The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-28
LOCAL BREVITIES

THERE are seven hundred and ffty-two
lunatiCs in this county.
A TREE in front of No 36 East Seventh
street was torn up by the wind yesterday.
A coLoREp orphan boy named Chas Davis
was committed TO the House of Refuge this
morning
THE farmers in the vicinity OF this city
say that the prospects fora good potato crop
are very poor
AUGUST BERG, twelve years old has been
missing from his home, No. 134 Court street
since Wednesday last.
THE Work-house sentences passed by
Judge Fitzgerald, during the absence of
Judge Wilson, are legal.
BoND LODGE |. O. O. F., of Dayton, KY,
was present at the Fulton Lodge last even
ing and witnessed the presentation of a cane
to Officer Mark.
GEORGE NIKNAN, a shoemaker, living at
No. 5O6 Central avenue, will be tried July
9th, on the charge of forging his brothers
signature to a note of hand for S65.
THE Excursion Committee of the First
and Second Kentucky Regiments met at
Runners Hall last evening to complete
the arrangements for their celebration.
THE heavy rains yesterday washed away
about ninety feet Of the track and a culvert
on the Panhandle Road about mile east
of Morrow, delaying the trains for two
hours
PATRoLMEN Butler and Martin extin-
guished fire last evening, in tenement
house corner of Fifth and Broadway, which
had started from the explosion of a coal-ol
lamp.
THE condition of Mr. W. H. Andrews
who was shot by a burglar at Warren, Pa,
is improving. A dispatch from that place
last evening states that the patient is out of
danger.
A ClGNET, six weeks old, of the same
genus as the European swan, died at Spring
Grove Cemetery yesterday. 1t was one of
the finest specimens Of the kind ever raised
at the Cemetery.
WM. BRANT, Of No. $50 York street. who
fell over the cmbankmcnt on Walker Mill
Road, while escaping from an apple orchard
night before last was injured 50 badly about
his head that three fragments of his skull
were removed by the physicians.
AFTER the adjournment of the Masonic
lodge +. and A. NJ, last evening, the nu-
merous members and invited guests re-
paired to the Scottish Rites room in Ma
sonic Temple, where an elegant banquet
was spread and an enjoyable evening was
passed.
THos PAGE q timer. who has been in the
city only three days, was given quarters at
the Work house for thirty days this morn
ing for stealing Sl5 worth of files last even
ing from the hardware store of Thomas
Halliday, corner Of Fifth street and Central
avenue.
DURING the wind and rain storm which
swept over the city yesterday, the immense
l,N,, ,..f
Cincinnati Ice Company'S pond, located on
the Dayton Short Line Railroad between
Ludlow Grove and Carthage, was leveled to
the ground.
THE Sunday-school Association of the
Presbytery Of Cincinnati met at the Third
Presbyterian Church this morning and de-
voted the meeting TO the discussion of the
subject of primary classes. The afternoon
session will he given to the general work Of
the Sunday-school.
WADE HARRIS, the deaf mute, charged
with burglariZing I}ussings Bank several
days ago was brought before Judge Long
worth for trial yesterday, but the case was
soon nolled by the Prosecutor. After the
Court closed the Judge, out of sympathy
for the prisoner presented him with five
dollar bin.
FANNY BLOOM, who lives on Central ave-
nue., near Chestnut had Nathan Neis ar
rested last evening on the charge of his
being the father of her two-weeks-od lille
gitimate child. Nathan was taken before
Squire Wright and put under $500 bonds
to hold him for his appearance at the pre-
lnnary examination this evening.
EARLY yesterday morning the iewelry
store of Geo. w Mott, No. 46 Arcade, was
broken into by burglars and 81 900 worth of
goods taken. They entered through the
window next to the alley, and did their
work so quietly that the loss was not dis
covered until morning. Six arrests on sus-
Picion have been made, but as yet the evi-
dence developed is not sufficient to make a
definite charge against any of them.
The Committees appointed TO make ar.
rangcments for the Fourth of July celebra-
ton by the St Aloysius Orphan Society,
held meeting last night at the Catholic IN
stitute. 1t was announced that Mayor
Moore would be in attendance at the picnic
grounds, and that Mr.. H. Haake, of the
Voksfreund, would deliver an address A
contest for a gOld-headed cane among a
large number Of our most prominent citi-
sellS is to be one OF the features
JOHN W, Fox and s Freshman, proprie-
tors OF bone boiling establishment in
Deercreck Valley, against whom the citi-
zens of Walnut Hills have been MAX
ing complaint, have been arrested on
the charge of keeping nuisance
and will be tried July 9Th. The pond
nuisances on Walnut Hills have been
abatcd and Sanitary Policeman Connolly is
now after the bone-yard. The prisoners
were let go on their own recognizance.
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