CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876

Abstracts 4727 - 4732

SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd)

4727 L Mar. 30:7/2,3 - The suit of McMan versus the Lane Mattress co. was dismissed in common pleas court March 27, on the application of Mrs. McMan.

The suit was commenced for $20,000, for damages alleged to have been sustained by a little son of Mrs. McMan who lost a portion of his hand while running a machine in the factory. The company paid all the bills and Mrs. McMan stated that she was satisfied with this.

A certain young lawyer of the city urged her to institute the suit and when she refused he began it in her name; he swore in the affadavit that she was out of town and could not swear to it herself.

was withdrawn, the attorney paying the costs himself.

"Would it not be well for the Bar of Cuyahoga county to look into the case? It looks as though the Bar owed it to itself to see that such little proceedings are stopped forthwith, for the credit of the profession and the city at large.'

4728 L Mar. 31; ed: 4/2 ed:4/2 - "More money was paid out by our bummer Street Commissioner the last year for street cleaning than was ever paid out before in any one year, and yet our streets were never so filthy and muddy as now. For proof look at the streets!"

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4729 L Mar. 31; ed: 4/5,6 The PLAIN DEALER protests vigorously against the transfer of the sanitary police work of the city to the regular police force. The reason is that this will discharge from the pay of the city a lot of old Democratic pensioners who are about the most useless functionaries in public employ. The new plan will secure much better sanitary work and besides save the city $10,000 a year.

4730 L Mar. 31:7/1 On Mar. 29 about 70 members of the Woodland ave. Methodist Episcopal church surprised their pastor, Rev. A. R. Palmer, at his residence, 43 Portland st., by calling on him en masse. They took pains to bring a fine supper with them, and the evening was spent in a thoroughly en-joyable manner.

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4731 L Mar. 31:7/1 The "Doan Class" met at the residence of W. H. Doan on Euclid ave. on the evening of Mar. 29 for their first annual reunion. The class consists of twenty young men, who, with their ladies and a few friends, made up a company of about 40. Officers were elected and an enjoyable social time was had by all. (2)

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4732 L Mar. 31:8/1 The taking of the testimony in the case of John Mather was concluded yesterday and the matter was submitted to Judge Tilden, who found that Mather was insane. It is probable that he will not be sentenced to the asylum, as his attorneys are trying to get a compromise by the appointment of a guardian, or in some way in order to save the alternative.

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876

Abstracts 4733 - 4740

SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd)

4733 L Apr. 1; ed: 4/1 - The Catholic Universe is on the rampage about secret societies. Its church being full of secret, oath bound organizations...the priest editor of the UNIVERSE knows all about it.

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4734 L Apr. 1; ed: 4/5 - The PLAIN DEALER is terribly worried at having daylight let into the city administration and its pompous array of "economy" figures turned to ridicule. Yesterday it directed 25 paragraphs and editorials against the LEADER.

"So it loses its temper and its thimbleful of brains at the same time, and being unable to do anything better, hops up and down like a boy in a wasp's nest, shrieking "LEADER, LEADER! O. A. d-dst meanest pa0. A. LEADER, Senator, Japonica, Ed. LEADER, O. A. U.,' etc, until its breath is all gone. Pipe away, boys. To be abused by the PLAIN DEALER is the reward of the good.'

4735 L Apr. 1:5/1 The governor's appointment of trustees for the Cleveland Hospital for the Insane yesterday are commented upon by the Western Reserve members as being remarkably judicious selections. The continuance as trustees of General Barrett and General Fitch will be particularly gratifying to the Cleveland people of both parties.

4736 L Apr. 1:7/1 Mrs. Benney has opened rooms at 211 Perry st., and will give lessons in French, German, and Italian. She will also give piano lessons. We recommend her as a teacher.

4737 L Apr. 1:7/1 In a letter to the editor, Mrs. McMann says: In the case of my son against the Lane Mattress co., the LEADER stated yesterday that I had made certain charges against the attorney in that case. I wish to say that I never made any charges against him and that he has acted the part of a gentleman throughout and done nothing but what he thought to be for the best interest of my son in his misfortune.

4738 L Apr. 1:7/3 - The work of tearing down the fifth precinct Station house, preparatory to building the new one, was begun on Mar. 30, half a dozen tramps being employed.

4739 L Apr. 1:8/1 In a letter to the editor, "A Taxpayer" says:
The Cleveland Paving co. asked the city council to send a committee to
Washington and other cities to inspect concrete paving. The committee,
of which John Farley was chairman, reported favorably. Lake st. was
paved with concrete, and the property owners paid for a worthless pave-
ment which needed costly repairs in less than a year. "Did Farley get
paid for recommending the concrete?"

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(2) 4740 L Apr. 1:8/3 A great deal of sympathy has been aroused over the plight of John Moran, who lives on Third st. While he was himself sick in bed, two of his children died. Being entirely destitute, he was unable

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876

SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd)

to provide burial. An undertaker buried the children, but Moran is not able to pay the heavy bill.

In reply to criticism of the Catholic church, of which Moran is a member, for its failure to help the unfortunate man, the CATHOLIC UNIVERSE says that the children were buried at the expense of the city and money was collected for Moran in the church to which he belongs. Moran denies all this.

4741 L Apr. 3:8/3 - One great trouble which has always been experienced by the county clerk here is the keeping track of files in cases commenced in the county courts. There is now and has been a rule of the court which prohibits the carrying away of files, but attorneys have been taking away papers without consulting the judges or even notifying the clerk, who is by law made their custodian. So great has this nuisance become that the county commissioners, at the request of the court officers, have had erected in courtroom No. 1 a wire-work partition, behind which, hereafter, all files will be kept in charge of a man whose duty it will be to see that no one takes away files without an order from the court.

4742 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/1 "We hope the new Council will take steps to impeach the present Street Commissioner for not keeping the streets cleaner. They are intolerably filthy and muddy."

4743 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/3 The gold-seekers in the Black hills are find-
ing little but hardship. "The best authorities unite in pronouncing
the Black Hills gold stories a delusion.... To further promote the
delusion is a crime.... We would not lay so much as a straw in the
way of any man who seeks to push out with the world for better success
than he can win at home, but hard as the times are, a man with a roof
to shelter and clothes to cover him is better off at home cutting cord
wood or even doing nothing, than shivering on the Black Hills and
wondering how he can get away."

4744 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/4 It has been suggested that every citizen of the United States celebrate the centennial year by planting at least one tree.

The work of the first century of American independence has been to denude the country to a great extent of its forests. In many districts. the destruction of the woods has already been the cause of serious modification of meteorological conditions." It is a felicitous suggestion that the people generally begin the new century with a policy of restoring as far as practicable what has been destroyed."

4745 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/4

In the great tournament now in progress in New York Alberoni leads the field, having won five games in New York and lost one. However, when he encountered the western intellect in Cleveland and Chicago he was defeated each time.

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876

Abstracts 4746 - 4752

SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd)

"Chess being an intellectual game, so to speak, the supremacy among its votaries, like the Star of Empire, takes its way Westward."

4746 L Apr. 4; ed: 4/4 The PLAIN DEALER flatters itself that it
made the LEADER and the ANZEIGER squirm during the campaign.
"The fly that tickles a philosopher's nose and makes the wise, good
man hit violently to brush it away, always imagines itself a vastly
superior animal to the philosopher."

4747 L Apr. 4:7/1 The April number of Brainard's MUSICAL WORLD is out and is filled with the usual amount of interesting reading matter on musical subjects and choice new music, vocal and instrumental. Another article on "Frauds in the Piano Trade" will prove of interest to all.

Single copies are 15 cents and can be obtained of the publishers, S. Brainard's Sons, or of Evans, Van Epps and co.

4748 L Apr. 5:5/1 The Oneida community has issued the first number of the AMERICAN SOCIALIST. The idea promulgated is that God made all things equal and that men and women should possess all things in common. "Though these communists have many human qualities and many doctrines of life that waken admiration, their theory of the sexes, however conservative in practice, is shocking and worse than beastly."

4749 L Apr. 6; ed: 4/1 "It seemed odd yesterday to find no billingsgate in the PLAIN DEALER against the LEADER. With all its errors and weaknesses the P.D. does know when it is whipped."

4750 L Apr. 6:7/3 In a letter to the editor W. McDonald says:
The practise of giving contractors permits to cut stone on thorough-
fares being paved causes unnecessary inconvenience. If the contractors
would establish a yard it would aid in keeping the streets orderly and
clean. Some expense at first might be incurred in obtaining yards
but for that the contractors would soon be repaid, for more and better
work can be done in a yard, where the workmen are sheltered from snow
and rain.

4751 L Apr. 8:7/3 The superintendents of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers association met last night in the board of education on Prospect st. to discuss the question. "How shall our small cities and towns obtain trained teachers?" A. J. Michael of Monroville presided. The regular N.E.O.T.A. meeting will be held today.

4752 L Apr. 8:7/3,4 In connection with the case of John Moran, who lives on Third st., and the failure of the Catholic church to help him in his distress, we commend to the attention of the frocked gentleman who runs the CATHOLIC UNIVERSE the following pointed letter from John Moran:

To the editor of the LEADER: Father McGoveran refused to help me

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876

Abstracts 4753 - 4759

SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd)

The ten dollars that

because I did not belong to his church.
Father McMahon gave me was for seats which I made for his church.
No "infirmary clerk offered to bury" my children. "I feel very grateful
to my friends, but will not allow anyone to magnify their good work as
the UNIVERSE has attempted to for Father McMahon."

4753 L Apr. 8:8/2 Twenty-three new suits were entered in the U. S.
courts yesterday by the Goodyear Dentai Vulcanite co. against various
dentists in Ohio, charged with using some patents of the company.
Six Cleveland dentists are involved.

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4754 L Apr. 10; ed: 4/1 . "The Chinese of California have progress so rapidly in American civilization that they now have a regularly organized society of Molly Maguires, which recently offered a reward of $500 to any able man who would take the life of Cheung Sam, the owner of a shoe factory in which wages were reduced." (1) 4755 L Apr. 10:7/2 - The annual meeting of the Catholic Central association was held yesterday. The president, T. H. Graham, was in the chair. Reports were received from the treasurer and from committees on workhouse instruction, Catholic protectorate, and the centennial picnic. Officers for the ensuing year were elected.

4756 L Apr. 10:7/3 - A regular meeting of the Northeastern Ohio Teachers association was held in the board of education rooms on Prospect st. on Apr. 8. The president, H. M. Parker of Elyria, presided. The meeting discussed at some length the question of rhetorical exercises in schools and also the question of the needs of country district schools.

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4757 L Apr. 10:8/2 A new Irish American society, called The Order of the Irish American Legion was organized in this city on Apr. 8. Fourteen officers were elected.

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4758 L Apr. 10:8/3 The tramp ordinance has tided a score of vagrants
through the winter. Tomorrow the ordinance ceases; there will be no
more soup tickets available. It is to be hoped that the vagrants will
attempt to earn an honest living. There will be an exodus from Poverty
Barn now that there is nothing to be gained. The farmers will be on
the lookout for them, but their welcome will be more vehement than
pleasant, for the country at large has about decided that it is time for
this outrageous nuisance to come to an end.

4759 L Apr. 11; ed: 4/1 - The Ohio legislature has enacted a bill to permit the city of Cleveland to lease the Marine hospital grounds for park purposes. "It is to be hoped that this will now be done. There is much more ground there than the Hospital needs, and it would be a crowning endowment to Lake View Park."

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