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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12

sight the boy was to be seen Fastening
toward Merrivale, murmaring to himself
excitedly as he clutched tenaciously the
box, which he had exhumed from the
earth after the departure of burglars.
Gone thousand dollars reward Five
hundred dollars reward! Fifteen hun.
dred dollars reward in all, and all my
ownW
Mr. James F. Baker, President of the
Merrivale Bank, sat in his private ofiioe
the morning of the fifth day after the
robbery of the bank with which he wa,
connected, when clerk announced Wis
itor, and our young hero, Tommy Pow.
ers, entered his presence.
"You offered reward for the robber,
and money" said Tommy, not at all dis.
composed at the frowning manner of the
august functionary, at thus being the re.
cipient of call from a boy.
"Yes," he replied eurtly.
81 heard that you have discharged
your watchman."
Eyes"
'1 have recovered your money, and I
can tell you where the robbers now are.
But first, before I say word of either, l
desire pledge from you to the effect that
you will release your old watchman from
jail and employ him once more"
81 will"
"And exonerate him from all blame in
the affair.""
Tommy took from under his coat the
iron box.
"There is your money! he said. "The
robbers are at Taunton. When you have
paid me the reward and reinstated your
watchman, am ready to explain"
The reward was paid to him that day
and old Sias Tolman found the truth of
the blessed Scriptural adage which reads:
Coast thy bread upon the waters and it
shall return to you after many days"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
New Orleans Times

General Garfield has been interviewed,
and he doesn't feel like risking his repu-
tation as prophet, to such an extent as
to undertake to say who the Republican
Presidential candidate will be. He has
heard of Blaine and Sherman, but ''is
conscious that there is wood-pasture
full of dark horses" 1t can't be possible
that Garfield looks upon himself as one
of the dark horses.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12

The 4:33 a. M, 7:53 a. m. and 403 p. m. trains
connect for Yellow Springs and Springfield. The
Church Train leaves Loveand Sundays at 910
a. M, and returning leaves Cincinnati at 1853 D. IN.
clEvrLAND, MT. VERNON AND COLUMBUS.
Depot Front and Kilgour.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
The Fight on the Columbia.

The epresident of the Columbia Steam Nav
igation Company addresses us q communi-
cation, which we publish to-day, taking ex-
excursion steamer Columbia on Sunday
last as an exaggerated statement of the
facts. From his version of the story it ap-
pears that fight did actually occur near the
pilot house, but was. quickly suppressed
by 'the policemen, first officer and
to have been something of "row" after all
to require all this suppressing. The presi-
dent himself speaks of it as an "outbreak"
which, Sin crowd of two thousand people,
is liable to occur" Well, that is precisely
the reason why We insist that it was the
business Of the police and officers on board
to have put q stop to the rowdyism
which prevailed for some time previ-
Gus to the fight and which led to
the ''outbreak" as matter of course. On
the principle that prevention is better than
cure, especially on well filled steamboat,
it would have been wiser for the steamer 8
people to have interfered before the fight
than to have suppressed it, as they very
promptly did, alter it had commenced.
We are informed that the Columbia, in
stead of being overcrowded, did not have
even full load of passengers, according to
the number allowed by the United States
inspector. But two thousand men, women
and children are nevertheless too many,
should panic prevail on steamer. 1t
would be well, by the way, to let the pub
lie know just how many passengers the
United States officials allow the Columbia
and other excursion boats to carry.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

almost resolved on, is to follow the pa
triotic and sensible example of General
Grant and retire definitely from. public
life. Grant emulating the noble example
of Washington, retires to Galena he re-
mains abroad, it is understood, to avoid hip
podrome receptions, partisan ovations and
an undgnified scramble for the Presidential
nomination he announces from far off
Japan that on his return he will retire to
Galena-as Washington returned to Mount
Vernon. Can you, Mr.. Tilden, resist the
example? Can you forget the course of your
political prophet and great exemplar, Jeffer-
son? He was the sage of Monticello; how fit
that you should be the sage Of Gramercy
Park Each party would then possess
an adviser, counsellor in all its difficult
ties, and while republicans turned to Ga
lena democrats would hasten to your shady
nook in Gramercy Park for the supplies Of
political wisdom which they would there
find awaiting them.
You cannot be President, Mr.. Tilden,
but you can serve your party by retiring to
private life. Do that-and who knows? we
may have q democratic President yet.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
"Pure Cussedness.o

The dismissal of six of the third class
cadets at West Point who were prominent
in the recent ''hazing" is regarded as cal
culated to have a salutary effect Ten
others remain under arrest and will be
tried by court martial, but it is probable
that the punishment will end with the
cases already acted upon. General Scho-
field expressed to the HERALD correspond
ent yesterday his views of the occurrence.
He regards the action of the third class to
have been prompted by ''pure cussedness,'
and believes that the Academy will be bet
ter without young men who give themselves
up to the prac ice of "hazing" than with
them. No doubt the General is right, and
it is to be hoped that he will prove success
full in his efforts to extinguish the abomin-
able custom and to weed out "the ele-
ment of blackguardism" TO which he at
tributes its existence.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
Who Owns Comey Island

There are now as many claimants to the
ownership of Coney Island as there are
heirs to the Anneke Jams estate, and new
ones are tArning up every day. One of
these prospective proprietors applied to
Judge Barnard, of the supreme Court, in
Brooklyn, yesterday, to be made party to
the proceedings for the requirement of land
on the island by the New York and Sea
Beach Railroad Company. The applicant
claims to own two thirty-ninths Of the
island as heir of an original patentee. 1t
was insisted on the part of the town of
Gravesend that the town had been in unin-
terrupted possession Tor over hundred
years, and that the proper remedy Of the
claimant, If he had any rights, was by an
action in ejectment. Judge Barnard denied
the application in short order, expressing
his disbelief in the good faith of the appli-
cant and remarking that such claims are
common when rise in land takes place,
and that everybody claims to be the heir of
n rich man who dies without heirs.
Probably Judge Barnard made proper
decision, yet why may not the establish
ment OF the ownership of some one of these
many claimants be happy way out Of the
~,ssent troubles OF the island by disposing
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
The Church street Assassination.

The Coroner's jury in the Bolender mur-
der case yesterday brought in their ver-
dict They find ''that Michael Bolender
came to his death by shock from stab
wound Of the chest penetrating the heart,
inflicted with knife in the hands of
francesca Polkato on the corner of Full
ton and Church streets, July "a,
1879" The verdict was easily found,
there being no chance of the concoction Of
any mysterious theory by Coroner or police.
The assassin had concealed himself from
his victims sight behind a post, had sprung
upon him as he passed the lurking place,
had stabbed him to the heart, and was cap
tured, after considerable resistance, with
the bloody knife in his hand. He had been
properly knocked down and disabled by
O policeman's club, and had confessed
and exulted over the crime, so that
there was no room for a confusion
of identity or for search for clews to trace
the assassination to an innocent party. If
there had been the jurymen who found
that q man whose heart had been cut in
two by the murderer's knife had come to
his death by the "shock" resulting from
the stab would, no doubt, have been equal
to the occasion.
The murderer's trial should take place at
as early date as possible and the punish
ment of death should follow without any
longer delay than the law necessitates.
Stabbing cases have been frequent of late,
and among the lower grade of the Italian
population the knife seems to be used on
slight provocation. There can be no SYM
pathy for the murderer of the German,
Bolender. and his prompt execution may
have a good effect in checking most das-
tardly crime.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
Pretenders ina France-The Orleans
Conferences.


1t would be strange if the death of an un-
lucky boy in South Africa should seat
Bourbon on the throne of France, and the
fact would supply u notable illustration OF
the occult relationships of human destiny.
Death seems certainly to have given to the
Prince Imperial political Importance he
did not seem to possess in life, unless some
persons who ought to be able to calculate
well on effects of this nature are now found
ing great projects on mistaken estimates.
There is scarcely doubt. we suppose, that
the conference of the Orleans princes in
Geneva from the 10Th to the 2lst of July had
relation to the new situation made for the
other pretenders by the death of an impor-
tant member of the brotherhood of would
be kings. Young Napoleon's death has
practically given unity to all the
elements of hostility to the Repub-
lie in France, for it has left his
party without an acceptable head; has left
it with head whose unpopularity and un-
satisfactory record demoralize it. But as
that party is still and will be animated by
passionate hostility to the Republic, and
will and must fight against the system it
hates, it will simply array itself under
other banners, and thus~add its force to the
ranks of the monarchists. All the mon
archical parties proper were united before,
and the addition Of the Bonapartists to the
number creates relation Of parties
which, if it had existed in 1874,
would have prevented the existence of
the present Republic. BY such q unity the
three parties whose divisions made way for
the Republic would have acted together in
putting on the throne Henry V. Are the
legitimis.s, Orleanists and Bonapartists,
taken together, still stronger than the re-
publicans? In the Assembly they are not,
and therefore they have not the chance to
make their power telt. But in the country
they are, perhaps, not much weaker than
they were some years ago, and the differ
ence between the country and the Chamber
in this respect may, perhaps, be due to
the discouragement of the parties who
stayed away from polls in the days when
they saw no hope. There is now in prog
ress in many ways q. consolidation OF the
elements opposed to the Republic, and
new election might show peculiar changes
of opinion.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

- A4.o ...s-..4.e. %, 1s.. non Of late years
has been to prohibit corporal punishment
in the prisons of the State. The Revised
Statutes provide that 'no keeper in any
State prison shall inflict any blows what
ever upon any convict, unless in self-de-
fence or to suppress o revolt or insurrec-
tion." 1t has been argued that this pro-
hibition refers to the unauthorized
infiction of blows by keeper
without the authority of his superior
officer. But the same section prescribes
that the punishment of an insubordinate
convict shall be confinement in a cell upon
a short allowance until he shall be reduced
to submission and obedience, thus proving
clearly that the law prohibits the infction
of any blows whatever by any person
whomsoever upon o convict. The punish
ments commonly known as the Shower
bath, crucifix, or yoke and buck"
are specially abolished, and their
use in any prison or penitentiary
in the State is made q misdemeanor
punishable by fine and imprisonment.
The State Prison authorities have always
opposed these restrictions on their modes
of enforcing discipline; but it does not ap-
pear that the laws which have been in
operation some ten or twelve years have
injuriously affected the management of our
penal institutions. 1t is now claimed that
under the law of 1877, passed in accord
ance with the constitutional amendment
changing our State Prison system, the
Superintendent of Prisons is invested with
powers which do not come within the re-
strictions of the statutes we have referred
to above Section five of the law of 1877
which provides that the Superintendent
"shall make such rules and regulations
for the government and punish
ment of convicts as he may deem proper, "
is relied upon as authorizing the
infliction Of blows on convict and
the introduction Of the instrument
known as the paddle" This claim is un-
tenable The Superintendent, while hav-
ing authority to make such rules and regu-
lations as he may deem proper for the
punishment of convicts, can apply only
such punishments as are legal, and not
such as are prohibited by existing statutes
not in conflict with the law comforting upon
him such authority.
The discipline of the prisons can, we be-
lieve, be as well maintained and enforced
without these "cruel and unusual punish
ments" as with them, and while the shoot
ing of Barrett appears to have been clearly
justifable and, indeed. unavoidable, it may
be well to inquire by what right the pun
ishment of 'paddling" was inflicted on him
or on any other prisoner.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
Poisoned DeIicacics.

Sanitary boards from time to time supply
to the public lists of articles sold as food or
to be used in culinary processes which are
merely adulterated or actually INJURIOUS or
poisonous. Flavoring extracts commonly
count as important items in these domestic
bills of indictment, and the families in
Pennsylvania reported as poisoned by
homemade ice cream are, perhaps, victims
to the "essonce" with which they gave their
dainty piquant taste. One account, it is
true, represents them as poisoned through
the fact that the ''custard" for their cream
was "boiled" In a brass kettle. Ice cream
made from custard or the elements of GUS
tard is not unknown to art poor art, how
ever--but If that custard is boiled, that is
enough. It does not need any theory TO
account for trouble in the human stomach
filled with custard that has been first boiled
and then frozen. No brass kettle is neces-
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

OF Mr.. Corbin? If for instance, it should
be found that the island hundred years
ago was the property of wealthy lsraellte
named Cohen, and that its present name,
Coney Island, is only corruption from
Cohen-y Island, we might get rid of all this
disturbing Jewish war. The descendants
and heirs OF the very late Mr.. Cohen would
doubtless be too liberal to object to the
presence of Christians on any part of the
island, either on account of their religion
or their manners, and all denominations
might then enjoy themselves in common on
New York's most popular seashore.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
yellow Fever at aunrantine.

The death Of John Hennessy, the steve
dore, at Quarantine presents the first in
stance this year of death by this malady in
the case of person who had contracted
the disease in this climate. He was not a
refugee from Memphis, nor any other in
fected place in that neighborhood, nor n
passenger from a fever port. He was q
laborer engaged in unloading ships at Quar-
antine, and was sent from his labor to the
hospital. Between this case, consequently,
and the cases Of refugees or travellers
who come from Southern cities with
the fever actually in their systems
and die here there is wide differ
ence. But this case does not prove,
nor even imply, that the fever can spread
here, and it must not be supposed that be-
cause this stevedore actually caught the
fever in our harbor that therefore the
poison is spread abroad on the air and may
reach any one. Hennessy had worked on
the cargo in the hold of the steamer City of
Merida. That was almost as bad as a trip
to Havana For the City Of Merida is GER
tainly badly injected vessel, and in the
hot sitting atmosphere of her hold the
fever germs possessed in all probability
almost as much activity as they might
acquire in the air of tropical climate.
He caught the disease, therefore, in very ex-
ceptional circumstances, and his case does
not disprove the opinion that the fever can
not spread in our harbor or city with ordi-
rars'S 900" w '"' ~-'a-saaa-s-rs-rp-44-
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
The Isolation or Afghanistan.

If the Russians march on British India,
as one day they may, their route will not
be over the Hindoo Koosh and through
Cabul. The natural obstacles in the way
and the untrustworthy nature of the
Afghan tribes combine to render the
advance of large army over such road
not only extra hazardous. but almost i'm
possible. The desirability OF Balkh lies
not in the fact that it is an
Afghan outpost, but in the protection
which it's possession would give to the
flank of column moving on Herat. The
Russian highway to India lies through this
Persian city torit is Persian, although the
province forms part OF Afghanistan on the
maps) and Candahar. The Boulan, and not
the Khyber, pass is the gate to the rich
valley of the Indus. This view is strength
ened by despatch just at hand from
an Odessa journal, declaring that Russia
regards the natural barrier on the north
of Afghanistan as the proper politi-
cal limit in that direction. These
facts appear to deserve restatement
at this time with reference to the
interesting letter which we publish this
morning from our special correspondent
in Central Asia, who, on the road to Cabul,
pushed his way across the Afghan boun-
dairy as far as Mazar-i-Sheriff, the
town to which the late Shere Ali fed
when he abdicated the throne. Clearly
the Ameer's first impulse was to throw him
self into the arms Of General Kaufman
and to place his country at the feet
of the Gear. With the return of hope,
however, he retired to Tashkourgan,
and died of an abscess and q broken
heart The only gap between Shere
Ais journey and the seat of Russian power
in Central Asia, Tashkend, our correspond
ent has filled up. Having crossed the
Oxus in the most primitive fashion, he
entered Afghan territory. His ride to
the southwark is graphically described.
This panorama of mud villages and arid
wastes unrolls itself before the readers
mind. True to lite, the Eastern govern
ment official struts about breathing bless
ings and curses, and the undisci-
plined soldier is transformed without
moments notice from obsequi-
Gus friend to deadly enemy. 1t is a
portraiture of Eastern life clearly painted
in gay yet truthful colors. "The Danube's
banks wake few emotions; the ANU
Daria's none," says the correspondent.
This is doubtless quite true as re-
CARDS the calm and unimpassioned journal
ist, but to the Russian the Danube and the
Oxus awaken the most soul-stirring emo
tions which the national heart is capable of
feeling these two rivers mark many of the
past and future battle grounds Of the
Empire. Afghanistan, henceforth, is to be
a sealed book to the world. The supremacy
of British rule was no sooner an accom-
plished fact than the roads across the
northern frontier were closed. Unfortu-
nately, the HERALD's correspondent was the
very first to suffer under the new order Of
things.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

sary. We incline to the opinion, however,
that these sufferers were victims to sex
tracts which are bright colored poisons
sold in fancy glass bottles, and which pre-
teno to supply for from ten to twenty cents
quantities Of commodities which, if gen.
uine, would be worth dollar at least.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29
NOT ARTHUR SULLIVAN.

1t was wrongly announced from Boston yesterday
that Arthur Sullivan, the author of 'Pnafore," had
arrived at that port in the steamer Samara. Mr..
A. Sullivan. who did arrive, and who came directly
to New York and is stopping at the Sturtevant
House, is gentleman well known IN theatrical cir
cles in England and has come here Barry Sulli-
van n
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

WALL STREET YEsTERDAY.-The stock mar
ket continued active and still higher prices were
recorded for leading securities. Money was
easy and steady at 3 per cent Government
securities were duh and unchanged, while rail
way bonds were active and higher.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

Few MORE Riots among Sunday excursion
parties, with their attendant killing and wound
ing, will probably teach the promoters of these
entertainments the necessity of adopting more
stringent measures for the preservation of order.
One poor fellow is lying at the point of death,
and no one can count the number of heads
broken during the last three or four weeks.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

THE Crowd that passed up Broadway from
the Battery concert last night attested great
public wapt-more breathing time and space.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

The SEyENTY-sIx ICELANDERs who arrived in
New York yesterday route to Minnesota will
not find the temperature warmer than their
welcome. They bring with them the financial
nest epg of a colony.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

THE Old, OLD SToRY-a young wife, an at
tempted homicide, musket shot and jealous
husbands funeral.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

THE FINE WEATHER brought out the admirers
OF the fast horses at Saratoga yesterday, and
four well contested races were run.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

IT Is FOREGoNE CONCLUSION that we shall
eventually have either five cent fares or 'mixed
trains," and rapid transit to Westchester
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

The OLD NEW YORK MERCHANT who was
dragged through the streets yesterday to an
swer to charge of larceny by a man who sub
sequently found the money in his pantaloons
legs will probably find little consolation in the
thought that mistakes will occur in the best
regulated family" Probably, however, he was
not more humiliated than the person who 50
cruelty wronged him.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

NOTWITHSTANDING THE ALARM that prevails
throughout the Mississippi Valley there is yet
no reason to be disheartened by the yellow fever
reports.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

CITIZENS EVIDENTLY HAVE No RIGHTS that
the club is bound to respect. Three more cases
of police brutality are reported this morning.
Will the Commissioners take noticel
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

ANOTHER SENSATION in the shape of a ferry
boat fatality avoided last evening by the
fortunate discovery of a fire that was under fair
headway, but extinguished before panic ensued.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

SPECULATION AND RELIGION evidently go well
hand in hand. Certainly the Shelter Island Asso-
citation have no reason to complain. There is no
more room even for the sinners.
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

OUR YACHTsMEN now on the vasty deep
ought to be among the happiest of summer NOR
tails, although they have not yet had "a wet
sheet and q flowing sea-"
The New York herald., 1879-07-29

The FRENcHMEN are acting promptly. A
branch of the Credit Lyonnais is already in
viting capitalists to aid in breaking ground
on the Interoceanic Canal