The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-01
LOCAL BREVITLEs,

HAPPY New Year.
The Courts are all closed.
No business on the streets.
"tULMBACHRR" is out to-day.
HAVE you turned over that new lesfi
No END to the number Of balls tonight.
DON'T forget to write it January, 1873.
THE Library war will end tomorrow.
No BIG dinner at the County Jail TO-
day.
GDEATH from dissipation was the
verdict OF the Ooroner's Jury In the case
of Lena Kahn.
SOME Of the boys will be disappointed.
Most OF the "open houses" WON'T sci 'em
up "straight."
A NEW fre-atarm card Is now out.
The highest number is 5l6, the box being
at tue Music Hall.
GRAND LEvEE at the Geological Gar
den to-day. All the animals Will holi
open house all day.
THE mother of Mr. George w. Jones,
OF this city, tell and broke her oUila
bone, in Glendale, Sunday afternoon.
JOHN L. STETrINIUs, Joseph Long
worth and Robert Burnet have each pre-
sentsd 5000 TO the Children's Home.
WE would have considered it the 1t
OF January had we been witness to Il
tamboree in the style Of EX.Mayor
Johnston.
JAMES MAHAN, OF No. Y Pike street,
was last night arrested GU suspicion oi
stealing lot of tobacco which he was
trying 70 sell.
THREE new bells for st. George
Church, CorryYille, will be consecated
Sunday afternoon, by His Grace Arch
bishop Purcell.
THE Walnut Hills Temperance
League Will keep open house to-day at
kheir rooms on Mcmillan street and
Gilbert avenue.
VIM Fox, young fellow, was struck
on The head with a Deer-glass, III the At
lantio Garden, by james OBrIen, last
night. Both are locked up.
FRANK ENGEL, tailor working for
VIM. Keller, on Race street, is locked
up at Ninth-street Station on a charge
eIstealing clothes valued at $36 10 from
his employer.
THE fire last evening which caused
the alarm from Box 3 was in house oc-
oupied by Hester Clark on the south
size OF Sixth street, near Plum. Dam
axe about $500.
WILLIE STAPLEToN, lad thirteen
years oi age, living at California, Ohio,
came to the city last Wednesday with a
load of corn, and nothing has since been
heard from him.
MR., ALFRED CUTTER, former mem
Der Ut Council, has been lying at the
point of death at the Gibson House since
Yesterday without any apparent change
in his condition.
DR.. JAY, an old gentleman from Jay
County, Indiana, was con1denced out OF
Ann.. nIat- al hhn IL
at the Ninth-street Station on the charge
Of exhibiting gaming devices.
MR.. LEE CAIN has received from his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Mosler, OF Paris, the
Illuminated illustrations Of the buildings
and ground for the Paris Exposition
They will be exhibited on Fourth street
THE Concordia Mannerchor elected
the following officers tor the year: Pres
ident, j. Georgeu; Vice President, VIM
Plaeffl }in; Secretary, IL. Skiba; irea
surer, j. Jaeckel; Conductor, William
Eokert.
PROF.. o. S. FOWLER has arrived IL
the city, and will deliver three free lee
lures at Pixies Opera-house, Monday
Wednesday and Monday evenings, Jau-
uary 7, 8 and IA, on PhrenoIogy. He i:
at the Grand Hotel.
THE whisky men held an adjourned
meeting at the Chamber Of CommerC,
Yesterday afternoon, and resolved t.
appoint a committee to confer with th
Committee OF Ways and Means in fayoI
Vt reducing the tax.
HENRY CURTIS arrested on suspicio
Of stealing the Dickey y-rytus paper
from DR.. McCarthys residence, WAS yes
terday evening bound over to The Gran
Jury in tho sum Of 81 600 by Judge Wi
son, OF the Police Court.
Mr.. J. II. PERKINS, Of No. 1852 Dayto
street, had a valuable set OF lace Gu
tains stolen from his carriage night be
fore last. They were afterwards toun
by Mr.. julius Book in an alley, an
taken to the Central Station.
MRS. JOHN A. GUYMAN, who disal
peared from Indianapolis in some my
FERROUS way, and came to this city in Tn
company OF u colored man, was foun
by Detective Ampthauer yesterday, |
clearinghouse for colored people, 0
Broadway.
The election for the Directors of th
Police Relief Association viii tax
place at each of the different Station
houses between and Z O'clock tC.mo
row evening. There are three tickets
the field, and close and interestin
election Is expected.
EDWARD MAGILL, a shoemaker liVin
at 2S Broadway, was arrested by Office
Greenameyer this morning and locke
up in the HammoDd-street Station-h0us
on suspicion OF stealing glasses fro
saloons. He was noticed having sever
to-day; and therefore taken in.
LAST night Magnolia Lodge No.
]. .. o. F., elected The tollowi,
officers: W. II. Billings, N. g.; John
COLLINS, V. g.; E. q. kimbalI, Recor
ing Secretary; John W. Paul, Perm
neot Secretary; John Gould, Treasure
A. N. Bird, j. r. Judge and l.. Aute
heimer, Trustees.
The Comuittes Of the Miami g. Er
Canal Association will meet at
O'Clock on Thursday, the 9d Inst,
Columbu', tor the purpose OF auopti
4, such measures as will insure the pl
lection OF the canals and their contlu
ance for nav1gable purposes.
A MEETING of the Board Of Trade W
held yesterday, and communicate
concerning the establishmentof OF stea
ship line for the better transit OF c
mail and productions TO foreign po
and tor the establishment OF q ste