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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1872
Page
2
The Evening Star reports a daily circulation exceeding that of every other afternoon paper in the state by more than three thousand copies, highlighting its dominant regional reach.
The Catholic Telegraph derides a fundraiser titled Appeal for Tipperary as a fraudulent scheme to drain Irish immigrants. It condemns its organizers as political tricksters and urges Irish readers to avoid contributing. The piece advocates channeling funds to help emigrate relatives instead.
The article details the vast Dead Letter Office workload with three million dead letters in a year. It notes fifty eight thousand lack county or state names and three thousand have no name or address at all. Four hundred thousand letters lack stamps and many stamps fall off. It urges better addressing and care to reduce losses and recalls that three million dead letters hold over three million dollars in remittances with most returned once writers can be identified.
A Southern claims bill looms for property taken by Union armies during the war. More than sixteen thousand claims totaling over 40 million dollars have been filed with the commission. Of 580 examined, 330 were allowed totaling 350 thousand dollars, about twenty percent of the claimed amount.
New publications for September include the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature. The September number offers current European reviews and writings, with a steel engraving of Dr. Ignaz Dollinger by Perine. Subscription is $5 and copies are at Hawley’s, 164 Vine Street.
An assortment of brief items reports an auction at the Patent Office in Washington for accumulated models, drownings in Cleveland and Madison New Jersey, and an unknown shooter incident in Chicago. It notes President’s retained supervisor, James Gordon Bennett’s hunting trip, and a Montgomery Advertiser proprietor’s death in Shelby Springs. Additional notes include a papal bull creating James Gibbons bishop in Richmond, illness of Governor Curtin, and government bond bids at 1,785,000 dollars. Other items cover cholera in India, Alabama cotton crop, Republican factions in South Carolina, a district congress nomination in Urbana, an injunction against Louisville Canal, possible Justice Kristow retirement, Albany schoolchildren excursion, Jersey City to Buffalo rail progress, and a schooner sinking on Lake Michigan with crew listed.
London brokers report an American bought rough diamonds in London, hinting they supported Arizona discoverers claims. The Times notes names linked to the Arizona venture. Also: Liverpool speculators fail in cotton, a Scotland Britain art statue bound for New York, Thiers bans demonstrations, India cholera deaths, James Stephenson ship burned, Alabama Claims court progress, Berlin engine makers on strike, and Austria’s ex empress Carlotta near death.
The Madison coopers returned to work after a strike compromise with the bosses. A fire destroyed John Windship’s storehouse and dwelling in Falmouth Rush county with estimated losses of 10000 dollars and 5000 dollars insured. Jail escapes occurred in Lafayette as Perry Burke Henry Drummond and John McHardy fled, Burke facing grand larceny and others petit larceny. A horse track accident at Seymour left a man with a broken collar bone and other injuries. Stephen Hyatt died of sunstroke near Sullivan, the first such death there. A coroner’s jury found intoxication in the death of Anderson at Lafayette. Dr. Alexander Mullen of Madison plans to move to St Louis. Threats to lynch Creutz in Madison prompted security measures. Two men walking to Monitor Mills encountered a rider asking directions and witnessed a stalled horse and buggy. sheriff notified. A lightning strike damaged a monument in Terre Haute cemetery. Mares were stolen near Logansport and recovered with the thief in Lafayette. A railroad accident near Terre Haute killed two men, John Keiser and John Moss, aboard a wagon bound for Bridgeton during a storm. The funeral of Bishop Upfold in Indianapolis drew a large crowd. A humorous anecdote follows about a father and child negotiating a fire hearth and a school enrollment remark, with accents and regional speech.
The excerpt recalls sharp exchanges between Henry Clay and James Buchanan. Clay excels in verbal skirmishes, often targeting Buchanan, who carries a cross-eye defect. In one scene, Clay mocks Wright as Senate leader, forcing Buchanan to defend himself amid tense personal barbs.
A Boston bound factory girl from Maine rises to chief saleswoman in a Boston firm and marries a California merchant. She relocates to San Francisco, enjoys wealth and social standing for four years, then tragedy strikes as her husband loses everything in mining speculation and dies. She returns to Boston to work again, life blotting out the dream.
Texas stock raising expands into vast farms in Southwestern and Northern Texas. Farms of 170 000 and 200 000 acres raise tens of thousands of cattle attended by hundreds of saddlemen. Some farms operated by debtors, others by joint stock companies. Eight railroad lines under construction in Northern Texas promise cheaper, fresher beef from corn fed cattle to the North.
At Titusville on Monday William H. Pyne, agent of the Roberts Torpedo Company, was blown to atoms by an explosion of nitro glycerine.
An unknown person tried to obtain $8,200 from Alleghany Real Estate by presenting a forged draft yesterday. The matter was held over on summons, and the stranger, who was asked to return, did not appear.
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