The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-07

MINOR LOCAL MENTIONS.


The Work-house Board failed TO get
squorum yesterday afternoon.
MissShradzh was last evening married
% N. A. Harlem, of Mt. Vernon, Ind.
Mr.. Fred. ]. Engelhardt, formerly Of
the Turf, Field and Farm, is in the city.
Burglars got $500 worth of silverware
end jewelry at Theodore Pape's residence,
HI Auburn, recently.
Rev. DIR. Montfort begins with the
present month his twenty-sixth year as
editor of the Herald and Presbyter.
Mr.. R. T. Morris residence, No. 179
Baymiller street, was robbed night before
last of an overcoat and piano cover.
Selections from Emerson" were given
BY Mrs M. R. H. Lee, in the parlors of the
Grand Hotel this morning at II o'clock.
The alarm of fire from Box 1874 last
night was caused by trifling fire in the
cellar of a tin-shop, near the corner of
Freeman avenue and Bank street.
The Common Council Finance Com
nittee last night awarded the bonds issued
10 pay for the improvement OF Thomas
street, Straight street and Mt Hope Road
10 VIM. J. Dunlap & Co.
Lol the poor bunko-steererl To-mor-
row, with grip-sack under his arm and dia-
nond (7) pin ablaze on hissshirt front, he
will be seen slowly vending his way toward
~ orS. and o%har Wactorn fauJna
The Orphans Bazaar at Greenwood Hall
still continues to draw immense crowds Of
people nightly. The contest for chief of
Tho ball will close at II o'clock tonight.
All the other contests will not close until
tomorrow night.
The Unity Club will begin its course
Of lectures next Sunday afternoon at
Pixies Opera house. Mrs. Livermore will
deliver the first lecture, and will be fol-
Iowed by Wendell Phillips Professor
Proctor and Others.
A number of distillers OF highwines
met yesterday to consider the feasibility of
selling according to Government gauge
sather than by 'commerciar' gauge. as at
without coming to conclusion.
James s. Vines has brought suit in the
United States Circuit Court against John
Buntin, teacher in the Public School in
Washington Township, Clermont County,
for $40, 600 damages for refusing to receive
The plaintiff, colored boy in the school.
At meeting of the Butchers Hide
Association the. following officers were
elected to serve the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, NJ. Hoffman, Jr.; Vice President, D.
Robinson;. Secretary, A. Renner; Trea-
snrer, H. Nicolay; superintendent, H.
Baum.
~, Matthew Gottfried and John F. T
Holbrek, of Chicago, yesterday filed bills in
Chancery in the United States Court
against ten Of the largest beer brewery firms
Of this city to enjoin them from using
patented machine for pitching the inside Of
beer barrels
The bunko-thief ordinance goes into
effect tomorrow, and Col. Wappenstein in
tends to do his part in bringing in everv
man standing around the street corners that
doesn't give good account of himself. We
think that by tomorrow night there will
be q bunko-thief exodus
No quorum being obtained at the
called meeting yesterday Of the Board Of
Aldermen, to consider the subject of light
ing the public lamps, the matter was neces-
sarily postponed, thus leaving the Gas
Company without any authority to light
the street lamps. Mayor Jacobs vetoed the
moonlight table.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Cincinnati Abstract Company yesterday
the following named persons were elected
Directors for the ensuing year: Samuel J.
Thompson, A. B. Huston, 8. N. Maxwell,
John +. Follett and A. J. Jones' The Board
of Directors organized by electing A. B.
Huston President, and g. N. Maxwell Sec
rotary and Treasurer.
The following is the verdict in the
Whitely-Graham shooting affray: "De-
ceased came to his death from q pistol
wound through the abdomen, the bullet
lodging in the vertebr@. / further find
sid bullet was discharged from pistol in
The hands of Police Officer John Graham by
ths deceased endeavoring to wrest it from
him while said Officer Graham was en-
deavoring to arrest him in discharge of his
aaty."
The installation of the following elect
ed officers of Queen City Lodge, No. 1859.
X. 8. B., took place last night at their hall:
n. Wachtel, President; Samuel Sommers,
Vice President; L. Frankel, Treasurer; l..
W. Fecheimer, Past President; Sol. Ber-
liner, Conductor; I. Newberger, Secretary;
Second Guardian, Ike Ray. P. p; for
Grand Lodge Representatives, L. W. Fech.
elmer and J. Freiberg.