The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-10-18

lHt lttpUDllCdu anu some MuRWump papers are
very Indignant that MIR. Gariand should have dared
to hold stock In telephone company while he sat In
/ the Senate. How about Senator Edmunds, who Is
one OF the attorneys for the Drawbaugh telephone
people, and no doubt holds stock in their concern
WE regret that there were reported as present at
wedding last week the names OF several ladies' and
gentlemen who had suffered recent bereavemcnts.
Persons in supplying lists OF names Of those attend
ing social entertainments ought TO be more careful,
painful mistakes of this Kind arc OF too frequent
occurrence. In the case In which this Journal ap-
pears to have been careless the fault was with a
member OF the family OF one OF the parties who
supplied the list We believe 1t will be farnl N
most cases where 6lunasrss @ this Kind are made
.na- does not rest upon the regular Jour-
nalists, but, as In the case above, with careless
friends, who copy the names from invitation lists.
No ONE can pass along some streets In this city
without noticing what vast numbers OF people flock
into certain houses at particular hours and speedily
emerge with little splinters of wood stuck In their
mouths From the apparent relish with which these
are chewed stranger TO our customs might be led
to imagine that we arc an arborvorous race, and
that choice specimens Of wood are considered
great delcacy by both sexes 1t Is certainly fact
that the wearing Of toohrcks the street Is an in
creasng habit No doubt the eating houses are re-
sponslbe for 1t. The wooden toothpick is q sort of
badge which Its denizens wear, by which one can
readily distinguish at sight the domestic from the
public diner The former masticates his toothpick
In the privacy OF his home while the latter goeth
forth with it iauntily projecting from his lips Few
OF the habtues OF an eatlng-house can resist the
fascination OF the little brstiing on the cashiers
desk. To take q toothplck Is an nvariable accom-
paniment to the act Of paying for ones meal.
conversation with one OF the proprietors Of these
splinter dlspensaries throws some light the vast
numbers which they are required to furnish to their
patrons. and also upon the abnormal appetite for
toothpcks which some persons develop one Of
these observers declared that of boxes supposed 10
contain 2,200 toothpicks six were required each
week to satisfy the craving Of his customers for tooth
picks. But the gentleman admitted that these tooth
picks were not all consumed in the legitimate way,
and that he suspected from the handfuls secreted In
the vest pockets OF some OF his customers at each
meal that they recruited their supply of kindlng
wood from this source.
PUBLIC attention In other cities as well as our own
is being drawn to the evils Of the private detective
system. The developments in the Belt divorce case
show how easily the workings OF this system OF rre-
sponsible spying into private affairs can run into
| monstrous abuses. The Armstrong abduction in
London, in which the Pail Mail Gazette and the
| Salvation Army so recently figured, Is only
| another illustration Of the essential vicious
ness of permitting secret inquiries to be con-
| Quoted by private individuals even when they
pretend TO be working for the public good Wemust
admit that the cases where the facilities of the best
known private detective agencies have been per.
verted TO bad far has ever been disclosed
comparatively few and 1t speaks well for the honora-
bic character OF the American people that this should
be so; but 1t must at the same time be admitted that
the possibilities OF abuse great that II is worth
discussion whether legislation to require some on
| clal supervision or regulation of private detective
| HoaL baoo
remarks upon this subject in which we heartily con-
cur 1t says:
Among the various perils of society," great and
small, nobody, we believe, has hitherto noted the
calls attention. A public detective service, as
"Civis admits there must be; but he Is also justi-
ment and requires vigilance the part Of those who
use 1t. II Is sometimes necessary to employ doubt
n on and temptation, q, are
In which large reward was offered for the convic-
| tion OF the murderer. The waddng OF the gun from
| which the shot had been fired was picked up and
was found to be a leaf torn from n national school,
book. Suspicion fell upon person in the neighbor-
hood who had such books in his possession. A de-
tective went down, disguised as bookpeddler, OBJ
tained access to the house, and on his return re-
sa ne nae a on oes ana aI me
the first act Of the legal authorities when 1t came
into their hands was 10 send 1t to the publishers for
identifcation; and the publishers report was
that, though it was the same book as that from
which the leaf had been torn, 1t was not the
Ill. IL.
taken the book with the leaf torn out to the house Of
, tae suspected murderer @ anu deposited II there,
conyetion and that he yoniI nocset the raurerd U1
Still there is no reason for mIsgiying as to The gene
raj trustworthiness OF the public detective service.
@ ut .neie u not lilue reason ior nlsgVlng as TO
| service always at the command OF inqusitiyeness
of such system in the affair OF the Pau Mai Gazette
ann we are iikey 70 nave iurther experiences, we
rIot Was caused The 9ther dav at Rarrie ,x S,t a..
Act spy who. it appears, had been following the
example of Noah claypoe. Even a man whose
walk In life Is pretty clean and whose character ia
pretty sound, may feel a reasonable objection 10
being shadowed." II the eye which tracked our
morality, though we might vince, we could perhaps
hardly dare to complain. But 1t may be that Of a
ae seiySe %, or OF the editor
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THE movement to mark the positions Of the Con.
tador,,o ,roora an ,, ca,,r, ,.,a, ~ ~
ie"eia'e roops oh 'hc "e'ysourg pat'ieheid, al
those OF the Union troops are marked, has at last
| now go for,v,rd ,,n,u mi. ,,oat n,amoroh,a .o,a
sh,, sa 30 ao a.. u,. .n,s iios, nenoau'e neia
important position occupied BY every regiment that
participated that battle Then there will
be nowhere in the world field which viii be 80 inter.
,, =, 49,, - -. - 80, y - M 49, M W.. - y. - 'a.e'
ene w 'he his'orica clc OF 10 'he studeht OF Inc
art OF war. Hon. Edward Mcpherson, OF Gettysburg,
ciatLon was spoken ~ on the sub,ect Of having the
con,aa.,a,a ,,os,,ion. ,n.r.oa and n. s.,a ,a '
| 'e'''"'s Po''''oA' Aia'A'"' ~" "e "ai" '"o hoS"
citation would welcome any step in tina. direction
He said they could easily have a strip condemned
~ rsa'...' asons , W. M .. - ase ino.
Inc organization which mas Inc honor OF starting
this movement Is the Second Maryland Confederate
the iins reached NV ,bam',n ,,,.r na,an, charna n
~ sne'.i ~ ,s s"a .n 'na n ~ W
Sup hi' on the morning oi July 8, ieoz Ihe sur
yiying members OF that regiment are now engaged
in raising fund for the purpose Of erecting monu
ment on that spot. The baltimore sun saysi
Ine feglmeht was organhed ia ,ne M Iaii OF isos a.
e ,a snnSi ny cVimanu @ a VI tieuI ~. Soi
,ess n. ~. ~ .no ~r' ~ " ~. anu
a9oo iney were auached 70 Sen. W. y, Joness cav,
any pIlBauc On uuly "a the vhLey oi tnglnlh, hna
Hele constantly moving DackWaIu anu IorWaIu,
never ~ any one camp more inan Two OF lnIee weeks
sne tn 'une, iooo, ,ne c was vegun Dy
an allhck on winchester; lne oeconu MaIyland
opened the pght and were the rs TO enter the town
INC msy at,er ,se ngnt tney mere assgnea 20 zen