The Ouachita telegraph., 1882-12-16
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The way seWering is done in Cincin-
natl and vicinity, it has tendency to
distribute the gasses that are associated
with fevers. Why persons living on
the hills should not themselves pay for
the sewers they want, We do not quite
understand. 1t ought to be all right.
We suppose it is, but we do not see it
exactly.-American pork packers look
upon the proceedings of the German
Government in prohibiting the intro
duction of American pork into the
German markets as arbitrary and un-
just.-There was not Sunday enough to
hurt in New York on the day before
yesterday.-If juries will not convict
when, as the Mayor says, there is "the
most positive proof OF violation of
law,'' there is an end to the business.
The prosecution having exhausted its
resources, retire baffled and dishearten-
ed, and all subsequent attempts to put
the law in force are little better than
farces. The Mayor will do to the best
Of his ability all he can do to secure to
the city a quiet and orderly Sunday,
and what more can be required Of
him?-Boston's opinion of the Jersey
Lily is summed up in this sentence
ssHer beauty is chiefly beauty of out
line, which is most apparent while
she is in repose.'' Is this a possible
suggestion that Mrs. I4angtry would
appear to better advantage as dunn
| my than as an actress:
[Gazette.1
In the meeting OF the Methodist
ministers yesterday, in discussing the
default in enforcing the Sunday laws,
Il speaker, in cnumerating the deliu-
quencies of the Sunday Committee,
said they had even circulated the
speech of Senator Sherman, which is
understood to be very unsound on the
Sunday law question, and as speaking
with admiration of the Sunday after
noon beer gardens and throngs in Ger
Inany.-They who think that throw
ing off taxes is SO popular that the very
talk will be party revival are awaken
ing from their fond dream. The talk
of reducing the tobacco tax has made
such suspension of the trade that
many thousands of lahorers have al
ready been thrown out of employment
The manufacturers say that neither a
rebate nor prospective time for the
reduction to so into effect can avoid
this paralysis.-President Arthur is
rising in public estimation. He labors
under the usual disadvantage of not
having been elected President, but he
has wide field Of usefulness open to
| him.
| LTlle Enquircr.l
Congress would do we'll to remember
| that one of the things that the people
intended to teach at the recent elections
was that there had been too much talk.
1t is refreshing to hear from some of
our amiable and Well-meaning con-
| n
| from the Govern ment clerks and en-
ployees by the Jay Huobell committee
was probably all spent legitimately for
the printing and circulation of whole
some documents, when everybody
who knows anything about the cur
rent of politics well understands that a
large part of the Hubbell fund was
distributed in chunks among Republi-
can candidates for Congress, to be used
for the purchase of unWholesome
whisky or the corruption of the ballot
boX.-Nobody of a reflective turn of
mind can be much surprised at any
eccentric or even scanda!ous turn Mrs.
Langtry may take when she remembers
how she permitted that disgusting
humbug, Oscar Wilde,- to gush over
her when she arrived in this country
Wilde and Iangtry should be perpetu-
ated in wax as the champion frauds
which England has sent us in this year
of alleged enlightenment, 1882.
At last a decision Of the Supreme
Court of the United States has been
pronounced, and a great wrong has
been 1neasurably righted. The Arling-
ton estate has been adjudged to the
Lee family, and the government sur
renders its false claim. The Philadel-
phia Times, referring to the case, says !:
':No other decision could have been
expected. We live under a govern
mcEt of law, and though there may
be times when the laws seem silent,
they will assert themselves and de-
mand obedience. The technical trick
by which it was sought to give legal
color of the seizure Of Arlington only
made the illegality of the contiscation
more apparent, and there never yet has
been Il court of any authority in this
country that would sanction the
seizure of any mau's property without
compensation or without judicial con-
demnatiOn. 1t has required long
time to right the wrong, and indeed it
is not righted yet. The Arlington
estate is now a national cemetery, and
it is not probable that it will ever be
| occupied by the Lees again. They