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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1887
Page
4
Boston Post Publishing Co lists daily and weekly subscription prices with rates for one year six months and quarters. The notice directs payments to be made to the Post Publishing Company with checks drafts and money orders and notes mailing risk and entry classification.
The Financial and Commercial Departments will be found on the Sixth and Seventh pages, the Ship News on the Third page.
London Times correspondent denies reports that Mr Parnell plans retirement from party leadership. The Irish leader is said to be ailing but intent on remaining in Parliament, with questions of his successor postponed amid grave considerations.
The nine days’ wonder over Father McGlynn ends as the parish welcomes Father Colton as his successor. The priest will not go to Rome and the community shifts attention to McGlynn the man rather than McGlynn the priest.
The city council aims for a thorough inquiry into charges against departments. It calls for a proper spirit and open hearings to elicit bottom facts, avoiding a drag-net approach and ensuring full publicity of proceedings by the two committees.
The piece notes that building jobs and Mr Blair's education plan are accelerated without fruition, yet the Senate's haste on the coast defence appropriation is seen as a considered feature. It calls the appropriation welcome as an administrative start to providing what the country lacks.
The report notes Belgium may push for compulsory military service, conflicting with the King and reflecting broader European fear. Smaller North Sea kingdoms fear compromised neutrality in any conflict, while Britain’s influence appears weaker than in the Franco Prussian era. The piece suggests wartime anxiety drives Belgian precautionary measures.
The strike has reached a critical point with 30,000 workers out of work and needing subsistence aid. Monthly costs to feed the unemployed run high, threatening the Knights of Labor's ability to sustain support as non union laborers fill gaps. The absence of Powbery’s response is noted and a timely settlement is urged to avert worsening conditions.
The Senate voted to spend 5 million dollars on coast defense and 16 million on army and navy ordnance, seen as less objectionable than other surplus spending schemes. It faces criticism tied to the so called surplus spending and avoidance of tax cuts, with pension bills and river and harbor projects noted.
Secretary Manning defends non inter course measures as a proportional response to Canada’s curbs on hospitality and diplomacy. The article compares Randall and Carlisle positions on tariff reform and predicts bipartisan support for broad powers to the administration.
The dispute centers on reducing federal revenue and tariff burdens. Senator Randall blocks action with Republican support while Carlisle pushes reform, offering tobaccos tax repeal and free list items like wool and lumber, and proposing Hewitt as a feature in a new measure.
The Cologne Gazette notes a Alsace Lorraine and Black Forest lumber boom from French contracts to build barracks at Toul Lunéville Belfort Besançon and other frontier points amid war fears. It compares French and German war establishments and reserves, with estimates for peace and mobilization across seven powers, highlighting Italy and Britain as notable cases.
The revival includes Mme Parr back in New York with Traviata and Il Trovatore. An opera season will feature Gaxassi Scatcut Signor Arpiti and Ampere’s concert closing in a blaze of opera across Chicago Philadelphia Baltimore Boston and New York.
The Times claims January arrivals were 1959 fewer than 1886 and season totals down 3088, citing lower tourist numbers since 1885. The News counters that this season has seen record sunshine and more tourists, labeling the other as a calamity liar.
The Springfield Republican reports Rev. Austin O Grady at the Church of the Sacred Heart preached on Why stand ye here all the day idle. He criticized communal property theories as dangerous and argued for strong private ownership while condemning socialists among its champions as greedy self seekers and property holders.
The long neglected Franklin collection, largely unpublished, was bought for 335000 by Henry Stevens and then sold to the United States. Drs Hale and Hale Jr present new letters and documents showing Franklin’s Paris challenges, his Parisian reception, and the mixed French response to his role as American envoy.
Review of the book Franklin in France by Hale and Hale Jr. based on Stevens manuscripts. Discusses Franklin's wartime challenges in Europe including funding, privateers, rival commanders, prisoner exchanges, and peace negotiations. Notes a personal letter from Georgiana Shipley praising Smith and Gibbon and mentions the Paris news of Cornwallis’s surrender.
A critique of Brooks Adams The Emancipation of Massachusetts and R F Hallowells The Pioneer Quakers. The reviewer praises Adams clear direct style and solid sourcing while noting a lacking historical imagination. Endicotts portrayal stands out as a vivid picture of Puritan zeal and persecution.
Richard P. Hallowell argues in The Pioneer Quakers that the Friends urged tolerance in colonial Massachusetts. Brooks Adams in The Emancipation of Massachusetts analyzes ecclesiastical tyranny. both works challenge traditional views of Puritan authority and religious dissent.
Frank McGarty of Brighton faced the Superior Criminal Court on a charge of altering a ballot at the last city election. His counsel, Francis Burke, urged the indictment be quashed citing an insufficient statement of the act. The judge agreed and ruled the indictment invalid.
In Boston the writer notes a lapse in high hat reform in theatres with many bonneted patrons returning to seats. He contrasts this with hopes for renewed civility from Mrs Thurber’s opera company and cites ongoing debates over Norse voyages and local antiquities led by Father Bodfish, discouraging sensational claims and urging cautious scholarship.
The Roanoke Association marks its twenty fifth anniversary of the engagement at Roanoke Island with a gathering at Young's Hotel at 2 p.m. Today officials include President General A. B. R. Sprague and Secretary Colonel Edwin H. Haskell.
A miscellany of quotes and jests cites the Illinois House of Representatives speaker as a dentist and claims laws fear no terror for him. It includes jokes about theatre realism, statues in Washington, spunk and discretion, coal versus ashes, water pipes, Nasby the Toledo satirist, and absurd winter anecdotes from various papers.
The Philadelphia Press notes no danger to Manning and doubts impeachment after Greenback Weaver of Iowa backs the move. Weaver is described as a crank whose support could be more harmful to a public figure than his opposing stance.
The Providence Journal argues against purchased or fraudulent Senate seats. It calls for a decisive, statesmanlike rebuke and organized resistance to disgraceful election methods, urging the Indiana contest as a catalyst for reform and public accountability.
The President should withhold approval and reject the measure as bad in principle. It would invite perjury cheating and mendacity and impose a permanent annual burden of 25 to 50 million dollars on taxpayers, according to the New York World.
The bill letting people name postmasters has been opposed by the House committee. The postmaster is viewed as the cornerstone of the congressman's reelection bid, and the House resists surrendering him to the voters.
The Brooklyn Eagle argues that renomination would prompt a motion to reconsider, reopening the entire question and forcing the public to review all aspects rather than just favored items. The piece emphasizes accountability to the American people.
The pay by the hour plan is crystallizing among building trades employers. Action of this kind is inevitable to secure consistency in labor costs and avoid uncertain estimates. A standard is needed to fix labor cost with reasonable certainty.
Washington Post editorial argues a 50 million dollar one time investment in forts big guns and ships would be the best use of a nation's revenue, framing military buildup as the strongest strategic bet. The piece emphasizes national security and deterrence as decisive factors.
The Providence Star endorses Alderman O Neill conviction in New York as a triumph of justice. It laments Rhode Island prosecutors failing to pattern after what it calls corrupt New York officers, praising the outcome and criticizing local efforts.
The signs point to Cleveland as the Democratic choice with little opposition. A renewed 1884 style contest is foretold for 85 as Blaine’s Republican bid seems a foregone conclusion, leaving the Mulligan ally in political obscurity.
Meetings in King's Chapel led by young Unitarian ministers will start next Sunday with a boys choir. Clarence Pullen gave a lecture on New Mexico at the New England Conservatory yesterday. The Mechanic Apprentices Library Association holds its third annual reunion at Parker House on Tuesday Feb 22 1887 at 3 PM with dinner at 4. A second Industrial Education in the Common Schools meeting is Feb 10 at 4 PM at the Institute of Technology with Dr Samuel Eliot presiding and General Francis A Walker speaking in a larger room due to crowding.
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