The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-22
LOCAL BREVITIES.

PRIMARY meetings to-day.
PRAcH trees are beginning TO bloom.
DEMOCRATIC Convention tomorrow at the
Highland House.
"UNoLE TOMS CABIN" matinee and night,
to-day and tomorrow, at the Grand.
THE monthly bill of the city school
teachers, who are being paid off to-day,
amounts to Isl, ,19.
Ed HuNs1KEs<Ias the loser of silver
watch at the robbery of the Atlantic Bill
lard Hall Wednesday night
A VALUABLE lace curtain that had been
stolen from Hasselberg & Co. by former
employe was recovered yesterday.
PETER HABIT hadn't any defense this
morning, and consequently had sentence
of 5000 for being common thief.
Mr.. Gus. BENNETT, yard brakeman on the
M. & G. Railroad, had his hand badly
smashed while coupling cars yesterday.
THE testimony taken in the Bernard
Stehlc drowning case last evening was in
sufficient for warranting verdict OF sui
eide.
THREE common thieves and pickpockets
and three Migrants were given the hospital
ity of the Work-house for three months
this morning.
PArRoLMAN JOHN WELLER, Mexican
war veteran, and for nearly twenty years
past member of the police force OF this
city, died Wednesday,
MAJOR s. r. s. WEST, a gentleman well
known in Southwestern Ohio, died at his
residence in Olive Branch, Clermont Coun-
ty, yesterday afternoon.
On last Monday night the residence Of
MI Dandy No. 496 Baymiller street, was
entered by thieves through window, who
secured pocket-book containing $3.50 as
their booty.
ABOUT forty Cincinnatians have been
subppnaed as witnesses i'll the trial of Chas.
f. Dimmitt for the robbery of the safe of
the treasury of Clermont County which be-
gins to-day.
THE death is announced of Mr.. Joseph
Lavery, brilliant graduate of st. Xavier
College, who fell victim to consumption
at 5 o'clock last evening. He leaves wild
ow and three children.
THE building of the proposed railroad
from Huntington to Portsmouth, it is
feared, will divert from Cincinnati the pas
senger business and freight traffic of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
THE Hamilton Turnpike Directors will
meet next Monday to decide whether or
not they will allow the Board of Public
Works to lay water mains on the pike from
Millcreek Bridge to Blue Rock street, Cum
minsville.
A PETITION is in circulation among the
grain dealers, asking the Common Carrier
Company to adopt some plan by which the
grain which the Southern Railroad brings to
Cincinnati may be transferred to other
tracks and to the elevators.
A SILENT ALARM of fire was sounded
about 9 o'clock this morning from the En-
gine-house, corner of Ninth and Freeman
streets. The fire was i'll a shavings pile in
the cellar of the Cincinnati Coffin Com
panys building. The hose-reel only went
out, and the firemen soon had the flames
mbdued. No loss
THE ladies of the Twenty-ffth Ward
Presbyterian Church held a meeting last
evening to organize a branch of the Ladies'
Foreign Missions. The following officers
were elected: President, Mrs, G.. M. Liv.
ingston& Vice President, Mrs. Janet
Thompson; Secretary, Mrs. G. F. Rankin
Treasurer, Miss Hortensc Kingsbury; Col
lectors, Misses Mary F. Parker, Jennie Par
vim, Fannie Cist, and Bessie Williams.