The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-09
THE DAILY STAR
And What Their Neighbors Have to
Say Abeut Them.


General Noyes, whose post is Paris,
has been doing the Holy Land in state,
where his warlike inclinations have been
revived. Escorted by Sheiks, he fell in,
while coming from the dead sea, with
salt smugglers, who ANNOYED them with
stones because the officials proposed to
drive off the contraband goods. "The
sight of the fray revived the times" "
says the valorous General, "and / was
for firing on them, but our dragoman
wouldn't allow it; the responsibility was
: too much for him." The general lost o
fine opportunity for further distinguish
Ing himself.
[St Louis Post Dispatch.I
A young man named Ralph Cowles
has been picked up and identified in
Ohio, after long residence in the infrma-
ry at St. Clairsville, Ohio. He had COM
pletely forgotten his own name and all
the facts connected with his own life,
though his memory was good in other
respects. Some politician of the John
Sherman type ought to purchase that in
tellect for private use at once.
lChicago Inter-Oceanl
The first case called in the Cincinnati
Police Court in 1880 was charge against
the editor of the Cincinnati Gazette,
which, says the Cincinnati STAR, "goes
10 show that newspaper men are at the
head Of everything, even if it is Grim
inal court docket"
New orleans Tinnes]
Stanley Matthews strongest point in
the Ohio Senatorial contest is that he is
an outspoken Grant man. 1t is also his
weakest. 1t may be assumed that the
whole Sherman influence will be cast
against Mr.. Matthews and in favor of
Garfield. The vote will determine in
great measure the Presidential as we'll as
Che Senatorial preferences of the Repub-
lican members Of the Ohio Legislature.
[Chicago Inter-Oeean.1
Ohio is always bound to have a finger
In the pie, and Cincinnati now claims to
have graduated Governor Garcelon in
The art of saving off legs in her Ohio
Medical College. The Governor, in men,
tioning his loyalty, spoke of having lived
for seventy years in Maine, but he studi-
Ously avoided saying that he was edu-
Gated in Ohio. 1t may have been an I'M
intentional omission, and we call atten-
tion to the fact that history may be cor
rected. Reared in Maine, educated in
Ohio, and disgraced everywhere, would
seem To be about the shortest way of ex-
pressing it.
Philadelphia Times.
So many people are refusing the for
eign missions now vacant that the Ad-
ministation must soon begin to have a
sense Of confusion. If it isn't too late it
may be worth while to try one or two
Ohio men.
tChicago Daily Fcws.1
Considerable scandal has lately been
created by the alleged unsatisfactory
manner in which the Cincinnati Library
is conducted; and at the suspicious of cor
ruptions connected Herewith. It has
cost the city about a million dollars; it
takes $50, 600 year to run it; yet it is
charged only fraction Of the books is
catalogued; that the building itself is in
such a condition that few care to enter
It, while none wish to remain long. 1t
is also stated that at the late election a
Librarian and Secretary were chosen, one
of whom, a lawyer, has had only two or
three months experience in the work he
issupposed to perform, and the other,
druggist, no experienceat all. These are
grave charges, and call for thorough
investigation.
-'.~ Louisville Courier-Journal.]
The sweet-souled editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial, who happens just at
present to be a guest of the Secretary of
the Treasury at Washington, has, after
many reflections and much travail,
awakened to realization of the fact that
General Grant is candidate for the
Presidency. 1t will be remembered that
our dear brother has entertained, at
various times, not little merriment at
our expense, because we have from the
first predicted that this would be about
The size Of it, Yet, in the eyes OF the
thoughtless, it is not he, but we, whom
the gods-that is, the journalistic gods
have been disposed to put in for the cost
Of the very eccentric joke.
TChicago Times.l
The dominant party in Ohio goes only
halfway in its chivalric recognition Of
the fair sex. There were two women
candidates for positions under the Legis-
lature. Miss Lille G. Darst desired to
be Engrossing Clerk of the Senate, Mrs.
H. c. Eastman Recording Clerk of the
House. The former was called, the lat
ter left; showing, possibly, that there are
advantages in maidenhood which are not
possessed by the femme covert How
ever, the young lady chose her field with
greater discretion. The Senators are not
80 numerous as the Representatives, and,
being older, are, perhaps, more suscepti-
bic. Miss Darst, doubtless, will make a
clerk who will engross the attention as
well as the bills of the reverent Senators.
.0. [Chicago Inter-Ocean.J
Ohio is just now mourning over the
tnuchness Of its great men. Too much
greatness is often embarrassing, and that
Is what is the matter in Ohio. ,,....
Deacon Richard Smith, of the Cincin-
natl Gazette, promises to reform before
the year is up, and support Grant in case