New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-08
TOPICS IN THREE CITIES,
BOSTON,.
BUTLER's QUEST FOR NoToRIETY-PLYllP.
TONS RETiREMENT-FAsT-DAY SERMONS.

TONS RETIREMENT-FAST-DAY SERMONS.
BY TELEGRAPH TO The TRmUSEl
BosToN. April 7.-Governor Butler has been rev-
elng in the horrors of the deadhouse Of the state
Almshouse. pauper graves and medical school dis
secting-rooms, the past week. These horrors
are not remarkably different from the usual
and in evitable horrors of such institutions. But
spread at length in the newspapers and mnstering
to the vulgar greed for morbid and sickening do
tails, they have constituted an undoubted sensa-
ton. Butler, determined not to lose o jot of tho
capital he fancies he is making, himself attends and
conducts the examinations and gives the public 10
understand that it is he who has uncarthed these
terrible secrets.
But much worse things, such as medical incom-
potency and neglect and immortality, were charged
and proved against the Tewksbury Almshouso
suDeriDtendent seven years ago under the probing
of Frank Sanborn then chairman Of the State Board
Of Charities. Unfortunately 1T was at that date
Governor Rice's administration thought pub
lie policy to snub Sanbom and whitewash
Marsh. the octogenarian superintendent, who with
his son Ia small working Republican politicianl.
his daughter, who is a graduate Of female medical
school, and other members of his family has run tho
almshouse for quarter of century. This whten-
ing instead of purging of the seprlchre left .
bonanza for Butler. though so far he has exposed
little If anything not common and necessary to
every almshOuse and Its cemetery. Still the Gov
Is elate at the shocking effect of tho report, Of
the examination, and to an interviewer describes
how he is going to take 1.-The country down into
these graves and show what there Is in them in
the shape of logs buried in place of bodies.
and those that not in them
have been taken up for sale for dssecting
classes. superb issue for a Presidential capdi-
date! This posing as the paupers friend moreover.
is in contrayention of hsinaugural datrIbe against
the sentimental lavishness of expen-
dIture on charitable institutions.
After all his buster last week over his rejected
nominee tor Insurance Commissioner, the Governor
has this week meekly withdrawn the name of Mr..
Plympton. Nobody knows how TO subside moro
quietly when he must. The Council has suce re-
jected two more of his nominations for minor JUDI
cial appointments, the nominees being Butler
workers and henchmen without fitness, character
social standing sufficient for the places.
On top of these repulses has come the defeat OK
Sprague to whose attempt on the ectability Oh
Rhode Island the Massachusetts, Governor lent bis
personal assistance in long but rather dull aud
disappointing address at Providence. Evidently
the " old man " is not the fighter be was.
Lieutenant Governor Oliver Ames has accepted
the friendly counsel which urged him not TO press
the resolution before the Legislature asking of Con-
gress the expunging of the censure of Oakes
Ames, and substituted for it de-
claratory resolution to the effect thAt
Oakes Ames was good man, and
deserved well of his country for cOnceiying and
completing the Pacific Railroad.
The Legislature has treated the resolve for pro-
hibitory constitutional amendment to the signal
defeat the cooness of the proposition for
which there exists no lpublic opinlon) invited.
That for biennial sessions, on the other
hand, has been put in fair way for adoption by the
favorable action of the Senate. The House haa
voted in favor of double-tracking the Hoosac Tun-
mel, which Governor Batter announced he would
oppose, though he has not done
The Fast-Day preaching, though in tn. case OF
DR.. Freeman Clarke's, DIR. BartoPs and DIR. Miners
sermons sufficiently pointed against Butler was not
so sharp as his proclamation enjoinng the ministers
not to talk politics had led many TO expect. Tho
most notable thing about the Observance of the day
is the esuetude it has fallen into even among the
churches
An interesting Indian meeting held here this week
has called out strong expressions from Senator
Hoar, Rev. DIR. f. L. Hale and other persevering
friends of the Indian TO the effect that what with
the maintenance of the Indian training schools tho
concurrence of able Indian fighters like Generals
Crook and Miles, and close watching of the selection
of Indian agents. the Indian question will speedily
he solved