Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-07

| her escape. She was secreted on board the
vessel and brought here without mishap.
The captain was n6n-communicative, but
the mate said he received 5000 for his
share. She stated here that she intended
| to go to Boston.
A CHURCH congregation in Poughkeep-
sic, N. Y, have forced their pastor to re-
sign, though admitting his eaInestness and
the good fruits of his labors; and what Is
most remarkable, they have neither given
to the public nor to the pastor himself, the
! reason they have demanded his resigna-
ton, farther than to say, this act is In
Difference to ''the strong feeling of an III
fuential minority in the church" This
looks good deal like not only condemn
ing, but actually executing man unheard,
and with no opportunity of presenting
defense. 1t may be inferred, however, from
| some outside reports, that the earnest and
successful pastor is too brusque and an
refined in his pastoral manners, to suit the
taste of the cultured, extremely
''upper-ten," sensitive, fnical, Oscar
Wilde aesthetic minority. This
is one type of the refinement of
modern, most devout religious devotion.
1t is reported to be alleged among the
chief objections to this unfortunate
pastor that she once rebuked
two men who were smoking in a
horse car; wore flannel shirt at a water
ing place; put his food into his mouth
with knife instead of fork, and was
once seen sitting on sofa with his wife,
both eating from the same banana" If
these are the allegations of conduct
unbecoming a Christian minister" the
standard of ministerial character and quail
ifcations must be of a peculiar type, indie
alive of very great advancement
in deep-toned piety! No wonder
Bob Ingersol and his CO.
infdels make such Roadway in ridiculing
religion, when the church rolls OF alleged
orthodox churches are crowded by such
unregenerate, unrepentant, worldly con-
formists as dishonor and disgrace this
Poughkeepsie church and the profession OF
religion itself.
''AL1 is not gold that glitters." That is
not very original expression, but it is a
true one, nevertheless. And it may be
| said, too, that all is not wholesome propri
ETY. that seems to be, and ought to be what
it seems. A gambler in judicial robes is
not very savoy object to contemplate.
1t robs the bench of reverence and respect
fo bsro iIc orTojDa coiJod NV I1nmortbU oo
cupants. A Washington special is author
ity for the statement that the breath of
scandal has been waited into the sacred
precincts of the Supreme court. Fortu-
nately the judicial purity of the bench is
not at stake. Washington is simply hold
ing up its hands in holy horror over the
moral obliquity of one of the justices.
There is no woman in the case. One of
the judges was simply caught "bucking the
tiger" at we'll known resort on the ave-
nue.. He was playing with all the inesse
of an old-time gambler, but luck was
against him, and he left the table minus a
goodly slice of his official salary. This is
what is making moral Washington weep
tonight Such iniquity is rare hereabouts.
People seldom make ducks and brakes of
their own money, and to see an official
stake and lose a few dollars on the green
cloth, instead of gambling on a safe basis
with Uncle Sans funds, is a lapse from
capital righteousness that cannot be for
given this side of heaven. One man says:
would it we're different" And a good
many other men will say amen to that, and
add that judicial stations should be purged
and purified by expelling unworthy men
from judicial positions, in being more
careful in future selections. Here is where
proper civil service reform should be
applied aud appointments should be made
on merit, worth and carability aid not
as a reward for political service.
The London Times republishes the fol-
lowing statement made by DIR. Herrick
johnson, as true portraiture of the moral
and political condition of the city of Chi
cago: "Politics seized by unprincipled
aspirants for power and place; official pat
rorage dispensed with no regard whatever
for the public veal; ballots sometimes
served out like fixed ammunition and drop
ped into the box at the word of command,
with a kind of military pride in not caring
what they contain, provided they come
from the proper quarter; a mayor who will
go into liquor dealers convention and
publicly boast of his having been brought
up on whisky; a municipal chief whose
sworn duty it is to enforce law seeking to
''regulate' an iniquity which he is under
legal obligation to suppress: gambling
houses Haunting their shameless and law
less infamy in open day; dogs dens and
low varieties visited, and often crowded,
| by hundreds and thousands of young men
and young women (1,18O actually counted
as entering one of these vile establish
ments on one evening between the hours
of and II p. n.y. 1000 places for the
sale of iquor-that is, more saloons than
lamp-posts; fifteen miles of solid grog
shops; liquor sold to minors in fragrant
violation of the law, and boys and girls
found drunk in the streets; aSabbath that,
| So IS -, IS