The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-22
SPIRIT Of THE PRESS.
Tho English Papers Of This Morning

situation. The Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road is the short, natural connecting link
between the two productive sections of the
country, and between two systems OF rail-
road arteries about five thousand miles in
extent 1t is almost be, ond the reach of
injury by competition. The fare from this
city to Cha tanooga via Louisville is SIT; at
cents per mile the fair tn Chattanooga via
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad would be
$l0-only little more than half as much
There would be corresponding difference
in freight rates. The charge per car
for crossing the Ohio River bridges is
from $4 to S.. There is no charge for
such crossing on the Southern Rail
road; that railroad owns bridge. Chi
cago no small city, is ninety-6ve miles
nearer Chattanooga via the Cincinnati
S uthern than by way Of Louisville. and
there are three competing lines from Chi
cago to Cincinnati. Whatever trades are
made by jealous railroad men anywhere
the Cincinnati 8 'uthern Railroad occupies
vantage ground beyond fear-Does Chief
Wappenstein know that Cincinnati is at
present the harbor for Chicag, burglars
and rogues? Does he know that the late
attempt upon the County Treasury was
made by a Chicago sneak thief. brought
| ucTC lOI GuoV Uul pOoCI bOCb nC kIOW tidI
the bunko scoundrels are rioting in this
city? Does he know that the keno-bankers
are fattening of. poor laboring men?
The Commercial says The Third Term.
ers, following the sublime creed of. John
G. Thompson, have been claiming every
thing, and doing it exultingly. They have
claimed Illinois, with Washburne to lead,
but the boom is over in Illinois. WASH
burne is q candidate for Governnr, which
means that he Is candidate for the Presi-
dency. General Logan also Is in the field.
As for PENNSYLVANIA, it is not sure thing
that Don Cameron is not Cameron man.
Then it has just appeared that Senator
Conkling is not SO much Grant man as
Conkling man. The page Of eulogistic
biography of the Senator in the Herald the
other day was equivalent to an authorized
proclamation that he is candidate for the
Presidency. and scorns the thought that
any social tattle about him is to be needed.
One way to get the public schools out OF
political control does not appear to have
occurred to the Solons of the Legislature.
That is to pass law making women eligi
! bic to school Offices and to serve on School
Boards. The move is so popular in London
that this year the number of ladies on the
School Board of that city was more thar
doubled at the last election. The London
Board consists of fifty members, nine oi
whom are women. They are in each case
women Of high intelligence and the best so
cial standing. They have generally NOR.
time to SPEND among the schools than thei
masculine colleagues, and the improvement
of the poorest classes Of public school chill
dren has been marked under their snperin
tendence general substitution OF golt
and silver pieces ofsmall denomination TO
all paper money under twenty-dolar bill
is proposed There is no reason the pro
, cess should not beginnOw, or as soon as tn
, mints can coin the necessary pieces in al
amount sufficient to justify substitution
In other words, there is no reason why tn,
bullion locked up in the Treasury vault
should not be utilized and put in circula
ton among the people. ~ a-oa -
The Gazette says: The Maine mutin,
as at first, but there is still q pretendin
State Legislature and executive officers
performing the play of being Legislator
and executive Officers, having hired hal
for their performance, and 1t is apparen
, that the plot to make seeming conflict @
authorities in the State, and give the Demo
cratic Congress a pretext for throwing ou
the Electoral vote Of Maine, or for count
, ing it for tile Democratic candidate, is no
abandoned. great American nation
without any shipping, and with financia
sy stern which has extinguished its shiI
: ping, and will prevent Its resusciation,
, in pressing need to invest
hundred millions or so in making
canal across the Isthmus Of Dzrien. to fur
nish facilities to shipping nations to com
{ pete with our transcontinental railroad
Having had our shipping trade captured b
European countries, chiefly by Great Bri
] tain, it is highly important that we shoul
! now help her to impair our Pacific railroad
and to reduce the political Importance c
these lines to transit. 1t is work in whic
: the spread eagle ought to be spread TO b
utmost stretch.-According tn the report
the lessees, the earnings Of the road b,
tween Cincinnati and Somerset for seye
!. months were equal to six hundred thousan
: dollars per year, and Mr. Clement state
!. that il the lessees had been charged wi,
!. the maintenance of the roadbed he thougf
! the percentage Of gross earnings col
' sumed by the operating expenses woul
: have been more than forty per cen
|, This would leave $36000o on th
' fraction Of the ad to be paid over to tt
= CITY, but under the Trustees maintenant