New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-13
TOPICS FROM THREE CITIES.
BOSTON,.
BUTLER AND THE BOARD OF HEALTH-ART.

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(BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEI
| Boston, May 12.-This has been a comparatively
| quiet week after the stormy encounters between
Governor Butler aud the Board of Health, Lunacy
aud Charity at the close of last week. Still tho
| Governor has been publicly rebuked by ex-Gov-
| ernor Talbot, writing IN his official character of
chairman of the Health Board, for his dictatorial
and discourteous behavior to that Board, which
the Ex-Governor says is without a parallel in
official annals. He has also been snubLed by the
AttorneyGeneral of the State, who though a
somewhat Butlerized Republican, tells the Gov
ernor that he wants an end to the vouminous and
unnecessary correspondence with his Office about
the relations of the Attorney General and tho
Health Board.
The most damaging blow, however that Butler
has received since he opened his crusade has
been dealt him by a womans hand N the report Of
personal inspection of the TewksOnry Almshouse.
by Mrs. Clara I. Leonard, a member Of the Board
of Health, LunacY and Charity. This a docu-
ment as candid it is warm in protest against the
parsimonOus policy which Butler proposes, and
winch would add to the inevitable hdrdshps of
pauper existence which he hypocrItcally deplores.
Mrs Lconards hOusewlfely enumeration of the
comforts the poor old men and women and infants
have, and the necessities which they lack chiefly OF
trained nursing when sick carries conviction Of
simple honesty and earnestness and lets daylight
through the fmsy sensational scandals trumped up
by Butler. 1t has really turned the popular tide in
the Tewksbury business.
The Governors absenteeism has been formally
fastened on him By evidence taken by legislative
committee, showing by a clerk in the Executive
Chamber that he was not in that Chamber on tho
date OF veto message of his fer five days there
after. The Legislature will probably declare the
veto to be thus made null and the vetoed bill law.
The interesting fact comes out in response to the
Butler organs dIsparagement OF Mr.. c. I. D0nnelly
of the Health Board for not standing by his race,
that not only Mr Donnelly, who is much
respected lawyer, but also ex.GOyernOr Talbot and
two other members Of that Board four out of nine.
are Of Irish parentage. The Governor has issued
letter to the Secretary of State Of the United States
protesting against the assisted emigrants" " arriv-
ing here from Ireland and has had the qualification
TO see il referred to with approval by member OF
the Irish party i'll Parliament.
The Democratic City Council have just dug up
bit of spoils IN the city cemetery, dispacing lie.
publican superintendent who has held the place
undisturbed during fifteen yearly changes OF NUM-
Cipal administration.
The discovery and arrest of the murderer OF Mrs.
Carlton in Nova Scotia causes considerable excite
meut 1t is a Shcck to find murderer among the
descendants OF the peaceful and upright Acadians
OF Longfellow's immortazation, who have always
been 90 much esteemed IN tins community as honest
servants and laborers.
The American Society of Artists exhibition in tho
Boston Museum of Fine Arts is giving artists and
amateurs delightful sensation and an cu.iyenirs
FLIP TO local art.