The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-04-04

AND TIE POLICE WILL NOT INTERFERE.
Boston Post.
If some enterprising undertaken will agree
to box Slugger Sullivan there will be little
opposition to the exhibition.
ONE rs ENOUGH.
Philadelphia Times.
Harrisburg can stand the PENNSYLVANIA leg
islatule, but when the criminal classes there
want to see prize fight they have to 90 to
the opposite side of the Susquehanna Rive
before they dare hold it.
A BOSTON VIEW.
Boston journal.
Things appear to be mixed in Maine. A
few days since Mr.. Munsen, the agent of the
Law and Order League, is reported as near
ly succeeding in getting a former radical
temperance man and reformer into Jail as
the owner of building in which liquor was
sold.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS.
NY, Tribune.
The time has long since gone by when
public opinion will tolerate whipping as a
means of discipline for refractory pupils. If
a scholar is 30 bad as to be impervious to
such moral correetives as teacher NAV
properly apply, his place is not in q school
with decent boys and girls, who 60 there to
learn, but in the house of correction. Whip
ping is certainly out of place now in the city
schoolroom, where teachers ara neithsr iail-
ors nor authorized guardians.
MR.. PEARSON rs A MODEL POSTMASTER.
n. Y. Independent.
In the course of our more than 20 wears
intimate acquaintance with the post Office
affairs in this city New York;, we have new
er known its business managed with such
marked ability --amounting, in reality, to
the most perfect military discipline-as at
the present time; and, further. we don't be-
leve there is an Office of any sort in the Gift
OF the people of this nation-from that of
President OF the United States down to the
doorkeeper in the Custom House-which ia
to-day as perfectly conducted as is the post
office In New York city.
SEES HIS MISTAKE AND REPExTs,
Corr. N. Y. Sun.
The denomination of H. G. Pearson for
Postmaster of New York city has done the
business for us old veteran Democrats, and
you may bet that if Republican Governor
is nominated we will give good showing In
his behalf. have never voted ANYTHING
but straight Democratic ticket, and have
done so for twenty years. I never-nor do /
now-held any Government position, vet I
have an honorable discharge from the United
States navy for service during the late war
have followed the Democratic party from
principle. Guess / have made a mistake,
and shall repent before am entirely lost.
A QUEER AND PERPLExIGG CASE.
Boston Herald.
The case of the two Italian murderers who
were to have been hanged at the Maine
State prison Friday is peculiar one. Both
have been convicted after careful trial.
One is undoubtedly guilty. But there is a
doubt as to whether both are. But both lie
about the affair so that it is difficult to get
any enlightenment from their stories. The
fact that the execution was originally fixed
Tor Good Friday, and the request of Bishop
Healy and others that different day be
chosen, gave Gov. ROBBIE an excellent pre-
text for reprieving both of the doomed men,
and it is now hoped that an Italian priest
who is soon to visit them will be able to get
at the truth of the matter. 1t seems proba-
BILE that both are guilty, bat it is a queer and
perplexing case.
WHY SHOULD HE BE ALLOWED TO TALK
THIS WAY?
Rossa's United Irishman.
England's Prince is coming to Dublin, and
the English enemy there is shivering with
fear. Dynamite and dynamite booms can be
discharged from Dublin housetops, and it is
to guard gainst this discharge of duty by
patriotic Irishmeu that England's command
er calls for II 900 specials, so that they can
man the housetops on both sides of the
streets during thesparade of England's Prince
in Dublin. For Ireland's freedom Irish
men must fight, and every English invader
found on Irish soil must be slain. This
Prince OF Wales is going to Ireland as an in
vader. If the people will give him his de-
serts, 1t will be proud day for Irishmen all
over the world. One man came into this
office one day this week, and said: "Rossa,
I'll give $500 to have that lesson taught to
England"
THE BANGOR DEMOCRATIC ORGANS COM
MENTs.
Bangor Commercial.
The new Democratic Mayor and Marshal
[of Portlandl have gone into the business in
earnest and it would appear from the re
ports that the whole time of the police was
occupied in keeping guard over suspected
places or in the detection and apprehension
of disguised beer and elusive whiskey. This
time, of course, the traffic is to be utterly
annihilated. portland will soon be thirs-
ty,'' exultingly remarked the captain of the
police just before buckling on his armor for
the regular raid the other day. We trust
that there will be no let up and no political
discrimination in this new crusade. It ap-
pears TO be the opinion of the new Demo-
cratic Mayor and Marshal that the people of
Portland are suffering for ramrod enforce
ment of the Prohibitory law, and if that is
what they want, that, by all means, is what
they are entitled to enjoy.