The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-07-18

WASHINGTON. d. c., July 10. 1878.
Our thermometers have been climb
ng up 80 high of late that one begins
20 think they have exhausted all alti-
tudes and are now sending down such
blasts of sweltering heat as to arouse q
suspicion that this is an ihstallment of
that perennially hot climate which
gives such great concern to Bob In
gersoll and the clergy. It's hot as
blazes here and our whole population
seek the country, excursion parties
down the river, and our beautiful
parks to escape the suns sweltering
rays. The coming elections, investi-
cations, Mrs. Jenks, aud the Paris Ex-
position are all forgotten through the
all absorbing pressure of 95 deg.
in the shade thermometer. Our Daily |
Post is sued for libel. This paper |
under flaming headlines recently an
nounced painful and very embarrass-
ing scandal occurring in certain
Methodist Church OF this city, the par.
ties thereto being one "Britt. a book
binder" and Miss Julia A. Simmons,
whose tender heart was throbbing
with dreams of heaven and husband
and whose young, girlish nature felt
it necessary to cling to some strong
pillar which promised protection in
her pilgrimage to piety and paradise,
ETC." all of which appears by the petit
ton asking damages to be unadulter-
ated fiction, the parties being total
strangers to each other, &c. 1t is
doubtless interesting to the Post to
contemplate the notoriety of one suit
by Miss Simmons, claiming damages
at ten thousand dollars, and another
by Brother Britt" for an equal
amount. Had this item referred to
julia" not "Julia A." it would have
escaped suit.
There seems to be an unusual emu
lation among discharged clerks, en-
ployces and the like to prefer charges
against their superior officers, bring
ing on the inevitable Investigations of
which this season is SO prolific. For
some time past, our Columbia Hospital
one of our Congressional pets, has
been the stage of grave inquiry into
certain serious charges Of brutality to
the inmates,on the part of DIR. Murphy,
the physician in charge, preferred by
discharged nurse. Not only has the
evidence failed to sustain the allega-
tions, but the complainant has inglO-
riously failed to appear to sustain
them, and our public mind is relieved
from the indignation excited at the
supposed cruelties aud wrongs done
TO the helpless.
Our .defunct Board of Health, which
Congress wiped out of existence by
the new District Government charter,
gracefully submitted recently to the
inevitable by holding final meeting
at which each member alluded 10 the
work accomplished during the seven
years the Board has been in power.
No one who has noticed the summary
manner by which health nuisances
have been abated, typhoid fevers and
smallpox have been stamped out and
the sanitary reforms effected among
our ignorant colored and white people
through our Board Of Health, can, now
that it is gone, refrain from commend
ing its labors and from hoping that it's
good works may be continued by the
Health officer who succeeds it.
The President has pardoned Charles
Goodman, who was sent from here TO
the penitentiary for shooting Lem
Weeden, and thus ends q rather excit-
ing fcuu. These two worthless had
been warm friends IN the fast circle in
which they moved. hut between bad
woman and worse whisky they be-
came deadly fighting enemies, and for
several years our police reports chron-
cled constant series Of assaults upon
each. First one would perforate the
other with q bullet. and the wounded
man, upon recovering, would give a
Roland for the Oliver he got, aud as
consequence the doctors, the police
and the prison authorities have had
constant charge Of the fellows. Both
however, have become reconciled
friends, and the Presidents pardon of
Goodman, we trust, takes both ont of
public notice by rminating their jail
bird career. Our roughs in their
brawls rarely oblige us by fatal shoot
ing. We could well spare many of
them, and we regret their undoubted
longevity for evil.
Mr.. Hayes has removed to the Sol
diers' Home, where he and the Ad-
ministration will remain during the
Summer. Nature and Art have done
SO much for the Soldiers Home that
no more fitting place tor rustication
by the President can be found in the
country.
Martin VanBuren spent much of his
summers in Alexandria county, Va,
at the house Of q friend named Brown
distant about three miles from George
town. Since the War, Caleb Gushing
purchased the Brown residence for
summer home, but has recently sold il.
DEMoCRlrEs.
The reporter of the Akron Argus q
few days ago met Sam. Carey ut Kent,
ON his journey home to Cincinnati,
applied his pump to him. The gcner-
al gave it AS his opinion that the
Greenbackers will sweep Michigan
clean. He acknowledged that the
Democrats of Ohio had adopted
platform that is all they can ask but
claims that they can't be trusted 10
carry it out. Perhaps General Carey