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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1872
Page
2
Cincinnati reports telegraphic dispatches from Washington that Cincinnati failed to secure the National Republican Convention. The convention will be held in Philadelphia in June. The item notes political debate and forthcoming discussions among medical school factions and opposition to civil service reform in Congress.
The push to make City Auditor and City Civil Engineer elective draws active discussion with opponents arguing it removes these posts from the primary and convention contest. Rumors of Governor Noyes and General Young pushing a Legislature bill appointing all city officers by a governor designated board are reportedly unfounded.
The piece questions why Latin peoples show turmoil in Italy Spain France Austria and Mexico and whether a new birth or assertion ofLatin identity is driving change. It notes Napoleon's miscalculation in Mexico and argues Latins lag in politics education literature and commerce compared with Teutonic and Anglo Saxon races.
The passage predicts an unavoidable conflict between old Latin social and religious norms and modern liberal ideas. It warns that change will come peacefully if possible, forcibly if needed, and compares resisting reform to damming tides. The author expresses hope the clash not be bloody.
The Columbus senatorial election saga centers on last minute vote changes before official proclamation. Democrats allegedly shifted from Morgan to Cox, but the presiding officer barred changes, declaring votes once cast cannot be altered after tallying begins. The piece discusses parliamentary practice and urges offering the benefit of the doubt to Democratic members.
A funeral discourse at Battleboro Vermont honors Col James Fisk Jr as a generous bold leader of the regiment he built from a modest start. The speaker praises Fisk’s magnanimity independence openness and devotion to the poor while noting public malice and press scrutiny.
The account details the funeral of James Fisk Jr at a bluff cemetery site near Mantasket Mountain and the Connecticut River. Mourners, including Mrs Fisk and relatives, listen as Rev Dr Flagg blesses the burial and the coffin is lowered amid expressions of sorrow and reverence.
The essay argues that constant cheerfulness dulls empathy and that sadness fosters deeper virtue, praising sympathetic sorrow as a brighter beauty. It also notes PIRACY suppression efforts around Gilolo in 1870 with North Germany and Britain joining, and a later shift toward market gardening in New England amid changing farming values. A St Louis incident reports Hattie Miller, a colored woman, attempting suicide by leaping from a wharf boat, narrowly saved by private watchmen before police take her to Central station.
A January 10 1872 card from Senator RHOS L Young defends a proposed Cincinnati police reform bill. He notes the bill aims to revise the detective branch and local politics, discusses Governor appointing commissioners versus electing them, and denies pre social prejudice against his measure while affirming adherence to public will as expressed through the press.
A homeopathic advertisement for No Twenty Eight claims to cure nervous debility with energy and vigor. It quotes extensive symptoms and states the remedy costs five dollars for five boxes and two dollars for a large vial, with single boxes at one dollar. It cites mailing options from Humphreys' Specific Medicine Co. New York. An anecdote about a violent laugh follows.
A partial society notice lists T. C. Campbell, Wm. Caven, Hon. Alex Long, John P. Story, G. W. Cormany and others as attendees or signatories in a community event.
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