, and
well known fruit dealer, VIM. Carroll OF
West Court street.
Mr.. CHARLES MENDENHALL has been az
pointed agent at this point for the Balti-
more Il Ohio, Marietta & Cincinnati and
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Express, vice
B. F. Babcock resigned.
THE largest sentence this morning was re-
ceived by well-known colored thief named
Milton Turner, for stealing basket filled
with rubber pipe, which had been left un-
guarded for few minutes
CHAs. PoHLM1RE, young huckster, was
caught on the streets Saturday selling straw
berries with measure having false bot
tom. This morning his license was revoked,
and he was made to pay a fine of $25.
THE Board of Trade has drawn up resolu.
tions protesting against the action of the
Revenue Detectives in making indiscrim'
mate reports impugning the integrity of the
men engaged in the liquor and tobacco bust
ness in this city.
B. BRINKMAN, who lives on Carr street
near Sargent, was shot in the shoulder Sat
urday night during free fight with a COM
panion in a saloon, at the corner Of Front
and Carr streets The wound is a painful
one but not dangerous.
GEO. REBoLD, q carriage trimmer, EN-,
ployed on Central avenue, is confined in
the County Jail on a charge of bastardy
preferred against him before Squire Block,
last Saturday evening, by an unmarried wo
man named Margareth Bedell.
THE fire alarm from Box 8 yesterday
afternoon was occasioned by the burning OF
a basket of shavings on Front street, be,
tween Elm and Plum streets. The alarm,
from Box II, corner of Race and Commerce
streets, in the evening was false.
THE store at the corner of Dalton and
Sherman avenues was burgarized last Fri
day night and lot of goods carried away
The next night man giving his name as
James Waller was arrested with a part OF
the goods in his possession, and will be tried
Oh Saturday next.
HENRY REINKE and a companion amused
themselves for some time yesterday by
throwing young Countryman named Aug
ust Guide into the canal. In few hours
however, the tables turned. Henry was ar
rested, and sent to the Work house thi
morning to work out $25 fine
HIRAM HoUsINGER, saoonkeeper at No
2O6 East Front street; Henry Lott, saloon
keeper at No 265 McMicken avenue. anC
John Augemiller and Frank Steer, billiard
players, were arrested yesterday for vic
lating the Sunday ordinance Augemille
was dismissed this morningand the remain
der will be tried Saturday,
Mr. WESTON, the lightning-rod climber
is to-day engaged in removing the larg
hand from the tip of the spire of the Firs
Presbyterian Church, on Fourth street, nea
Main, for the purpose of cleaning and re
gliding the same The feat of climbing tn
steeple is drawing large crowd ON Fourt
street.
MONSIEUR ADRIAN IzAR and his pup
Armand Darlot will give exhibitions {
finger billiards tonight and tomorrow an
Wednesday afternoons at the Standard Bi
lizard Rooms, Nos, 470 and 472 Vine stree
Monsieur liar has put up 81 900 that he ca
beat any one in this city, with the finger
Or with a cue.
The following Executive Committee {
Alumnal Association Of the Law School c
Cincinnati has been appointed: Hon. Ricl
ard Tarvin Baker, Glass of 1874, Alexandra
Ky; Samuel ]. Thompson, Esq, Glass c
1888 Samuel J. B. Broadwell Esq, Clas
of 1855; John w. Warrington, Esq, Glass c
1869, and G. w. Boyce, Esq, Glass of 1869.
AN inquest was held at 9 o'clock thi
morning on the body of the unknown ma
who as reported in Saturdays STAR, we
run over on the Baltimore e. Ohio Railroa
track, below Liberty street. on that morl
ing. The Coroner rendered verdict in al
cordance with the facts already publishe
and exonerated the officials of the roa
from blame.
A NOTED hotel thief, known by the nam
Of Little Billy Jackson, was tracked to tn
Cty from ST. Louis by Detective Egan an
arrested on the streets by patrolman ye
terday. The prisoner is charged with rol
bing one of the propretors of an Easter
jewelry house of $4,000 worth of jewelr
while he was stopping at the Planter
Hotel He will be returned to ST. Lou
!his evening
WILLIAM F. FAUST, an elderly man, VIII
lived with his wife at No. 112 Hopkil
street, died last Saturday evening from a
overdose of morphine, but whether it W,
taken intentionally or not is not know