Weekly Trinity journal., 1870-12-10
SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
SAN FR.xc1sco. December .. 1870.


termed by irreligious Democrats in remembrance
of certain boshy verses be wrote during the last
Presidential campaign, which were half hymn,
half political platform, and every line of which
ended with defiant hallelujah has been the
defendant in q singular libel suit brought
against him by DR.. Elijah White, physician
who had formerly an extensive practice here.
DR.. White was a member of Coxs church, and
supposed to be in such good moral feather that
his name in the congregation was synonym for
all the christian virtues. When the election Of
Grant left the clerical politician time to resume
the cure of souls, he found that the Devil, TAX
ing an ungent tlemanly advantage of his absence,
bad tempted SO hard that some of the flock had
fallen from grace, and that amongst the back
sliders was DR.. White, whose name rumor coup
led with certain immoral doings with his female
patients. This, Cox thought, was rather calcu-
lated to tarnsh the sanity character of his fold,
so to purge the church of the offending sinner he
made formal complaint to the diocese and de-
manded that the guilty goat should be expelled
from communion with the remaining righteous.
The case was accordingly tried by the clerical
authorities, and resulted in the conviction and
expulsion OF the medical sinner. White then
appealed to the Conference, made counter
charges against Cox, published long cards and
agitated generally, but the Methodists rallied
like Franc-treurs in support of their pastor, and
he came out victorious in every engagement.
White then subsidized the MazpPa and got it to
point his explanation in weekly nstalments but
us this did not mend matters, he procured legal
advice and commenced suit for $40 ,0Oa against
his alleged slanderer. The action has been on
trial for four days, and the evidence disclosed as
nice case of nastiness as was ever brought into
Court. The jury pronounced in favor of the
clergyman without leaving the box, so that
White is virtually branded a reprobate unfit
to associate with godly humanity.
THE LAW AND THE LOTTERIES.
An attempt has been made this week-though
in a very feeble manner-to stop the progress of
the lottery mania that is now raging like an ep-
idemic through the State. The Chief of Police
ordered the arrest Of the agent Of the Marysville
Lottery as a test case, but the decision of Judge
Sawyer, that the enabling act Of the Mercantile
Library repealed any penalty attached to an in
fraction of the law at once disposed Of the ques-
ton So now every one in the State can embark
in the business without fear of molestation and
rampant gambling can bid open defiance to the
Constitution with absolute impunity.
A NEW CEMETERY.
The deprcciaton Of property in the neighbor-
hood Of Lone Mountain in consequence of its
proximity to San Francisco's hundred thousand
dead, and the constant growth of the city iu that
direction is even now calling attention to the ne
cessty that will arise at no distant date for the
opening Of n new burial ground far enough re-
moved from the encroaching habitations of the
living to render it certain that the remains of the
dead will never be disturbed, as in the case of
Yerba Bueno, and the not improbable case of
Lone Mountain. With unusual forcthought our
City Fathers provided for this contingency some
years ago, by rcserving tract near Point Lobos
and the ocean nearly three times as large as that
of Lone Mountain. Only few of the INDECENT
dead have yet been buried there, but it is in
tended soon to open it to the public and place
the price of lots ut cost only sufficient to cover
the expense of laying out the grounds in an Or
namental manner. The high price charged for
graves at Lone Mountain has always been sub
ject for complaint and anything that reduces the
cost of interments will be an apprecable boon
to the needy living.
our RIDICULOUS FUNERALS.
Writing on this subject I might as Well ease
my mind of a fey comments on the ridiculous
! following poor mortality to its last home. 1t
might be that mans worth was to be meas
ured not by his life record but by the length Of
his funeral procession. After the hearse comes
a string of carriages often several blocks in ex-
tent and every disengaged hack driver in the
city will tail Oh to the cortoge. | believe there
are scores Of men and women women especially,
who attend every funeral in the city just for the
sake of getting n ride. The one or two carriages
Immediately following the heorse, containing
! the relatives of the deceased, are the only ones
in which ordinary dccorum is observed The
rest hold a motley crew of people, who perhaps
never knew the name of the dead and thus ride
out to the cemetery with cigars in their mouths
as they would on a pleasure excursion to the
Cliff House. This cruel and unnecessary train
Of needless followers is supposed to be tribute
to the memory of the deceased even friends
unless very intimate-coud often better show
| lhelr respect ny stopping away ana tnen saving
the survivors heavy charge, just at the mo-
ment of all others when they most need money.
If it were possible to induce our clergymen to
talk to their congregations practically, instead
of meandering through Old Testament obsolet-
sms, know of nothing they could undertake
that would result in more benefit than to dis
courage this nopsenscal plan of having hired
mourners, for such in reality they are.
OUR USUAL FRAY.
OF course the week has not passed without the
usual pistollic encounters between armed gam
blers, resulting in one instance in the sudden
departure Of one of the fraternity to that bourne
where asbestos cards and unlimited ice will be
necessary to the enjoyment of quiet little game
The taking off was performed in the gentlemanly
manner that might be expected of members OF
the profession after the numerous opportunities