The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
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| terial brethren to devote themselves II
keeping dancing within proper bounds
and not to overthrowing it. Dancing q:
popular entertainment The Church
might do we'll to utilize it unIes,
it desires to have its membership
composed exclusively of rheumat
les, victims of the g,ut cripples, and peo
pie too old or too dignfied to caper to the
music of a violin.-rhe statement has
been made, as though it came from General
Grant himself that General Grant had au
thorized his friends to peremptorny with
draw his name, and t. do this before, or al
the time of. the assembling Of the Penn.
sylvania Convention. This turns out to be
u lie. Similar tactics We find employed con-
cerning Blaine. Blaine was born in Penn
sylvania, and it was thought necessary to
kill Blaine In the Pennsylvania estimation.
The Wall-street "bulP' and bear policy
has been adopted by the John Sherman
faction. At this moment Sherman seems
to have about one-half of the Republican
support in his own State, nnne in New
York: and few days will disclose " hat he
has in Pennsylvania He has raped few
votes in North Carolina 1t may be that
John Sherman has attempted to sell the
birth-right OF the people for the promise OF
a mess of pottage, and will fail to deliver
the goods or to receive the mess Of pottage
The Gazette says: The month OF January,
just closed, was the warmest experienced
in Cincinnati, certainl, for ten years, per-
| hars for many more. The mean tempera-
ture was 4S.72 degrees. Last January the
mean was 81 degrees. the year before $3.50,
and the year before that 31.39 There were
but SIX da,s on which frost fell. The
highest point reached b, the thermometer
was 81 degrees the lowest 25 degrees-The
Council can't md time t. call for pro-
posals for the city printing. although It is
perfectly aware that the work is costing
fift, to seventv-fve per cent more than
responsible parties ave offered to do it for
Mr.. Benjamin Cox could account for
this delay If he would.-The people of
Cumminsville are justly indignant be-
cause they can not get water. The Spring
Grove avenue monopoly is the power
behind the throne that Is greater than the
throne itself When the citizens of the
Twenty fifth Ward help the avenue gentle
men TO secure what they want the water
will fow.-A street railroad ordinance was
put through Council at lightning speed
while the gas ordinance drags. This com-
pels consumers ~ continue TO pay, under
All expired contract, all unreasonable price
for gas-The ordinance p ssed by Council
authorizing the extension" of the Storrs
& Sedamsville Street Railroad, late OIL
Friday, was signed by the Mayor in two
hours thereafter. and was advertised Satur.
day morning. The result is new rou 9
more than twice as long as the existing
one. It is new route ~ all intents and
purposes. In this way tee city may be
covered with railroads without com wing
with the terms of the law, which pr. vidss
competitive bidding when new routes
are established, and in a short time every
prominent street will have railroad, all Vt
Nhicn will ultimately be under the same
management constituting great monu poly.
Mean time more than half the people desir.
ing to reach Music Hall will be required to
pay two fares or walk part OF Aie distance.
| There will, nO doubt, be q fight in the
courts over the ordinance to which We re-
fer. This will greatly delay connection,
| which is much ieeded, from, Main to Free
man street, north Of the canal, that would
| enable all the roads in the oitv to Garry
passengers direct to Music Hall for one
Iare.-Ihe Greencastle Deinocratic Sheriff,
| who went TO Washington 70 swear that In
diana is fully populated. testified on Satur-
day that there Is no demand for labor in his
county, and that the colOred immigrants
arriving there have to be SUPP ortesi at puo
lie expense All of which is fatty contra
dicted by the dispatch Of our Greencastle
correspondent. for whose responsibility we
undertake to vouch. All the negroes VIII
have arrived have found work, there is a
demand for many more, and not one in
the county is receiving public aid.
The Commercial says: Famines Of
greater or less severity, exist in Ireland,
parts Of Silesia, Italy, Turkey, Persia and
INDIA. The causes are various: III Ireland
the dist tress is attributed in part t, the land
system and in part to the unfavorable sea-
son. In SiIesia 70 scarcity of employment,
low wages and bad weather. In Italy to
prevailing fever, though the fever is prob
ably due to the want of food. In Tnrke,
it is one OF the results of the late war,
financial disorders and general nismai,age-
and chrome. due TO want of irrigation and
facilities for the dislributinn Of + cd. In
India, Also fanines are due primarily to
the crops and ~ the. dense.
| ucSS VI pOpuiutiOu, WV Hob " Wdub VI
means of distribution. 1t ia not surprising
that there should be restlessness in these
countries and symptoms Of revolution
cropping out everywhere. The Socialists
in Germany, the Nihiiisss in Russia, the
Irr;deuta in laly, the Intransigentes in
Spain, the striking remonstrants in Eng
land, the land-tenure reyolutiopists in
lreland-these, ic their various Why's, are
but manifestations of popular disconteni
with the existing order of things, out oil
which come the heavy burdens Of taxation,
the hards .ips Of poverty and the ex.
tIemes OF squa.or. famine and death.
Meantime the a.leyiation of suffering
among the people comes chiefly from
that active benevolence that charac.
terizes private organizations for charity
AID pervaLes enlightened humanit.. II
the starving are to be fed. the naked clothed
and shelter given W the homeless and
houseless, 1t will be done by these agencies
rather than BY governments that assume
paternal offices chiefly to despoil the peo-
pie.-The Indianapoi is: Cincinnati & La
| fayette Railroad will be sold ut noon to-day
at the door Of the U. 8. Circuit Courtroom
OH concurrent decree of foreclosure, made
by tile U. s. Courts OF the District Of Indi-
ana and the Southern District OF OHIO.
The property will in all probability