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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1886
Page
4
Boston Post Publishing Co announces daily and weekly subscription prices. Daily rates: one year 86, six months 4.50, three months 2.25, one month 75 cents. Weekly Fridays: one year 1.50. Mail payments to the Post Publishing Co at 1420 New York Ave Room 37.
The Russian ambassador in Vienna told the Bulgarian delegation that the Czar will not recognize Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg as heir. He also warned that no regency proposals will be considered in St. Petersburg. Bulgaria may need to displease Russia to please itself. The Senate passed the bill repealing the tenure of office act by a substantial majority, ending a law seen as obstructive to reform. Republicans and Democrats alike supported the repeal, dissolving party lines.
A New York correspondent calls Rev. Dr. McGlynn’s support for Henry George a sharp contradiction to sympathy for the clergyman. The piece argues the church can discipline heresy but world opinion frowns on radical political preaching. It views his conduct as insubordination and prefers restraint over freedom to pursue socialism.
The piece criticizes political maneuvers by Boston conservatives including plans to alter alderman districts and push a late year loan to bypass the debt limit. It cites arrests of Irish Nationalists, condemned rent schemes, and calls for legislative action to curb municipal extravagance while stressing accountability in the 1886 council.
The article compares New York and Massachusetts boards of arbitration, noting New York's limited results and that seven settlements came from about one thousand disputes. It argues the laws lack enforcement power and joint requests, suggesting the boards still serve as advisory bodies rather than practical arbiters.
The author condemns partisan aims in the investigation led by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lee. He urges the current council to authorize a rapid public inquiry to achieve full disclosure before its term ends, hoping the next council will handle the matter with nonpartisan seriousness.
The text laments officials who once supported laws and the mayor as special advocate, claiming their reemergence as these powers expire would mark a troubling new chapter in Boston’s municipal history.
Seventeen clergymen from Chicago attended a National Opera Company performance to judge ballet’s morality after earlier protests by St. Louis Evangelical Alliance. The company invited them to witness Galatea and Bal Costume, seeking to test the issue firsthand.
The late Marshall P. Wilder is recalled as a genial Boston figure linked to Bromfield House and Tremont House days with George Hillard Isaac Barnes and Franklin Pierce. Portraits in Hor ticultural Society and Parker House capture his era while Orpheus Musical Society marks a Weber centennial celebration with Boston Symphony players and German social charm.
Creditors’ lists reveal liabilities from $3,000 to $60,000 and more. Businesses including Elias Clark in Briddeford Maine and John H. Dupee in City Hall Avenue face investigations. Many others like Fuller & Currier, Marx & Co, Malmisburg Sewing Machine, and Winchester firms seek receivers or discharge. Detailed asset figures and secured debts indicate broad instability and cross‑state exposure.
A collage of bits on aging poet Tennyson, Yale scholars, a Yale-Princeton game as talk of the moment, society fencing lessons, noisy politics, gossip about Oscar Wilde, whaling lore, theater chatter, and comic quips from Punch and Tid Bits. The tone is brisk, humorous, and full of names and places.
Seventeen Chicago clergymen debate the ballet titled Bat Costume. Some fled or stayed during performances while others valued its artistic effect, leaving the public with no clear verdict on aesthetic or moral implications.
The English admirers who claimed Walt Whitman was starving in America have been proved wrong. He says he has life’s necessities but is poor in non intellectual goods. The cheering reaction may still help him secure a poet laureate position if the current holder cannot continue.
A veteran speaker recalls fond memories of the Orpheus Glee Club in Boston. He notes the mix of old American and German members maintaining the club’s spirit and cordial hospitality for members and guests.
The writer condemns coal barons across states for taxing industries and households and calls for a courageous public figure to curb the alleged iniquity. The piece asks where a modern counterpart to Judge Gresham is among lawmakers.
The Boston Republic scolds Mr. George for underestimating Boston laborers and opposing reformers like Cherrington and McNeill, warning him to judge local leaders wiser before future municipal contests. Hugh O’Brien is named as a lifelong labor friend.
A Chicago Herald remark states Republicans will back a bill for free whiskey from back counties of Kentucky or Arkansas and argues the tax removal would be the party’s sole target, with no other changes if it fails.
The Manchester Union argues the duty of Congress, guided by the Constitution, is to prevent surplus rather than spend, urging public opinion to back fiscal restraint.
The Washington Post praises Mr. Bayard for calm, judicious, and forceful actions that protected American rights in the past and promise similar protections ahead. It notes summer discontent and urges that it be resolved, or at least held toward a hopeful ending of the questions at issue.
The Stewart mansion collection at Fifth Avenue and Thirty fourth Street goes on sale March 28 24 and March 25 next at Chickering Hall after viewing from February 18 at the American Art Association. The catalogue lists works by Messionier Gescese Fortuna Rosa Bonheur Titian Rembrandt and others plus marble statues porcelain and fine curiosities. Heirs to Mrs Stewart’s estate decide to sell the entire contents. KEEP Coe's Cough Balsam in the house for croup.
The Atlantic Monthly opens its new year with the first four chapters of The Second Son by Mrs. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich. The piece surveys English origin and American life, with profiles of Roger Mitford and Miss Lemasurier, and notes on other literary works and authors in this issue.
A review argues Hattie Tyng Griswold s collection of thirty three writer sketches portrays private faults at length. It questions the value of detailing immorality for readers seeking only the authors works and urges judging works without biographical innuendo.
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