The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-19

or placed in a more favorable state OF
or both together, did bet.
ter. Having inherited no ancestral led
gers. it found it for its advantage not to
open any; and its few memoranda were
principally kept with view to the
proper division Of the profits that ac-
crued. But even these have proved them
selves a source of peril to one of its in
dividuals; and, after months of scrutiny
into the exuYis of the late Treasurer, an
expert has discovered place where
tweuty-six thousand dollars and up
wards went into his hands. without be-
ing able to ascertain the avenue through
which it emerged. Such a trif1e, consld-
ering the immensity Of the shorts in the
general fiscal condition that remain I'M
covered, is hardly deserving OF remark
except for the purpose OF contrasting
great things with little. Nevertheless,
notice has been served upon the rellcehS
ex-otficial and mis- sureties, with press
ing in yitatlon to call and settle. 1t is
one of those instances of lncautlon
which the confidence resulting from sue
cess will now and then beget even III the
most clrcumspect.
EMOTIONAL VERACITY.
John W. Wright, as the ''next friend"
of Charles G. Fisher, late Assistant At
torpey tor the District, charged with the
purloining of records, the compromising
OF felonies, anUwiCh procuring the re-
lease OF offenders by means OF sham Sc
curities, petitions for writ Of ha6edS
cOrDaS dd SubjicieRduna, that the mental
condition OIL the said Fisher may be IN
quired into; alleging that he is now, anG
for u long time past has been, OF unsound
mind, ''to such degree as to render nm
criminally irresponsible for his acts"
They who know the parties are inclined
| to look upon the choice OF the actuary III
| this proceeding as one OF the most re-
markable cases of natural selection that
ever came to their knowledge.
CoNsTIrerIoNALvER
It is most interesting fact IN the phe-
nomena of human graFltatlon, tlat all
| the great liars L ever knew IN my llle-l
do not mean common liars, but such as
by the force OF native genius, carry lying
| to the height OF an art-iound their way
10 Washington. | am not speaking now
| of official persons, but of unofficial;
| though there are some amateurs OF uh-
common fertility among members OF Con-
| gress. A gentleman whose experience
| had been like my own in this branch OF
the science OF anthropoloSV, lately met
an individual of uncommon romantic Ca
| pacity whom he had knoWnin the "pr0V-
inces," and accosted him: "Aalloo,
Colonel: l never heard that you were
here, though felt that you must be-"
"Wny SOP" said the other. IL think IL
must have been from the large amount
of alkali perceived in The atmosphere -
| replied the inquisltor,
THE GREAT AMERICAN PoKERIsT.
| In its article on poker the New Amerl
can Cylclopedia cites Gen. Schenck, our
Minister to the Court OF st. James, as
our authority, alludlng to work he has
written upon the SUBJECT as compete
code of instructions upon that province
of the fine arts. Gen. Schenck, ii hi:
reputation does not behe him, can not b'
considered as obnoxious to the charg'
of having written a book upon subJee
..he did not understand" NeVerthe
less. it is whispered about here that Johi
B. FarWe ell, Nj. g., from Chicago, dl
, most elfectually ''clean him out" JUS
before he lett for Great Britain.
; THIRST IN CONNECTICUT.
An examination of the vote upon tn
liouor question, at the late election /
= htjonuectlcut, shows majorities for ''i
= cense" in the cities ahd large town
I where there is good deal OF blue rul
consumed, and for "nO license" in til
= rural districts and cross-road settle
! ments, where there is very little. Thi
would seem to indicate that thirst, l
+ Connecticut, increases in an lnVers
;, proportion to the square OF the dlstanc
between the human particles.
THE GREAT AMERICAN CONFIDENCE MAJ
1t is spoken OF socially here, as an ii
y cident, that Col. Dom Piatt, Of the Car
l. ital newspaper, who is now in or abol
: London, did not attend his wife to Parl
10 which city she has gone to be treate
for nervous difficulty. This is though
a. remarkable for TWO reasons: First, b'
l.. cause the gallant Colonel is ver
, Iuxorious gentleman-of superior dome
- ticity; and second, because there are i
1t many people In Paris VINO are anxiou
o TO see him. Probably no American VIII
ever resided at the French Capital lie
lbebind him a more vivid impression
probably there are none whose retui
d would be more distinctly sensationa
70 Without doubt, this omission is the e
feet OF great self-denial on his part, an
l. is the occasion Of an equal measure
y disappointment on that of his GallIcs
3. admirers. Tho loss to the readers OF Il
Y Capital is altogether incalculable.
- PRINTING NEW DOCUMENTS.
N The suggestion of the printing of &
new documens-a complete and order
Is collection, SO far as they have been pr
lie served, OF all the papers, orders, repor
1e and dispatches relating to military {
. ganization and operations-was iii
- made to the Committee on Military
be fairs, by Gen. Boynton, the able al
OF careful correspondent of the Cincinni
1s Gazette. These documents now fill
~ large building, the destruction OF whi
eh by fire. would be an irreparable Gala
Op ity, Two OF these large octave volum
OO are printed, and the work, when co
Az pleted, will reach nearly or quite
III hundred, is going on at moderate spe'
US When it is remembered that several |
nd accountable disappearance OF impo
or ant papers have occurred, and that
M these documents Is contained the n
zs, history oil the var, the desirableness
he this measure will be apparent. ltW
OF said by John Adams, abe
go the beginning of the centu
"" that the history of the Americ
80 revolution had never been written, a
gs. tnat the materials for such a hIsto
., mad disappeared. 1t is to be hoped tn
Vi in respect to the late conflict, the do,
nd ments will be preserved until such I'll
Bile as will admit OF that impartiality whi
~ can only arrive when the preJpdit
'th raoantmanfa that nnw ROT,