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Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21

QUITE number of small fry jour-
nails are singing mud at Governor
BOOTH, with all the vim of hired men
who are afraid they will not earn their
money. Meantime, the Governor inn
itates the action of the moon when
the puppy barked at her-keeps right
along, as if nothing had happened.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21

THE Oakland Transcript editor con-
cludes that LUTTRELL has made a first
class donkey of himself. a fellow
feeling makes us wondro us kind. One
touch of nature makes the whole
world kin. If LUTTRELL has done for
himself what nature did for the Tran
script man, there are two pair of long
ears where erstwhile there was but
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21

thing? Will gain us o subscriber to
do that thing? 1t is to this, and for
this the hired editors are made to triEl
their editorials. Can editors so situ-
ated edit newspapers-edit them hon
estly, candidly and fairly? AS well
might we expect the Gagged lion to send
forth the clear, thunder-toned roar
with which he was wont to echo the
hills of his native wild.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21

LOCAL Option went to the wall in
Santa Clara the other day. The lovers
of gin-slings still embrace their mis-
tress, and celebrated their right to do
so by a public jubilee.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21
Newspaper Persecution.

Chief COCKRILL of San Francisco
has reached that period in life when
his days are full of trouble. He was
elected Chief of the Police over Crow
LEY, the incumbent, after hard
fight which no one save himself sup
posed he would win. The Chronicle
fought him through the campaign in
a mean personal way, and has con-
tinued the same style of attack ever
since his election. Lately the Post,
which always whistles when the
Chronicle is going by graveyard, has
joined in the attack, and echoes in the
evening what the Chronicle has howled
in the morning. The truth is that
Chief CoCKRILL is not the bad man
and inefficient officer his maligners
represent him to be. The head and
front of his offending is that he de-
feated the candidate of a faction, and
that faction is using the Chronicle and
Post as tools to hound him, in order to
get even. The Chronicle has always
been to great extent under the con-
troll of CROWLEY and his friends. The
ex-Chief has warm partizans holding
influential positions on that paper,
who set up jobs on CoCKRILL
that CHARLES DEYOUNG himself
does not see through or understand.
The moment the new Chief assumed
the duties of his office, the old Chiefs
agents manufactured the story that
the faro banks were re-opened. The
charge was false. 1t was pretty well
understood by those on the inside Of
the fight, that the games the Chronicle
found had not been closed during
CRowLEY's administration. The
Chronicles attack on the gamblers
was not prompted by the moral prin-
ciples of that papers publishers, but
in the interest of the CROWLEY fac
ton and against Chief CoCKRILL.
The war has been pushed against him
in every conceivable way by the
Chronicle, in its zeal to serve the ex-
Chief and his friends, and by the Post
in its devotion to the Chronicle. I'M
proper men-men unfit for policemen
have been placed on the force for the
sole purpose of injuring CoCKRILL.
These bad men have been paraded as
evidence Of the Chiefs incapacity.
The whole difficulty is the work of a
faction struggling to reinstate itself in
power. The Chronicle and Post may
be the ignorant, but they are certainly
the plant, tools Of the CROWLEY fac
ton. Their position and purpose is so
well understood that neither of them
has particle of influence against
Chief CoCKRILL with the respectable
members of all classes and denomina-
tions of San Francisco.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-21

"ANTED-AS SITUATION AS COOK BY
w an old experienced hand. Hest refer
e e given Address, l.. VAUNER, u. s..
Hotei. myl7-3t
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
SOUTHERN SCHOOLS.

On Friday, in discussing the bill for the
abolition Of the Vermont board of educa-
ton, the spirit manifested by southern
people was incidentally alluded to by way
of illustration. The condition of educa-
tional affairs in the south is one of serious
moment, and is the cause of anxiety to
those who desire the enlightenment of the
colored race. Recent observation has con-
vinced.us that the prospect of maintaining a
school system in the states lately In re-
bellion, is not encouraging. Those familiar
with the subject, report that the cause of
education has lost ground during the pas,
year or two, especially where political dis,
orders and popular violence are prevalent.
The hindrances to progress evidently
grow out of the feeling of opposition to
"civil rights BILL" This measure provides
for the establishment Of schools common
to both races. This will prove failure
without supplemental law, requiring the
several states to MAINTAIN public school,
and compel the white people to send thel
children to school. Since the war, a sys
tenn of free schools has been established il
every southern state. 1t was politica
question at the commencement, but ha
since been adopted by both republican AM
conservative parties, and taken out of pol
tics. In most of the states free school
have no firm hold upon the popular heart
and it would take but slight agitation o
legislation to destroy them, so sensitive az
the people.
The civil rights bill affords the peopl
the pretext to oppose the system of publ
schools provided, some of the people desire
but majority are opposed TO the commo
school. Another class are passive upo
the subject and will go with the stronge
party when the time for action arrives. TIL
closing of the public schools will be grea
disaster to the colored race and the poe
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24

whites. The white people, such as have the
means, will educate their children In pri-
vate schools, as before the war. The poor
of both races will be lett to grow up in
ignorance. A system of mixed schools we
do not believe can be successfully operated
at least during the life of the present gen.
Grafton. Separate or mixed schools Is
question that must be determined by the
public sentiment of the locality.
Universal education in Virginia is favor
ably received. The city of Richmond has
an excellent system of free schools. under
the superintendent of Rev. r. M. Man
ley, formerly principal of the Troy confer
ence academy at Poultney. North Caro-
lima makes little progress, the school laws
are defective, and the amount appropriated
for the support of schools is not sufficient.
The state legislature refuses to pass school
laws, and the people do not ask for any
better facilities than they now have. In
the city of Charleston, South Carolina, ed
vocational matters are very well managed,
but in the state at large the condition is
bad. The state appropriates 100000, be-
side the local taxes, but the school officers
are ignorant and school funds are badly
managed. In Georgia, outside of the cit
les, the lower classes are in sad state of
ignorance. The number of children in the
state between the ages of six and eighteen
years is 400, 500; of these only 70, 157, in
Guiding 1868 colored children, attend the
public school three months in the year.
The number of children attending private
schools is put down in the report of the
superintendent of public instruction in that
state at 23,597 of whom 1884 are colored,
making the whole number OF children of
both races who go to school, 00,574, and
249, 410 who never enter a school house.
Thirty-fve per cent. of the inhabitants who
are above ten years of age cannot read.
The state appropriated last year for CON-
mon schools, S25O,OOO. OF other southern
states we cannot speak, either from obser-
walton or by statistics
In Richmond Virginia; Charlotte and
Raleigh, North Carolina; Greenville, Spar
tansburgh, South Carolina Atlanta and
Augusta, Georgia, the school buildings are
large, and convenient for the purposes in
tended, and, in either city, surpass, proba.
bly,, any in Vermont. The disposition OF
the people towards schools is kindly, and
they seem to take pride in them and are
very courteous in taking visitors through
them. 1t is in the country where ignor
ance and restitution abound, and the state
officials and legislature are content "to lei
them alone
The problem of education in the south
in any phase in which it may be examined
is difficult one to solve 1t makes little
difference whether they are let alone OIL
compelled to maintain schools, the ignor
ance of the masses prevents the accom-
plishment of results, which, in intelligent
communities, can be readily attained. A
further discussion of the causes will occupy
our attention at another time.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
The New Postage Law.

The new newspaper postage law, which
goes into effect on the first of January,
proves to be different in some details from
the accounts given of it at the time of its
passage. 1t was represented then to re-
store free exchanges between newspapers,
and to limit the freedom OF the mails TO
newspapers in the counties where published,
as before, also, to weekly issues. But ii
does not restore free exchanges, and it al
lows free mail carriage to all papers
daily, tri-weelly, semi-weekly and weekly
alike-in the counties where they are pub
lished. This last is, therefore, the only
exception to the complete abolition of dead
headism in the mails.
The great change Of the new law lies in
requiring all newspaper postage to be paid
in advance, by publishers or news agents,
instead of leaving it, as now, to be collect
ed of the subscribers at the offices of de-
livery. AT the same time the postage is
reduced about one-half in amount, being
fixed at two cents pound on all papers
published once week, or oftener, and
three cents a pound upon all of less fire..
quent issue and magazines. This will
amount, on the average daily paper to &C
cents year, and on the weekly to 10 cents
year.
The privileges and responsibilities of the
new arrangement are TO be shared equal,
oy !he original publishers aud news agents
and one OF the effects of the change will
De 10 increase the use of the latter in th,
distribution of newspapers to readers
mus publishers VIII send moro and NOR,
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24

An address was delivered in the repre-
sentatives' hall, Tuesday evening. Oct. 30,
by John II. French, LII. d., of Burling-
ton, secretary of thc.state board of educa-
ton. Tie said there were last year Of 900
children between the ages of five and TWEEN
ty years in the state, and estimated that
$4,000 pupils are enrolled in public schools
and 5000 in private schools. DeductiDg
one-eighih for double enrolment, there re-
mains about 72.0O0 who actually attended
schools, The total cost of schools was
$737 900. Vermont having no school fund
the whole of this sum has to be raised by
taxation. lie recommended a reduction in
number of school district officers. 1t now
takes about $4,000 to regulate 1850
districts, with $500 teachers and 10000
children. These officers are made up of
moderators, treasurers, auditors aud com.
mttees Fifteen hundred would do better.
He defended the state board against charges
of extravaganza. The secretary's work
cannot well be performed in less than 7S
weeks, and requires an assistant. The
members had received only about $50 each
The expense incurred was principally in
publishing reports, one of which cost So.
500-school records, etc. If the state nor
nal schools are to he continued. further
legislation will he necessary Vermont
gives her children only twenty weeks
schooling. while other states give much
more, Wisconsin seven months. He urged
the legislature to enact law requiring a
least six months. Evening schools shuu.t
also he required. -IrQlts
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24


| have picture in my study of the no.
blest church in England. 1t possesses a
splendid history through many centuries,
and at the head of this history stand the
arcbbshops with a few mobiles who gave
great treasures to rear the glorious pile.
But within few years a curious book has
been printed from the records of the
church, in which you can find the names
of hosts of humble folk. who gave their
pence or marks, who cut a capital or carved
a stall, or first laid stone on stone for the
love of God, and died while thousands
more have left no record at all of work as
noble and beautiful as ever was done. Yet
there stands the pile, lifting Its pinnacles
and flashing back the sun from its golden
windows across the country, and seen in
tender visions of home by the men of
Yorkshire wherever they wander about the
world, with some such strain OF the heart
as was felt in the old time,
when Israel remembered Zion by
the rivers of Babylon. Now what
man who carved a stone or laid one for
that church has not been caught by what he
did and lifted by it into the hereafter !?
His freemason mark is on his work five
centuries after he got done with it all, and
binds him fast to his share of the glory and
the praise. And is not this the truth,
ask, about the church built without the
sound of an axe or hammer-about your
poor little bit of it and mine 1t is here
now with us and we are in the thick of the
rucb and shard, but the time must come
when it will be hereafter. And as, to-day,
we see how the great treasure of the elder
time has been gathered and transmitted by
great souls whose names all men know,
and by humble and obscure folk who were
content to work in dim little corner, to
set no great store on what they did, but
trust it all to God and go their way with
their little bundle, crying, perhaps, as they
carried it in
"Full well know l have more tares than
wheat.
Bram6les and flowers dry stalks and withcred
leaves;
Wherefore blush and weep as at thy feet
Ikneel down reverently and repeat,
Master, behold my sheaves:"
so it must be with every clean stroke oul
of clean heart for, indeed. there is an
apostolic succession-nOt that about which
they make such an ado in the cathedrals
and councils of what they call the church.
1t is this transmission from heart to heart
and soul to soul, through far-reaching ages
of the everlasting life.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
Centennial Anniversary.

The centennial anniversary of the Con
grcgaiiona church, Compton, New Hamp-
shire, was celebrated Tuesday with appro-
pirate ceremonies. The centennial sermon
was delivered by Rev. Mr. Quincy Blakely,
the pastor, formerly of Pawlct, in this
county, who reviewed the history of the
society during the one hundred years that
have elapsed since its organization. Mr..
Charles Gutter read an article upon the
Sabbath school, and at the conclIsio OF
the exercises dinner was partaken of in the
town hall. In the evening addresses wert
made by Rev. Mr.. Hadley, Rev. Isaac
Wiley of Pembroke, Deacon Wiley ant
Deacon Bartlett of Campton, Rev. DR.
Bouton of Concord. Rev. Mr.. Jewctt Of
Baskerville, land others
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
Dean stanley.

Mr.. Justin Mccarthy contributes paper
upon Dean Stanley to the November Gal
ary. He thus describes, with some slight
exaggeration, the deans popularity with
Americans
fancy that Dean Stanley is the English
churchman whom Americans know best.
Dean Stanley is conspicuous among Eng
lishmen of whatever class or creed. for his
kindness and his genial hospitality to all
strangers but Americans in particular
seem to be drawn towards him. / question
whether ever yet knew an American in
London who had not been to see Stanley
and have indeed uf late sometimes
thought it would not be a bad way of be-
ginning a conversation with any American
lady or gentleman to whom l may have
the pleasure of being introduced in Lon
don. TO ask. Glow do you like Dean Stan.
ley y Perhaps the question would, how
ever be IA superlluous one in any case, for
believe theological hatred apart
body could have any feeling but that of
respect and good will towards Dean STAN
lev
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
Readings OF Professor Churchill

The readings by Prof j w. Churchill
of Andover Theological Seminary, which
opened the Brandon lecture course ON
Thursday evening last, were of an exceed
lngly interesting character. and to those
who had never heard this gentleman be-
field in literature and arr rarely excelled
by the best elocutionists of other days.
Prof. Churchill is man in middle life,
with physique which is. in itself, in his
favor as reader blessed with an acute
conception of the different characters
which he brings out in his readings, and
with versatility of rendition of the diff
ferent languages and eccentrcites of the
rarest of characters. His facial expression
is especially wonderful and under perfect
control at all times, depicting as he does
the look and action of the most ridi, ulous
as well as the most ordinary of creatures
with ease and promptness. AS reader,
simply, he is incompatible, his voice is
clear and smooth, and can be heard dis
tinctly at great distance, while his per-
sonation of any and every character is done
with celebrity truly admirable.
The personation of Squeers, in the ex-
tract from Dickens Nicholas Nickleby,
with which the readings were opened, was
one of the best of the evening. The dia-
bollcal squint and the sinister expression of
the entire face, was given to perfection
and was changed to the mild, gentlemanly
character of Nickleby or the frightened
trtmulous expression of poor Smike, witt
the acting of true artist. The audieuc,
were Immediately impressed with the pow
ers of the reader and were in entire sym
pathy with him thereafter.
The selection from Mark Twains limo
cents Abroad brought down the house. an,
was enjoyed immensely The text of th
extract was made to assume new interest
The enthusiasm of the French guide an,
the provoking Indifference of the doctor
were given with great effect and produces
roars of laughter
} The poem of "The Vagabonds" is On
which nearly every reader has tried hi
hand at before an American audience, an
! is therefore familiar to nearly all. Th
professors rendition was one of niue
, power but has probably been excelled b
! others who give more attention to poetict
: ! selections.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
The CornwaIl Contested Election.

The committee on elections have given
three evenings to this case. The first was
occupied in discussions relating to the in
PRODUCTION and reading of the testimony.
The next was spent in the reading of the
testimony. Wednesday evening the argi-
ments of the counsel began, Mr.. Eldrdge,
of Middlebury. opened the case for the
contestant, claiming that the evidence
showed that Mr.. Dana, the sitting member,
had been elected by the votes of persons
who were not voters that money had
been paid to voters who had voted foi
Dana that others, whose testimony had
been desired, had been hid in cellars and
had ahsconded across the lake. Ger.
Gran ey and Hon. Daniel Roberts counsel
for Mr.. Dana, will reply, and Hon. f.. j
Phelps will close for the contestant, Mr.
Williamson.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-24
THE PAY OF MESSENGEl

The St. Adams Messenger alludes to the
bill before the legislature for reducing the
pay of messengers. The article says
Rutland papers )" this is injustice, but
one paper in Rutland county has advocated
the cutting down of the pay of messenger
boys. There are no harder working indi-
viduals around the legislature, save it may
be the clerks, who so faithfully and with
such constant toll earn their money as the
pages of the senate and the house. The
legislature had much rather confine itself
to looking after larger leaks than reducing
the pay of these boys who earn every dol
lar they get. 1t is an encouragement to
the boys to make men of themselves, and
in after years have richly repaid the state
tenfold the amount they have received for
services in its behalf. At least two of
Vermont's delegation in congress date their
encouragement and start in the world to
the period when they received their pay as
messenger boys in the house of representa-
tives. The Messenger says:
Some of the people down in Rutland
county, judging from the frequent com
munications in the Rutland papers, seem
| to be more interested in the bill now pend.
ing in the house to reduce the pay of mes
sengers to So per day, than in any Other
matter of legislation. We should think
there are other subjects of quite as much
importance to cucumber newspaper space
As to the pay of the messengers we think
they fully earn the compensation they nov
receive, but our legislators ought to be. able
to settle the question without much outside
| pressure.
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state, County and Vicinity.
SPRINGFIELD.

The first lecture of the Springfield course
was attended by large crowd of people,
filling the seats in the hall and extra seats
had to be brought in, on last Tuesday
evening. DR.. Isaac i. Hayes was the lee
turer, and his subject was "Iceland and its
anniversary" and short talk on ''explora-
tions in the Al cite regions"
He commenced by giving all the credit
of his attending the celebration in Iceland
to James Gordon Bennett of the New
York He1ald. who engaged him as cor
respondent. Ills account of the trip to
and from the service in church. the king
and suite, the Geysers and their spOutlng
qualities. although 1t has been in print, still
much interest was manifested during the
entire evening by his full explanation. The
most interesting part was the account of
the season in the Arctic regions, the many
ways he and his men contrived to pass the
long, dreary winter, their first welcome tC
the sun after they Lad been in three
months of continual darkness, the open
Polar sea, the planting of the stars and
stripes on the most nOrthcrly point ever
trod by human feet was all very interest
ing.
The next lecture of the regular course il
to be Nov 25th, the next Dec. 2, by Gen
N. p. Banks the next Dec. 8, by Bishop
Haven the next Dec. 90, by DIR. Villers
the next Jan. 90. by Mrs. Woo.son, inter
spersed by some OF our home talent and
eocutonist. The appearances are now
that this course Will be mOney-makinl
institution as it was last season, our peopl,
approaching the labOrs of the committe,
by attending in large numbers.
Last week our village was honored by
the presence of Hon. Dudley C. Denison
the future representative to Congress, wht
was the referee in law snit at which 81,
leading lawyers were in attendance.
The Springfield trotting park is to be
reality. The farm owned by S. Rollins
having been bought for that purpose
Work is going on brlskly and the track i
nearly leyeled and completed. From tn
nature of the soil it is said one of .th
best parks in the country can be made, an,
| the people Of our town say they will hay,
as good one as can be found in Southern
Vermont. Considerable talk has beef
heard of having trot this fall, bu
whether it will be thought best or not re
mains TO be seen.
The Flyers Sisters are advertised here TO
Saturday evening As their fame as sing
ers have reached us through the press, on
people will probably give them crowde'
house. BROWNIE.