The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-03

city" This comports entirely with tn,
statement OF judlcious and expe
. rieneed dry goods merchant of the high
lest standing in Boston. who said,-
"Talk about failuresl Why, show M
one of any amount in the dry good
ttrade. There have been fewer failures
in the dry goods trade the last yea
than in any year for twenty-five year,
back" And yet this line of trade war
J the first to feel the shrinkage in values
but is now on solid basis, because i
has touched bottom. Its margin o
profits would necessarily become mar
rowed, but the business is safe.
| Iron products, however, have not been
so fortunate. Iron. went up with the
railroad fever, and suffered correspond
ingly when the railroad bubbles col
lapsed. From the over production o.
that period Of excitement it has not We
recovered. But 1T can not remain Ions
depressed. Railroads and all the thou
sand things appurtenant thereto, de
manding iron, must wear out by use an6
accident. And gradually the demand
for iron must revive, and that before
long. In the. manufacture of stoves
however, in which Cincinnati excels
the last year shows a mateyial increase
over the year before.
In our products of leather, boots and
shoes, Of soap and candles, of clothing,
of lead, of starch, OF tobacco, of -four, ol
spirits, and Of furniture, the statistics
show an increase over the former year
as well as an increased trade in coal,
groceries, and dry-goods.
All these things 60 to prove that the
business revival has begun. That IL
should spring up like the prophets
gourd, no judicious man would either
expect or desire. But steady revival,
that would be sound and solid, is what
the country most needs. The centennial
year by its special attractions here will
keep tens of thousands of our wealthy
people at home, instead of Spending their
money abroad; and the same cause will
| attract othertens ofthousands of wealthy
foreigners hither, and turn the tide of
travel in our direction. There will
doubtless be occasional failures; but
that no more proves a general unsound
ness in business than does an occasional
death prove the existence of pestilenoe
among men.
Upon the whole, therefore, we feel
quite assured that we may welcome the
year 1875 as abundant in the promise of
better times and brisker business than
we have known since the panic of 1873;
and that business will assume health
ier tone and seunder' basis than for
years before that disastrous event.
'SoME newspapers are publishing whole
columns OF "elegant extracts" from the
writings of the convict Col. Joyce, just
now resident of the Missouri peniten-
tiary. We need not say to any one who
has perused these remarkable effusions,
in both prose and verse, that there is a
vast difference between Joyce literature
and choice literature. IT Jeyce's whis-
Ky crookedness WAS sufficient to send
him TO the penitentiary, his literary
"crookedness" ought to keep him there,
Hadit not been for his conspicuousHess
as whisky convict, respectable news
papers would never have burdened their
columns with his bombastic balderdash,
equally destitute OF good taste, good
grammar, and good sense. 1t
is a weak way to enlist pub
lie sympathy tor convict, whose
genius is manifestly better adapted to
the "ways that are dark. and the tricks
that are vain" among whisky rings,
than to anything appertaining to. litera-
tufe. In order to enlist the greater In
terest in his shovel" it is announced
that it s'will be interspersed with origi-
nal poems." That is well. The misfor-
tune is, however, that, Judging from the
specimens given, it will be impossible to
tell just where the prose ends and the
'poems" begin. Perhaps Joyce can tell,
but nobody else can. He ought to be in
terviewed again BY n. Y. Herald re-
porter on the subject of his ssnovelb in
terspersed with "poems." The public
outside of the penitentiary might be en-
lightened On the specialties OF this
Joyce literature.
THE Indianapolis Sentinel has kindly
settled that little matter of q nomination
of the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. The Sentinel announces
that sIndiana will doubtless furnish the