The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-02
GENERAL PRESS Review.

The New Orleans Picsyuno is inclined TO
make sport of and hold up to ridicule Inc
Calves O, board of health, and We DO LOT
know but what Il s.sbout right. The beard
OF health Galveston has created IN Inc psst
have done SO many foolish things, have acted
30 arbitrarily and with so little reason that 10
ridicule them is the kindest way to treat
them. Strange to say, the gentleman men,
toned BY the Plcsyune ia always on the Gal
weston board of resllh, and he is always the
member whose PANE appears most in print
and who seems to always press onward worse
than an old hen with one chicken, doing
deal of clucking and scratching and nothing
else. The Pirayune sayf:
Upon the other side OF the Sabine there
exists Board of Health that has proflted 70
markedly we'll by the teachings OF the ma
tional institution of that name. Ii has liked
its gaze intsntly upon New Orleans as the
source of contagion of the Mississippi Valley,
and seeks rather to protect the people OF the
Crescent City than improve the sanitary con-
di,ion of their own locality, We have often
trembled when admonished that We should
hear from Galveston" aud had really pic
tured to ourselves an organization OF porlen'
tous proportions and imperial power. The
fac. Is, however, we have been frightened by
sham fort. The fr,wning batteries are on
ly logs, and the vigilant sentnels but man
nikins.
The herculean task which now engages
the attention OF this mammoth Institution is
the construction of three small gnttors of
pine lumber, to cost 500 each, and that the
noble ssntar;ans are equal TO the effort will
be Judged by the remark of Mr.. John:
1.-THE filth found in these plsces..was abom-
Unable, and these nuisancea will soon be
abated. As soon rs these drains are compile
ted other operations Of sanitary nature will
be attended to-"
Unjust Inspire the heart of the Galvesto
mans with courage rs they witness the officer
Of this board of health experimenting man
digging, where allowed, agrave ditch for
their privy matter, ard the other officer
ekrting around the shores and lagoons in
quest of place where no will be permitted
to dump, and when driven from one locality
furlively cruising around until no linds
another noighborhood where thero IS no shot
pun 10 deter him in his laudable efforts.
Now, hereafter when our people view this
magnificent board of health pulling vlgor-
ously at Governor Il )berrs coat tail, as he
haunts in the face of the people of tho
United States his medieval quarantine system.
We think it is about timo they should rise
up and say something in our defense.
Speaking of decoration day, which WAS
observed on the 30lh ultimo throughout the
country, the Chattanooga Times says:
The one fragrant and grateful recollection
of our civil strife for our children and chill
dren's children to cherish is that, with the
rank and file and the great body of theiv
commanders in tho field, it was war of
principle on both sides. The future his
torian. philosopher and political economist
must finally adust the balance OF abstract
right and wrong. The statesman Of the
future will heed the lessO, taught by the
fact tina! the Americans fight for principles,
not for the sake of fighting, and the other
fact that when beaten they know how to
surrender with dignity. By and by, when
all the asperities shall have been buried in
the graves of the chief actors 10 war, its
grand display of our national pluck and
resources will become the pride of the north
,4s of the south. Then the land will no
more DO vexed with sectional solidity and
sectionsl issues.
The Arkan.as Gazette commenting on nm
opinion expressed hg Louisiana republican,
that the negroes of that state could never DO
again organized for republcanism, says
Much of this will apply to any southern
state The colored people will never again
be rallied by the old war cries which ap.
pealed to their fears of an enforced return to
slavery. That they may be compscted on
other issues was shown in the political cam-
paign fought last year in Tennessee on the
public debt question. But there no longer
exists that old apprehension of loss of free
dom through democratic dominsnce, which
enabled the leaders to hold them in solid
mass. Tho underlying causes of opposition
in the south to the d, eds committed during
the reconstruction period, are now better
understood by the whole country. Fair.
minded republicans begin to comprehend the
real meaning of the long and bitter contest
wage by tho great majority of tho white
people of the southern states They Gao
now understand that it was struggle for
the mastery with the combined elements of
mlsrue that in the name of tho republican
party fought under the black banner of
wholesale spolalion.
The Philadelphia Times tells OF hoinoua
outrage perpotrsted upon two ladies by the
stupidity of u woman, tho assninily of u
dry goods clerk-of course no parted his hair
10 the middle the miserable and unjust
delay of Now York law. Tho Times says;
One OF those olt-repealtd combinations of
the ridiculous and outrageous which are II
terror to shoppers has jus happened in Now
York. Two very respectable ladies were ar,
rested in fashionable dry goods store on the
charge of stealing n pocket, book, The argus.
eyed representative OF tho dry goods house,
always on tho lookout for petty thieves, was
sure that tho crime had been committed.
Tho ladies were sont to jsil, where they had
10 stay for twelve days before they could
have hearing in tho court of special sos.
sions. These ladies had preliminary hear,
ing in the police court md Il WAS on the
strength of tho testimony Of tho excited
woman at whose instance the arrest Was
made that they bad TO go to Jail. While
they were in jail two things happened:
Firstly, tho woman who thought hor pure
had been stolen changed her mind and from
prosecutor became q sympathZtr. Sec
ondly, the tow months Old infant o ono of the
ladies died while Its mother was in iail.
When the ladies wore brough. to court the
prosecurix said sho had no desire 10 appta ar
against them and would rather lot them CO.