The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-16

or was under unfair influences and thus
may have been led TO purposely neglect the
claims OF one Of his sons.
FIFTH AyESrE BOYS.
The boys of the Fifth avenue ave much
consolation in their bereavement. Five
yenr5 ago the senior Bennett died, leaving
his only boy S3,OOO,OOO Last year Will
liam Il. Astor died, leaving his two boy
each 10000 600 Now comes William IL.
Vanderbilt and his boys The latter have
about 20, coo railway shares apiece, while
William gels triti3 of $50 000,O AZ
the Vanderbils are cribbed up to a state
Of mourning for year, by social rule, they
have some Joy even in sorrow. Deems,
the preacher, also finds his grief assuased
by a legacy. The life use OF q church and
$50 900 in cash is a very handsome c1nso-
lation. Deems may also boast the COM
mandatory utterance of his patishoner,
doctor, yOu never crowded religion on
me. The principal parsonage in the New
Testament is represented az crowding re-
ligion very earnestly on mankind. lie also
said some very severe things about money
worship, which things, it is to be feared.
were never crowded on the commodore. !
do not think the latter would have taken to
himself the illustration Of the camel and the
eye Of the needle, c,en il Deems bal pre-
sented it Suppose, however, thft the
preacher had said that IL were as difficult
Tor a rich man to enter the kingdom as it
is for trav-ler 10 get aboard the cara in
the grand c"pot without ticket The
commodore might have understood that;
hut it is TO g feared that Deems never
crowded him titus far.
EDITORIAL "REMINISCENCES
How rapidly 10 public sensations lose
their power The Brooklyn theatre and the
Ashtabula bridge are now half forgotten.
Both the death Of Vanderbilt and the Ben
nett kuock-down will be stale in less than
week. With regard TO the Lake Shore
catastrophe, may say that it recalled the
I sad fate Of Charles Lobdell, who peIi,hcd
at the Angola disaster in December, 1867.
| He was the assistant editor of the La Crosse
| Denl0cydt, and was Brick Pomeroy's favor
! lie lieutenant. At that time PomerOy had
reached his highest point. lie had made
money rapidly. and was estimated at $780,
! 000. His slashing style and bis broad vuI-
| garity had won great popularity amid the
hoosiers and suckers Of the west, and his
vanity duluGud him into the ridiculous idea
| that lie might become the chief Journalist
of the metropolis. Having reached this
, conclusion, he sent on LObdell TO examine
the field and make incplent arrangements,
| but they never met again. POmerOy Was
not deferred by the loss of his lieutenant,
but cane on the next spring and began that
career which, for vanity, folly and rapid
ruin, has seldom been surpassed in the his
| tory of journalism.
EDITORS AND DUELING.
The last challenge prior to the Bennett
and May affair that was sent by New York
editor, grew out # the FOrres! case 1t was
delivered by n. p. Willis to John Van
Buren, who was Forests attorney. Van
Buren treated the matt + as a capital joke,
and replied by printing the challenge in the
! HerdH This settled the affair without
| bioodshed. Prior to this, even when the
laws of honor were in GcknOw wledged force,
there we're but two editorial duels in thi,
city. One was the Coleman affair, iI
which the latter killed his man, and the
other Was when Graham was shot. Cole
man edited the Ercaiag Post. and Graham
was connected with the C0ityicr. He struck
thoughU to be dsGraced. The result was %ss
= fatal bullet. This occurred in 1927, and
is the last duel on record in this neighbor.
hood. The Coleman a1Tair shows how q
quarrel may be foolishly taken up by anoth.
er. Coleman challenged a rival editor
(James Cncotham OF the AmcricaR Cti-
Sen,) who refused t) fight. Ole of hi,
friends, however, took up the quarrel aud
challenged Coleman \ meeting took
place, and Thompson, The challenger, was
shot. The scene was "Love lane" now
Twenty-tirst street, near the spot where
the Bennett and May difficulty occurred,
\ QUESTION.
w. l.. Graham, the talented editor of the
Courier, was of an ambitious utunhaanceC
mind. He was challenged by the mar
whom he had struck Barton by name,
and had he taken right view of the afIait
he would have apologized. A proper apol
ogy belittles no man. This he could not do
and the penalty was his life He left a
statement in which he said. ut is out of
the question for me to explain, retract or
apologize he closes with the sad question,
"What can poor devil do but to bow to
the supremacy of custom?' Within week
from the perning of this statement, Graham
was in his grave, reminding us of Fastaff :
| question, "Who hath honor He that died
yesterday - | think Falstaif's query was
| the most sensible of the two. AS for the
Bennett and May duel, there are these who
| do not believe II ever occurred. Even the
arrest of DR.. Phelps is to them no proof
| They look upon all the reports as mere
smoke, and in the cloud Bennett has, as
they claim, cleared for Europe We shall
see.
NEW JOURNALS.
Speaking of journalism, we are reminded
that, notwithstanding the hard times, new
paper is begul, It's t'ie being the Erolmjon.
James ID. Bell, its publisher, is to be cred
tied with an unusual degree of nerve in
making such an effort. He may be ad-
dressed ut No. "a Dey street-a familiar
name TO the writer, who while a resident
of that street evolved success from the
| humblest beginnings. May it be so with
the new journal. TO become the head of
a useful paper is nobls ambition, but ex-
perence has proved that to succeed one
must be born for the work. The list of
| editorial failures, in this city is positively
dreadful Erastus Brooks mentioned to
me that he could enumcrate 100 unsuccess-
| full Efforts of this kind. Many men imagine
they are adequate to the editorial position
till they are taught the truth by painful les
sons. Such was the case with Brick Pom
eroy. He learned, however, that to run
smut machine in La Crosse and to conduct
journal in great city were very different
things.
EDITORS AND LECTURERS.
1t is to be noticed that our leading Jour
nalists seldom are found on the lecture
platform One reason of this is the fact
that editorial duties are so intense that they
admit of no other engagements. A good