The Republican journal., 1880-10-21
The Oneida Community.

The Oneida Community is doomed, It contain
ed within itself the elements OF its own destruetiOn
1t had some good features and some bad ones.
The good ones we're temperance industry tnan
cial recttude and the personal cleanliness which
led to good health The principal bad feature
was the Infamous relation between the sexes
which set al defiance the laws Of decent society
in regard to matrinony. These people held that
the literal kingdom of heaven had been ushered
i'll and that there ought to be no marrying Civ
ing in marriage. They regarded as the consum
nation of all selhshnesS for man to be mar
red to one woman. SO they married all the men
E their Community in lump to all the women
therein, and arranged by lots or otherwise who
should temporarily be companions for each other
This seems a revolving way to live but these peo
pie somehow or other got sed to It Each man
loved all the women equally, and each woman
equally loved all the men Outsiders supposed
there would be individual atlinties and preteren
ces. but the community people Cenled that such
was the case. The place where they live is a beau
tlfully situated property about four miles from
Oneida, New York 1t is laid out IN magnificent
style and is adorned with ample buildings for
dwellings and for the various branches Of indus
try which carried on. The people Of Oneida
have made little or no complaints about them,
for they circulated a good deal of money in the
town and employ many people as factory hands
But the clergy of that section of the State have
toT some time been most vigorously stirring them
up. The pressure eNerted on them from outside
was so great that few months ago they agreed to
give up their system OF what they call complex
marriage" and enter a state Of simple matrl-
mony, like decent people This destroyed the
great specially of their life Some of these men
and women found their aifinites anu committed
matrmony. Some are old and ugly, and nobody
knows what they did or how they got along But
this giving in marriage crippled the Community to
such an extent as to break up its original charac
ter. The concern is now TO be made into Joint
stock company, Heretofore all the property has
DV trustees for the
the members in common. Now the strongest and
smartest will take the lead and the weak and in
terior will bring up the The latter will
gradually drop out and few of the leaders will
gobble the whole organization. As the social
features of the Community are somewhat worse
than those of the Mormons, nobody need regret the
change which is now taking place. philadelphia
Times
Lizzie f., widow of the late W G. Ralston has
filled complaint in the Superior court at San
Francisco, against Senator Sharon. The document
covers Dot pages, and is to the effect that Ralston
and Sharon were partners in business that Sharon
was also one of the executors other hus bands will,
OF whicheomplainant was the sole beneficiary; that
their partnership property at the time OF Ralstons
death amounted to the value, round numbers,
100000 900 that just before his death RalstOn
gave Sheron trust deed of his property that
Sharon has had custody of the partnership books
and papers that no inventory of her late husbands
estate has been filed by the executors that Sharon
by false represeD tations and other MEANS has de
frauded her in settlement of Ralstons estate of a
large amount for which she demands an account
ing, and such restitution as may prove just.
Californians matrimonial advertisement winds
up as follows; Fortune no object, but should re-
quire the gals relations to deposit one thousand
five hundred dollars with me as a security for her
good behavior