The Portland daily press., 1877-06-29
Current Comment.

People who are not insured will take no.
tice that the 4th is at hand.
An Iowa paper reports that a man who
was greenback candidate for Congress in
that state last fall, has taken & still shorter
| cut to defraud his creditors. He has run
| away.
In the opinion of the New Orleans Times
the popular sentiment of the South w.. u
permit the election of Speaker whc 4 not
squarely and unmistaksh' p .ayor of the
development Of that section at the general
| expense.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press proposes 10
keep up the fight for public honesty in Min.
nesota, and is hopeful of success within a few
years. That is right, Minnesota should lose
no time in repudiating the repudators.
The Lexington (Ky.) Gazette fa1ors the
restoration of the whipping-post as punish
ment for larceny, but despairipgly saTs that
the is 'no use of arguing with the mutton
headed members OF the Legislature on the
subject.''
There will be one Democratic head in the
basket. The United States Marshal for
Western Tennessee is chairman of the Dem
ocratic State Committee. This will possibly
postpone the excavation for the Old Line
Wing in that section.
The Massachusetts Medical Society has ex-
PEELED DR.. Gale, of Newburyport, for practic-
ing homeopathy. The New Hampshire So
ciety expelled DR.. Gales father, one of the
slgners OF the Declaration of independence.
who was opposed to the then common prac-
tice OF bleeding fever patients.
Now Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer
cones and says: "You know as well as DO
that to revive Mr.. Tilden as our candidate
second time is not possible. You saw his
physical appearance, and that be could not
De run again." We should think that Tilden
could run better on his physical appearance
than on his moral.
Concerning the unrestricted use of fire.
works on the Fourth of July and the damages
consequent thereon, the Boston Post utters
the following sensible words of warning and
depreciation: ''Let our cities look upon the
desolation in st. John; let them remember
how similar. though smaller, confagration
crippled Portland, and then let them act as
common sense and precaution dictate,
regarding the liberation of fireworks upon
the Fouth. The warning is startling one.
and to neglect it would be worse than folly'
we certainly cannot complain that the
teaching of experience is lacking, for this
year at least, it is timely and terrible"
Rabbi Hrsch of Baltimore discussed the
Seligman affair last Saturday and denied that
the jews crucified Jesus. How he dsposes
of the cry "Crucify Him." "Crucify Him.
we do not know. but he says:-Is it perhaps
owing to the popular belief that the Jews
crucified Jesus? The speaker here DEM
onstrated that not the Hebrews, but the
Romans crucfied Jesus, and showed that the
Hebrew law did not prescribe cruel fxion as
death penalty, and that crucifxion was
pre-. .eminenty the Roman mode of puuish-
ment. In all the Hebrew laws there is not
one word anywhere of crucifxion, which
was never inflicted by the Jews. The time
that Jesus was crucifed was at the approach
of the Sabbath, day greatly honored by the
Jews, and it was contrary to all law to int1ict
the death penalty at that time. The
Romans, however, knowing this, took
delight in treating with derision the Jewish
Sabbath, and in manner most acceptable to
the Romans inflicted the Roman mode of
punishment. The Jewish priest and people
were grieved at the act, and the former rent
his garments upon witnessing the desecra-
ton of the Sabbath in the land of the
Hebrews