The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-23
LOCAL BREVITIES.

THE boys will be there.
BIG time at the Highland House.
THE primaries last night passed off nicely
THE Aldermen failed to get quorum
yesterday.
THE alarm of fire from Box No. 146, last
evening" was false.
The United States petit jury were dis
charged yesterday.
THE funeral of DR.. Alonzo Holcomb will
take place tomorrow.
THE laying of the flooring in the Music
Hall was completed to-day.
A LARGE hunting-case watch and chain
were stolen from No. 2O6 Vine street during
the latter part of last night.
CONRAD NITCHEN, huckster, was arrested
yesterday on the charge of selling unsound
corn on the streets, and will have his trial
next Friday.
A WALKING match between Harry j.
Klemm and Chas. Rossiter comes off to-
morrow morning The route will be the
Baymiller-street Railroad.
TdiE intricacies of the mechanism of the
interior OF the new organ have been photo
graphed fOr the illustration of the organ
book in preparation by Mr.. Nichols.
THE organ-buiders in Music Hall yester-
day evening sounded the great instrument
for the benefit of Mr.. Reuben Springer and
several of the Directors of Music Hall
AT meeting held at Galena last Wednes-
day $4,000 additional were added to their
already heavy subscription for completing
the railroad from Winchester to Galena.
E. A. WELLS will be tried March 28th, on
the charge of altering and publishing a
forged check for the payment of $12 S5.
George Fleck is the prosecuting witness.
A SENTENCE of $50 and thirty days, execu-
tion to be suspended on condition that he
leave the city and never return, is what
happened to Edward Roth this morning for
stealing two sets of harness.
JOHN KELLY was arrested last night on the
charge of illegal voting, at the polls of the
First Precinct of the Eighteenth Ward, but
the prosecuting witness went to the Con-
vention this morning and John was dis
missed.
THE smokehouse of butcher named
Grabentetter, living on the Avenue, be-
tween CumminSville and Spring Grove,
caught fire yesterday, and but for the timely
assistance of the neighbors, would have
burned to the ground.
Mr.. BRISTOL of the Empire Livery Stable,
on Walnut Hills, met with little misfor-
tune yesterday. His horse took fright, and
running away, damaged the vehicle to which
it was attached to the extent of making a
new wheel necessary.
ROUTE 16 is no longer myth, for work
has been begun. 1t is not the work of con-
structing the road, for that awaits the de-
cision of the case now in the Supreme
Court, but it is the removal of trees in
Eden Park along the line where the track
will run.
A COLORED woman named Sarah Smith,
seventy years of age, was found dead in her
house at No. 81 Avery alley, yesterday. AS
she was complaining of no illness at the
time, the neighbors supposed that there
must be some mystery in the case, and no
titled the Coroner
THE Murphy Temperance Club, working
under the laws of the National Union, have
decided to make its headquarters at Bi-
Bile Chapel, on Longworth street, between
John and Central avenue, and will hold a
meeting there this evening at 7 o'clock at
which time they will select officers tempo
rarily.
DETECTIVE MEAD arrived from Chicago
this morning with David Hunter in his
custody who is charged with stealing $74
in money and two-hundred-dolla check
from No. 100 East Pearl street. The check
was found in his possession, and when
brought before Court he waived his exam
nation Bail 81, 900.
The Commissioners of Hamilton and Cler-
mont Counties held joint meeting day be-
fore yesterday for the purpose of settling
The Remington Bridge muddle they had re-
solved themselves into at their previous
meeting. A resolution to readvertise for
proposals for the superstructure was lost
A resolution was then adopted by unani-
nous vote awarding the contract to the
Lomas Bridge Company at $14,910.