The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-12
PITH OF THE PRESS.

Chicago Times: Carl Schurz is the, littl&
Old Man of the Sea, and Sinbad Hayes can't
shake him off.
New York World The 'In God We
Trust on the new dollar has reference to
the other eight cents.
Pittsburg Telegraph Ben. Butler has Sc
cured fresh supply Of bricks, wherewith to
batter the long pole that has knocked the
per-Simmons.
New York World: Mr.. Conkling is pre-
pairing Noration ON the first year of Mr..
Hayes administration. 1t will be the Most
Powerful Effort of his Life.
Omaha Herald: The World, from defend
ing John Kelley a year ago because it hated
Tilden, is now fighting him because it hates
Bayard and fears Hendricks.
Kansas City Times: More vessels are
loading in Liverpool for New. Orleans than
were ever before known to be loading any
where at one time for that port.
Courier-Journal: Somehow or other,
Jules Verne never gets mixed up in any Of
those French duels. In fact, the duel in
France, as elsewhere, rarely accomplshes
any good.
Omaha, Herald. General Ben. Buffers
| great financial delusion seems to consist in
the idea that Congress is equal to the Gre
ator, and can create something valuable out
of nothing.
Baltimore Gazette Gen. Garfield pretty
clearly demonstrated in his pleasant little
epitaph on Judge Kelley that if a man only
stays in Congress long enough and votes
purely from policy, he will be reasonably
sure to make record on all sides of public
questions.
Washington POST There is trouble out in
the Buckeye State over little controversy,
the gist of which is that Mrs. Gov. Bishop
told Mrs. Jones, of Cincinnati that the Gov
efnor would not appoint Roman Catholic
| to any public office. The Governor had to
travel to Cincinnati and straighten the
thing out with Jones.
| Columbus Journal: Halstead does not
seem to be in love with the big silver dollar,
now that he has it, He calls the Goddess of
Liberty, on the front side, a British bar
maid" and the glorious bird of freedom
with wide spread wings on the tail side
''the agonizad partridge Now if that be
not treason to the dollars of the daddies,
what is it?
Indianapolis Journal: David Eckstein, of
Ohio, has been appointed Consul at Amster-
dam. He was for several years Consul at
Vancouvers Island, and having been re-
moved "under a misapprehension, claimed
another appointment as vindication. We
are in favor of holding the Government to-
gether until all the Ohio men have been
yindicated, anyhow.
Courier-Journal: BY way of Penitentiary
reform in Ohio, an ex-Warden recommends
''in place of the dungeon, ducking-tub
and bull-rings," the employment of "the
paddle in the hands of a judicious mar" "
Perhaps the paddle in the hands OF judi
cious man, before the lesser conyicts. are
sent to the Penitentiary, could be better
kept under judicial control, and would OBJ
viate the necessity for so many contrivances
for punishment within the walls
Courier-Journal: There is man in Penn,
sylvania who believes that if you will take
Theoretically sealed bottle and hold it neal
the ground, it will indicate the existence OF
, oil a thousand feet below the surface of the
earth, and it is said that last year, acting
upon this belief, he dug eight wells at a cost
of 100000 and the bottle fooled him every
time. He is not the first man-nO, not by
several-that has been tloored by bottle.
New York Tribune; Mr., Hendricks
needs to keep a sharp eye on Senator Nc
Donald, of Indiana. When asked, the Other
dav, whether an Eastern or a Western mar
would be the next Democratic candidate fol
the Presidency, Mr.. Mcdonald said it was
. not worth while to hazard an opinion so fal
i'm advance This is simple treason. Nc
Democratic citizen of Indiana has any eX
: cuse for refusing to announce on all posi-
: BILE occasions that Hendricks is foreor
+ dained to run for the Presidency once il
every four years.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat: The office
holding fever is illustrated in the case o
D Mr., Albert G. Porter, of Indiana, just ap
: pointed First Comptroller of the Treasury
q Mr.. Porter was member of Congress TWEEN
4 tv years ago; he is rich man. and viii
spend much more than his salary-$5, 900
Z wear, we believe-to live in Washington
Il He could be assured of twice that sum as
# practicing lawyer but as a lawyer he woulC
:. not be an oftice-holder. The number O
} men who would rather earn $1,000 yea
n out of public Office than ten times tina
l. sum in private business, is astonishingl
O. large in this country.
e CATCHING A WHITE WHALE IN GEORGIA.
&c Captain Clay, Of the whaling schooner Col
AZ den CITY, captured in our harbor, on Mon
IS day last, an enormous white whale, meas
ir uring about sixty-ive feet in length, an
j, from which he feels sure of ''trying out
- one hundred barrels of oil, and getting be
Is tween seven and eight hundred pounds c
~ whalebone. The tongue of this monster {