The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-01-27

part In the affair was well known. Some OF
the men who led the vigilantes that fiery
night are still living here, but they do not
invite public attention to tho fact, for
times have changed One of them has for
years refrained from going out of doors at
night for fear OF assassination, and has
several times been compelled to move out
of some locality where his history had be
come known and revengeful threats were
becoming unpleasailtly common
There is superstition common among a
certain class that all the people concerned
in the burning of the convent have come to
bad end; but this has no more foundation
THAI such superstitions usually have The
truth is merely that the living witnesses of
the affair are suffering from the natural
infirmities of age, and are no richer than
might he expected of men who, in middle
life, were compelled to drop their custom
airy occupations and move away from
town or lie low "till the clouds rolled by"
1t should be remembered that the ire of the
mob was directed solely against the obnoS'
ious institution, that they did the inmates
no harm, and that, as they felt themselves
supported by public opinion, no very keen
remor was to be expected Of them
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There will be no difficulty in Producing
the surplus" in Boston for two weeks. The
Bostonian who has 81 or more to spare and
doesn't see Henry Irving and Ellen Terry
is a peculiar customer. This week is mainly
devoted to Faust" though ON Saturday
night Mr.. Irving will appear in ''The
Bells and Jingle" the latter Pickwick's
Jingle. Next week presume he will rep
resent DR.. Primrose, Oliver Goldsmith's
gentle vicar. Other attractions at the the
aters are DANDY Dick" horsy comedy
at the Museum; Richard Mansfield, Sol
Smith Russell, ''She," and the Arabian
Nights
Richard Mansfield is making fortune as
"Dr. Jekyl and Mr.. HYDE and is
making reputation as an actor as "Baron
Chevrial,' that being the part in which he
is really great. The "Jekyll and HYDE
business is unworthy his talent. Mansfield
has had his share of ill-fortune His mother,
the famous singer, Eme Rudersdorff, tried
in vain to keep him from the stage. but he
persisted in his purpose and had decidedly
hard time at the start. For a while he sang
in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in Eng
land in one of D'Oyly Carte's travelling
companies, at salary of $l5 to SEQ
week; he is now making thousand or two
every seven days. The American actor
who bewails the hardships of travelling
season is far better off than the poor fellows
were i'll D'Oyly Carte's company. There
were no Pullman cars to furnish luxurious
abode en- route; they were huddled into
third class compartments or on board cattle
and freight boats on the Mersey. There
were no carriages and omnibuses to meet
them at the train; they shouldered their
boxes and bags and uramped away to find
cheap LODI, ings for few shillings in some
private house or very humble inn. At
Dublin, on one occasion, Mr.. Mansfield
'prained his ankle while pedestrianizing,
md the generous management instantly |
suspended him without pay. Last season,
l comedian in Mr.. Mansfield's company
was thrown from bicycle in Washington
md injured his knee-pan. He was treated |
With the utmost consideration, and was |
oaid his full salary of $S5 per week while
for three weeks, although he
vas drawing $25 week from an accident
company. That is the difference
between the countries and the paymasters.
~.
This is storm center Of an agitation on
he public school question that is bound to
pread, and the work of local reporters in
the views of prominent edu-
ators is therefore notable. The basis of
he whole hubbub is the fear that the pa
ochial school movement will eventually de-
'elcp into demand for share of the pub
ic school money, as it did in New York
tate under the Tweed regime, Added to
his is the alleged fact that the education
forded by the parochial schools is in
erior to that afforded by the public
chools. The bill introduced in the state
legislature requiring state supervision Of
private schools in order that the standard
f scholarship may be kept up to that of
he common schools excites antagonism and
uspiciou from two widely different
uarters. Some Professionals reason
nat if teachers in parochial schools must
ave certificates from the school boards the
tate thus places its stamp Of approval ON
hat is taught in Catholic schools, and it is
ut short step from that to the granting
state aid to sectarian institutions. 1t is
laimed that the Catholic opposition to the
leasure is hypocritical and that the willy
esuits have made their first open move for
le recognition of their religion by the {
ate. On the other hand, Catholics urge
lat it would be IAN indignity not to be toll
'ated to force the nuns and Sisters of
harity to come publicly forward to be ex-
mined by tine school Notwithstanding
,tirely opposed to their modest and retir-
e habits"
Though the theory that the state should
ontrol the education of its citizens has been
thoroughly accepted for generation, the 7
gical outcome, the inspection of private /
hools, is by some, at this late day, de- q
,unced as Bismarckism. :
A brisk fight in the legislature is ex. {
,cted. +
Charles Radbourn has written to Tim t
urnane of The Boston Referee that he
ill not come to Boston under any consid
alton next season He has bought half =
terest in the Phoenix hotel, Bloomington,
l., where he now is. He says: 81 like the :
wv business, and feel like remaining here
preference to going again to Boston l n
1t enough of the management OF that club L
st season. Several gentlemen in this city c
I'VE asked me to coach and manage club :
this city, and may accept, but you can ]
y that am done with Boston" I
Col Fred Grant, who came here to talk !.
the Middiesex clubs dinner, much re-
mbles his father, but is taller and Of
,avier build than was the great chieftain.
e is not much of a speechmaker. He