Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-03
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Tayerns again to be Licensed. coun

Tayerns again to be Licensed.-The Coun-
ellis having passed, and his honor the Mayor sign
ed, the bill to aprohitit ppng .houses and to sup
press the sale by the small Of spirituous and in
toxicalng liquors." il was supposed by the com
munty al large that, on and after Monday next
alcoholic drinks could only be purchased by the
pint, instead of as now, by the glass, mixed, and
improved in various ways, to please the respective
palates of the numerous thirsty customers.
The second section Of this act is in the follow.
ing words That SO much Of the acts approved,
respectively, June 90, 1853, entitled An act to
license. tax, and regulate taverns and ordinaries,'
and the Act regulating the sale OF spirituous and
intoxicating liquors. as authorizes the Mayor to
grant licenses for the sale or barterof the afore-
said liquors in quantities less than pint, and all
acts and parts Of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act be, and the same are hereby,
repealed
But, notwithstanding this full sweep, the Cor
poration, under the Interpretation Of the Mayor,
is going TO license "taverns" mot "tippling-
houses y according TO the old law regulating such
establishments.
The fact is, il cannot be ascertaned to the salts
faction of the executive authority, whether or
not the privilege to sell liquor Sin quantities less
than pint is an incident TO tavern, which lat
ter the Corporation cannot, under the charter,
suppress, but, on the contrary, can CIRCULATE"
merely. Licenses, we repeat, will as heretofore,
be granted 10 tavern-keepers The liquor branch
Of the question must be decided by "the court"
Until them at least, the lovers Of alcoholic drinks
ha
ments Gin quantities less than pint;" for the
corporate authorities will not certainly prosecute
men to whom they give the license to keep pub
lie houses, with all the "ncidents" Herewith con-
nected, including brandy-smashes and other ia
vorite stimulating drinks.
Floggng in the Public schools.-It appears
from the monthly returns of the teachers in the
public schools, that the day Of corporeal punish
ment has not passed in those Institutions The
majority Of the teachers, however, make no report
on this subject for the reason either that the chill
dred under their care behave with propriety, or
that they prefer to govern with the tongue instead
of with the bircn and ruler 1t may be that, as
Uncle Sam now does not even fog sailors they
do not consider it becoming TO fagellate their pu-
pills.
In two Of The male primaries, fourteen boys
were corporeally punished" and in one of the
district schools four. Altogether, about twenty
five tender hands or backs were briskly attacked
by their good natured teachers. 1t is due to state
that on average, ten boys are whipped to one
girl This is, comparatively, creditable to the fe-
male sex.
We recolect that, two years ago, at a teachers
meeting in the Smithsonian Institution, teacher
of public school spiritedy advocated the app-
cation of the whip, as a substitute, it appeared
for tact 10 make the boys respect and obey him
without resort TO "corporeal punishment"
If those juveniles knew as much as did their
predecessors, in our day, they would line their
jackets and the upper part of their trousers with
copy books leather to protect their skin from the
schoolmaster's merciless infections. The beating
Of boys sometimes affords the tutor fine oppor-
tuniiy TO vent his natural ill-temper and impa-
tience, ard, in addition, has the effect of making
them hate him. We never knew any one to be
improved by continual kicking and cutting"