The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-02

A CORRESPONDENT asks the Chicago
Inter-Ocean which way the slope should
run in a dam. The strongest Chicago
dam(n)s seem to slope toward st. Louis.
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS in bonds
were stolen from a minister at West
Troy, n. Y. He can console himself
with the reflection that it would be easier
for camel to penetrate needles eye
than for him to take those bonds with
him, anyhow,
IT may be expected that Sitting Bull
and all his little Indians will now come
focking to the American side of the line.
The rule against selling liquor to In
dians which has hitherto been inhexiby
observed by the Hudson Bay Company,
has been adopted by the Canadian Gov
ernmcnt and will be rigidly enforced by
the mounted police.
REPORTS from shippers of cotton re-
ceivcd so far, establish the fact that the
Weld has exceeded that of last year by
fully one hundred thousand bales. The
fields of Western Texas are said to be
snow white in the abundance of their
crops, so that the South, even in the
gloom of her present atfliction, can look
forward to a season of prosperity
IT is rather remarkable that Germany,
having defeated France in the last war
and received from the latter an indcm-
nitv of 1000, 100000, should 50 soon be
reduced to a state of impecuniosity.
Still stranger is the fact that Germany
should contemplate loan of twenty mill
ion marks, which will undoubtedly be
taken up by French capitalists. 1t looks
very much as if the spoils did not belong
to the victor in that case.
READERS of the STAR to-day hear from
"Cincinnati" the racy and reliable cor
respondent whose letters first from Co
lumbus and afterwards from Washington
became such a pleasant and interesting
feature of our columns "CincinnatI is
taking a respite from journalism and
enjoying a stay in the tropics. He is Z
S. Consul at Nassau, and is doubtless {
faithful and efficient official, for in the
various positions he has filled we have
known him to do nothing poorly.
Two British soldiers in regiment sta
toned in Ceylon died of cholera. They
were total abstainers from Intoxicating
liquors, but their untimely death provet
telling blow to the temperance cause
for one hundred and thirty-six out of tn,
one hundred and eighty-eight remaining
tcetotalers in the regiment at once tool
to drink. Grace Greenwood says tha
England's heart of oak is being eaten ou
by the fire of intempcrance, but it is YER
clear that the boys had rather have it g
that way than by cholera.
HAS America no poet who can dra,
inspiration from the following facts t.
outrival Hoods pathetic poem of 9TH
Song of a Shirt" Mrs Eliza Cannon
of Brooklyn, N. Y, described as a mer
living skeleton, was arraigned in tn
Toombs Police Court on Monday last az
cused of stealing a shirt. Her accuse
was Samuel NJ. Cohen--may his name liy
in infamy-of 345 Broadway. Fl
charged the woman with having spoile
the shirt in the process of manufacture
and he therefore accused her of Robin
him. The Justice asked the poor star
ing woman for her side of tt
story. She stated that h,
husband had been sick for some tim
that she had hired sewing machine al
applied to Mr.. Cohen for work. T
gave her a dozen shirts to make up for
cents, but required 81 deposit. This W
paid. 1t took her three days to nal
the shirts When delivered
Cohen he found fault with the work al
refused to pay cent for it. She tn
demanded her dollar back. This he
fused declaring that she had forfeited
She begged him to return it, as she a
her family were starving. The vills
attempted to eject her forcibly from t
store, when a bottle of ink was ups
The Justice said to the woman, "Y
can co." and the name of her accu
rhould be made immortal in the reco
Of infamy.
The Independent scratcher"
make himself felt this year, even beyc
his usual power. The contest is spiri
one all around, and he will have to m'
the selections If he is of Democratic
clinations and lives in the Second |
trict he will sharpen his lead pencil q
begin by striking off the name of L.
Goss for Congress. Goss can't get
vote of the independent scratche
Then he will draw it just as dexterou
through the name of G. W. G. Johnst