CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) These houses of good Samaritans are now obliged to call on the generous spirits of our city for aid. As a means of raising money, a group of people in the city have united to give a series of entertainments. "We look for such a response from the generous people of the city as will remind us of the days of that great sanitary fair of 1864, when over $100,000 was cleared in one week." 4429 L Jan. 12:4/5 The second exhibition of A. L. Webster's Motor, held at the Globe theatre last night, proves to be very much like the opening. All in all, the affair was one of the worst of its kind which has ever taken place in this city. If the man is not insane, he's a much worse fraud than either Wooden or Goodrich. 4430 L Jan. 12:7/2 The funeral of Mrs. George L. Benton, the third victim of the fearful tragedy of Dec. 4, took place yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Presbyterian church, corner of Case and Cedar ave. (13) (11) At the close of the church service the casket was closed and borne to the Woodland ave. cemetery where it was placed in a vault by the side of the bodies of the other two victims, Mrs. Adin and Miss McKay. (10) 4431 L Jan. 12:7/3 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Northern Ohio Fair association for the election of directors took place at the office, 89 Seneca st., on Jan. 3. A resolution was adopted stating that the fair must cease to be an institution of northern Ohio unless the aid and co-operation of the merchants and manufacturers of the city of Cleveland and of the railroads is pledged. For the past two or three years our merchants and manufacturers could hardly be induced to make an exhibition at the fair. Their reason was that business was so largely increased during fair week that little attention could be given to the fair itself. This argument is surely in favor of the enterprise rather than against it. The net loss for the year 1875 was nearly $9,000. 4432 L Jan. 12:8/1 At the close of his lecture in Case hall last evening, a complimentary banquet was given Reverend Talmadge at the Forest City House. Many of his personal friends and admirers were present. (15) (3) 4433 L Jan. 13; ed: 4/1 - Trade unions may be dying out in some sections but they are being revived in other places. Banning of the Cincinnati district has introduced a bill, which is now in the hands of the committee on education and labor, providing for the incorporation of the National Iron Molders union. (2) 4434 - L Jan. 13; ed: 4/4 The New York SUN and the WORLD say that the centennial at Philadelphia should be put off until Philadelphia can afford to build it without the aid of Congress. "They are so green with CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4435 - 4441 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) envy because it is not to be held in New York, that they are unable to concede anything of natural interest can take place in what New Yorkers consider a 'country town. "" 4435 L Jan. 13:7/3 A chapel has been erected near the hay market on the corner of Commercial and Hill sts. for the use of a Sunday school. The interior is neatly finished. It will be lighted by gas. The district which surrounds the chapel offers one of the best fields for missionary labor in the city, and a chapel planted there ought to command the generous support of the Christian community. (4) (2) 4436 L Jan. 13:8/1 A night school has finally been started in the newsboys' and bootblacks' home. (1) 4437 L Jan. 13:8/3 A comparison in police matters between the records. of 1874 and 1875 are not complimentary to the present board of police. An increase in crime and a decrease in protection are shown in the latter year. The board stands convicted of favoritism and unjust promotions. The Benton robbery, the Kick murder, and extensive burglaries are all monuments to the past year's conduct of the department. (17) 4438 L Jan. 13:8/4 - THE GOOD SAMARITAN is the very appropriate title of a neat little paper to be published under the auspices of the bazaar. It will be edited by Mrs. A. W. Fairbanks assisted by a most competent corps of young lady assistants. Mrs. Fairbanks is well known as an accomplished writer, and THE GOOD SAMARITAN promises to be a spicy little newspaper. It will contain the news and gossip of the bazaar and will give all necessary information pertaining to it. It will be sold on the floor of the bazaar at five cents. 4439 L Jan. 14; ed: 4/1 In order to glorify the mayor and the police department, the PLAIN DEALER claims that the work of the police department has been very thorough. We have shown that the reverse is true. "In 1874 the police force was not a political machine. It now is just that." The number of saloons, brothels and assignation houses has steadily increased. Thieves were never so numerous. It is the facts which speak in this case. 4440 L Jan. 14:4/5 Yesterday afternoon Mayor Payne and others went to the 18th ward to look over the new police station house just completed there. The majority of the party pronounced the station the best they had seen, and expressed surprise that the total expense, including the lot, was about $4,500. (6) (4) (7) 4441 L Jan. 14:8/1 At the close of the concert at the Detroit st. Congregational church last evening, all the singers were invited to the residence of H. R. Newcomb, on Franklin st., where a couple of hours were spent in rare social enjoyment. (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 4442 L Jan. 14:8/1 The pound sociable held at the First Methodist Episcopal church last night was a complete success. Each man brought a pound of something. The goods being auctioned off. (1) 4443 L Jan. 14:8/4 The new mission chapel at Hill and Commercial sts. was dedicated last evening. The audience was addressed by Samuel Cowell, superintendent of schools; Rev. Charles Terry Collins, Rev. Hiram C. Haydn, Reverend Samuel Wolcott, and Rev. Charles W. Cushing. 4444 L Jan. 15:7/2 The annual reports of the officers of the Cleveland City Hospital association have been made ready for the public. Below will be found the reports and from them many interesting items of information can be learned, concerning the workings of the noble institution. (2) (46) 4445 L Jan. 17:4/1 The PLAIN DEALER again shows its venomous "Copperhead" characteristics as it did during the war when it apologized for the rebel atrocities, favored allowing the south to go out of the union, and supported that arch traitor, Vallandigham, for governor of Ohio. According to the PLAIN DEALER'S "Copperhead" ideas, it is all right to extend amnesty to a perjured traitor, a thief who ran away with "But it is not right to amnesty a Union man like Governor Holden of North Carolina, whose only crime was attempting to punish members of the secret society of murderers, known as the Ku Klux, for which a rebel legislature deprived him of the right to hold an office in that state." 4446 L Jan. 17; ed: 4/4 - Four years ago the LEADER published a letter from a woman with a son who starved at Andersonville. She excoriated Horace Greeley for joining the Democracy. On Jan. 15, the LEADER published a communication from another woman who also had a son tortured to death at Andersonville by order of Jeff Davis.... The mother denounced the PLAIN DEALER for defending an incarnate fiend. The comment of the "copperhead" brute of the PLAIN DEALER is to call these ladies "old girls" an intimating that "they wore pants under their petticoats." "Jeff Davis is the only individual we know who wore pants under his petticoat." 4447 L Jan. 18:7/1 Superintendent Schmitt has written the chief of the detective force in San Francisco concerning the murderers of officer Kick, now in jail in that city. With many citizens here there is considerable feeling on the subject of the return of the Kick murderers, and strong hopes are entertained that they may be brought to justice. (3) (3) (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4448 - 4453 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) 4448 L Jan. 18:8/1 The German paper COLUMBIA has passed into new hands. A. Sulter is the business agent. (1) 4449 L Jan. 18:8/1 The Union Temperance league, organized in Cleveland with S. H. Seldon, president, voted recently to merge with the State Union Temperance league organized in Columbus. 4450 I, Jan. 18:8/2 - Arrangements have been made for the opening of the grand bazaar. Scores of beautiful booths have been completed, with American flags in profusion. There is The success of the bazaar rests in the hands of the public. no need to speak of the cause to which the profits of the bazaar are to go, as the care of the sick and suffering is the duty the public owes to unfortunates. Means for hospitals are all derived from gifts of the generous. If gifts fail the institution must close. The bazaar gives all an opportunity to do something to help place aid within the reach of the poorest. Let the response be generous. 4451 - L Jan. 18:8/3 State Senator Schenck and Representatives Hodge and Dempcy attended the meeting of the board of improvements yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of talking over action to be taken in the interest of the viaduct. No definite action was taken in the matter, but it was the opinion of all present that a bill should be introduced into the legislature providing enough money to complete the undertaking, and that the bill should contain a clause putting the question of a toll to a vote. (1) (15) 4452 - L Jan. 19:4/1 - We have the pleasure of acknowledging a new accession to the exchange list of the LEADER. It is a neat four page daily entitled the Bazaar Review, and is published in the large new building at the foot of Euclid ave. There is room for another daily paper in Cleveland, and we cordially welcome the Record to a seat in the family circle. "All about the Bazaar, only five cents!" 4453 L Jan. 19:4/4,7 The charity bazaar opened last night in a manner which shows that it is to be an unqualified success. All day the ladies and gentlemen assigned to make the preparations worked with a will, and the expressions of admiration from the throngs in the evening testified that something fine had been accomplished. The attendance was large. The various booths were the chief points of interests. First in order was the cigar booth. It is impossible to designate all that was offered for sale, as the stock was such as might meet the requirements of the most captious consumer of the weed. Jacob's well came next. Instead of containing the pearly drops of Adam's ale, this bucket was dedicated to the sale of lemonade. The miscellaneous booth occupied a large space, and as one lady expressed it, "There is everything here from a clothes wringer to a spectacle case.' In addition to the above, there was a (4) (2) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4454 - 4458 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) candy booth, a picture booth, a flower booth, the newspaper booth, at which the Bazaar Record is prepared and sold, an oyster booth, a coffee booth and an ice-cream booth. In addition to the booths there were many other points of interest. The bazaar will reopen at noon today. 4454 L Jan. 19:8/1 - A glance over the tramp register at the central shows that nearly all the applicants for lodgings are quite young, white, and able to read and write. 4455 L Jan. 20; ed: 4/2,3 The women of Utah have appealed to Congress to repeal the anti-polygamy law of 1862, claiming that it is unconstitu tional in that it interferes with the free exercise of a religion. (59) (1) Bigamy or polygamy is a little less than legalized harlotry and would be voted down in any Christian country by an overwhelming majority. "It is alike repulsive to parents and children; destructive of the tender relations between husband and wife, and fruitful of jealousy and domestic bitterness." It is supposed that the names of the 22,626 women who have united in their request to Congress were obtained by proxy, and that many of the women do not know the difference between the constitution and the declaration of independence. "But it is believed that these women would willingly have signed the petition providing they knew how to write had it been presented to them, and it is also alleged that a large majority of them would make any sacrifice for the preservation of polygamy." 4456 L Jan. 20:8/1 The water works trustees have again advertised for bids to construct an addition to the water works tunnel. 4457 L Jan. 20:8/2,3 The second day of the charity bazaar has proven that the enterprise is to be a success in the fullest sense of the word, both in the number of visitors and in the financial results. A large number of people were present during the evening, and a time of universal pleasure was the result. In the midst of the brightness the cause of charity, was not forgotten, as was shown by the liberality pouring in from all sides. (12) (1) A magnificient Bradbury piano was presented to the bazaar by George Hall, the popular and public spirited musical instrument dealer of this city. The piano will be sold as soon as a customer comes along. The Bazaar Record is doing a wonderful business; hundreds of copies are being sold each evening. (46) 4458 L Jan. 21; ed: 4/1 Jones of Kentucky, in a speech not delivered in Congress, but printed in the Congressional RECORD, states that the time will come when the names of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Lee, Jackson, Breckinridge, Lincoln and Jefferson Davis will be read with common pride and respect by American youth and "the last may be honored as much as the first." |