The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-03
From the Toledo Weekly Blade.
Letter from Boston.

BosToN, Feb. D, 1876.
SUNDAY IL YE oIDEN TINE.
When this commonwealth was something
over two hundred years younger than it
now is,stout old Governor Winthrop event
on foot from Boston to Aglwaw Ups
wick), and spent the Sabbath there, preach-
ing" For some reason his successors of
to-day do not so employ their time on Sun
day. 1t is about two hundred years ago
that Captain Kimble returned home from a
three years absence. Gle was met by his
wife at the step of the door and he kissed
her. 1t being Sunday, he was condemned
TO stand two hours in the stocks for this
lewd and unseemly conduct in saluting his
wife in public on the Lords day."
Apropos of kissing Another man "was
fined twenty shilings for kissing his wife,
in his garden, and refusing to pay, suffered
tAa infction of twenty lashes while tied to
the wheel" Kissing always is an interest
ing subject, and one mole quotation is ven
tured An English author, with spice of
malice perhaps, writes in his book to this
effect
''lf you
KISS A WOMAN IN PUBLCK,
tho offered as Courteous Salutation, if
any information be given to the Select
Members, both shall be Whipped or Fined.
But the good humored Danes, to make you
Amends, will kiss the Kinder in the Cor
ner."
1t is but four years ago that gentleman
was fined for violation of the Sabbath, by
tying up favorite passimine vine which
had been broken down by a sudden storm
that day. 1t is this Boston that once call
ed Quakers
"UNGoDLY HERITIoKs,
cut off their ears, and had one of this be-
nighted sect, Anne Coleman, sentenced to
be stripped to the waist, tied 10 carts tail
and whipped through seven towns. They
executed the sentence in three of the towns
in December, and split the nipple of one of
her breasts by blow of the whip, and as
she could not bear up under this treatment,
they let her off One Quakeress was hang
ed in Boston Common, and the doors of
the First Baptist church were nailed up SO
the people could not get In. When an at
tempt was made to hold the meeting in the
open air the leaders were locked up in Jail
By gancing at the notices of Sunday
services in the most widely Giro Hated of
all the New England pal ers, enc is forced
to the conclusion that, as il the use of the
way the governor used 10 spend his Sun
day,
THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED
in other respects. There are many an
nouncements of spiritualstic meetings
where "healng" and other wonderful
manifestations of spirit power" will be ex-
T.. A. l...t,& 81 81, H.,
this "Sunday service tells quite tale ;
"Grace ROYAL, the Chosen Sheperdess, at
Rochester hall, 730 Washington street, Sun
day evening at y. Speaks under the
supreme influence of what needs to be to
make heaven from this confused state.
Spirits described names given. Come,
those who will help rebuild society" Mat
tie Sawyer, the "aifinity" of Moses Hull, of
Battle Creek, Michigan, lectured the same
afternoon. Her services were opened by
the singing of two orthodox hymns, and
her text was Hndoo proverb The same
day Professor Toohey preached in Ray
mond hall. his subject The Sympathetic
Temperament and it's Relations to the
Character of Woman" Perhaps the most
business was done on that day at Hospital
Ter hall, 15l Washington street 1870 a.
m, chronological conference, with exam
nation of heads 230 p. M, ResOlged,
That the teachings of Stree love" are de-
moralizng to societyi 1880 p. m, ResOiced,
That creenbacks be used as currency, in
terconvertable with bonds, bearing a low
interest. Opened by Mr. Varnum. Any
one who can get recognized by the presid-
ing officer can talk for ten minutes, is the
rule in this place.
The only meeting that was unusual dur
ing the Sunday under consideration was the
gathering styling itself
TIE LABOR REFORM LEAGUE CONVENTION.
Probably no other city on this continent
could furnish so large gathering of VERT
able lunatics unconfned. The folio wing
were among some of the expected speakers
Mrs. AlberIson, once the affinity of the mu
lato, u. b. Randolph, who committed sui
eide in your city last summers Ben. X
Tucker, President of the New England Ere,
Love Association f. II. Haywood, Nose
Hull, Matte Sawyer, Scion Chase, of Maine
Anthony Higgins, Benz. skinner, d. "
Hull, Charles Mclean, and DR.. Lulu Multi
ken, magnetic healer. The regular repor
of the meeting for the daily press opens il
this way: Ben. II Tucker called the 30 o
40 people in New Era hall to order, and tn
trouble began at $40 A. NJ" One speake
alluded pleasantly to the Vice President o
The society, saying that "our good friend
Miss Albertson, used to get up here AM
prove that ell
MA Z WAS PROSTITUTION,
and 30 logic.i and impressive was she tha
she made one good married lady in the au
dience believe that it was her duty to g
right away and get divorce from her hus
band, with whom she had lived happily TO
many years; but she was in peck o
trouble to know how she was going to bet
ter her condition by getting a divorce.
AS a sample of the spirit which animated
this meeting of reformers, we offer the las
of series of seven resolutions presented by
the master mind of the convention, f. Ii
Haywood, who keeps summer boarding
house near Wachusett Mountain, in thii
State. and prints semi-obscene papel
called the Crisis. 1t Is also an evidence Of
the loving kindness existing between thu
Woodruff branch of the Reformers ant