CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4597 - 4601 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) He 4597 - L Feb. 21:1/5,6; 5/1 - Interest has again revived the case of William Adin. This morning his case positively will be set for trial. A reporter interviewed him yesterday, and was told his life story. Adin's forehead is high, his cheekbones low, and his mouth expresses determination on rather than cruelty. His eyes are close together. is short in stature and is very muscular, tough, and wiry. hard and horny, and he appears to be the possessor of immense strength. He was born at Barnsley Commons, Yorkshire, on Feb. 17, 1819, came to America in 1852. When questioned about his trial, he spoke of how he could acquit a man in the same predicament if he were a lawyer, and without any charge. He was quite bitter against his wife and her daughter, and said they were responsible for the fate that befell them. He believes that he had sufficient provocation for the deeds he committed, at the same time claiming the acts were done in a state of temporary insanity. In the course of his conversation, he leads one to believe that he expects to be cleared. · 4598 L Feb. 21:7/2 General Barnett and General Fitch, trustees of the Northern Ohio Asylum for the Insane, met and welcomed seventeen members of the Ohio legislative committee on benevolent institutions on Feb. 19, when they arrived from Toledo. The committee will spend today at the asylum, and return to Columbus this evening. (50) 4599 L Feb. 21; ed: 8/2 Near the first of last September, a board of equalization presented to the city council an estimated assessment to pay the expenses incurred in opening and extending Payne ave. The matter was referred to the board of improvements, to whom all such matters go. For some reason, which it would not be difficult to guess, the whole matter has been ignored for six months and not a whisper has been heard from the council. This is all wrong. The right thing for the board of improvements to do was to report back to the council immediately. It was neither just nor in accordance with the best interests of the city to sit down on the report and keep a dignified silence for over half a year on a measure of so great importance. 4600 L Feb. 21:8/2 - The announcement that Rev. A. J. F. Behrends was to speak at the Stone church last evening was sufficient to draw a large congregation, every seat in the vast building was occupied, as well as such seats as could be placed in the aisles. Reverend Behrends chose for his text John 10:9. This was one of the most interesting sermons ever delivered by Reverend Behrends and it was listened to with the closest attention throughout. 4601 L Feb. 21:8/2 For several days Anton Gerald and Jacob Estav have been going about the city giving exhibitions with two monstrous bears. Several times horses have been frightened at these exhibitions and have run away. On Feb. 19 Officer Blacksmith arrested the men on the charge of violating the exhibition ordinance. Accordingly, early (4) (6) (6) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4602 - 4603 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) in the afternoon, the men appeared in court with their animals. The animals did not appear near so frightened as did the prosecutor and the crowd. The men were ordered by the judge to leave the city immediately. 4602 L Feb. 22; ed: 4/2 - The Catholic UNIVERSE says: "There are 1,000 convents and monasteries, inhabited by 21,000 monks and nuns, in (L) This tells the whole story. In Mexico the priests have succeeded in obtaining possession of 25 percent of the entire property of that country. In South America the priests own about the same proportion of property as is owned by their brethern in Mexico and Italy. Spain is in the same situation completely priest-ridden. To furnish an income of $100,000,000 would necessitate the monks and nuns of Belgium owning $2,500,000,000 worth of property yielding a dividend of four percent. Is it any wonder that the people of that priest-ridden country are the worst fed, hardest worked, lowest paid, and most degraded of any people in Europe? It can be seen also why that church opposes the taxation of church property. At the rate the church is now accumulating property, within the next 50 years it will own over a quarter of the entire property of this country and all will be controlled by the bishops alone unless legislation is enacted to prevent the concentration of church property in the hands of the few. "It will soon be in order to discuss legislation requiring all church property to be held by trustees consisting of laymen, and thus defeat the efforts of the Bishops to enrich and make themselves the great power of the land." (5) (12) 4603 L Feb. 22:7/1- In a letter to the editor, M. B. Gary says: "Your reporter correctly reported me as opposing, at the last meeting of the City Council, that section of the Viaduct bill which provided for the submission of the same to a vote of the people, but so imperfectly reported the reasons...in support of my objection, that I deem it proper to request that the following synopsis of the reasons in fact assigned by me on that occasion be made a part of that report, to wit: "First. The Council having agreed by the terms of the...contract to ask the Legislature for further authority...it would not be a faithful performance on our part to ask of the Legislature at the same time to remand to the people...the question of issuing bonds to pay for the work. "Second. That while the people are at liberty to petition the Legislature, and our delegation there, are at liberty to ask that this question be thus submitted to a vote of the people, we, by the terms of our contract with Contractor Ensign, have placed ourselves in a situa tion inconsistent with such a request. "Third. That Mr. Ensign, in the meantime, is going on... in the faithful and efficient performance of the contract on his part, with $180,000 of the money already appropriated, unexpended, and that, therefore we should now meet the question squarely... either by going on with the contract, or settle, or try to settle, with Mr. Ensign...." (5) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4604 - 4607 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) 4604- L Feb. 22:7/2 - The members of the legislative committee on 4605 L Feb. 22:8/2,3,4 The case of the state versus William Adin was begun yesterday morning at nine a.m. in criminal court before Judge Hamilton. S. M. Eddy, prosecuting attorney, and Captain Mitchell, his assistant, represented the state. A. T. Brinsmade and C. M. Stone appeared for Adin. The morning and afternoon sessions were both used up in examining prospective jurors. Thirty-five were examined. Twenty-one of these were excused because they had formed opinions on the case or had been jurors during the past year. Eleven jurors are chosen so far, and the defense asked that a special venire be called. The state argued this point and it will be settled today. (19) (50) 4606 L Feb. 23; ed: 4/1 The New York legislature is trying to bring that state up to the point at which Ohio has stood, in respect to the sanctity of the school fund, for 20 years past. Their constitution has contained for some time a nominal provision forbidding the division of the school funds for sectarian purposes, but it has been so loosely drawn and enforced that the Tammany Democrats and their Catholic allies have walked through and over the law without difficult. The amendment now before the Assembly has been approved by the Committee on Education, and provides that "Neither the money nor credit of the State...shall be given or loaned...to the support of any school or schools under the control of any religious sect or denomination...." (L) "It remains to be seen whether such a radical proposition can be enacted by the Assembly and then ratified by the people of a Democratic State. 4607 L Feb. 23; ed: 4/3 "The Cincinnati papers approve the Boston school law, now under discussion before the Chio Legislature, and ask that it be enacted and tried in Cincinnati, where they seem to have had some such experiences with their Board of Education as we have had in Cleveland.... If it is to be so arranged that members of the Board of Education shall be chosen from the city at large, and elected on the general ticket, there should certainly be a provision that not more than one-quarter of the Board should be chosen at any election. It should never be made possible to change even a majority of the Board at a single election. It might properly be arranged that each member, under the new law, should be chosen for four years, and the terms so arranged that one-fourth of the Board should be chosen at each Spring election. This arrangement of the elections would secure the city against a (4) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4608 - 4610 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) school board governed by raw and inexperienced men, and no political party could, by a sudden rally at a municipal election, gain control of the schools." · 4608 L Feb. 23:7/3 At the meeting of the Cleveland Light Artillery association at the Frankfort st. armory yesterday afternoon, on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the organization, there were 25 members present. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, D. L. Wood; vice president, James Barnett; secretary, J. S. Strong. This association is one of the oldest of the kind in the state. Its rolls contain the names of persons of prominence and influence in almost every part of the union. 4609 L Feb. 23:8/2,3 The 144th anniversary of the birth of Washington was celebrated here yesterday with a patriotic outburst not witnessed for many a day; the fever of the centennial year having infused new life and vigor in a holiday which was growing somewhat into misuse. The military parade was a great success and the streets were crowded with persons many of whom came into town from the surrounding country. At two o'clock the procession took up the line of march in the following order: Police squad under Sergeant Anthony; chief marshal and his aids; pioneers; Cleveland Gray's band; Cleveland Grays, Cap't. J. N. Frazee; Father Matthew temperance band; Irish Literary and Benevolent society; Emmet Guard band; Emmet Guard, Cap't. M. A. Foran; Barnett Guard; Captain Brock; company of 48 police with rifles, Captain McMahon; old soldiers drum corps; old soldiers; East Cleveland cornet band; Washington Loyal Orange band; Cleveland Light Artillery. At the corner of Perry and Sibley sts. the Brooks school company fell into line between the Grays' band and the Grays. The entire procession passed in review before Mayor Payne and members of the city government after which the civic societies left the procession and the military wheeled into line and a dress parade was held. The military never appeared to better advantage or turned out in larger numbers. At sunrise and sunset a national salute was fired on the Square by the Light Artillery. In the evening young America asserted itself. A long line of juveniles armed themselves with lamps and torches and started on a patriotic tour. They paraded through a number of principal streets and managed to make themselves heard as well as seen. 4610 L Feb. 23:8/3 - A large number of the elite of the city and neighborhood attended the grand ball given by the Cleveland Grays at the Weddell House last evening. The dancing began at nine o'clock and continued until a late hour in the morning. Supper was served from 11 o'clock until two. (5) (6) (24) (12) CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1876 Abstracts 4611 - 4613 SOCIAL FORCES & CUSTOMS (Cont'd) · 4611 L Feb. 23:8/3,4 - The restaurant of Numsen and Whitney, on Superior st., which has been torn up for a long time, owing to a unlucky fire, has been thoroughly overhauled and remodeled. A new billiard room has been installed over the restaurant, and the kitchen moved to the third floor. The dining-room and the ladies' dining-room have been given many improvements. Meals are served from six a.m. to 12 p.m. and there is also a table where beverages can be served to persons in a hurry. "There is no better or more respectable place in the city." No intoxicating liquors are served in the establishment. 4612 L Feb. 24; ed: 4/3,4 Recently the LEADER charged the editor of the CATHOLIC UNIVERSE with the baldest kind of equivocation, when he stated in effect that a journal in this city only cared for Blaine's religious belief, and not for his principles. At the same time, the LEADER charged the UNIVERSE with knowingly publishing a falsehood in quoting an absurd item to the effect that President Grant thanked the pope, in a letter, for having conferred a cardinal's hat on an American bishop. In making this charge the LEADER put the query, "can the priest editor of the UNIVERSE lie?" "Having convicted the editor of that sheet of coining and publishing untruths, we will now show how he uttered another lie and a foul slander against one who occupies a high position as a clergyman in this city the Reverend Mr. Forbush. In the last number of the UNIVERSE, the priest-editor, in venting his spleen upon Mr. Forbush in a column of billingsgate, for having ventured to show how the Romish Church was opposed to educating the masses, charges him with having 'forged the signature of the late Professor Agassiz.'' Some two years ago some Romanists manufactured a statement to the effect that Professor Agassiz once made a tour among the houses of illfame in Boston and discovered that nearly all the inmates had been educated in the public schools of that city. At our suggestion Forbush wrote to the professor asking him if the statement were true, and he received a denial, over the professor's signature. A few days afterwards Professor Agassiz died. Thereupon, taking advantage of the professor's death, the Boston PILOT, a notorious blackguard Catholic sheet, charged that the letter that Forbush had received was a forgery. Fortunately, however, Forbush had a letter from a son of Professor Agassiz certifying to the genuineness of the signature. "This is the history of the whole matter. It simply shows that a priest can slander as well as lie." 4613 L Feb. 24; ed: 4/4 - The Cincinnati TIMES points to the Cleveland viaduct bill, now before the Ohio legislature, as a model piece of special legislation. "This compliment is deserved. "This compliment is deserved. The Cleveland bill does not propose to force anything upon the people; it simply provides a method by which the people can have an opportunity to say whether they wish the viaduct finished or not. We do not believe that when the question comes fairly up for decision, there will be any doubt or hesitation about an affirmative answer." " (6) (11) (3) |