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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

head of navigation, because one or two
schooners have squeezed themselves
through the Welland Canal and crossed
the Atlantic; and hence it must have
Custom.house. IL o ives more money
than any other@-in fact, it is owned by
citizens of New York, Boston, and Harts
ford, who dare not foreclose their mort
cages lest the town should fall into their
hands. In speaking of the city it is
uChicago and New York" !" "Chicago and
New Orleans" "Chicago and San Fran
ciscon II q balloon could reach the moon,
1t would be "Chicago and the moon'-
Chicago always first.
Its last display of vanity is that it
is the cosmopolitan city of America.
"More languages are spoken in Chi
cago than in any other city on the
EARTH" says Chicago paper. There is
not o foreign tongue spoken in Chicago,
or q foreign costume displayed there
that San Francisco can not duplicate
and supplement with strange languages
and strange costumes that are never
heard or seen in the great village of the
lakes. Necessarily the people from
tropical lands and Southern elimes,
| from near the equator, from lands of the
bread fruit and banana can not live q
day upon the banks OF that cold and
| breezy lake.. that freezes across from
Illinois to Michigan.
We are content to let this country vii.
| lage OF the prairies boast over St. Louis,
but we resent any comparison between
| it and San francisco. Its population
now outnumbers ours, and only because
times are hard and people fad 1t difficult
to work their way from the inhospitable
climate Of Lake Michigan to the genial
temperature of the Pacific. Chicago is
IA sort OF half way house !or emigrants on
their way to California;; IL lunch bas 6es
fand Tree passage would send half its
people west OF the Sierras. In ten years
our city will have distanced it IN popu-
lation and wealth. -.-t
| San Francisco will be great com
mercial emporium when Cnicago sits
shivering by her iresh-water pond, and
the future of the two cities will be as is
tue area, the tonnage and the traffic o.,
| Lake Michigan to the splendid, eper-iu-
lcreaSing commerce OF the Pacific Ocean,
as the lead mines of Gaena compare
| with the eXhaustless gold and silver de-
pJsits o. tue Slerras-as the corn and
| whisky Of its wind-swept prairies COM
pare with the grain, cotton, tobacco,
hemp, silk, fruit and wine OF climate
that knows no. winter, and allows twelve
months of growth, and i'll amount is only
! limited by the labor employed.
! There is one thing for which Ca!i.or-
MANS are distinguished, and herein is
| the great contrast between our citlzens
and those OF Chicago. We are
modest, and never brag, but think
| that All occasional refefeuce to our
Yosemite and our big trees, our immense
pumpkins, our fruitful soil, our splendid
climate, our eXnaustless mines, our var
led fruits, our expanding commerce, our
uneXceptionable climate may be made;
lL,,t4i
subdued tone, not intended to hurt the
ill destiny compelled to spend their time
in Chicago. There is great deal of en-
ergy and enterprise in Chica 20, and
great many of its people wilt in time
make money enough to enable them TO
come TO San Francisco.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
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Of Public Interest.

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Tie recent discovery of Capcine and its addi-
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

GEN. SHERMAN's salary is to be cut
down, by our Banning's bill, from $4,000
per year to $4,000. Poor man! How.
can he possibly subsist on SAL day !?
and this leap-year too! And that is what
some people call "army retrenchment!"
And Phil. Sheridan is also to be put on
the starvation allowance of only 1000
per month. We know several men, as
good as Sherman and Sheridan. both put
together, who would be quite pleased to
work for such wages during life, with
plenty of time to travel ABOUT and see
things.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
A Romance of Modern Life.
from the St. Louis Republican.

A woman-not very young, but very
pretty--a New York belle, VINO, through
a series OF ilI-fortunes, became depend
ent upon her relatives and friends, was
two years since in Spain with some
ladies who had invited her to go to Eu-
rope with them; and there she became
acquainted with an attache OF the Eng
lsh consulate in a town where they
where spending some weeks. The ladies
LETT her i'll foreign country without any
means to return to her native land. She
told her story to the young diplomat.
He loved her, proposed to her, and they
became engaged; put he sent her home,
as he could not then marry her.
She had faith iii him, and months
rolled by, the poor girl having retired to
1--we upon the charity OF some relatives
in Central New York. At last the diplo.
mat came, bringing magnificent gifts
from his relatives, among the highest ol
the English nobility, to his bride. He
had been in South America, and from
there home during this cruel waiting tx
| get leave Of absence. They were here
but few days, she sending no cards tt
her CT deodRt friends ;-they hurried away
| to spend the honeymoon i'll Paris.
A friend just from Paris tells how the
heroine OF this little story is to remain
there, her husband having become con
nected with the English Embassy ii
that city, and that Mrs. G. is the Amer
lean belle and the pet of Lord Lyon'
elegant establishment. Lord Lyons is 4
bachelor, and Mrs. q. plays the part 0
hostess to his guests.
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timony thus derived, though the persons
delivering it may be altogether nom
these tainted classes.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

The conclusiveness and exactness of
detail with which the Government has
worked up the cases against the whisky
ring-masters in st. Louis are giving the
expectant parties in other places great
alarm. They wonder show the d
that Bristow ever found 1t all out"
They begin to suspect that he under
stands the true inwardness of the
crooked business better than do the
crooked fellows themselves. Some of
them would like to go in partnership
with him as soon as he gets through with
strengthening out the links in the pres.
ent ring; and all of them are anxious to
escape from the judgment to come.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
Indian Jugglers Before the Prince
of Wales,
From DR.. Russelrs Correspondence to the
London Times.

FROM Dr. huSSelPS Correspondence TO Cne
London Times.
One day at Parell his Royal Highness
had an hour of quiet amusement III camp
watching the tricks of some Indian Jug
glers ana snake charmers, which have
been described hundred times over,
and which never lose their interest Tor
the spectator. After breakfast a ragged
train of fellows leading apes and car
rying bags were seen coming up the main
street OF the camp to one OF the tents.
The jugglers and snake charmcrs were
the first 10 show off. They were only
two-old chatty fellows, whose skin
hung on their bones as if it were cracked
brown paper. They did some clever
passes" swallowed and spat out fire,
produced an enchanted ineXhau :tible
water vessel, walked On wooden pattens
held on by tue action of tine feet making
a vacuum-in TACT the wiJhered, viva
cious old juggler and his ragged Old con-
federate performed ali the orth3doX
tricks OF their conlraternity. Where did
he get the cobras which he produced
suddenly out of two baskets which had
been turned over, inside out, III our
presence? 1t was not the drumming Of
his friend or the playing on the ...rv
gourd which drew the reptiles out OF
cover.
I Meanwhile q mango under the dirty
cloth was growing. and i'll an interval OF
snake work the Old fellow dashed at The
latter and exposed fresh bright green
mango tree sUme elgGteen inches nigh
in the ground, where he had apparently
only put in mango seed. Expressions
of wonder followed; then the cloth was
thrown over the tree. and another OF the
famous legendary !egerdemain feats was
executed. A shallow basket about eigh-
:een inches h!ga and three feet long,
With cover, was placed before the
Prince. 1t was plain there was no de-
ceit. At Il cal there came out from The
cup OF natives near at hand lad oi
Twelve, or SO, slight Of figure and pleas
ant Of lace. with not an article OF dress
save his loin cloth and dirty turban
| Him the old man, chuttering the while
| bound hand and foot Ia Brothers Any
one in twine. Then sack, made ol
strong netting, was produced and the
| old Fellow slipped IL over the lad
whom he squeezed down Oh his hauncn-
es 50 thai he could Tie the cords Sc
curely over head and lit him from the
ground to prove how secure he was. He
seemed to use great force to put the lac
| into the basket, aud TO have much di1h
Guilty in titJing the lid on the top OF INN
| When that was done The music was re
newed by one, and the other juggier be
| gan to talk to his basket. Presently The
lid was ag ,tated, and the cord and necl
| were jerked out and Tell Oh The ground
Then the juggler ran at the basket in {
fury, jumpea on the top, crushed in tht
lid, stamped on it, took stick anC
drove it with force through the wicker
work. The basket was empty. Thel
there came voice as of the lad who hat
been inside, and 10, there was just sucl
a youth upon one of the trees. The
mango tree, when next uncovered, ap
peared hung with tiny Iruit.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
A Game of "Brag"---San Francisco
and Chicago.

The San Francisco Chronicle gives US
the following nice little game OF ''brag,'
with Chicago and Frisco as the holders
OF the cards. >.4
Chicago beats the world for brag; its
people think it the most wonderful city
upon the face of the globe. We have nc
doubt the fire was welcome because il
was the greatest fire that ever destroyed
an American city. This c0nfiagration is
should be o bronze cast of Mrs, O'Leary's
COW set up in that city as monument
of one of It's greatest achievements. IL
hear a Chicagoan brag is something
stupendous.
He speaks Of Chicago as the first city
upon the hemisphere, as the great cen
itral Tadmor OF the continent. It is th,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
ssCrooked" Witnesses.

/. In looking over the reports of the trials
OF members of the whisky rig, now in
progress in st. Lo"is, Indianapolis, and
Chicago, it must occur to the reader as
remarkable that nearly all the testimony
is from tainted sources. lu almost ev-
cry instance the witnesses are found,
by their own showing. to be implicated
In the same. or similar transactions as
those charged upon the prisoners on
trial. Occasionally the monotony in this
regard is varied by finding that the
witness, in addition to his whisky crook
edness, has been arrested and is under
Indictment tor perjury in some other
ease, or that he. is bigamist, or that he
has been convicted, but not yet sem
fenced, tor like crimes and misdemean-
urs. At present we can not call TO mind
single instance where any material
witness has been put upon the stand, in
those cases, who was not tainted
wether from the same flock.
Perhaps the prosecution has been pro-
ceeding upon the venerable maxim, "set
rogue to catch rogue" This is
doubtless very good plan; sometimes
the only possible plan SO far as the mere
catching goes. But when it comes to
swearing admitted and convicted rogues
against persons accused, without any
certifying admixture of respectable and
reliable persons as bearing witness in
the case, the modern instance becomes
quite departure from the principle de-
rived from the old saw. Here it is that
"the lantern OF testimony" shines but
dlmly for the guidance Of the law; and
courts should be particularly cautious
lest they be misled by untruthful and
prejudiced witnesses.
To the common mind, the testimony OF
an accomplice is generally received as
the most convincing and conclusive OF
ruth. But to persons of professional
experience in criminal law, there is no
species of evidence that is received with
greater caution, indeed more frequently
with downright suspicion, than this. II
is always expected that an accomplice
must swear so as to convict, in order
that he stand justified in testifying at
all. Moreover, the personal feeling Of
Ihe accomplice is always intense against
the accused. No-enmity is more bitter
Than that which arises between rogues
who have fallen out with their fellow
rogues. To receive the testimony o.
such men to work conviction Of an &C
cused person. without any corroboration
by Witnesses of an unexceptionablt
character, demands the closest scrutin
OF the courts.
Nevertheless, in the case of such rings
and combinations as now prevail, an,
which the present prosecutions are in
tended to break up, this may be the onl.
available testimony; because it can no
be presumed that any respectable pei
sons, outside OF these fraudulent prac
tices, could become cognizant Of their sc
pret doings. There is then no alterna
tive but to receive and rely upon the TEL
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

Mr.. BEEoHER can not be let alone.
Some kind of a general council, COM
posed of large number of Congrega-
tional churches, with their pastors, is
now about to take the matter in hand, to
determine whether Mr.. Beecher can
properly remain in the pulpit of their
denomination. After the rigorous in
vestigation already made in a court of
justice, and nothing determined, we feel
but small confidence in the labors OF any
such loosely constituted tribunals, as q
grand church Council, to bring anything
new to light. They always straggle
about miscellaneously, and seldom ar
rive at any conclusions worth mention
ing.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
DUAL INDIVIDUALITY.

Extraordinary Experiences of foung Lady
How Mesmerism Effected Complete Change
In Her Pesonality-She Marries In Her Alb
normal State.
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE.
DAYTON sHoHf-IINs AND CLEVELAND.

DAYTON sHoRT-LINE AND COLUMI
Dpuot. Pearl and Plum, Time. miuuf
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The Hayes Fever.

The Hayes fever is spreading quite
rapidly among the Republicans in Ohio.
The press of the Republican party is
catching it quite generally; and it threat
ems to become contagious among the peo-
pie. Even some Democrats have had
symptoms of a mild attack. We
have not heard Of any fatal cases
Ms yet; but good many are
pretty far gone with 1t. 1t
would be something to make a,note of if
1t should so happen that Ohio would be
made the place of holding the National
Conventions Of both parties, and then
furnish both parties with their Presi-
Dental candidates this Centennial year.
Worse things might happen. Both par
ties have good material for Presidents
in Ohio; and the Republicans have no
better man in any State than RUTHER-
FORD B. HAYES.
The only discouraging circumstance
bearing upon his chances of success that
has yet come to light, is in the fact that
the Sands-Eggle Times ring is try
kng hard to wiring in with the Hayes
movement. Having Grant on their
hands, this is an acrobatic feat of no
little difficulty. For Grant is to be
tglorified at the same time that they
smile SO ravishingly upon Hayes. The
friends of Gov. Hayes are alarmed by
that smile. 1t means mischief to their
hopes. 1t is the smile of Medusa, the
Gorgon, that used to turn to stone what
ever 1t looked upon. 1t would be just
the thing to petrify the Hayes
movement. 1t would be sure
to cool the Hayes, fever forever, simply
by killing the patient. The Hayes
chances are nullitied unless that ring
sticks to Grant. II the Hayes people
have little money to spend, let it be
used to'get that ring to let Hayes alone.
That's where it will do the Hayes cause
the most good,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

AN observing and intelligent gentle
man, just returned from a business tour
through Michigan, informs us that the
prevailing sentiment among the Demo-
rrats of that State is strongly in favor
Of the nomination of Governor Hen
tricks for the Presidency.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

A Kentucky paper endeayors to pay a
delicate compliment to q fay orite actress
by calling her s'asweet little red-haired
chandelier kickerp T"f
, 1876-09-22
WOMEN IN POLITICS.

Az Ne 4AutPF " 3Hs AtpsN"St
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-A lady friend said to me
the other day. " wiah ! could attend sono OF
tho political meetings. should enjoy It so
much" Why can't tho ladies' attends They
would grace tbs occasion, bo = healthy restraint
upon tue meetings, add To tho responsibility,
aud add moral weight, by their presence at tue
The meetings. Bca!los q great manv good No-'
puulicans remain AWAY from, the meetings, be-
cause they are such good husbands that they
dislike To leave their wiycs alono, but would
gladly 70 Il they could take them with them.
Let every Republican club IN the city tender
cordial Invitation TO The ladies, E,TS,
We cordially agree With tho writqr tp the
opinion TINT the presence Of ladies at political
gatherings OF suitable character would bn
agreeable and cd!fysug to a,i concerned. II
must ba admitted. however, that tho aycrpee
run OF ward meetings, the parp1ea aud drllla 81
nlnruillnE clubs, tlle Transaction OF routine bust.
ness, cte., offer few attractions 10 the pentlrr
sex, who would not DO comfortable 1t most Of
these aasemblagss II thla ls true o& Republican
Meutipgs VI tho common order, how much 1aoru
true Is it Of tho regular pctnocTatic saloon-
crowds, where no woman could possibly
| endure tAp mixture Of whisky tobacco, aud
profanity. But there lave bccns and will lie, ut
various times during the campaign class Of
| KcpuLlIcan meetings which ladies can attend
1 will Measure, praat, hnl proprlety, and Wheso
tllry will be heartily WELCOME, the moro 1t them
the better.
, 1876-09-22

extreme weather, and Of etratning the ego from
the tnstirct IN nee everything In eptc OF the oh
struetio,l, which arc surely worthy Of considers
tion.
Many people Imagine that were tho blinfcrsto
Ire removed, shy horseR-the more especially II
thty have not been broken to uAe without them
would be constantly frightened l,y what they
would sea In tho slreets, SO "A to mako their sc
In 4 carriage dangerous. But tho fact usuRllYfs
that it II not what horse sees In the atrctts
which alarms ltt, 0nd, II he he susceptible aihl
acnsitlye, causes bin 10 be rcativo Ia the car
riage, ko murh as that which hc secs oiIJ IN
part, or not At al but which he hears ni,d IA not
attic tn zee 60 "a to assure himscif OF In lhrt,.
lcssncss. Tie writer owns = very shy and
nervous mare, lie can drivo her up TO the cx-
trulne line Of permission when train u Iasa!ng
with perfcEt enfcty, when sho Is 1scnE the
music and can soc thoroughly what L. BoiuR on
und going by; hut ho sometimes t'ilus great
,lilllrIlty In managing her when she happens to
he tpoil road where eha can henr the cara
approaching, but is prevented by The trees, Dr
Many cnrrtagc horses arc occasionally ridden
under tic satl1lc. and then pEobahly alHays
without b1lnders; but who ever knew them 10
ba less manageable than Hhch In harness,
sinopty because their eyes arc uncovered
At al1 events hUrsts III the average Intelligence
cal, be readily broken to uac without blihllcrs,
and VIC very much mistake L thu reform oi
duIng Away altogether With that Tclls Of ait
tI1,iatcd harharism would not be real gniIl oil
roilnd-to mastcr and beast. As VT look at IT,
humanity demands IT, And VIZ arc glad e
reform, a,,d that-for cxn1nplc.-thc u!ghlant
hursc-rai,rosd ID restoring its horses " thc!
natural rghts In this respect, as fast as i can.
, 1876-09-22
Walking into Terrestrial Tophet, and Un"
concerncdly Working TiIcreins

London Daily 1tIf1raph,
se,nbling that Of an OCEAN diver. the back u
which Is provided with ta!l of hoac or tubing
A simulated houso being III full blaze, Capt
Ahlstrum In o lcisurcly way ensers thu bluzstg
tames, lit cxamlniug thc contents In u tAouEht-
tui ntiA deliberate manner. now folding Ills
arms, and, with cigar in ll!a mouth, l9oking
around him Is though ho rather enjoyed than
trial Tophot; now stopping down to pick up ob.
iects supposed 10 represent keys casll 6oxra, OF
other valuable articles which might bo imperll-
cd In a burning house, now rescung "duni-
my'' figure from impending ineimeration, wfap,.
snicly into tllc open. Then lie ctncrgcs tro!l.
tl,s burning hut carrying. In h's arms red hot
beams, and these tinlDcrs hO clasps close to his
breast, rubs between 1is hands. anil otherwise
Captaia cuts away blazing obstacles lying iu hts
pa(il, or from, portion of tho tubing branching
from Ills rau1al appcndoge llc plays upon t!e
aamcs until the fire near h!m s reduced t., t. =
mA$s Of cliarscd and smoking clnuers The
performance cndurcA for sllace Of 10 or 80
| n,Iptltes. After hp ts dlycstetl of lila Divers
gear the temperature Of lily bo1yts BY no means
nbnornallY wnrln, aud underneath lta hreMams
| drcas As wears hla ordtnury Eartnents. Tho
ilrcsa consists Of double covering cuye1oplns
tho whole body: but It Is nude IN two parts
ono for tic trunk. arms, md lower lilnbs, n,itt
tho other for tho head both alr.t'ght an'l 9oln,
| Of India rubbnr, and the outer dart Of H.ole.
4 skiu, lined With stout cotton cloth, or aoMe
other toll-c.,ntluctor Of heat. The l,Had Of thu
| dress L. soofrd IN by llclmlot, which not only
covers tho head and the loints of the lower
parts, but Inns breastpcce descending as loW
as tAe whist. This casquo IL Of double canvas
nnd chauuelel for the exit Of water. When ttt
dross Is adjusted air Is supplied TO tho aa'amAn
der by meaus Ut q. spiral lnd'a rubber tMo'
and tNs Tuner tubs is fed from all ar pump. d
Amply by u pair Of bellows ut the extremity u
tts E1rcck!Ngs tatl.