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Daily globe., 1879-07-23

Of canal have been built with fifty ak locks.
each two hunured and fifty feet long and forty
ive feet wide; with total lockage Of five hun
dred and sixty four feet; whereas the Erie canal
is three hundred and fifty.two miles long. with
seventy-two locks, each one hundred and ten
feet long and eighteen feet wide, with q total
lockage Of six hundred and ffty-four feet.
From Montreal q system of railroads extends
throughout New Brunswick and New England,
reaching tide water at various places between
Halifax and New London, while westward there
is direct railroad communication with Chicago
Toledo, Detroit, and st. Louis. The distance
from Chicago to Montreal by the lake, the We'll
land and st. Lawrence canals, ss 1,26l miles,
and of this but seventy miles is canal. The
distance from Chicago to New York via the
lakes and the Erie canal is ,419 miles, and of
this three hundred and fifty miles is canal.
Ihe average length of season on the canals for
Ine past twenty-five years has been as follows:
Lachine canal. =. -. {. ~ .2l911 days
Welland canal. l....i...........5.... .234 days
Erle canal. ........... -. .2l5 days
Thus figures and facts demonstrate that cost
OF carriage by water is far below the rate by
rail-. Especially is this true of the ocean and
lakes. Over these great waterways for com
nlerce the grading has been done. The right
OF way is free to all. No expensive rails to be
laid. No perishable bridges to be constructed.
NO costly tunnels to be cut through noun
tains. & - g z
. This is q level track, and with q guage 80
broad it can carry the commerce of continents.
With the lake improvements, now authorized
by Congress and the Canadian government,
completed, unbroken navigation is furnished
to fullsized vessels through the lakes.
. Wheat will then be carried from the head of
Lake Superior to eastern markets at less than
Q cents per bushel. Flour at 25
cents per barrel. Wheat and flour respective
siy lS cents per bushel and 80 cents per barrel,
and other tonnage in like proportion.
This is the heritage in sight for thelpeople Of
the new northwest, and they must see that it is:
not wrenched nor stolen from them. n IA
Having compared the cost of carrying per
mile let us measure and compare the distances
to market, taking St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth as trade and distributing centres &
FIRsT-THE LARH SUPERIOR ROUTE TO THE EAST,
FROM 81. PAUL, COMPARED WITH THE LAKE MrcH-
IGAN RouTu if5.5;Et sE f5 l5.5stsS5y EB q
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ROUTE.

From st. Paul and Minneapolis
via NJ. l. Pr. du Chen r. r
and Chicago to Buffalo. ].
From st. Paul and Minneapolis
via L IS. & M: R.. r., and head
of Lake Superior, to Buffalo. {.
Daily globe., 1879-07-23

Ihe chalr ANNOUNCED the fOIIOWlng as the
committee on programme:
st. Paul-W. L. Banning. chairman, 81. 81.
Sibley.
Minneapolis-W. D. Washburn.
Duluth-O. p. Stearns.
Faribault-G. +. Cole.
Stillwater-D. M. Sabin.
Taylors Falfs-L. W. Folsom
Sault Ste Marie Chauncy Montgomery.
Falls Of st. Croix-W. l.. Blanding.
Red Wing-L. F. Hubbard.
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showing cost of trip from Buffalo to New York
and return of q steam canal boat and consort.
Trip made in August. 1877.
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NUMBER 1870

- 4 : 80
1t is now quite apparent that this road so
hberally endowed with 672 900 acres of swamp
lands, by the government with 96O, 600 acres
OF government lands making together 1882
IVY oO acres, by the city of st. Paul with 5000.
VvO s OF bonds and purposly that short and
cneap line might be opened for the products Of
t1e state via. Lake Superior has been swallow
60 up Dy the Chicago and Milwaukee lines, and
the lberality Of the general government and of
the STATE are to be turned against our citizens
From the above recited facts and careful
lconAderation of tho subject your committee
draw the following conclusions:
First, that it 10 now assured that the North
ern Pacific road will be promptly completed
from the head of Lake Superior to the Pacific
ocean. and. thence 60 the Montreal river.
Second, this done there is established for
AL time great trunk line, q trade highway by
land and water, over the continent from ocean
to ocean, 49,. l.y..-53 "a - -
Third, this, the most direct and cheapest
way of transit, affords to Minnesota one Of the
best ways to market, and it is the duty and the
policy OF our State and people to give their
full sympathy, power and aid to hasten the
completion of the lines along the south shore
OF Lake Superior, and the completion of the
lake improvements authorized BY the goyern-
ment. Es75 80
Fourth. to hold the roads leading to the bead
OF Lake Superior, to strict compliance with
their obligations to maintain their outlet to
the lake and carry at reasonable rates.
Flfth-To secure the. immediate construc-
tion OF an additional line of railway to the
head Of Lake Superior, the same to be operated
IN the interests of Minnesota and the entire
Northwest and in connection with lines of
railway already built. looking to Lake ;Supe-
rlor as their summer outlet.
slxth-Your committee are impressed with
the Importance in connection with any scheme
looking to keeping the way to Lake Superior
Tree to the commerce Of the State, of fcstering
and constructing such lines of railroad leading
from the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis
into the rich, fertile and populous country ~
ing south of those cities as shall guarantee to
Southern Minnesota the same access to Lake
Superior as they shall enjoy, while at the same
time opening an avenue to the wholesale trade
OF OF 81. Pa9l and Minneapolis into u country
hitherto hermetically sealed against its en-
trance.
12eSoZaAd That q committee com noaad ae sf
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Difference in favor of Lake
Superior
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
GENERAL GRANT.
Preparations for His Coming.


The various Committees who have in
hand the preparations for General Grants
reception are making good progress.
The Committee which is going to LOUIS
Vile will have special car. This car will
be handsomely decorated at the expense of
the Louisville Short Line Railroad. The
Committee leaves Wednesday afternoon and
will return with General Grant and party
Thursday noon. A meeting of the Com
mittee appointed to receive General Grant
will be held at the Gibson House this even
ing at o'clock.
The General and suite will arrive Thurs
day noon. After listening to speech OF
welcome on the landing, they will be con-
Quoted over the line of march as already
printed to Music Hall. Returning to the
Gibson House, they will dine at 3 p. m.
From the hotel Gen. and Mrs. Grant will
60 to the reception rendered them by Mr..
and Mrs. Washington Mclean, at their
residence. The General will thereafter 60
to the Grand Hotel, where the banquet in
his honor will be held. On Friday morn
ing, before leaving for Columbus, Gen.
Grant will receive the members of the
Army and Navy Society at the Gibson
House.
The Gibson House has taken extraordn-
ary pains to make the hotel as brilliant as
possible. New carpets will be laid in the
corridors. Several hundred dollars worth
of plants and flowers have been ordered
with which to decorate the rooms, and five
huge boxes of flags have been received to
be used for the outside of the hotel.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
ST. NICHOLAS FOR DECEMBER.

The December st. Nicholas is splendid
Christmas offering to the juvenile readers
of the country, who will know we'll how to
its contents. 1t comprises up
ward Of one hundred pages filled with
varied, choice and appropriate reading and
elegant illustrations Among the most
pleasing and attractive features will be
noticed the opening chapters of new
serial, "Jack and Jill, by Louise M. Alcott,
and continuation of "Among the Lakes"
BY w. o. Stoddard. "The Strange Adven-
tnres of Wood-sled;" christmas at No. 1
Crawlin Place." John Esten Cook contrib
utes story "Paul and the Goblin" Maur.
ice Thompson tells about watching for an
Otter;" John G. Whittier has poem,
"Abram Morrison" and Edward Eggleston
a Christmas recreation on "Mother Goose
and Her Family" in an acting charade.
'The Telegraph Boys of New York" are de.
scribed in q paper by W. A. Lem. An &C.
count of the great Danish sculptor. Thor.
waldsen, is another interesting chapter,
with facsimile engravings of many of his
most admired works. THE Story OF Pegasus
is accompanied with an elegant full
page illustration of "Bellerophon on the
Winged Horse" Besides all these there art
many other narratives, stories, sketches
ETC., and chief among the pictorial attrac
tions is the frontispiece, an elegantly exc
cuted engraving illustrative of child-life.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
The Travellers Official Railway Guide.

The December number of the Official
Railway Guide has been received. We
can with pleasure commend it as the
largest, most complete and comprehensive
work Of its kind ever published in this
country. 1t is issued in monthly parts by
the Railway Publishing Company, Phila-
delphia and under the auspices of the
General Ticket and Passenger Agents AS
sociation. of which it is the recognized
organ. 1t contains all the information
required by the travelling public; all the
railway time schedules, connections and
distances; maps Of all the principal lines
and lists of general officers; an index Of
all the railway stations and express Offices
in the United States and Canada. Also
all the ocean and inland steam navigation
routes. Besides this there will be found
scattered throughout its pages a large
amount Of reading matter pertaining to
railway improvement and progress of gene.
raj interest end value. 1t is sent to regular
subscribers at "a per annum, and sold al
fifty cents a single copy by all periodical
dealers and news agents and at depots, or
| trains, etc.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
The Cincinnati Star .

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers In the City of Cincin-
natl and in all important Western cities
and towns for IL CENTS PER WEEK,
payable to the carrier. Or the paper will
be mailed, postage paid, to any part of
the country for so CENTS PER MONTH,
IS per annum.
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY INDE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. 1t Is taken and read by
people of all parties and shades of opin'
ion, and it seeks to present the news oi
allkinds fairly and faithfully, with justice
to all and with especial favor to none.
THE WEEKLY STAR-$1 PER YEAR,
circulates in all parts of the country, and
isa irst-class family newspaper.
ADVERTISING RATES-In Daily. 12H
CENTS per line, or 81 per square of eight
lines, agate measure. In Weekly, 20
CENTS per line.
Address THE STAR
230 Walnut Street. Cincinnati, O.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
OUR BUSY MEN.
Here and There Among Our Hives Of
Industry.

George wilkins is in the city visiting
friends. George is now engaged as engineer
for furniture house at Louisville, Ky. He
will remain until Monday evening.
Mr.. Charles Dumont's iron works and
boiler yard are in full blast and some nice
engines and boilers are in the works.
They are to be shipped South, as soon as
completed.
The Office formerly occupied by W. B.
Shepperd on Walnut street has been va
Gated, and secondhand washery firm has
moved in. 1t is rather high up in the city
for that business. .
The Gilbert Bros, No. 1870 West Fourth
street, are branching out in their line pref
ty freely. having made Improvements that
will give them better facilities for the man
ufacture of shirts and underwear.
The new stone-front houses being erected
on Court street by the Emery Brothers
will, when completed be the finest houses
on that block. There are two of them,
three stories high each, and are intended
for residences.
Robert M. Smith, of the firm of Ford,
Lee & Smith, of Covington, is the energetic
outside business man of the firm. He Is
we'll known in this city as the prophet r of
the Anchor Tobacco Works. formerly situ-
ated on Sixth street, near the G., H. q D.
Railroad Depot.
Messrs. Fritsch & Bletner are running an
extra number of hands in order to get out
their work on time. This firm do large
amount of brewery work and in conse-
quence are compelled to run two or three
nights in the week. Mr.. Bletner is at pres
ent in Louisville looking after large con-
tract.
Messrs. Charles Harris & Son, Stove Pat
tern Makers, are getting up somenew and
beautiful designs, both for parlor and for
| cooking stoves. Mr.. Harris is about the
oldest stove pattern-maker in this citv, hav-
ing commenced business over twenty-five
years ago at the establishment of Miles
Greenwood.
Mr.. Fred. Schlichte, the grocer who re.
Gently erected the fine, large building on
the corner Of Linn and Ninth streets has
added fine restaurant to his grocery,
which Is one of the first class. 1t will he
quite convenient to those who work in the
neigbborhood, as they can thus get their
meals at reasonable prices.
Anderson, Harris & Co., carriage and
buggy manufacturers. on the corner ol
Baymiller and Liberty streets, have built q
new story on their factory, and have made
other Improvements that they found neces
sary to the convenience of their fast-in.
creasing trade. Mr. Harris was formerly q
clerk in Bart & Hickcox's rubber store, on
Fourth street.
Thomas Gilpin Il Company, since moving
to their new yard on Sixth street, have
ordered and received large lots of lumber
and almost every foot of their large yard
has been covered: Mr.. Gilpin has much
better place than he had previously, and
his office is provided with telephone
which enables customers to order without
Inconvenience or loss of time.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
Editorial SuinninGs.
That shoemaker joke will last forever
Tt is feared that Queen Victoria ha;

That shoemaker joke will last forever.
1t is feared that Queen Victoria has
the Brown -chltls. .laa7s- ssa-
Chicago has saturated solution OF
eloa ence in DR.. Lormer.
The man X New Jersey in a moment
BY means of the Camden & Amboy Railroad.
1t is now thought that the late rise in
thern ometeIs was caused BY the business boom.
An exchange says that it is the season
for balls, and calls, and falls. Ditto for shawls
and squalls, and caterwauls.
Since they have taken to burying their
pooiles in Greenwood Cemetery. Bologna sausage
have risen fearfulIy In New York.
1t is believed that tbs monument b
Adam will fail through, sinceit is found his es.
tate win not cut up as fat a was supposed.
Secretary Sherman declares most posi-.
lively that II he catches the fell w who stole that
report Of his, he will make the fellow read 1t.
As soon as Queen Victoria gets that
paper OF bonesct that we sent her. ana drinks
good. strong dose, she will probably be all right
again.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08

that the average religious conscience COM
pounds its Sunday principles by buying a
Sunday paper for Its own reading and COM
mending that daily paper which does not
publish on Sunday. Yet we will quality
this by saying that q census OF those sub
scribers to daily papers who do not buy
Sunday papers, and who refuse to subscribe
TO any daily paper because it has Sunday
paper, would be interesting. While we say
this, we say also that this would be roll
of honorable distinction.
The German Papsrh
The Volksfreund says: Sensation In the
so-called Paris of America, we say 80
called" for yesterday it was shown that
Cincinnati is not entitled to the name.
Not only were the most immoral shows
closed in which crime is taught, but also
the most respectable places of amusement,
to which every one can conscientiously
take his family. Such a proceeding is
impossible in Paris. 1t is hoped that the
order will be recalled in the next session
of the Police Commissioners; at any rate,
the liberal-minded citizens Of Cincinnati
will not allow such monstrosity for
length of time.
The Volksblatt says: Police Commits
sioner Sutton was right in resigning before
yesterdays monkeying began. The forcible
closing by the police of all places of amnse-
ment last evening. among them the Ger
man Thcater, Turner Hall, Arbeiter Hall:
Coliseum. Heuck's, and Others, has created
considerable bitterness and disgust among
our German population, the more SO, as
our citizens were not sufficiently notified
that such coup d'etat" was proposed.
The Freie Presse says: The vacancy in
the Police Commission caused by the resig-
nation of MIR. Sutton, could not be better
filled by the remaining Commissioners than
by electing Eph. Holland as Mr.. Sutton's
successor. For if Buck Brady can be
Lieutenant of Police, why could not an
Eph. Holland be a Police Commissioner?
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08

son, doubtless wag, suggests that un-
loaded firearms and fools are the instru-
ments of Providence to show to the dis
Greet the eunwisdom of fooling with deadly
weapons except in the actual way Of bus
iness. Be that as it will, the man or boy
who deliberately places himself in front
of fire-arm, loaded or unloaded, is by
the act shown to be of no very
great use in the world, while the person
who aims one at a fellow-being with
howsoever innocent an intent, deserves
punishment even enough to deter Others
from following his example if his own
idiocy is too dense to penetrate. Some
where in late paper we saw it stated
that boy was leaning carelessly on the
muzzle of loaded gun in baseball
field when a stray ball glanced and
struck the hammer of the weapon and
discharged it, killing the boy. The (sup-
posed to be) unloaded guns and pistols
that go off about every week with severe
and often fatal results are too numerous
to recapitulate. If people ever read the
newspapers we should suppose they would
learn after while that a loaded pistol,
deliberately aimed, is good deal less
dangerous article than an empty one,
pointed playfully at friends head, just
for the joke of the thing. Deliver us
hereafter from this kind of waggery, for
it has been shown by actual demonstra'
ton to be more fatal in its results than
the most insidious assaults of the pro-
fessional punster, and but little less
deadly than the witticsms of the para
grapher.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08

RAIsINs, hitherto exclusively of foreign
importation, are being successfully grown
in California, which State bids fair to be-
come at no distant day successful COM
petitor both as to quantity and quality,
with Spain, Portugal and Italy. The first
attempts made on the Pacific coast to
grow there was not satisfactory, the grape
being small, dry and without flavor, but
subsequent experiments have been more
fortunate and now raisins of really ex-
cellent quality are produced
in paying quantities. The San
Francisco Chronicle of recent
date reports the display at the State and
District Agricultural Fairs on the Pacific
coast as remarkably fine, and that a
demand for California raisins has sprung
up at the Atlantic coast that bids fair to
stimulate the raisin grape culture of that
State to an activity hitherto unknown.
OF course the infancy of raisin cultivation
was attended with total want of knowl-
edge as to the varieties best adapted to
the climate of California and the pro-
cesses requisite for their cure when grown
under circumstances so different from
those in Southern Europe. Much
attention has been given to the seedless
and some of the other foreign varieties,
and an effort will be made to largely dis
seminate these among the vineyardists OF
the State. If California shall do no more
than supply the home demand in this
country she will save the United States
millions of dollars, but there is NO reason
why SIZE should not successfully compete
for the entire Pacific trade in this staple
Already the superior methods of drying
apples, pears, plums and other fruits ha
given her vast export demand to New
Zealand, Tasmania and the west, ant
why raisins and figs as well should not b
added is hard to answer. Verify tn
future of California is brilliant one t.
consider if the possibilities have the de
velopment we have reason to anticipat
for her.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
Rheumatism--An Editors Wife.

AlleMtOWn. Pa.-Fr0m personal expert
snce, have the agreeable opportunity OF adding
dorsed St. Jacobs Oil. Ny wife had been suffering
for years with Rheumatism and endured greal
pain. She used numerous linimnts but nons
gave her the much wished.foT re lief. 81 ma
months ago purchased bottle Of st. Jacobs OF,
and the result achieved by Its use justifes me IN
recommending it to all similarly suffering The
first application worked wonders and the furthea
timely use OF the Oil prevented return Of the
former excrucating pain. would advise every
BODY in need Of good liniment for Rheumatism
Neuralgia aud all similar painful diseases to usa
the st. Jacobs Oil. and they will be convinced
that TOO much can not be said in praise Of this
remedy. y; K RIM.
Editor Repub,ikaner, Allentown. Pa
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08

The fools are not all dead, unfortu-
nately, and we may yet continue in the
faith that seed time and harvest and the
business of the undertakers shall otfail
while empty shot guns and unloaded pis-
tolls, like unfaithfuI wives and embezzling
bank clerks, continue to go off at unex-
pected moments. Some newspaper per-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
Rheumatism Six Years.

Grand View. lll.--Mr. F. R0dcnberg. OF
Grand View, called at our Office last week and re.
t.tcd the following circumstance: suffered
with Rh umatism for over six years; consulted
many physicians. and tried hundreds of rene.
dies, without avail Having seen st. Jacobs Oil
lonshimg curts l sent to Rockport for a bottle of
line Oil, and used 1t accordln, to directions Tho
rel ef felt WAS almost electric" rot better at
once, and now ere Is not q trace Of Rheumatism
left in my body.-lRockport Nll.) Banner. edi'
'orially,