The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.

WATERMELONs have made their appear
anCe.
THE Council Finance Committee meet
this evening.
HIGH MASS and preaching in all of the
Catholic churches to-day-"Corpus Christi. "
AN appropriation of $350,0OO has been
made for the Cincinnati Custom-house.
THE Directors of Spring Grove Cemetery
have employed two additional night watch
men.
IT was black she-wolf that was shot in
the school-house yard at Montgomery last
Monday
THE trial of VIM. Gobrecht, charged with
forgery, has been set for 4;30 o'clock this
afternoon.
T. c. CAMPBELL has taken out writ of re-
plevin for the possession of the notorious
porcupine.
GEORGE SHERRY, an old Cincinnati boy,
and jeremiah Connally will be hung at
Chicago on the 2lst
THE Exposition Commissioners have ap-
pointed P. P. Lane to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr.. Millward.
DEPUTY SHERIFF JOE Moses this morning
took three incorrigible boys to the State
Reform School at Lancaster, Ohio.
CHRIST. MEYER, a carpenter, living on
Pleasant street, accidentally split one of his
knee-pans with hatChet last evening.
THE City Board of Equalization is out to-
day inspecting property and hearing com
plants of residents on Vine-street Hill.
A MUSICAL soiree took place last evening
at the office of Boyd & Fries, on West
Fourth street, followed by refreshments.
JUDGE J. c. COLLINS received a dispatch
yesterday announcing the death of his
brother, Hon. VIM. Collins, of Cleveland.
AN interesting exhibition was given by
the pupils of the Third-street Colony School,
G and H Grades, at Zion Church. Tuesday
morning.
THE United States Court yesterday con-
tirmed the composition between H. Noss,
bankrupt and his creditors at 80 cents on
dollar
THE officers of the Baltimore & Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroads held a meeting and
discussed the mutual freight interests of
their roads.
THE body of VIM. McAlpin, a former
Cincinnatian, who was drowned at Sandus-
ky, last fall was found yesterday near West
Sister Island
ANOTHER infant was deserted by its
parents yesterday, and left to the care of the
Sisters at st. Joseph Asylum, on Reading
Road yesterday.
THE Directors of the County Infrmary
will meet on the first Tuesday of July in
regular monthly session, instead of on the
Fourth of July.
ONE HUNDRED of the inmates of the City
1ntirmary were examined yesterday, and
twenty of them were pronounced able to
care for themselves.
FIVE young men were fined $25 each this
morning for pounCing upon and severely
beating a stranger whom they met on the
corner of Fifth and Plum streets late last
night.
CHARLES BRossARr, son of Chas T. Bros
sart of the Twenty-tirst Ward, broke his
arm yesterday afternoon while at play dur
ing recess at st. Josephs Academy on West
Eighth street.
FRANCIS MooRMAN, a furniture manufac-
:urer of Cincinnati filed his voluntary petit
ton in bankruptcy in the United States
District Court, yesterday. Liabilities $l2,-
300. assets $9,425,
IT has Just been discovered that Dr.. Nor
ton, the notorious resurreCtiOnist has vio-
lated the grave of Mrs. Patrick Kinney who
died and was buried January 18th in Read
ing Ohio, graveyard. The body is at Ann
ArbOr
A YOUNG lad about thirteen years old and
a waiter at HeuCk's saloon, corner of Thir-
teenth and Vine streets, was badly cut on
the left arm last evening by being struck
with bottle thrown at him by q drunken
customer. Dr. Stitch sewed up the ugly
cash.
Two YOUNG colored men named William
West and Dudley Walton, who were con-
yicted two years ago of rObbing Cooks
jewelry establishment and made to pay the
penalty Of their crime, were sent to the
Work-house for three months each this
morning on the charge Of being common
thieves.
THE burning OF an old stable belonging to
th. Misses Marlidge, situated on Terrence
Road between the Granden Road and Column
bia avenue, East Walnut Hills, was the
cause Of the alarm from Box 1913 at 80
o'clock this morning. 1t is supposed to
have been set on fire by tramps either acci-
IDENTIFY or otherwise. Loss about $3.50.
DIR. HERDNAN, Of the Ann Arbor Medical
College, where Deyin's body was found by
Colonel Snolbaker, has written card claim
ing that the body recovered was not the one
sought. He also explains shout that bill of
$50, which he claims was due to the students
He denies having had anything to do with
tie matter.
COMPLAINTS are being made that num-
Der of blunders have been made in the in
terment of bodies at Spring Grove Gene
cry. A case of the kind occurred recently,
when Mrs. Nipple wanted to inter the re-
:..ains of her child in the lot where thirteen
of her family were buried. When the cof
fin was to have been put in the ground it
was discovered that strange child had a
few minutes before been buried there.
Other and similar cases are cited
LAST evening three young men, evidently
tramps stopped near the sedamsville
Police Station, and while two of them
took nap in car the third took
bath in the river Nothing more was
seen Of the party until l o'clock this
morning when the clothes of the young
man were found upon the bank. 1t was
the natural inference that he was drowned
and a diligent search was made for the
body, but no trace Of it was found. From
letter in his pocket, written by sister in
Phil -delphia, his name was found to be