The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-30
BALrIMoRk. March I'D. Isl


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ST. PATRICKs DAY.
St Patrirk's day having fallen on Sun
day this year, there was no celebration by
the several Irish societies Of our city. Per
haps il was in consideration Of this fact
that the clerk Of weather sent very copi-
Gus fall Of snow which commenced early in
the morning and lasted all the day, max
ing it very disAgreeable for outside pedes-
trians.
CELEBRATION or THE DAY BY THE IRISH AS
sOCIATIoNs.
The Irish associations Of our city resolv-
ed to celebrate the day on Monday, which
they did without any street display. The
Hibernian Society, numbering two hun
bred, chartered a special car and paid their
friends in Washington fraternal visit.
The Oliver Hibernian Society met at an
early hour in the morning, in the school
room of the Oliver Hibernian school, and
distributed rewards Of merit to the male
and female scholars. The members Of this
society, in the evening, met at the Msthly
house, where they partook Of a sumptuous
banquet, got up in the very best style by
"mine host" The cloth having been re-
moved and the toast, 4 The Day We Cele-
brate, being proposed, it was responded
to by Mr.. VIM. p. Preston, one of the most
eloquent members-if not the most elo-
quent member Of the Baltimore "bar, +"
who complimented the society on the work
it had performed during the year, and paid
a glowing tribute to the memory Of the
Saint In the course Of his remarks Mr.
Preston, referred to him as the founder Of
that great bulwark Of English liberty
=" trial by jury, saying, whatever the
church owed to him an All ecclesiastics, the
world owed him much az a law giver. He
spoke in an eloquent and touching strain Of
the dead Of the society, and in this connec-
ton brought in the much lamented Henry
Clay, the giant Of the great west, whom,
he said, the last time he had the pleasure
of being in his company. was at the festive
board Of this society.
Other societies celebrated the day in a
similar manner, by banqueting and festive
gatherings, in which some If the leading
men Of the city participated.
CONVICT LABOR,
Owing to the untireing exertIons Of Mr..
Louis A. Jumart, delegate from the sixth
ward the bill for the adjustment of shoe
making and cooperage in the Maryland
penitentiary, has passed a second reading
in the house, and it is expected it will be
put on its passage in the early part Of the
coming week, when, should it pass the
House, of which there yet appears 10 be
some doubt, it will 90 to the Senate, when
in all probability, it will receive its death
blow for the present session. In order t.
meet the demands Of the Crispins, and the
Coopers. Mr.. Iumart had to introduce
TRIPLE ELL,
in which is embodied a bill to prohibit the
introduction Of can making one for the
adjustment Of shoe making, and one for
the adjustment Of coopering, in the Mary
land penitentiary.
The first of these was Mr. Jumart' )
special business, and might be termed his
own bill, which, no doubt, he could have
engineered through without any difficulty,
but 50 as to secure, if possible, the passage
Of the other two, he tucked them on to his
own bill, so that the p sage Of one will be
the passage Of all, and vice versa. All the
interested parties are making very strenuous
efforts to secure !, gislation on their special
interests, but the firm Of Reed 4 Jones.
who are carrying ON shoe making in the
penitentiary, seem to have the inside track
Of the st. Crispins, and all through.
MISTAKE OF THE COMMITTEE or THE ST
CRIsPINs AT ANAPoLIs.
The gentlemen composing the committee
failed to make local issue of it, and un-
dertook to meet the question on general
principles, acknowledging that the manu-
facturers Of shoes in the Maryland peni-
Tertiary did not impure the shoe making in
! terest Of the city nor State. This, to say
, the least Of it. is very strange admission,
considering that the sales Of shoes, manu-
featured in the Maryland penitentiary, for
this year, will amount to nearly $500, 900.
Five hundred Thousand dollars. The pen
itentiary men are working on the country
members. Almost every morning there is
a circular left on the desk Of every member
setting forth the advantages the system is
to the State. And, strange to say, these
circulars are allowed t. remain ON the desks
Of the members, and the committee can
find no means Of removing them from their
trysting palace. We must wait and see
what a week will bring forth
THE SUNDAY LAW
Of late there has been quite !. furore
about the Sunday Law. and meetings H.. e
been held for and against its repeal On
last Monday night there was a very large
meeting held in the Maryland Institute, to
protest against the repeal or modification
Of the present law. The main hall If the
building was filled Ia its fullest capacity,
and il is estimated that not less than four
thousand persons we're in il At one time
The meeting was presided over by Judge
Giles Of the United States District COGrt,
and among the names If its Vice Presidents
could be found j. W. Garrett, Reverdy
johnson, Hamilton Easter, and others.
representing the wealth and business Of the
commonwealth. Among its speakers were
Judges, lawyers, doctors, and divines, and
the tenor Of all their remarks went to prove
one lamentable fact, if it were true, to wit:
That the christian religion has failed in
its mission it no longer guides and inhu-
ences the great majority of the human fam
lily that in future we are to observe the
Sabbath in respect and obedience to the
common law, instead Of the law Of Christ
and his disciples What All absurdity I,
And this same spirit seems to be abroad all
over the land. We have passed through
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