New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-15
BOSTON.
TEWKsBURY = GovERNoRsHIP CANVASS =
EXHIBITIONS.
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BosToN, July I4--The Tewksbury drama "ounu
M Yesterday with tag" nastier even IMAM 'no
evidence spoken by the comedian tor whose oero-
81 the whole performance has been gwen NV
uince bis famous triumphs with the powuel-po"s
off Fort Fisher and in the cutoff OF tne LUZ"
Gan Canal has the inimitable and only nuso,
equalled this Tewksbury sensation. neoA'omo ~
dead babies, exhumed paupers ana tneir oohn', wv
.n.stIv ,ables and ofal pals of tho dissecting-
NOM nieoes of tanned human skin. in one case
mad up into pair of slippers tales OF CONTAGIOUS
eruptious washed in common bath-tuos toio Nv
,,,osttu,es confessions OF baby and cranKs'
Snn,atea Of or discharged employees at the A'h's-
Nouse have constituted the material OF this strahee
voritical melodrama concocted for the country
"a the preliminary of Buffers canvass ior 'no
Presidency on sociallstic issues Inc heca'oino'
f hahes offared ND annually have been reduced TO
Sozen IN almost as many years; the reburiai az
uaaht of collins of paupers gwen under oohu III ao-
cordancs with law to the uses oil science nae ooen
shown to BIS the requirement. merely OF sanitary
law and decency the tanning OF human cnticie
.tudsnt,s freak; entirely unconnected with the
Tawksbury Almshouse; the tales of the prostitutes
md baby farmers mostly perjuries and the common
bath-tubs myths invented by malice. In TRUTH
very little has been left of Buffers case except
the bad odor of it.
This will undoubtedly hang around Massachu-
setts for good while, the truth is slow III over
taking popular lies Butler might have made his
cane stronger had he not bundered as always anu
been too malignant In his hatreds to make use Oh
fbe assistance of the Board of Health, Lunacy ana
Charity as witnesses Had he put them on the
stand they might have bcen compelled to tell some
things showing insufficient provision for the wants
OF the hospital. But this would also have proved
that the expenditure for the Almsnouse shouu 20
a.yaer instead of $40 600 less as Butler contends 1t
was foolish, on the other hand for the defence 10
mt Thomas Marsh jr., on the staud, His record OF
sha manners dissected was not the worst evidence
that conld have been wormed out of him, though
sha Governor spent all his force that point only
10 he refused the necessary order for the surrender
of the memoranda, which the Legislature denied
him,
The renorts of the committee and action OF the
Jepislature are now to be waited for. They must
he presented on Tuesday next There Will ne al
least three and perhaps four OF these reports-ohe
Nv the extreme Republicans, one by the moderate
Republicans and one by the Butterflies OF the COM
mittee
The Goyernorship canvass still remains utterly
without outward sign feeble and forced personal
s'boomn for Leutenant-GoverDor Ames as the can
sidate in opposition to Butler meets with no re-
stropg independent movement, with some sucn can
<1sdate as Charles Francis Adams jr., certainty.
The wr,ggling of Commissioners Evans to avoid
revealing the report of Collector Slack against nls
appointee, Horton. has been entirely transparent
here where the career of Horton. officially and per-
eoually. was familiar to many victims.
His former chief and partner in the moety grabs
William A. Simmons, has just begun to develop the
u.es he can make of the City Water Board. To
which he was recently appointed by the Butierit'
Mayor. Twenty mine district inspectors OF water
fixtures have been appointed. who will have power
70 enter every house and subject every water-takei
to their decisions as to the need of repairs One OF
these inspectors is VIGOROUSLY an ex-cofvct' and
the majority of them are ward strikers" in poll
tics
What with the art galleries in the two exhibitions
of industry and manufactures here next fall, thai
OF the Foreign Exhibition and that OF the New
England Manufacturers Institute, and the exhi
hilton of American pictures under the auspices O.
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Will have thre
fine collections of paintings on view at the SAM
time each with special claims to attractiveness AM
represe NATIVE character.