The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-03

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1000 cubic feet. And all at once the mem-
bers of the Board of Councilmen who have
been most tender of the feelings and inter-
ests of the Gas Company propose to cut
down the price to $1.-The Gas Company
signalizes the New Year by cutting down
the price to 81 80 net, and to consumefsO OF
over 10000 cubic feet in year to 81 76
net We do not want to growl about this,
but 1t comes too late to be influential. In
this connection it is amusing to note the
suddenness with which the investiga-
ton of the cost of gas was closed up. This
happened just at the time when some re-
ally important witnesses had been suggest
ed, and the discussion of principles had
proceeded so far that each new fact would
have been valuable.-By one or another
method electricity is certain to become
the light of the people; and even should
Edison's lamp prove success it is probable
Improvements in it will follow, as in the
construction of steam engines, locomotives
and other inventions, though it would
seem that the simplicity and utility of the
Edison lamp itself could hardly be i'm
proved upon.
The Gazette says: Yesterday Council ex-
tinguished the committee and amended the
ordinance of the Aldermen bv inserting 81
in place of 81 Is. No person has demanded
gas at 81 in good faith, and yesterdays ac-
ton was merely another trick in the inter-
est of the Gas Company. In the meantime
the Gas Company can charge what 1t
p!eases.-In the Northern States, where
school houses are plenty and newspapers
are read, the number of independent voters
is steadily increasing and majorities
are liable to change from one
side to the other. 1t Is not
safe Ia say that because State has gone
one way this year it will be sure to 60 the
same way next year. The effect Of this is
to put parties on their good behavior and
to teach political leaders that it is not safe
to count upon success unless they deserve
it. There are in Ohio, for example, $50, 600
voters, and yet parties are so evenly
divided that 5000 votes thrown from one
side to the other would change the result
So it is in many of the Northern States
The tale is that these defenseless Afghan
istan villages were destroyed, and the IN
habitants turned out into the cold In the
dead of winter in rigorous climate, and
that any men captured who were suspected
of having borne arms, were taken to
be hanged. We are not going upon
conjecture in this: it is shown by Eli
glisll intelligence and is severely censured
BY few of the English journals The
Warden and Clerk of the town OF Port
land either by accident or something else,
returned few votes as scattering" III
added to the highest vote for any defeated
candidate they would not have affected the
result But upon this bubble Governor
Garcelon threw out the five Representa-
tives elected by the city of Portland. The
admission of the Representatives from
Skowhegan and Portland would have de-
feated the plot, as they would still have
made a Republican majority which could
do Justice in the other cases. Upon these
small pretenses, were the people of State
cheated out of their election. Thirty-seven
members, whose election no one denies
were counted out without any chance for 9
hearing.
The Enquirer says: The news from
Maine to-day is of a startling character, in
dicating that the people of that State are
on the verge of insurrection. The dehan'
tone of some of the Republican leaders,
, notably Senator Hamlin and Congressman
, Frye and their advice to the men OF Their
party to disregard the Constitution and the
laws of the State, has created such a deep
feeling in the minds of the fusion
{ lists that Governor Garcelon has put
, military guard in and around the
. State-h house. On the other hand the
| Republicans have called General Squirting
e of Chicago, there, and it is believed that he
= is engaged in organizing military torct
and swearing it into service under the roo
8 of Senator Blaine's house. The Returnlns
Board in Louisiana cast out majority o
> ten thousand votes lawfully cast and law
fully returned. They undertook to say
IS not how the State had voted, as shown b!
l. lawful returns but how, in their opinion
- it ought to have voted. They discovers
- that majority of ten thousand, which
l. Republican Administration admitted wa
n good for Nichols, was not good TO
:. Tilden Electors. They devised method q
making a majority Of ten thousand-th
g same votes-c.unt both ways. What RI
d publican has hesitated to partake OF til
q fruits of this "fraud so shamelessly cor
. fessed by the perpetrators?' What Repul
4 licans we're unwilling "to wear that mar
rs of dishonor for a lifetime?' Not ]. Mad
O son Wells, President OF that Returnin
" Board he was made Surveyor Of the POI
y of New Orleans. Not Tom Anderson, {
" the Returning Board; he was made Deput
"a Collector. Not Mr.. Kenner, another men
~ her of the Returning Board he was mad
e, Deputy Naval Officer. And the broth'
s. of Mr.. Casanave, another mel
os Der of the Returning Board, was mac
i United States Storekeeper at New Orlean
~ One son of Madison Wells was made an Il
s, spector of the Custoln-house in New y
NJ leans. and another son was made Speci
Deputy Surveyor, while brother OF M
Kenner was given clerkslip in the Nav
Office. The Secretary and six clerks OF II
Returning Board were given appointment
in the New Orleans Custom-house. Clear
these men have no such sensitive virtue
the New York Tribune attributes to tho
influential Democrats in Maine"
lie The German Papsra
Id The Volksfreund says: Mr.. Won Lesse
and his followers have now arrived i'll Pa
n ANA to commence his operations for CO
-, ~ struct,ng the Panama Ship Canal. 1t mu
W. be conceded. in spite of what may
thought of his plan, that he is man
lv unusual energy and power of will, consi
of ering his old age. Without doubt, ne
,e that he has arrived on the Isthmus in p'
to SON. he will set everything in motion in
t,c yor OF his enterprise. ". t.
of The Volksblatt says: Cincinnati is
most unprolific field for the Grant boom.
Nh The Commercial sanctions the suspensi
w of German instruction in the pub
ne schools of Chicago in way that wor
es) cause ms TO believe that it would also ma