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Newspaper
The Evening Star
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1872
Page
2
The Daily Evening Star will publish three editions daily starting today. Readers are advised to check the morning, afternoon, and late editions for updates, listings, and local notices.
The Cincinnati Weekly, soon enlarged to an eight page quarto, will be the largest and cheapest one dollar weekly in the West. It will continue premium listings and careful reading matter. The first enlarged issue will appear on Thursday.
The claim that Greek brigands were sent to the United States is dismissed as false. M Botassi Greek Consul General to this country rejects the tale, later echoed by an American Ministerial communication to the State Department. The note says brigandage is limited to Greek Turkish border regions, not a nationwide issue.
Widespread unrest from central Europe warns of potential upheaval as radicals threaten action including petroleum. In Vienna and across the Austrian Empire riots and bloodshed accompany military attempts to quell discontent, signaling a volatile period for nobility and capitalists.
The article warns that France under M Thiers pursues Communists with persecution and exile, sending alleged Communist arrivals to England as an unwelcome burden and threat to European order and property. It frames communism as a dire specter for rulers, the privileged, and middle-class stability amid revolutionary fear.
A writer links French and European governance to the rise of Communism as a response to feudal privilege and tax oppression. He argues rulers and aristocrats abuse power, while masses seek emancipation, possibly driving emigration and upheaval across borders.
A Cincinnati excursion celebrated the opening of the Cincinnati and Baltimore railroad, built since 1869 to fill Mill Creek valley. The six mile line from Mill Creek junction to Ludlow Grove lowers earth by over eleven million cubic yards, creating valuable land for homes and business and leasing the line to the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad.
A new six mile road section near Canaanae promises a future Cincinnati stock yard with a stockyard hotel and banking hub. The Marietta and Cincinnati railroad gains a superior city entrance, thanks to engineer John Waddle and a local excursion run led by Conductor Whalen, Peabody, and Pillsbury. The Philadelphia Convention and Woodhull nominations dominate public attention with Train’s election chart showing little impact.
Reports detail the Antioch quake burying up to eighteen hundred people and Zanzibar hurricane leaving eight hundred thousand unhoused with subsistence lost. The relief effort remains minimal as global charities face slow response amid widespread disaster.
Lancaster Ohio June 4 1872 friends of Sunday schools from all parts of the common wealth meet in council to advance early Christian education. Delegates are arriving in anticipation of a large attendance and a successful convention. The Reform Farm School boys are expected to attend Thursday with singing and class exercises praised by the convention.
The wife of the Tien sh Y. Daily Bee editor sits in the editorial chair while her husband faces prison for contempt of court. She voices fatigue with the role and urges the editor’s return, noting the dull desk, the burdens, and the appeal of shopping and scenery over running the paper.
The conference on the tariff and tax bill was agreed to. New York Customs House Committee reported the bars made were not sustained. A bill to prevent cruelty to animals in transit was agreed to with October 1 effectiveness. Sundry civil appropriation bill discussed but no final vote. Dawes spoke on tax reduction in recent days.
The Senate debated the 11 hour law repeal petition from 100 shoemakers and considered a conference report on the tariff. Amendments on cruelty to animals in transit and immigrant accommodations were rejected or discussed. The sundry civil appropriation bill faced changes, with some items passed over. The House, after rejecting a district court bill, awaited the conference report on tariffs and adjourned.
Indiana items report Gov. Baker appointing G. Block as director of the Southern Prison. Richmond buries Clayton Brown, and Sabbath schools hold a Seven Mile picnic in Glenwood park. Northern Indiana crop reports predict average yields despite potato bug damage. The county seat removal from Centerville to Richmond proceeds with petitions and a new courthouse site in west Richmond. John McLean is murdered at Decatur by Zummerman, who surrendered for trial. The Cambridge City races draw large crowds with Scialger and Milo Caldwell among winners.
The article notes eye fatigue from reading in moving trains. It explains constant eye adjustments caused by car motion and changing light, risking permanent injury. A moral urged is to avoid reading on cars and to rest the body and mind instead.
The Detroit Free Press laments a boy named James Otis Porter Street and his family moving to Saginaw after a life of misadventures. He began by shooting himself, choking on a fishbone, building a barn fire, swallowing a top, being hit by an ice wagon, and vanishing in a river for days, a local curiosity praised as news value. Also includes a Dubuque anecdote about four men caught chuck-a-luck on a train and a Scottish piper tale ending with a wolf story and a quip about liking the pipes.
A renowned New York physician imagines electric spectacles with a galvanic pile in shell cases attached to the frame. Placed behind the ears the devices supply a constant mild current to the brain nerves face and head, claimed to cure all related conditions without being felt.
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