Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-04-01
Civil Rights Failure in Trenton N. j..

A week ago the proprietor OF the
Trenton House refused two colored
men the privileges Of playing billiards
at his saloon, which is attached to the
hotel The colored men made COM
plant under the civil rights bill, and
the proprietor, Mr.. Katzenback, was
arrested and the hearing of the case
came of before United States Com
missioner E. Mercer sShreeve. The
decision, which was an elaborate one,
dismissed the complaint as not coming
within the law. The commissioner
says:
"Itis true the public may visit a
billiard saloon, SO they may go to a
store, but every one cannot play there,
as every one cannot buy i'll a certain
store. The storekeeper may suit his
customers, and every place which is
accessible to all IS not necessarily a
place of public amusement. 70 say
that every body can &c to billiard
saloon does not determine its character,
nor does the fact that a license is re
quired make it place of public amuse-
ment. A lieene Is taken out for a
pedlers wagon, but it does Dot thereby
become place of public amusement
There is nothing in the license idea by
which we can determine the true
nature of the place. A licensed place
may still be so regulated as practically
to exclude the public, 1t is asked
what is billiard saloon if it is not
Place Of amusement
.l7;'uswer, at best and only in a
limited! sense OF in a qualified manner,
can it be eslled a place Of public
amusement. Il is the private business
of private party, conducted as it suits
the keeper. 1t is no n9ore place OF
public amusement than drinking
saloon. Evidently into tie latter no
man has right to go and take drink
without leave of the proprietor. The
applicant may be refused and d1lvep
away for reasons best known to the
owner, and which he is not bound to
disclose. The civil rights bill has
nothing to do and was intended to
have nothing to do with. such places"
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A SMALL, PLAIN WOMAN ON KISSING
AND CHAsrIrY-Miss Jane Gray Swiss
helm writes as follows in the Chicago
Tribune .f .-..
"We can all see the improperly of
| verbal declarations of passion in such
cases, and how much more unsafe any
act bearing such interpretations
Wherever men and women meet i'll
1 friendly or business relations, one or
both must be constantly mindful of the
difference and dangers of the sex
must guard look, words and actions,
and in no moment Of overweight
sympathy can the stern barriers OF
! deeorum be safely broken down. Be-
fore kissing Mr. Beecher, Mrs. Moulton
should have waited until he had taken
that powder, until it had done its
work, and the undertaken had the body
ready for burial. Only in his coffin is
it safe for even "a section of the day OF
Judgement in the shape oe a woman,
to kiss any one man in a usand
There seems to be no room for doubt
that !ta , she is, OF was, perfectly upright
have been living shows the uncon
scious steps by which they passed from
virtue to vice and ought to awaken
all lovers OF virtue to more careful
guard of her outside defenses. Chas
tity is not the natural condition of the
race, but the very opposite, and it can
only be secured by ages Of culture and
constant vigilance. 1t is something
to be acquired and maintained through
grace and watchfulness, and those who
open doors through which the enemy
enters and causes the fall of others are
responsible for their negligence and
| mistaken confidence"