Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-10-15
LErrERs ERoN rHE PEePLs.
TOO THrN Az ExcunE.


To ats Editor Of TIE Commercial:
In regard to the sessions Of the Grand Lodge
and Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows, Euey
EUening, on Saturday, said:
I'VE have printed az promptly as the Com
Blercidl has, the names OF the officers elected,
and given in full the interesting statistics Of the
Order, and these are as foil reports OF the
sessions OF secret order as It's most discreet
members think should be published"
There was not one item In your report which
the members Of the Order object to. The re-
porters for the COMMERCIAL exercised good
judgment In presenting what 1t was entirely
proper for the public TO know, and your paper
meets and receives the thanks of the Order.
The discreetness shown By u. u. on this occa-
sion is quite remarkable. 1t is not always SO
careful about publishing the proceedings of a
secret order. When the Grand Lodge, /. o. G.
T., met in this city, few weeks ago, the two
chief officers of the Order, for reasons best
known to themselves, declared that a former
officer was indebted TO the Order and that he re-
fused to make settlement. The deficiency was
put down at about $40. The EUery Euen3lg, by
some means procured a copy of the reports, and
used half column of their paper in giving pub
licity TO entirely private matter, to the excu-
sion OF the more important business Of the
| Grand Lodge. 1t bas since trsnspired that the
member thus attacked Ia not in debt to the Or
der but the Order s in debt toshim, S55.22. SO
| far, EUery EUening has failed to ascertain the
result of the Investigations OF the charge it
| deemed it appropriate to publish. The CONNER
| oIAL has informed the members of the Order in
/ the various parts OF the State of the result OF
| the investigation, but EUery ECentng seems to
/ have deemed it proper only to publish the false
| accusation, and while it gave 80 much space and
| so great prominence to that, to almost entirely
| neglect mention of the Odd Fellows proceed
ings? What's the matter Does it propose to
break down the Odd Fellows of Delaware
/. o. o. r.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
To the Editor Of le Commercial,
The Bill for the Prevention of Cruelty to An
imals passed both Houses of our Legislature.
Some of our best men favored the movement to
i organize a society for that purpose. almost a
year ago. and now many months have elapsed
i since full permission was granted the people OF
Delaware to commence humanizing the masses
| Why do our best men delsy2 Why do they hes
| itete to use the power given them? Why do
they allow such things as this to happen in our
streets and go unpunishedf A little boy came
| to me with this story; He saw two boys named
| Cannon. living in Madison St, throw little kit.
ten down on the pavement and with sticks and
stones beat it to death.
One last word must say in praise of our kind
hearted Mayor. In every case that has presen-
ted to him he has acted promptly and efficiently
No words are sufficient to praise him enough,
| and hardly see the necessity OF the Society
hurrying themselves. think they had better
consider the subject two or three years longer
and not do things in too much of hurry.
God will bless our good Mayor and | only
wish it was three thousand years he was to reign
instead of three.
CORRECT REPORTS"
To de Editor OF tie Commercial.
confess was amused at an item in one OF
your contemporaries, recently, which claimed
for it's columns remarkable, though cheap cor
rectness. For accuracy, said this modest
item -"inquire within" 1 observed that you
alluded to the subject in the COMMERCIAL, bul
you failed to mention the very funniest part OF
the item which commenced with this singular
statement:
ELLEN Cooper, colored, who Hues near tn.
railroad bridge, died of apoplexy Sunday night.
By observing my italics, you will see, at once
the strange assertion | refer to. Ellen Cooper
who liUes near the bridge, died on last Saturda!
night! Can this be the correct report for which
we are to pay cont ? Poor Ellen, fear me
cannot be both dead and living, your contem
porary to the contrary notwithstanding; 80 We
must once more conclude that it is not him wh'
boasteth most, in whom we may most put ou
CONFIDENCE.
BETTER ORDER MUST BE HAD.
( To The Editor Of The Conlmeroidl:
1t having been reported to me on authorit
n which 1 regard unquesionable that some Of th
v Fire Companies in returning from fires arc il
l. the habi. of coming into collision with eac
. other, and thereby damaging their apparaiu
| and creating considerable commotiOn in Ill
l. streets, l desire to say that such action doe
e not meet my approval. Should another tuc
& occurrence happen, / shall report the same I
d Council with a recommendation for the muster
Ii ing out of service of the offending Company an
for withdrawal Of its appropriation. Better o
der must be preserved in the streets.
e GEORGE MCCALL.