The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-18
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW,

and says:
Something dreadful should be done to the
man on BlackwelPs Island who has been
sending lunatics over 10 the city to act as
family servants. There are already enough
lunatics at service in this city. Any house
keeper can get lunaIic al an intelligence
office if one is wanted not TO get one is not
always quite so easy il servant must be
found at short notice and there happens to be
bad daV for girls. The movement OF
lunstc servants should be from the city to
tho island mot from the island to the city.
The person who has heen sending weak
minded persons out TO service may have had
the honorable motive of wishing o reduce
the cty's burden somewhat, but he hould be
made to understand that his plar will not
work for every idiot who enters Kitchen
here is quite likely to drive a who family,
in time, to the insular retreat from y lich she
came.
Pshaw idiots get into all sorts of posi-
items as servants, public or private.
The ST. LOUIS Republican, in short arti-
Gle on the Monroe doctrine declares that:
These declarations will be supported by
the American congress and people, and M.
Lesseps may as well take them rs part of the
law Of his canal scheme If no really in
tends to make ship canal across the lsthmus
at Panama or elsewhere, he will have to
provide that neither the French government
nor any other European power shall have
anything to do with IL; and it he cannot
build his canal subject to this eminent con-
ditlon, he may AS well not attempt it. Our
government will not oppose the construction
of n work demanded of the worlds COM
MERGE. but it will oppose a canal which,
while pretending to be in the interests Of
general commerce, is subject, like the Suez
canal, to the control of powerful govern
ment which, in time Of war, can close it
against the ships Of an enemy.
When the st. Louis Post-Dspatch is not
satirical, sarcastic, bitter and severe it is
nothing 1t says:
One OF Mr.. Hayes ardent Fremont admir-.
eYS thus sums up the deeds of Rutherford
during his four years residence in the White
hOuse: "He reformed the civil eervice, drove
polygamY out Of the country, recognized the
independence OF Ohio and was the only
president who ever insisted upon having his
pay in advance This ia record that An
drew jackson would have been proud of.
The Chicago Inter. Ocean is responsible
for the following, and we give it for what 1t
is worth:
Seventy years ago Samuel Gst who
owned large amount Of property in Vir-
GINA, died, leaving will in which he be-
queathed it all to his PA slaves and their
heirs with their freedom. The property was
in Goochland, Hanover HenrlcO, Amherst,
and Carolina counties and in the Dismal
Swamp. In 1876 by act of the general
assembly of Virginia, the slaves were freed
in conformity with the provisions of the will,
but were removed from the Virginia lands.
The trustees, Toer and Wickham, arranged
to have them put on lands in Brown aud
Highland counties, Ohio. AS time wore on
they allowed their trust to lapse; some of the
colored people bought and paid for the land
they We're on Recently convention of
about two hundred colored people
who claim to be heirs TO the Virginia
property under the will of Samuel
Gist, held convention in Hillsboro, and
determined to prosecute their claims. The
matter was given to the care of the Rev. H.
Cumberland, of Mechanicsburg, who has
consulted and employed attorneys, who think
that sufficient documentary evidence can be
found TO prove the claims of tina colored
people. The property is now worth several
million dollars.
If this statement really be the truth, why
the negroes ought to have the property, and
those able to prove themselves descendants
Of the manumitted slaves will no doubt be
awarded the property-but how much of il
they will even get is another question, unless
they employ responsible counsel.
The st. Louis GlObe-Democrat, in behalf
of the interests and the commercial prosperi
ty of the country wants u bankrupt law, and
thus expresses itself on that subject:
five are not to pass any bankruptcy law
until Wa frame one that will meet with the
approval of every Individual business man
and of every separate business interest, We
will wait forever. The best we can do is to
pass such law AS will comply with the reas.
enable demands Of the largest possible nun.
Der of business men and of business interests,
and this the Lowell bill seems to do. 1t was
drawn up with great care BY an eminent IN,
rist after long study of the subject and wide
conaultai!on of the best minds. 1t has met
with the approval of the largest number of
representative bodies throughout the couu-
try. The smallnes5 of the maiorty opposed
10 II and the feebleness of the argument with
which it is opposed are good reasons for
adopting II, and if it needs amendment or
improvement it would be rs well to adopt
those of which experience has proven tho
necessity.
The New York Evening Express states
plainly the exact status of the Whitaker
case. West Point cadets are under no more
Obligations to make social equals of colored
boys than president-eect Garfield is to make
social equals of colored mon, and he has not
treated the members of a single colored dele
CATION that has visited him at Mentor as his
equals. He has neither invited them into his
parlors nor to his dining.room. The Express
says
The Whitaker trial Is rapidly developing
into an exhibition of blatant demapopis,9
instead OF maintaining the dignity of court
martial. The main object of the persons
conducting the case for Whitaker. and in
deed OF some members of the board itself
seems to be to prove that negro cadets are
not treated as equals by their white compan.
ions at West Point. Yesterday Colonel
Morrow in his desire 10 prove this. almost
insulted the cadet then under examination
and one member of the board--not a West
Point graduate-offered a motion for tho
nrotaotion of tho u,;tnoes NJ. Il a.