The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

THE Emmet Club had big house Satur-
day night.
ADoLPHus LUcKER, arrested for alleged il
licit diStilling, has been discharged.
THERE was a break in the water main at
the corner Of John and Fifth streets yester-
day.
ABOUT one hundred and fifty excursionists
were in the city from Richmond Indiana,
yesterday.
THE lecture of Dr. O'Leary at Robinson's
Opera-house tonight is free, and the public
is invited.
c. L. GIEsE's grocery, No 43 Rittenhouse
street, was Saturday evening robbed of $12
by some young thieves.
THE Emmett Club repeated their perform
ance of "Arrah ma Pogue" at Pixies Opera
house last evening.
Jos. CHAPMAN was brought down from
Columbus Saturday, and is in the County
Jail for countcrfeiting.
AN excursion train of nine coaches came
down from Dayton yesterday to witness the
st. Patrick's Day parade.
SOME of the smaller oil dealers of the city
are instituting proceedings against the
larger ones for selling oil below the test
JOHN WALTERS, cigarmaker, fell down
on Third and Sycamore streets Saturday
evening, and injured his head. He is at the
Hospital.
The Bliss Memorial sabbath-school held
its fifth meeting in the First Presbyterian
Church yesterday. The attendance was
five hundred and fifty-three scholars.
A POST MoRrEM examination of Mrs
Brady's child, which she declared died from
Vin1anna 1,alo vaStarI1nu hIt tba
suit showed that it died natural death.
A RARE and very large specimen of hawk,
with a red TAIL was caught i'll Butler Coun-
ty, and has been presented to the Geological
Garden by Mr.. Charles A. Gillette, of this
city.
The Sinking Fund Commission held a
meeting Saturday evening to discuss the ad
visibility of granting the Southern Railroad
Trustees $2,00O,000 more. No action was
taken.
Mr. CARTER GALLEY slipped and fell at
Sixth and Hoadly streets yesterday, hurt
ing one of his legs to such an extent that
he is compelled to remain at home for
some time.
NINE. A. DoRMAN, relict of DR.. Dorman
and mother of Sister Aloysius, of the Notre
Dame Convent (Sixth- -street) died last Satur-
day in the Dominican Convent, at the age
of eighty-one years.
Miss BERTHA VoN HILLERN, the plucky
little German girl begins her task of walk
ing one hundred miles in twenty-eight
hours tomorrow night at Greenwood Hall.
She will make the first fifty miles without
rest.
ANN WEISS, ten-year-old girl, was play
ing ON the roof of the National Theater
when she broke through a skylight and fell
distance of fifteen feet, suffering frac-
tured thigh. She was taken to the Hos
pital.
WIN. SLATER, on his way to Oakley on
the M. & c. Road, in attempting to board
the train while i'll motion, was struck by an
iron pillar at the bridge over Central av-
snue, and received severe injuries on the
head.
THE Board of Trade has appointed the
following gentlemen as committee to Sc
cure the United States Mint at this place:
Messrs. Benjamin Eggleston, Alphonzo
Taft w. T. Bishop, Carl A. G. Adae and
Amor Smith, Jr.
FRED. ENG, a young man twenty years of
age, about three weeks ago was attempting
to pull off his boots while sitting in the
third-story window of his fathers residence,
No. 542 Elm street, when he lost his bal
ance and fell out. Yesterday he died.
The case of the National State Bank of
Terre Haute, Indiana, against Howe & Hub
bell, of this city, to recover 80, 800 on note,
was tried before Judge Swing Saturday, and
resulted in verdict for defendant. The
defense was that the note was given for a
margin"
THE choir of Trinity NJ. E. Church last
night sang Mendelssohn's "Forty-second
Psalm" entire as a voluntary before the ser
mon. The sooist was Mrs. Flora Kunz
Mueller, and the chorus numbered about
thirty singers. Prof. Carl Barus conducted
and Mr.. Mees played the organ.
THE lecture delivered by Sidney D. Max
well, at Pixies Opera-house, under the
auspices of the Women's Art Museum AS
ISOLATION on the manufactures of Cincin-
natl and their relations to the future prog
ress of the city, will be issued by request in
pamphlet form during the week.
SAMUEL COOPER, the son-in-law of John
Martin, of Walnut Hills who died last Oc-
tober has caused the body of Martin to be
dug up and examined by the Coroner, to
ascertain whether any traces of death by
poisoning could be discovered. The task
that thus far no evidences of poisoning
have been found.
The residence of John Krauth, Esq, on
Third street, east of Pike, was burglarized
yesterday morning, and 5000 worth Of goods
were taken without awaking any of the
slumbering inmates. They ransacked the
whole house, and from the bedside of the
sleepers carried away three watches and
chains, and three pocket-books containing
over 800 in money, besides several articles
Df clothing and jewelry.