The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-15

work that should not be confined to sons
of veterans alone, but to perpetuate the
Grand Army of the Republic beyond its
rightful members, however glorious its
record is, is something no person anxious
for complete reconciliation between the
North and South should countenance.
1t may be unpopular to take this ground,
but honest convictions are to be MAIN
tanned at any cost, and therefore can
not but deprecate as calculated to work
harm rather than good this new move
ment to perpetuate the Grand Army.
The Grand Army has, however, just
effected an organization in this city,
which not only promises to assume Ma
tional proportions, but eommends itself
to the hearty support and cooperation
OF the people at large as we'll as the class
in whose interest it is started. The title
is as yet undecided upon, but what it is
likely to be in sentiment may be conjec-
tured from the fact that only fully dis
abled veterans-persons who have lost
one or both legs or arms, or portions of
the same tantamount to total incapacita-
tion, or both eyes, are eligible to mem
bership.
1t will probably also be extended to
the navy as we'll as the army. The OBJ
ject is mutual support and protection,
and one of the first steps agreed upon is
the sending OF a Committee to Washing
ton to secure uniformity in the pension
laws, especially as they relate to disabled
| cnIIiors Ear xnyho lnooc
an arm at the elbow obtained a larger
pension than man who loses only a
portion of his forearm, and heard of a
case the other day where man because
he had an inch Of the arm left below
the elbow, an inch that the surgeons
who performed the amputation left in
order to obtain better success in the op-
eratiUn, receives less pay by several dol
lars month than comrades more for
tunate in having had their arms taken
off at the elbow. This is an exempli6ca.
ton of the proverb that "an inch is as
good as an elP'-that is in working to
the disadvantage of man who doubt
less every time he draws his pay wishes
the surgeons had been less cautious in
their labors.
There are many other Objectionable
features of the pension laws and of the
methods by which pensions are awarded
which the new organization proposes to
inquire into, and that the movement is
not to be confined to this locality is
shown by the aid promised by disabled
veterans all over the United States. Gen.
William G. Steinmetz, Comptroller of
this city, Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of New
York, Gen. Isaac S. Catlin, District At
torney of Brooklyn, COL McLear, Post
master of Brooklyn, and commandant
of the heroic Fourteenth Regiment that
rendered such gallant service at Bull
Run, and many other promi nent officers
all over the land are members Of the As
sociation, and the Secretaries, Maj. Clo-
bridge and Capt. Perry, have all they can
do to answer the inquiries pouring in
upon them.
Last week gave YOU an account of
the Gipsy case, involving the arrest of
Timothy and Mary Worton for the alleged
swindling of William Jessop, of Prince
ton, Gibson County, Indiana, out of
$2,125. On Wednesday the Supreme
Court remanded the custody of the pris-
oners to the Indiana officers, and by this
time probably the Wortons are undergo
ing the rigors Of confinement in Gibson
County Jail, while Deputy Sheriff Jingle
is relating to admiring townsmen his
thrilling experiences as an amateur de.
tective-at once the envy of all his
brother deputies and the admiration ol
all the urchins of Princeton. But be-
, fore the Wortons left, second edition
of Jessop arrived in the person of we'll
to-do farmer of Salem, Roanoke County
Virginia, who, proceeding before Magis
trate Walsh, made complaint that on the
9th of May, 1877, he had been swindled
out of $10,000by the Gipsy Queen and
her spouse Timothy. His story was al
wild one as that Jessop told.
He had been led to believe there was
: a silver mine on his farm, and to enable
Mary to work the charm that was tc
$ place him in possession of the exact 10
{ cation of the precious deposit was in
duced to let her hold $4,000 in bank
notes while she was going through with
her incantations. Several times she in
e cantated, and the last time, while he wal
, getting a Bible upon which she was tt
: swear him to secrecy, it is alleged tina
the sorce1ess cunningly substituted il
9 the package neatly cut slips of paper fo
= the bank notes, SO that when sometime
later her victim opened the package h,
4 found himself minus $4,000. The nam
+ of the fish who bit at Mary's fly i
J, Trout-Davld E. Trout, and if Salem
= Va, were true to the traditions of it
Massachusetts, namesake. it would 90 il
> with Mary and Timothy were they t.
! fall into the clutches of the Roanok
County authorities.
We all wonder at the credulity O
= Jessop and Trout, and couldn't help feel
g ing that in the losses sustaine,
t they have got only their just deserts
Y But the same credulity exists on ever,
4 side, and is being cunningly availed O
= by hundreds of magicians, astrologers
: mediums and fortune-tellers as a mean
of acquiring livelihood without toilin