The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-03
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Re ereepeth slow to the reporters table
And on the paSte-pot casts a rueful glance;
-Alasr he sobs II am no longer able
To eaper nimbIy as OF yore, and dance.
The frosts have knocked the stufhn' from my
trottes,
Death slowly wooes me with his magic spell;
Isoon shall cross the dark ana troubled waters
Old Cockroach bids you long. sad farewell"
On Saturday Judge Longworth will sentence the
PVisoners who have been before him during the
present month.
ME- CHARLES COLLINS who attempted to cut
his throat evening before last is resting quietly
md will doubtless soon recover.
Cor. JOHN W. DUDLEY, formerly Chief Of Police
m this city died night before last at his residence,
No. Ss4 Freeman avenue, of paralysis
MAGGIE PoIMER, a sixteen-year-old girl, the
laughter of Mr. George Polmer was committed to
he House of Refuge this morning ON the charge
u dineorrigihility.
ANDREWS Bazaar for October is q fine number
md well worth careful reading by all who would
be thoroughly posted as to the fashion7 and well
sp in the society news OF the day.
rBk annual fair of the North Georgia Stock and
Pair Association commences at Atlanta on Mon
aSy, October Dist, at which it is expected that the
business of Cincinnati will be well represented.
Two parties of bummers came in contact on the
Cansl, between Main and Walnut streets, late last
aiEht and engaged in rough and tumble fight,
karing which Pete Bender received fearful cash
In the head.
JAMES THOMPSON who was struck on the head
With a club by Michael Fay, last week, near the
sas works, was reported to be dying at the Hos
pttal this morning, and consequently capias was
tuusto forE EaV who ont $1lO ball, charged
with assault and battery.
THOMAS JoRDoN, of this city, and property man
d the McWade Troupe, which played at Heuck's
psu weeks ago, was killed at Cynthiana yesterday
while trying to jump on a passing train. The
wheels passed over him, cutting him entirely in
hwu. He was unmarried.
Prof. HARRY GILBERT. the aeronaut who met
With an accident at Indianapolis day before yester
tsy, has written to his brother Lewis that his leg
4 kbroken below the knee, and that he can not
eaye for this city for two or three days The wife
v Prof Gilbert left yesterday afternoon for lndl-
saapolis.
TIE suit brought by Louise Lusk, adm1nistra-
NIX of her husband, against the steamboat Chas.
horxan was dismissed by Judge Swing yesterday.
Il was claimed by the wife that her husband
Rhile a passenger on the boat had fallen into the
satchway, which had been left open by careless
ness, for which she claimed damage.
Gus. WAGNER and Ed Spencer attempted little
name of swindling on Walnut Hills yesterday but
we're intercepted before they had made any great
srogreas. When caught they had large
punch of tickets for a concert
which they claimed was to be given at the Music
Ban for the benefit of the Southern sufferers, but
BOW many of them they had disposed OF could not
he ascertained. Their trial is set for October 9th
TER attention of Officer Joe Smith, of the So.
Eery for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
md Children, was called to a four-year-old boy
usIned Harry Webber, whose parents live at No
a2 Central avenue shortly after Harrys birth he
vas taken with scarlet fever, which rendered him
tsta ly blind, since which time he has been sub
bect TO abuse by his sepfather who will not allow
sim to live at home. Miss Emma Bannister, o
Vest Eighth street, gave the child temporar.
some, but the charge was too great, and Office
lntrh was appealed to.
ABOUT midnight last night cutting affray tool
slsce on Lodge alley between couple of young
plored men named Lee Webb and Randall Wat
nn, who had been paying court to the same girl
Webb, the assaulted party, received a sever
susl in the cheek, from which he bled p ofusel
,efors his wound could be dressed and he b.
xken to the hospital. Watson after lively chas
Was caught by Officers Sewers and Dunn ana takeI
n the Central Station, where the cha ge of cut
Hng with intent to kill was placed against him
he will be tried October 11th.
TIE October meeting of the Society of Natura
History was held last evening, and after the ele(
lion of DR.. P. Kebler, Robert Salter and Edwar
n Cooper to membership Prof Weatherby CAV
NJ interesting description of the fossils and rock
zear the High Bridge on the Southern Roat
which led to discussion of the subject by othe
members present. The following donations wer
announced: Twenty species of Waverly group fo
ltls, by Prof. j. W. Hall; one eight-legged kitter
by DR.. Chas Reed; Thirty three histoogical slide
HF Eckstein; three slides Of diatoms by DR.. ,
r. Hunt; two specimens of skins of dendroec
tfvens, by Chas. Dury; one tortoise shell and pal
IT Bible in some language unkno"n n to the wis
men present, by W. s. Baldwin, and varions put
seasions in exchange for the societys "Jou
sai"