Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-01-01
BOSTON LETTER.
Brutal College SOcieties--Wm
Lloyd Garrison's Protest.
Death of the Oldest Horse in
the World--Other Matters.

William Lloyd Garrison has just adj
Eliot of Harvard University in which he
caustically yet truthfIly refers to the
inhnman crIeltieS practiccd 10y some Of
the secret societies of that great educa-
tional institution, especially the ID. X. +.
OF course some latitude must naturally
he allowed to young men cast
wholly upon themselves, as are
those who enter great col
lcgc like Harvard; but the practice Of
harbaritics like those described by Mr..
Garrison are not worthy of cannibal,
and if President Eliot acknowledges
himself incompetent to deal with their
authors, then he should step down and
out. and a system Of muscular Christi
anity introduced which should have a
tendency to enforce the funda-
mental principles governing civ
ilizrd communities Besides the
dcbasing influences of such in
human tor(urc~ H. described by Mr..
Garrison in one case, which consisted of
burning si\ ugly wounds upon the arm
Of Il student with a cigar, other bcstiallv
degrading practices are known to exist
in these undergraduates societies which
call for the prompt interference Of
the faculty of Harvard. President
Eliot and his coadmtor> cannot afford to
remain silent under the scathing ar
raignmcnt of them by such a prominent
philanthropi,t and friend of education
a> William LLOYD Garrison. and they
owe to the public and themselves a, the
leading educators OF the country the
prompt suppression of this idiotic
species of rOwdyiSm, or a public con-
fc->ion of their inability to cope with
the evil. The time has passed when it
can hc winkcd At hv college authorities
The latest crime here in Boston re-
minds me of the Bell murder. which
occurred seven or eight years ago ON
Prospect street. Josie Brown. a woman
of the town, had no doubt conducted
Scanncll. if that was the murdrrer'S
name. to the sudbury House. for the
purpose of rohbing him. The theory Of
the police is that in the attempt at rob-
berry, ScannrlI. who was under the inilu-
of West End Whi>kcy. defended him
self with a revolver with fatal result, to
his assailant. Although he was closely
watched by the hotel clerk through the
tran.om to prevent his escape until the
arrival of the police, Scauncll went to
the window Of hi, room, opened it and
made his exit by the fire escape. since
which nothing has been seen of him
The man who murdered Mrs. Bell was
seen making his escape shortly after
the tragedy, hnt no clue was
ever obtained a, to who
he was or where he went. our police
do not seem To trouble themselves great
ly about murders, especially where the
| victims are females of msavOry rcputa-
tions, and il i more than probable that
Scannrll will never be appr"hcndcd nm
le,- he calls at police hcadIual'trr, of
/ his own VClition. Susie Brown. the
murdered woman, WAS the wife of n
prominent business man of this city.
but career of dissipation on her part
separated the couple years ago, and She
gradually driftcd into the life of the
most degraded strcet-walkcr.
4 remarkable horse died here on
Christmas day. He belonged to the
West End Street Railway Company. and
was known to those connected with that
corporation as "Old Billy" The daily
paper, gave his age aS ~ years, but |
was informed by West End official
that his age was 4G. He was what is
known to horScman rs a flea bitten Nor
gan, and last fall was one of the attrac-
tions at the fair of the Horse
Breeders Association held in the
new Arena building. His declining
years were made comfortable hy the
performance of light duties at the West
Lcnox street stables of the West End
Company, and the veteran equine was
not only the idol of that corporation
and its employees, but the object OF
theirtcndcr care and soliCitudc. In the
early part of his life Old Billy helped to
| pull stage coaches between BrOoklinC
and Boston with pleased alacrity,
and is said to have subsequently covered
over l2j, 900 miles between the iror
rails. He has been stuffed for prcserva.
ton by the company.
1t is saying which antedatcs the
mild winters of recent years, that {
green Christmas makes fat churchyards
and unless cold weather intcrvenes yer,
shortly this prediction is likely to be
fulfilled, not only here in Boston, bu
nearly all over christendom. There are
large number of cases of In grippe
here occasioned by the unreasonable
weather, but, fortunately, the disease i,
not proving very fatal as yet
A new device has recently been re
sorted to by crooks in this vicinity tt
gain entrance and explore the interiors
of residences where telephones are used
They represent themselves as belonging
to the telephone company and that the,
have been sent to repair the instrument
The telephone is then "fxcd" by the re
paircrs so as to render it useless, I'm
doubleday with the intention of robbn!
the house later on and preventing tn
notifying of the police,
OzNOLA.
A Boston man who has just failet