Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-04-19
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Bosros, April 2, 1898.

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Friend understanding an hour or Two
o, leisure to-day, have concluded 70 write
something for the GasettS; as nothing can
give me greater pleasure than to hold an
occasional interview with your numerous
readers, with many OF whom have had the
happiness, in days bygone, of willing away
an hour in agreeable converse upon topics
of passing interest, during the interim of
business. Your readers number some oil
NV warmest friends. have "eaten salt
with them, warmed myself by their fires.
slept in their beds. petted their children
praised their fields of golden grain and
waving corn, walked with them, talked with
them, and I'm sure they'll now read me for
old acquaintance sake.
The Massachusetts Legislature is still in
session. The "short session" which they
promised is likely to equal in length and for
! lavishness Of expenditure, any former one
BE- far the most important measure OF the
session is the new Liquor Law; not yet dis
posed Of, il is true, but yet in fair way to
/ pass BIZ triumphant majority. Whether 1t
will ge, the Governors signature or not, is
4 a matter Of douh, with some; but the gen
/ eral opinion is, that it will rect with no or.
! position from him. II passed, il will be the
most stringent law OF the kind on recor3.
+ /, is impossible to toresee how it Will ope-
rate in Boston; for here is the stronghold
:. Of the Rum party. and very much will de-
pend upon the vigilance, energy and faith.
funess Of magistrates. Through the resi-
Of the State, am pleased to believe il will
make clean sweep Of the rGmshoas anc
do it. work we'll. The Rumnies sqnifr
desperately, yet comfort themselves with
saying that the law is 80 stringent that i
will die Of strangulation. Perhaps So W.
saals see.
The Boston papers pretty generally are
making themselves merry over some Of ih'
! proceedings of the present l. G stature -
The appointment Of "Nunnery Commits,
tee" not very long ago, whose duty il wa'
made to examine churches, converts an,
other institutions OF the Roman Catholic
denominations, to see whether firearms o
. other deadly weapons were concealed there
, in, has, as any sensible person might hav
/ predicted, terminated in a farce. Tn
! committee, after long search, which brougli
! some OF its members in contact with .run
and rotten eggs" and after displaying III
: mos, peaking and vulgar curiosity in tn
{. course OF their inquisition, even to pryin
into the sleeping apartments of sick fl
males, found--nothing. Massachusetts, ha
: always been famous for bigotry and in
a tolerance towards Ro an Catholics
( They don't seem TO have improved much j
e this respect since the burning Of tn
d Charlestown Convent, long years ag'
G Not one cent of indemnity has ever bee
e paid to the Catholics for that destruction
n Philadelphia burned churches eight or lie
o years ago, bu, she did herself the credi
and the Catholics the justice. 10 build the
again.
But there is much in Boston to put yo
. on friendly terms with her, after all.
"A city in the Union possesses such rare faci
tiles for the comfort and nyenience
:. our literary men. She is justly styled Il
four weekly news journals, religious, poll
! ical and literary-many Of them conductt
with eminent ability--and monthly mag
zines OF science, literature and art almo
withou. number; and when we come
sreak OF books, we csk with wonder whe
70 all the pa per comes from. Go to whatev
u part Of the United States you will, al
wherever you find a bookstore, there Il
: book publishers Of Boston are represented
often largely so. Her Institutions OF lear
ing are the most forward in the land, rs W,
as the most numerous in proportion to po
ulation. She has twentythrce Cramrl
Schools, numbering more than ten tho
r. sand pupils. Then her Public LIBRA
:. opsn sll days of the week, Sundays exc 81
ed. and .free TO Everybody, without mons
arJ ,v;.I,ou, yyice What m ipstitnti
:, Tor toiiing penury to safe the hungerings
;, the mind withal. Here you may 60 at a
hour from O'Clock in the morning 10 9
" the evening, and call for any book named