The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-10-19
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent
NEW YORK. Oct. 9th, 1877

From our Special Correspondent
NEW YORK, Oct. 9th, 1877.
Just at present politics seem to be up
permost in official quarters to say the
least OF course this is Democratic
city;-equally, OF course there is divis-
ion and opposition to the predomi,
nant party and when. n.Tammany is at
the top of the ladder, anti Tammany
does its best TO shake its opponent off.
Which is the better of the two: seems
to be the momentuous question, a diff
ficult subject to decide. Whichever is
in Office like the heather Chinee who
covered the face Of the telegraph box,
they will try to cover the public face
One can easily understand an honest
man struggling his shoulders and shirk.
ing public Office. declining the honor
for his honor's sake.
The rain came as a blessing to us
here for our drinking water had be-
come execrably filthy; impossible to
use without the most careful filtering.
The Water Commissioners have long
been pelted by public opinion private
ly and iournalistically with the condi-
ton of things, and the danger to the
entire population of Manhattan Island
from this cause, but the pachydermat
GUS condition into which an Office
holder gets, is another one of the con-
sequences of his position, and he is as
hard to make an impression upon as a
rogue elephant in the wilds of Ceylon.
He is too busy attending to personal
matters connected with his position,
to have time to look after public inter
ests, and the probability is we shall all
go back to a worship of mother Nature,
who tries to make up for politicians
deficiencies when she can.
At times the moral typhoid which
seems to permeate the atmosphere, at
tacking those who hold high positions,
suddenly breaks out with the same
credit destroying force with which
physical typhoid kills off the huddlsd
inmates of tenement houses. New
York stood half shocked, half terrified
last week as one after another sheep
turned out wolf. and skunk away from
sanctuary and Office, lest he be taken
in the act of thieving. Mr.. Gilman,
whose forgeries were so blundering,
that had he been almost any other
man, they would have been detached
at once, will probably be rescued from
the criminal consequences of his act
by his friends. 1t is considered such a
disgrace to have relative in States
prison.
The question is whether that adds
one toto of shame to the matter. Ifl
friends are to be held personally res
ponsible for the turpitude of their re-
iatiyes, who of us would not have to
hide our heads, for to alter Longfel-
low,
''There is no flock, however watched |
or tender,
But some black sheep is there,
No fireside but if once the veil were
reuded,
Would some disgrace lay bare"
1 think however 1 may find pleasan-
ter themes to dwell on. We have had
since last l wrote you, the comical
court scene between Sothern the crush
ed, and Count Johannes the un-crush-
ed, in which at the closing scene they |
charged characters. The Counts face |
when Sothern's plea was put in was a |
study. He had sat up nights writing |
out that voluminous, categorical, alli- |
terative paper he called plea, which |
might have been written like stave in |
music, with the dots indicating repeti |
ton added and a note stating how
many times such repetition was to be
made, $50 a suggestion that ornament
al lib was in order. However, Mr..
Sothern's counsel drew such terribly
disastrous picture of the character the
actor intended to represent, that the
Count refused to recognized the like |
ness.
Iwent once again to see Pink Dom
inoes on Saturday, the suggestive play |
being considered quite in order for
Brooklyn. 1t drew very light audi
ences however. for the Brooklynites
are said to object to having the mirror
held up SO closely. New Workers went
and laughed at it, the men for the
most part acknowledging its truth-in
every case but that of the individual
speaking, and most of the women be-
ing Lady Maggies of necessity, for it
would be impossible to keep their eyes
shut with the ordinary husband so like
Sir Percy, while the Brooklynftes are
better represented dy--well, Grey
thorne and Rebecca with an occasion
al Mrs. Tubbs. OF course you have
heard the plot of the play, in which
two wives attempt to try their hus-
bands fidelity and SO appoint meetings
with them at Cremorne, the maid Re-
becca takes a hand in the same game,
while the mistakes and announcement
are irresistibly funny. attended the
matinee. The men in the audience
were all gray haired, one of them be |
ing literally supported between two
women, while the gentler sex were of
all ages. Just behind me sat two wo-
men with young girl of dozen years.
who, did not seem to understand the
play and was being instructed by her
matronly friends. Is there SO mueh
girlish innocence the world wonder
that it is necessary to strip the veil
aside and teach them sin and folly? 1t