The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-24

ly after the short sessions of Congress,
when Presidents and Cabinet Ministers fee
away, and the business of governing is ree-
gated to subordinates, Washington is in
tensely dull and stupid. and as little to be
enjoyed as country crossroads settlement,
with its blacksmith shop, general notion
store, school-house apd church. 1t Is not
likely Washington will want either life or
interest till after the 4th of March, 1881,
and even then q crowd of
hungry office-seekers will swarm
there during the ensuing three months
We have the testimony of Mississippian
that there is one man in that State who ran
as a candidate on an independent ticket
and Is yet living. There is no life insurance
company that could be induced to graut
him policy.-The action of the Hooking
Valley coal operators on Saturday, in re-
ducing the waves of miners twenty-five per
cent, is threatened with strike. A mass
meeting of the miners for consultation will
be held at Straitsville to-day.-The Nicars-
qua Canal scheme is taking shape.
Monsieur De Franco, Nicaraguan
Minister at Rome, has arrived In New
York, bringing subscription by French
capitalists of $30,000,000. He is to visit
Washington in company with Cyrus W.
Field and other Americans interested in
the enterprise where a consultation with
Admiral Ammen is to take place. 1t is
proposed to organize company with
cap tai of 100000 600, and to offer the
Presidency of it to General Grant. When
he goes East there will be a consultation In
Philadelphia in the latter part of Decem.
Der, when the question, it is thought, will
be finally determined.
The Gazette says The New York Her
aid publishes interviews with divers phil
anthropists and medical men of New York
who agree that hanging is clumsy and bar
barous way to end the life of criminals.
This may be very true, but are mnrderers
careful to dispatch their victims scientifi-
cally and without pain2 When we find
hem exercising care in this respect, it will
consult their own comfort in going out
of the world.-If the owners of sixteen
city breweries-not counting couple
Of suburban ones - can every one
agree upon the price at which the fixed
and movable property of each, and the good
will of each shall be put into the consider
alton, so that no one shall kick, then there
will be consolidated joint stock company,
to own and run all the breweries.-The
scheme of bringing twenty thousand Ken
lucky voters into Indiana is not bad one.
If life in Kentucky has no longer any at.
fractions for kentuckians, and other States
offer more inviting fields, by all means let
the Kentuckians emigrate. And then
as the Indiana Democratic papers
are thoughtfully pointing out
thousands of voters can be taken
away from Kentucky without ,endanger-
ing the majority in the least. Let the Ken
lucky exodus go on..-Cornels plurality in
New York is 43,70O. Hoskins' majority
over P tier, for Lieutenant-G Governor is 118.
The majorties of the other Republican
candidates range from that figure up to
1000. The only Office lost in the State is
that of Engineer.-The Gazette has insist
ed that there should be full and intelli-
gent investigation of not only the Clerk s
office of the United States Court, but also
of the Marshal and District Attorney. This
is due not only to the Government,
but to persons in charge of the
Offices. The Irregularities in the case of Mr..
Ambrose have prepared the mind of the
average public to believe the most exag-
gerated statements and to treat officials Of
every grade and class as dishonest.-The
| Gazette has done most of the advertising
for the United S ates Marshals office, in
Guiding bankruptcy cases, and the sta e.
ment is that 500, 900 has been paid in excess
VI the legal price tor advertising bankruptcy
cases alone. me TACT is the Gazette mas
mo- NOT received IN the eight I've Years nno OF Marshal
In inraiIs aomlh'stratioh Szo,oW aitose'ner ne
& lol &aovertislhg' ana IN the year wheh the
,'n. oulk OF the panHraptcy cases were ac,ea M
upon our n totai Dill 1or auvertsihg was less
.nan ea,oVo iheSe are 1acts that IL requires
10 expert TO ma OUT.
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