Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-10-30
FIRST EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA.
OUR sATUR DAY LETTER.

THE RELIGIOUS REyIvAL-pEATH uF REV KINas-
TON ooDDARD--THG TITIENs coaoERrs, dc.
Special Correspondence VI the Commercial.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 80.
The political fever is at its height, both par,
ties Imp owing to the utmost the short remain
ing time between this and the e.sction. The
canvass has been All earnest one, yet waged with
fairness aid with gratifying lack of the COARSE
ness which has often marred political cam
paigns. The character of the men Oh the tick
cts on both sides has doubtless led to this result.
canvass takes its tone from the rank OF its
candidates. Roughs on a ticket draw out the
roughs in support, and uice perso. At this time
there is no encouragement for the sometimes
active politicians to believe that strong" work
will meet with approval at head quarters, aud
the consequence is that such Democratic work.
ers either do not show themselves at all or else
"roar gently" Besides this, Intelligent Demo-
orat see that they have no possible show of suo-
oeps. They make brave fight but they know
well ae the rest OF us that the entire State
and local Republican tickot will be elected BY q
large majority
Numerous meetings arc hold nightly in all
sections of tho city aud the weather has been
for the most part 10 mild that audiences have
been large. Fireworks are at piemium aud
brass bands blow from morning TILL midnight.
A spectacular feature of the Republican meet
ingf has been the david II. Lans Club the
members OF which have done 'yeoman service"
fwhatever that is) for the candidate for Record
or Of Deeds and worn out considerable shoe
leather III his behalf Lane IL, indeed, the Star
Of the local campaign. He ID vary Bhrewd,
pushing fellow. and OF pleasant inaiuers which
attract following. SO much is til ,re III 1.-THE
way" man has Lane is OF a West Philadel-
phia family all the members of 'hIch have
made their agreeable mark OH society. A broth
er of the successful politlcial ID ed in high fa-
III the City rreasurers office, and If the bot
tom doesn't fall out OF things is in the line Of
promotion. Another brother went upon the
stage three years ago and has made good pro-
gress In his profession. l chronicled the fact at
tho time OF his playing Marc .lnt5ny to Mr.
Booth's BrHtus, i'll conseqrel ce OF Il contfe temp
ut the theatre, only few lights after uis debut
IL was AZ pucky thing ns has oft"n aen done.
Mr. John Lane has made break hts thetri-
cal work for this season to ASSUME part III the
business management OF the nam 10th Globe
Hotel on the Centennial Grounds, but he has no
intention of permanently relinquislnng the
STAGE
This, however, is DEPRESSION + oin our polit-
loal review, though no great deal so remains
to be said The "phrstng" Of the arseAsors lists
has gone on this week, the rather ounding
rer ult being reached OF tho strikin- Il of over
10, 900 names from the lists. This purging,"
sure enough. The claim upon tbs one side is
that tho presence of anch very l1rbe number
OF improper names IL evi ieico OF fieI and upon
the other that il is a ia ural record Jf removals
aud deaths. On tho whole, the agrs appear to
have it, for 10000 changes an itce4 a little too
heavy To be natural. "Joe Gargery you will
remember, in demonstrating with 'i'p' for his
supposed swallowing of 4 whole etca OF bread
aud butter at one 8ulp, r3in4rhed tt7t he had
himself hulted his food ~Aen y1l.h, sire
quent," but he none ne less prof, ID surprise
and grief at such "an uncommon boid. HI Pip"
mdulged in. We Will net further enlarge on
this; what is the worth of reader II not TO help
ont the writer's suggestion? rhe pri.cpa polt-
zeal speaker of the week has been Hon. II.
Stockett Matthews Of Baltimore, who has shown
himself as forclble, and al full of le91nrce. as
ne WAS in lighting the battles Of Repnol!canism
iii the rly history OF tne party. Fes more ef-
fective stump orators than Mr.. Matthews have
ever been heard in Phuadel phia. Il. oecasioned
something of breeze on this occasion however,
by assalling President Grants administration at
the same time that he strongly urged the eec.
tona Of Gov. Haruautt aud the whole local
Ticket
The disastrous accident recently in the Park,
By winch three persous we're drowned has called
renewed attention to the perilouoly exposed
condition. ut varioun points OF what / known as
the river road" fhe Carriage drive often
runs close to tho rlyec, hud there thould, OF
course be adequate protection by fe cling at all
such PLACES Instead of 5hir being done, the
road Is at certain pdrLs so exposed tiat balky
Or frightened horse, or party drivin, recklessly
IN al opposite direction, might canse disaster.
This latter circumstance wa- the cause of the
accident under immediate review. A party OF
drunken men racing down the road 'llided with
ii ca iiage at the waters edge, throw ng the oc-
cupants OF it into the river and drow ing a man,
woman and child. The Park must To made safe
or It's beauty will be of no use.
had in ended saying something about the
silly but nischevous rumor of the IL lure OF the
we'll known firm of Morris, Tasker d Co, but
there is nothing to report in addition to what
/. 20 rnfaf fad
IN the CoMMERcIAL and more abr urd, cause
less story was never started in an as prolific OF
loose statements. 1t is not a comfortable re-
Election that honest aud trusted business men
must be at the mercy of any fool who may start
a report of this kind. About the Berlous trou-
bles of the leading music firm of Le' 4 Walker
Ghere ID, on the other hand. no doub The con-
cern has been in q straltcned condlhi sinoe the
d, ath of Mr. Julius Lee some tint since, but
might have weathered the storm but for the fl
uancial stringency. Tie failure ie bad one.
the liabilities amounting to $3.50, 900 and the as
sets to no more than 5000
1t is high time that the authorizes took some
action relative to nrlisances which constantly
scandalize the leading thoroughfare 4f this city.
The reference is to so-called anatOm raj and art
"museums "whichundor thin cloak Of devotion
to science and the fine arts are r. ally but 80
many panders to the most degrading passions.
New York is the American CenJr' OF these
shameful exhibitions, Broad ay bel lg brilliant
ceeding 30 well there they have beer Introduced
in other large cities, and we lave No" two Haunt
ing shows OF the kind onjChes mt eat. This de-
moralizing influence can be hardly ie = than that
the Variety theatre, for While d y, deal with
',stil life they take proportional lcense with
decency. The vilepess OF many i .he things
shown in these " museums eau he DO more
than hunted at in the way open TO melt must
be Imagined. TIE monstrObltles ahi surgical
preparations, II not manufactured AFFAIRS have
at least no proper place but in the cabinet OF
Medical College ;-their parade III this way il
clearly not u the interest of study, NOR with that
intent The cart portion of the exh htlon, as
may be supposed. is devoted to the female hg
ure. and the student III this !ine nee no longer
70 to Paris for his schooling. One oi the show
men went 80 far recently as . put al appetzing
model of what might b. seen within, this way,
in his window, where 1t Wa starr insult TO
every lady who passed. h We yet TO sec the
first remonstranoe against ttese u Sorthy ap-
peae to the public.
Rev. Kingston Goddard who died Is week at
Staten Island WAS formerly great fdvorite with
Philadelphia church goers aud was e%teemed one
of the leading pulpit orators of the day. He WAS
Rector OF st. Paul'- (Ep-copaD which he rem
dered church of note for citizens and strang-
ara. such as Wndsworth's aud Furness DIR
Goddard was very genial, compaii ,nable man
and was greatly beloved by all clas-er especial
~ by the young people of mis- congregation. He
was much such person a. DR.. BE hume, who
has been almost canonized by pc olo Of .he
Dutch Reformed persuasion. DR.. q idards re-
mains were brought to this city for burial