Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-08
DAILY RECORD-UNION SERIES,
VOLUME II-NUyfkEk 67.

mics except Ignorance, superstition and
wrong-doing. Some of the most intel
lectual and wealthy Jews in the city are
members of Adler's society and extremely
Jealous and energetic in every act of char
lty. Joseph Seligman founded a nucleus
for such worthy men, and his generosity
and influence will be greatly missed. Men
like Joseph Seligman never can be spared.
POPULAR LECrURING,
As it is termed, has long been degraded by
showmen, tricksters and charlatans. Per-
sons who have gained by their own agency,
or the agency of circumstances, any sort Of
notoriety, have entered the lecture field
and tried to turn their notoriety into
dollars. Even men and women who have
committed murder, and escaped conviction
by some technicality or false sympathy,
have been so lost to decency as to mount
the platform but the public has almost al
refused to sustain them. Laura D. Fair,
the slayer of Crittenden in San Francisco,
attempted lecturing, but was obliged to re-
tire for want of pecuniary encouragement.
The Rev. Hayden who had been arraigned
for murder at Hartford, and had got off
by disagreement of the jury, has fixed his
ambitious eyes on the Lyceum as a means
of livelihood. And now Covert d. Ben
nett, whom most persons still believe
guilty of the murder of Smith, the Jersey
CITY policeman, in conjunction with his
mistress, the policeman's wife, announces,
since his acquittal after a second trial,
that he is prepared to describe his mental
agonies, while under condemnation, to
miscellaneous audiences at fifty cents per
head. What poet, philosopher and scholar
would not be proud to adopt lecturing as
profession when noted swlndlers, licentious
preachers, common adventuresses, cheap
mountebanks and vulgar cut-throats have
preceded them? The lecture business has
been so misused and so disgraced often
that it is not strange that it has lost it's
quondam attractiveness.
VARIETIES.
The reception and public inspection last
Tuesday of the new steamship Columbia,
built for the Oregon Railway and Nayiga-
ton Company, and lying at the foot of
Wall street, drew a great crowd of mer-
chants, bankers, brokers and accompany
ing ladies. Mrs. Henry Willard, wife of
the President of the company, received
the guests with much dignity and grace.
The vessel, which was greatly admired,
will doubtless be special favorite on the
line between San Francisco and Portland.
The remarkable success of the company
speaks well for the business and trade Of
the Pacific slope.
Richard Henry Stoddard's complete po-
etical works are soon to be issued here,
and many persons will be surprised to find
in the volume favorite pieces of whose au-
thorship they have been ignorant. Many
of his poems have for years been floating
about unclaimed on the newspaper sea,
and their collection and recognition is
good thing for American literature. Stod-
dard is true poet. He has not tuned his
harp to foreign keys his strains are all his
own; he is graceful, yet strong, original,
yet finished, spontaneous, yet artistic. He
has never been fully appreciated.
Charles Fl. Webb John Paul), the pop
ular humorist, and an old Californian, has
reappeared in the Tribune in character
istic sketch about Wall street and Wall
street men. He has been out of the world
of print for two or three years, but has
probably found it impossible to keep out
any longer. He knows Wall street to his
cost, and can speak feelngly of his ex-
perience.
William w. Astor, of this city, said in
the Albany Assembly lately, that churches
ought not to be taxed, because they had so
much influence in preventing men from be-
coming criminals. The statement is ab-
surd. Persons in danger of becoming
criminals seldom 60 to church. If they
should go, they would be abundantly en-
couraged to stay away.
The Herald had another sextuple sheet
last Sunday, the second 24-page paper
which it or any other journal has ever
issued.
This is moving week; but less moving
will be done, understand, than for several
years past. New Workers are losing their
relish for moving out of and into each
others houses as they used to do.
1t is said that more children have been
born here in the last twelve months than
during any similar period for six years.
Is this a symptom of commercial improve
ment? CHAUBERT.