The Union and journal., 1867-02-22
EDIToRIAL SUMMARY.


Washington.
Steamboat explosion on the MissisipP
river. Is lives lost.
Rev. Dr. Sears, Of Brown University. re
Gently delivered discourse, the burien o
which was TINT ministers preach too much
and that n reduction in the quantity ol
preaching would improve its quality.
A borrHI case OF child abuse has come Ia
light in Columbus, Ohio. A little seven
year. old girl, named blackburn, has been
subjected to a course of systematic torture
by her father and step mother. Her hand.
have been nearly burned of and her body
is n mass Of fostering scars.
Congress has passed bill substantially
as we have given, und the bill goes to the
President. II provides that all civil gov.
ernments in the late rebel States shall be
considered rs provisional only, aud liable
at any time to 10 modified or superseded,
and no person shall hold office who is dis
qualified by the ihirl section Of the Con-
siiiuiional amendment. II was passed by
strict party vote.
During the last two weeks, in addition to
our regular edition, NO hav. each week
printed an extra edition of 1900 copies of
the USioS & JOURNAL, and could not sup
ply the demand. A gentleman in Wells
writes us that by actual count hc loaned
his paper tn twenty-five different inlividu.
ais, and on Saturday, in this city, twenty.
five cents was offered to gentleman for
his paper and refused! Why not subscribe
aud receive the paper regularly? There
are but lew weeks in the year when each
paper is not worth more than is paid for t..
Tie melancholy facts brought TO light in
the SWEET Poisoning Case, show that the
Dr. hal sounded about as low depth Of
moral dcbasemcnt rs drtinkanls usually do.
In this connection il may not be uninterest.
ing TO state, simply rs matter Of fact. that
he did not utterly abandon himself to his
depraved appetitcs and passions until he
had made up his mind to go over to the
eoppcrhends. Ills first act after so deter
mining was to stop his copy Of the USioS
and JOURNAL; after tha, the descent was
easy and rapid We believe that neither
the government or the defence animadyert-
e,l upon this fact. Had the defence known
this, they would have made the strongest
point made to show his inhunan trcatmcn,
Of his family and the dcprivations which
they suffered at his hands
Our State ~ getting somewhat noted for
insecurity Of life and person. Within less
than six months occurred the poisoning
case in Kenncbunk, the murder OF Spear
in Saco, the murder Of woman in Ban.
gor. three murders in Portland, two OF
which took place less than two weeks ago,
and the double murlcr of two old women
in Auburn, besides the brutal robbery in
Limerick. Will the sickly philanthropy
which claims that capital crimes are in
creased by familiarity with public exccu.
lion, soy ,bat ,hes, crimes have bcc, in.
creased by any such familiarity in Maine
We are clad IN seq Tim, IN. comm;,,.. -,
the I.eri,latur, r.,or,,d o,o;nS, ,bol;sh;,y
,h, death pepal,v. ~, ouyh, IN have , ,,y
for c,ecu,;o, fixed nv law anil ,o, I,0 n
On, n,,o;,,m,,, bv IN, cov.,,or
"o'' or OF south carolina can hardly
I've recognized rs the Governor OF the hot.
headed state ot iorncr years. lie recently
addressed colorcd meeting OF 1900 per.
Sons, which address shows in the main a
man upon tho right track Mt last. lie com
pl'mented the blacks upon the "rrmarka-
ble popriety" with which they have de-
meancd themselves since their liberty was
given them, and Promises them, us Chief
Executive Of the State, ample und fi,ll pro.
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