The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-03-06
No. 10.

haps, after proper consideration OF
our case, they may be able to set
tie for US the much vexed question
Of the presidency, and do it in
more sensible manner than that
recently employed by their brothers
and friends in Washington.
It is only a few weeks since a
vagabond speculator started what
was known as a baby show. The
same prurient curiosity which sends
people to visit the morgue and to
examine houses where murders and
suicides have been committed,
brought out crowds to visit this
contemplate exhibition. From first
to last it was one of the most dis
graceful swindles that has ever
been palmed upon New York; per
sistent advertising and indomitable
cheek gave it lease Of life for two
weeks, and when it finally expired
it died amid the curses Of the un
fortunate women who he'd been
robbed of the miserable stipend for
which they had submitted to the
gibes and the jeers of that cruel
throng, and who had sacrificed the
holiest feelings of mother and a
a wife for the wretched dole which
was to keep them and their little
ones from starving. The managers,
however, reaped a rich reward, and
this week they opened at G1lmore's
Garden what they choose to style a
congress Of beauty-God help the
beauties lit must have been a ter
rible necessity that could have COM
PEELED these poor girls to submit
to the obscene iests and brutal in
suits of the unkempt and vulgar
villains that thronged the show on
Monday night. The covardly pol
troon who styled himself manager
had not manhood enough to stand
up in defense Of the helpless victims
which be had exposed to this mercj-
less implement. Even the police
vanished in the general melee that
ensued, and the poor girls, with
their clothes almost torn from their
backs, fed for their lives before
struggling, shouting, hooting mob
of rumans, whose conduct would
have disgraced the sa7ages of Da-
honey OF Fejee. This exhibition
only shows the suffering condition
to which our working girls are re-
duced, and perhaps they accepted
the miserable wages of their in
famous exhibition as a compromise
with that which could scarcely be
considered a greater shame.
In my letter of two weeks ago, in
speaking Of the great steamships
of the Inman line, I placed on the,
list the "City of Glasgow" I should
have said the "City Of Brussels"
there being. no no ship named the
''City Of Glasgow" in the Inman
line. AS Broadbrim would sooner
be right than be President, I wish
to make the correction. -. q.
Perhaps the grandest religious
pageant ever seen in the United
States Was the celebration of the
obsequies of the late Pope, at St.
/: :Patrick's Cathedral, on Wednesday
last. Hundreds Of the most emf
nent Catholic .clergymen in this por-
ton Of the United States partici-
pated in the ceremony, Bishop
Lynch, of Charleston, delivering
the eulogy of the dead pontif. It
certainly must be gratifying to the
admirers of Plus TX, that now,
though he has passed away strip
ped of his temporal power and de-
pri7ed of much which was once
considered necessary for the proper
7indication OF his state, that he has
received such consideration, even
from his foes, as has never been
paid before to pontiff living or
dead. There is something, after
all, in a decent, well.spent life, whe-
ther it be the life of a peasant or a
pope, and happy he who, when he
can no longer speak for himself,
shall have those who were his here
ditary and bitter enemies rise up to
speak of him in terms Of commenda'
tion and of praise. This has been
the case Of the pope who just passed
away, for the eloquent tribute Of
Bishop Lynch to his friend and
Father found a parallelin Talmage,
the bitter Cal7inist, of Brooklyn,
who, on Sunday last, spoke Of the
dead none in such terms of admira-