The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-07

iouhu lhelr way into large Salaried posi-
tions, whose duties are performed in part
by subordinate clerks, receiving small com.
pensation, and it is proposed to change all
this.
DEATH oF MARY II. GARRETsoN.
Mary Rutherford Garretson died yester-
day in her eighty-seventh year at Rhine
beck. She was the daughter OF Freeborn
Garretson, a prominent Methodist clergy
man who died in 1927. Her mother was
Catherine Livingston. daughter of Robert
Livingston, of Clermont, and sister OF
Robert Livingston, Chancellor of New York
State. and of Edward Livingston, author OF
the Code OF Louisiana and at one time Min
lister to France.
oPHrHALMIc MEDALS.
At the twenty-seventh annual COM
mencement of the New York Ophthalmic
Hospital. last evening, President Smith
awarded diplomas to Phoebe Janeway,
MD, E. II. Limnell, MD, Norwich,
Conn; N. l.. Mcbride. Chicago; H. C.
French, MD, Cleveland, o., and F. De-
Witt Bates, M. D., Hamilton, Ont.
1T WAS QUIET THERE.
The steamship Etna, which left Port al,
Prince on the ed of February, has arrived.
Her officers says affairs were quiet in Hayti
when they sailed. The President returned
to Port au Prince on the 21st of February.
BAD FOR THE NoLAHs.
James Nolan, aged thirty, was found
dead last evening in stable in Brooklyn,
next door to liquor store, where he had
been drinking. Thomas Nolan, also aged
thirty, was terribly slashed across the face
with razor last night up town, and taken
to the hospital in dying condition. He
had been drinking, too.
To-DAY's SUNSHINE.
The Sun again to-day, in two columns on
the front page, gives a statement showing
how, it alleges, Hayes has paid the men who
counted him in. In another place it prints
a letter from an Albany correspondent
nearly column and half long in which
Democrat of high standing is reported as
saying: If the nomination for President
comes to the State of New York Mr.. Tilden
will receive it. Seymour is not in the field,
and there is no other candidate who pos
sesses sufficient prominence to be seriously
talked of.
HOW THINGS WORK.
1t is stated here that new Tilden organ
is to be started in Chicago. and that the
statement of an Indiana paper that the
Democrats in the country favor Tilden and
Hendricks in 1880, shows how the lubricat
ing influence of barrel of money and the
inspiring suggestions of the literary bureau
are beginning to work.
MRS. SMITH FITS.
Mrs. Jennie Smith, who is in New Jer
sey Jail awaiting trial ON the charge oi
numbering her husband, was seized with
violent epieptc fits yesterday. She fell
unconscious in attempting to go for drink
of water She was attended by the County
Physician, and the spasms stopped.
THE COOPERATIVE PRINTERS.
The New York Cooperative Printers As
sociation, composed OF many practical
printers, are preparing place for extensive
book and job printing, and have opened an
office on Fulton street.
PERILs OF INFANTS.
An alarming number of malpractice,
abortion or infanticide cases, have been re.
ported of late; also a number of cases oi
child abandonment. A male founding a
few days old was found last evening on One
Hundred and Nineteenth street, this city
and another ten days old was found neal
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Maria Somers
was arrested for leaving the Brooklyn baby.
1t isa shocking fact that new born in
fants are often cast away as nuisances, and
their bodies found in cutters. sewers ash.
barrels, vacant lots, sidewalks, or on door.
steps. Only the other evening an infant
was placed in church-yard in Brooklyn
and it was not discovered until the next
morning. In the meantime the snow Of
heaven had baptized" and buried it.
CONVICTED ON A THIEF's TESTIMONY.
In Queens County yesterday Thomas Nc
Quirk got fifteen years for burglary. Nc
Quirk declared before God and man that he
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testimony of a thief.
TO THE INEBRTATES HOME.
Edward Remington, son of Rev. Frank
lin Remington, well-known Episcopal
missionary of Brooklyn. has been arrested
sold to Thomas Newman registered $500
U. S. bond for $3.50. The bond was the
property Of his father but the son repre-
sentcd himself as the owner. The money
was spent in spree, and young Remington
sent to the Inebriates' Asylum.
AGAINST THE ELY ESTATE.
The suit of Robert Thompson against the
estate of David Ely to recover $500, al.
legged to have been fraudulently obtained
in a loan on certain worthless bonds issued
by one Roswell Peck, of East Haddam,
Conn, has begun in the Superior Court.
Ely, during his lie, occupied II high social
and commercial standing. He was vestry-
man of st. George (Dr Tyng's) Church and
in Wall street was rated A |. He left an
estate valued at a million of dollars.
THE MORNING FIRE.
By the fire early this morning at 2G
Bridge street, Atwater & Co., rag mer
chants, lost 200 on stock, and the build
ing was damaged to the extent of $1,000.
CRUELTY OF ANIMALS.
Henry Bergh, Jr., son of President
Bergh, of the Society for Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals, was kicked in the face
by horse, and severely injured to-day
while examining the horses Of the Madison
avenue stage line.