The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-03
PITH OF THE PRESS.

but not until women entirely discard long
dresses and adopt short ones, shall we ever
fully realize how valuable they were TO the
community as street sweepers
Philadelphia Press: Some of the Boston
papers think that roughs who assault po-
lcemen should be publicly whipped, and
the policeman should do the whipping:
The Hub is moving backwards rapidly, and
yet the plan would no doubt prove effective
Pittsburg Telegraph (Ind) The Philadcl-
phia Press has hardly the requisite consist
ency for an organ. While it parades the
fact that Republican Congress created the
greenbacks it also denounces them as dis
honest money. Consistency is not wholly
out of place, even with an organ.
Ohio Eagle Murat Hastead, having ban
shed ice water from Cincinnati hied him
self away to Europe to rest from his labors.
Thereupon Mr.. Plympton, of the CONNER
cal. began an assault on lemonade and root
beer, The next thing we will hear OF some
of these frisky Cincinnati editors saying
that corn whisky is not healthy beverage
Philadelphia Times Qnd,): The indica-
tons are that Mr.. Dennis kearney islikely
to cost more than he is worth. Two days
after he had collected $50 in Chicago, he
passed around the hat in st. Louis and
asked for more $50 day is a pretty steep
price to pay man who does nothing but
swear and keep a private secretary to help
him.
New York Tribune (Rep,): A good many
people who would like to retain their faith
in Mr.. Tilden are suggesting that he may
have been entirely ignorant of what his
wicked nephew and the polysyllable Marble
were doing 1t is not easy to believe this;
but on the contrary, it is difficult to be-
lieve that the extraordinary number OF dis
patches sent was due to his desire to be con-
suited about every move that was made?
Baltimore Telegram (Rep.) It's admitted
that Hayes can not be impeached for any
thing he did before he was installed. But
if anterior promises are linked with subse-
quent payment, the proposition is clearly
established that such payments furnish am
pie legal ground for impeachment That
HAYES has rewarded hundreds who COM
mitted crimes in his name has been proven
beyond doubt. Let the Democratic Con-
gress see that justice is done in this matter.
Springfield Union Rep.): "he Lowell
District is the only one in which Butler has
gained any prominent Republican follow
ING, and that is due to the fact that he is {
heavy stakeholder in several Lowell corpo
rations The Middlesex Manufacturing
Company, in which he is largely interested
| paws its stockholders 20 per cent and sew
eral Of its men 50 cents day. Gifted, gal
liant, glorious Butler" as Dennis would say
No wonder the workinymen rally to hi
support.
New York Sun (Dem.); The Democrat
who voted for either the Burchard or tn
Hartridge resolution are unworthy to repre-
sent any longer the party that elected I'll
l den President They should be set aside a
| unfaithiul servants, and replaced by meI
who have the courage of their convictions
Ii is of the greatest possible consequence
l that the majority in the Forty-siyth Con
eress should be composed Of men who hay
not stultified themselves by falling dow
= upon their knees and worshiplng success
q full fraud.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: Gen. Meredit
Read believes that no final settlement {
the Eastern question can be reached unit
$ the Greeks without as well as within, til
G present kingdom are conciliated and fairl
satisfied. The Greeks he believes, are
. people with a future and with the certaint
! OF a great heritage Of power III the Easier
: Mediterranean. Englands agreements an
understandings with Russia and Turkey al
like a wet blanket to Grecian ambition
"a Before the date of these agreements IT,
20 combinations favored Greece as the naturi
Is successor of Turkey in Europe.
/ Chicago News: In our cities it is sti
IS fashionable to take very good care of tt
= streets upon which the wealthy reside, an
d to take no care at all of the streets upo
which the poorer classes pant for breat
~ of fresh air, and die for want of it. Son
9 dark, sultry night the spirit of the slun
l. will spread its horrible wings above Chicas
-, as it has above New Orleans and Memph
u and as it does above st. Louis and New 4ol
o periodically. 1t will not be dispensatic
d of Proyidence it will be the legitimate I
;, suit of our own msdOing 1t will be what NJ
II Beecher has 50 aptly termed the ayengll
demon of the unclean cellar.
Boston Traveller (Rep.); Wade Ham
tons Springfield organ throws up its h
t. because Hampton's Circuit Judges in Sou
n Carolina certify that there is real peace al
ii less violence and crime there than the
~ ever was under carpet-bag rule. OF cour
- it makes no account of the fact that this
as bulldozed opinion, or of that other ia
Of which every intelligent man without {
= ganic prejudice can see, that the Repu
licans haven't yet exhibited life enou!
y under Hampton to provoke violence al
is bloodshcd. However, Wade Hampton mu
10 have organs in the North or the history
- doughfaceism couldn't repeat itself.
as At Biarritz, the well known waterir
! place on the west coast of France, terrlt
u accident has recently taken place. M
y. Gordon, who had passed the winter in Par
re. was drowned while out on an eXcursiC
~ She attempted without guide to go alo
VI the cliffs far beyond the point marked
at the authorities as the limit. She reached
ID. place known as the Faaise de la Mort, a
i, in STOPPING to pick up a flower her fc
lis slipped, and she was precipitated into
he hole known as the Barbots a spot said
or have this peculiarly, that at the end
II forty-eight hours nothing more than t
u ~ skeleton remains of any beings who f
he into it. 1t contains millions OF inset
by which devour the body, and WHICH q
ND called barbots by the inhabitants, and are
u" them held in spccial horror The Duke