The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-09

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The employees of Hemingray's glass works
have presented Mr.. Joseph Hall with a
purse containing $40. 1t will be remem.
bered that Mr.. Hall had his arm broken al
the establishment few days since.
The bill to compel the City Council to
levy tax of twenty-five cents on the $10C
passed the House last Saturday. The Poll.
TAX robbery bill also passed the House.
Mf. Shine was bitterly opposed to it.
Mr.. Patrick Shields was badly burned in
the neck at the Licking Rolling-mill Satur.
day by piece of red-hot iron that came
through the rolls and split and part of il
curled up and struck him on the neck.
There was quite a crowd of people yes
terday to witness the baptismal services.
TWENTY-FIVE converts of the Second Baptist
Church (colored) were baptized by Rev.
Mr. Hagerty, at the foot of Greenup street.
A little bundle containing new born
babe, was left on the door steps Of Mr..
Richard Edwards Saturday night. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwards very kindly took the ahan-
doned infant in out of the cold, and will
in the future care for it. ...
Mrs. Kate Donald, who resides at the foot
OF Madison street, was badly burned last
night by her clothes catching fire from q
lamp that exploded at her residence.
Prompt assistance prevented what might
have been fatal disaster.
The smoke-house of s. Brauser, on Rus.
sell street. was burglarized Saturday night
OF lot of meat and sausages. The rascals
then tried to effect an entrance into the
residence through the cellar door, but q
large canine frightened them off. -..
A woman named Ellen Benfeld, sent to
the hospital recently by Health Officer
Wilson as city patient, turns out to have
been little off Intellectually. Day before
yes erday she made a bad break, jumped
out of a second-story window and broke her
leg badly.
A petition signed by over five hundred
people will be forwarded to the Legislature
to-day demonstrating against the passage ol
The bill to close up saloons on Sunday.
The man that presented that bill was evi.
IDENTIFY soliciting in the behalf of the Gin
cinnati saloons and variety halls.
CHANcERY CoURT-Margaret Gilmartir
granted divorce from Thomas Gilmartin
Maria M. Enlenstein granted privilege o.
feme sole.
w. W. Henderson VS.. John Luen. Judg
ment for $3.50 and order Of sale.
A. G. Simrall sworn in as an attorney.
It seems to us that 1t is high time the
Council Committees, to whom the matter
was referred, were taking some actor
looking to the openinSof Bridge avenue
in view of the fact of the rapid approach
of spring and the present low price o
property. There will be boom in rea
estate this spring, it is conceded by every
body. Now is the time to act and save
money. ...'.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Flem
ing and wife to D. N. Wohl, 25 by 80 feet
on the alley between Fourth and Fifth and
Main and Bakewell streets, for 500 and
the taxes for 1880. t.
Charles Riohmond's heirs to John Rich.
mond, Az acres and $40 poles on the
Ohio River. part of the estate of Charles
Richmond, deceased; $3.50.
An immense and highly delighted audi
ence greeted the Florence Club last night
in its charitable effort in behalf of the St
John Orphan Asylum. The hall wa,
crowded and overf ,wn, and more hearty
entertainment it could not possibly hav.
been. The players did their parts to the
entire satisfaction of the spectators, as wa!
evidenced by the constant laughter and ap
plause. But the best of it all is that the
Club cleared from $500 to $3.50 for the
Asylum. 8 -N
On Sunday afternoon a man named
Vance, employed on the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad, got into row with man
named Derr at the White Hall, on this side
of the river, near Fifth-street Ferry, and
knocked him down. Yesterday he again
visited White Hall, and meeting Derr
again got into row with him, in the course
of which a man named Connolly inter.
fered. Vance tried to draw a pistol on
Connolly, when another man named Cor
man seized him by the arm and, twisting
the pistol round, 1t was discharged, and
the bullet entered Vances thigh. The
wound is slight No arrests were made.
Hon. E. H. NORM is here paying visi,
to old friends
There were eleven interments in Ever
green Cemetery last month. M
The Overseer of the Poor delivered $61 in
groceries and coal last week. Fl, r
RELIGIOUS Forty hours devotional ser
vices commenced at St. Stephens Church
yesterday. .......... ............
The docket OF the Circuit Court for the
February term, which closed Friday, has
only fifty appearances.
Rev. DR.. Thompson, of Dayton, con
Quoted the services at the York Street Con
gregational Church yesterday,
Gen. Anger, Major Glenn and Major Rus
sell, of the Barracks, have left for New Or
leans, on tour of inspection.
Butchers failing to pay their license by
IL o'clock tomorrow will be visited by
Chief Lock, armed with q warrant. .,
Patsey Demane. of Sandy Lane, bro h
through the ice on Thorntown Pond yester
day and narrowly escaped drowning.
The Thornton boys and the parties run.
ming the Butcher brewery reaped harvest
in the ice business yesterday. There were
fully seventy-6ve men employed at each
place. t"4r 4rH.N" aH.e.
The case of VIM. Brannon, charged with
receiving stolen goods, was continued in
the Mayors Court this morning, the prose
cutting witness failing to appear.
Mr.. Milken, who lives on Williamson
street, had four of the toes on his left foot
amputated yesterday. The operation wa,
performed by DR.. Beader, of Louisville.