Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-10-18

A stupid and unfair rule of excluding
women no matter how comprten', from
the position Of PRINCIPAL OF male gram
mar schools has just been repealed in
Philadelphia. II Is astonishing that such
a rule should ever have been established
In the Quaker city.
The large number Of suspensions and
expulsions from our public schools, re.
ported by Superintendent Harlan, will
strike most people with surprise
DrMaull will be welcomed back to the
Board of Education OF which he was o
useful member for SO long a time.
When George Francis Train went tc
Europe last he said he would never come
back alive. We suppose then II must be
bis corpse that has Iust arrived In New
York.
Immediately after the announcement
Of the suspension of Bushong q Bro, in
Reading, there appeared in the Reading
papers long strings of advertisements
from responsible parties, offering valuable
real estate for sale for which the owners
would accept checks on the suspended
bankers. Such an exhibition Of conf
dence must have been cheering to the
bankers and somewhat of a 'rebuke to
those whose fears had caused the panic.
We do not publish anonymous com
municatioHs, and this applies with
especial force to notices of marriages.
Ali such must be vouched for over the
signature Of, or be presented by some one
we know. There is no more cruel Islander
than to falsely accuse one of getting
married.
The President has issued his Thanks.
giving proclamation and we print ii in
full elsewhere.
The Philadelphia Age charges that per.
fectly outrageous frauds were perpetrated
Ivy FOUNDERS and reporters in that city
Tuesday. It declares;
Gangs Of men were piloted from division
TO division, in one instance by King
candidate for the Legislature, and voted
upon names given them by their employers
Well-known citizens were personAted by
loafera and vagahonds. and when that fact
was pointed out TO the Ring" officers,
they disregArded the information and in
suited those who sought to prevent illegal
votes from being polled. All day In all
parts OF the city this disreputable game was
hrf ha nff al L.
If these charges be true, and the decent
newspapers and honest people of Phila
delphia do not Join in denouncing the
crimes and securing the punishment Of
the criminals, then is that city indeed
lost to shame and decency. If they be
false, the press and people of the city owe
It to their city's reputation to prove their
falsiiy and rebuke the Islander. They
cannot afford to Ignore them.
The Tammsny Hall Democrats of New
York have passed resolutions opposing
the proposed change in the constitution Of
that State yesting the appointment Of
judges in the Governor, That is only
natural. Tammany Hall has even stronger
reason than the thieves and murderers Of
the metropolis for liking, and desiring to
retain, an elective Judiciary. Itobtaiued
from elected judges power and profit as
we'll as protection.
Close upon the adjournment Of the
Evangelical Alliance comes the meeting
In New York of the Free Religious Asso
citation, and the reporters who have been
plodding along recording the ulterances
of Orthodoxy and the aspirations Of
faith, find their pens now run with equal
facility, freighted with heterodoxy and
the exaltatlon of human reason. Truly
all Is grist that comes to a newspaper
mill.
The letter from townsville to the West
Chester Nsios, which wepublish elsewhere,
is encouraging to those who hope for an
extension Of the Wilmington aud Western
Railroad TO oxford.