The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-18
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVIEIES.
THERE'S genera. thaw on the housetops
A general sush in the S rect,
A general food at the crossing,
A general soaking OF feet
Roaring chorus, energetically engaged in by an
army of irae individuals who have slipped up OH
the ice and Topped down in the slush:
Then give us grip of your paw
And ioin i'll the general jaw
Lets move on the SuSh
With shovel and brush
And clean out Old General Thaw.
TnE Council Investigating Committee meet to-
day ut O'Clock.
TIE theater, scenery and fixtures at the Lookout
House are for sale.
THE subscriptions to the Exposition Fund are
being paid up rapidly.
THE Davenport Club gave an interesting per-
formance in Clifton Hall, last night
METER 4 Co have been awarded the street i'm
provement bonds refused by Kuhn & Co.
THE Musical Club CT the city will hold meeting
next week to get up resolutions i'll memory OF the
late DR.. LOngworth.
A NEW saddle hanging in front of ]. G. Dotz-
auers place of business, No, 30 Court street, was
stolen about o clock last evening.
THE funeral of the sculptor F. Y. Dengler, will
take place tomorrow afternoon from his fathers
home, No 9S Front street, Covington.
CHARLES IIooS engineer of the Tens, has been
dismissed by the Fire Board for permitting his ell
gine to be injured at the Main-street fire.
A SNOKEHousE belonging to Casper Gerhard,
No. 931 Central avenue, was damaged by fire yes
tarday afternoon t0 the amount OF S25. No alarm
was turned in.
HENRY STAMP, a young tramp. was found con-
ccaled in the residence OF Mr.. Carr, No. 35 Gest
street. last night, and was given sentence OF sixty
days this morning.
Fiorentne Hotel last night to make preparations
for the coming fair, Over four hundred entries
have been reported.
LAWRENCE SCOOTER received sentence of 5000
this morning for stealing scarfpin from the store
OF D. Kinsey, whittier he had gone under the pre-
tense of wishing to purchase one.
DAISY DARLING" song and chorus, by J. NJ.
Jolley, and "Be Kind i'll thy Home" song and
chorus, words by S D. Phelps and music by Thos.
Parkerson, just published by John Church Co.,
Cincinnati.
THE Temperance Meeting tomorrow night at
Pilgrim Sabbath-school building, corner of Fifth
and Lock streets, will oe addressed by MessrS.
Holdsworth. Keller Wright and Others. Other
societies Will also be represented.
The Trades Assembly of this city has forwarded
to the Legislature II bill urging the necessity and
justice of such legislation as will advance to
actual settlers (citizens only a sum sufficient to
enable them to settle on the public domain.
THE Grand Jury, up to the close of their session
last night had examined two hundred and sixty
witnesses in tifty-four cases. They have been out
ten DAYS, and expect that they will II be through
with their work until Friday or Saturday next
DURING the week ending January 1lth, the out
door poor were the recipients of 2645 pounds of
flour, 1,136 pounds of sugar. 2S9A OF coffee 394
quarts of beans, 676 pounds of rice, Ga pounds of
holniuy 30 pounds of tea, 30 loayes OF bread, and
ll,625 bushels of coal.
ANOTHER meeting of the c., n. & l. Railroad
bond holders was held ri the Hotel Emery yester-
day afternoon, and it was determined to take legal
steps to enforce their rights in the matter of de-
fault in the payment of interest on the bonds by
the G., H. 4 b. Railroad Company
THE following ladies compose the Board of
Trustees of the WOmcn's Art Museum ASsocia-
ton: Elizabeth W. Perrin, Jane p. Dodd, Eliza
beth X Whitman, Sophia ?. Mallon Eliza G. Da-
Wis Caroline Hubert, Mary F; Huntington, Sa-
rah c. Perry Mary Shillio Ellen W, Stanwood,
Laura Valete, Susan L. Winslow.
Mrs CHARLOTTE X. LEWIS died last night at a
quarter after cOCE, at the residence of her SON
inaw, Judge NJ d. Hagans on Broadway. She
was born in this city September 3, 1902. Her
father was DR.. VIM. Goforth. She was married to
MI Samuel w. Lewis in 1898 and was the mother
OF six children, two of whom survive. Paralysis
Was the cause of her death.
JUDGE SWING sentenced the following convicted
prisoners in the Tn ted States Circuit Court yester
day: Philip Louis, illegal voting, three months
Jail and costs; John p. Tyram, illegal voting, six
months and costs Vim. Webb, Illegal voting, six
vote illegally, three months, the imprisonment to
b. in the Hamilton County Jail.
LAST evening Mr.. Louis Hudepohl Jr, and
several friends, while returning to the city from
West Walnut Hills stopped on the road for some
refreshments In the meantime the horse walked
off with the vehicle. The party then started off
in various directions to the hill tops but it
took till long after midnight until the team could
be recovered. A young lad had found the stray
horse and taken it to Bremen-street Station.
A MAN named Cole, who lives at Walkers
Land ng, sold a lot of tanbark in this city for
1920, last Thursday, and during the evening had
occasion to go down to the river, where he was
knocked down and robbed by parties unknown of
all his money. John Schillng, of No. 103 Water
street. suspected of being one of the robbers, was
arrested. but as no case of robbing could be made
against him, he was sent out for three months for
being common thief.
LAST night Coroner Carrick investigated thc
cause OF the sudden death of Christopher Popp, a
tailor tfty-eight years old, and who lived with his
nephew at No. 81 West Twelfth street The man
died suddenly in bed about 3 o'clock Yesterday
afternoon. As Popp had a few days ago received
about 81 900 from his brother in Germany, his
death was at first attributed to foul play. The
Coroner found that asthma was the cause of the
mans death, and therefore declined to hold an
inquest
Accidents.