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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1872
Page
2
The Daily Star in Cincinnati notes its Saturday edition has a higher circulation than any other afternoon paper in Ohio by more than 3,000 copies.
A practical electric illumination method by Matthias Day of Manefield Ohio is to be demonstrated at the forthcoming Exposition. Using a galvanic battery and simple wires with carbon for current interruption, light could be produced at low cost with no gas smell or explosion risk, suitable for farms and rural homes.
The piece satirizes politicians blasting their own horns to tout candidates Grant or Greeley. It likens partisan boasts to ram horns around Jericho walls, noting discordant notes and inflated claims while conceding the exchanges do no real harm and may amuse the public.
An editor compiles ages for several public figures including Joaquin Miller thirty five Caldwell forty two Senator Nye fifty seven Bayard forty four Sunset Cox sixty six Claggett Montana forty four Sumner sixty one Lew Cam meet sixty one Harlan Conkling forty five Henry Wilson sixty Senator Thurman fifty nine John A Logan forty four Henry A Wise historic note Montgomery Blair around forty Dr Liv een poe fossil age unclear.
The piece lauds the public losses of Chicago grain speculators who tried to corner flour, argues market laws must regulate bread prices, and condemns capitalist power over food. It links these ideas to Cuban slave trade debates, claiming Cuba remains a slave market and urging abolition.
General items report Secretary Delano ill in Washington. The summary notes various deaths, drownings, legal cases, and a railway freight rate schedule discussion among Western agents. It mentions Gilmore’s Boston jubilee loss, a suicide in New Orleans, hydrophobia recovery hopes in Indiana, and scattered political notes.
A satire on race and class in Washington as a Western visitor asks a Black representative to guide him to a barber and bootblack. The rep responds that he is not a wallab but a member, provoking reflection on changing status in the capitol.
The writer lauds Robert Mills for erecting the Washington Monument taller and grander than Vendome, noting its white marble shaft and a colossal Washington statue about three hundred feet above the bay. He laments a blunder by city authorities and recalls Grant attending a seaside meeting at Ocean Grove Long Branch yesterday.
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