The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-14


Wear their holiest blue,
When the devils on the flower
- And the star on the dew. gl.4 .,....s,
The elegant style and beautiful typog-
raphy of the book are in appropriate
accord with its contents.
Colonel WOoliey and ssThe Shirt
of NeSSus." at a.g.
We take pride and pleasure in laying
the following communication before the
Cincinnati public, received too late for
insertion in yesterdays issue: et /
"CINCINNATI, o., March 10, 1876. /
"To the Editor Of the STAR:
"In your Saturdays issue you said: !:
Colonel Wooliey is pretty extensively
known as a railroad stock jObberSand
that he has his eye on the Southern
Railroad is quite certain AL
though / don't own share OF
railroad stock, and never bought share
of any stock except Tor Investment.
This little misstatement is so character
istic OF the Cincinnati press that it.
would have passed unnoticed had it not
been connected with the implied charge
that / was a fool in addition. Say that l
am a Kentuckian, false friend, a bad
neighbor, an unworthy citizen, or an.
Alick Ferguson; but please don't accuse.
me again Of wanting this railroad. For
by my beard, by my honah, sa and by
the faith L have in the goodness of Dea-
con Richard Smith, would not take the
Southern Road on a free lease.
guaranteeing to run 1t as other.
roads are run for twenty-five years and,
return it then in good order. 1t will be
| a Shirt OF Nessus TO its possessor. Let
mine enemies have 1t, is a prayer l
Learned from j OBJ.
| &c. W. WooLLEY."
We regret intensely that we could not
have given the foregoing efusion to the
public in our issue OF yesterday. We
plead guilty to the offense of cruelty to
animals for having kept so delicate a
morsel cooling tor twenty-four hours.
But, by the "Shirt of Nessus," by the
beard of a he-goat, by the faith we have
in the s,honaR' of a Woolley,we couldn't
help it, sahl We can only express our
fearful regrets, and the hope that Mr..
Woolley will take Byron's advice, and
/ C. Console himself
Il With rum and true religion"
Mr.. Wooley, after describing certain
| fine arches and parabolic curves in logic
reaches the sage conclusion that we had
called him fool "by implication" He
swears he wouldn't have the Cincinnati
Southern Railrcal as free gift; no.
sah,. you couldn't stuff it into his
breeches pocket, sab, for nothing, sab
And TO intimate that he would SO take
it, is, in his opinion, to suppose him 9
fool.
Now, we congratulate MIR. Woolley
upon his speedy recovery from severe
attack Of the simples. We didn't know
that he was convalescent yet. For only
so lately as the 9th of last month we fint
q letter printed in the newspaper
signed by exactly the same name as tha
signed to the above letter, to wit, sc. w
WooNey," containing suggestion, a
"his instance" he says, to make "'
proposition to the city, liberal to her in it,
nature, to take the entire line Of tn,
!, lSouthern Railway of her hands," Th'
same letter, signed by the same sc. w
Woolley," also stated that he, the sal,
q. W. woolley, was "authorized to stat
to the members OF the Ohio Legislature
! that company having interests in Gin
cinnati would In a short time propose t
that city to operate the Southern Bail
way for the Trustees, from Lexington
south, as the same might be completed
Ion fair TERMS"
That was what Mr.. Woolley said o.
the 9th Of February; and now on tn
18th OF March he complains that he wa
called o stool by implication, for hal
boring any such thought. II what b
now says be true, q pensiv
public might well Inquire why b
:. wrote himself down an ass In that bt
half, only 81 days agoi But we hope hi
recoveryis complete, and we congratulate
him on the speedy termination Of th
attack; and, upon the faith OF his ow
soiennn asseveration, we now affirm tina
? Whatever he was then, he is no longe
LA fool by implication" for he has ce
tainly shown sufficient intellectual abb
! ity to
Il "Compound for sins he is inclined to,
III BY damning those he has no mind to-"
and that is sure sign that Woeliey
l sshead is level"
VI
II The Comptroller OF the Currency ha
called on the national banks for report
Q showing their condition at the close
4 business Friday, March 10. The Com
troller has also declared D dividend I
thirty per cent. In favor of the creditor
Of the Gibson County National Ban
) Princetcn. Indianas