Providence Morning Star

The Morning Star.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1875

EDITORIAL NOTES.

It is understood that Spencer has fitted up a chamber in the Crypt under the Capitol and will spend his declining years in taking writing lessons.

This matter of the cost of fences is all cleared up. The St. Louis Globe discovers that the expense of keeping them in repair is owing to the number of heavy politicians just now sitting on the top rails and wearing them out.

According to a prophetic lecturer in Western New York, named Barbour, the world is certainly coming to an end on Tuesday next; consequently that meeting held in the Academy of Music, Wednesday, was held in vain, since the nominees cannot be elected until the day after judgment.

The hard-hearted faculty of the New York Normal School, on Sixty-Ninth street, has shut down on the visits of young men as interested spectators at the calisthenic exercises of the young ladies, and the worst of it is that they had the assurance to say that the young women aforesaid were embarrassed by such visitations.

It is very sad to learn that a great many of the San Francisco school teachers got their places by bribery, and have been turned out. Only the other day, there were so few unmarried women in the Golden State, that a corner in the market for school-ma'ams could be got up almost any time, and now there are so many that they take to bribery and corruption to secure situations.

And such a hearty laugh as went up from the assemblage at the Board of Trade, yesterday, as a prominent gentleman tried to pick up a two cent piece nailed to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street. If laughter increased the growth of adipose tissues, in proportion to its indulgence, either one in that Board of Trade gathering ought to have the necessary Aldermanic weight after the many incidents of yesterday.

A New York widower of fifty-two lately married a wife. She was twenty-three, and didn't marry him for his money—not at all. But his daughters thought she did, and just before the marriage they told him so. Then, to show their horror, he conveyed to them his $150,000 in real estate, and said nothing about it to his intended. After the marriage she heard of it, and, though she didn't care anything about the "horrid money," she wanted to have the principle looked after, and brought suit for voiding the conveyance because it had not respected her right of dower.

Judge Van Vorst, of the Supreme Court, looked up the books and decided that her right of dower was good from the time she said "yes," or thereabouts, and therefore that the deed executed just before marriage should have no more effect against her rights and interests than it would after the ceremony.

Joy of the young wife, disgust of the grown up daughters, nice position for the widower that was—caught between two fires at very close range.

J. Davis to John Mitchel meeting in Memphis:

"GENTLEMEN: Unable to be with you, I send you my heartfelt sympathy in your proposed tribute to the patriot and devotee to liberty, John Mitchel. Together we struggled for State rights, for the supremacy of the Constitution, for community independence, and after defeat were imprisoned together. As my friend I mourn for him, and regret his death as a loss to mankind.

Jefferson Davis."

The Philadelphia Press is quite shocked at the suggestion that Senator Cameron's Mexican expedition is to be in the interest of any annexation or other scheme. It declares that the excursion is one "purely of pleasure." We might have believed this if Col. Tom Scott had not been the real projector of the affair—for the public can invest heavily on the proposition that when a "driver" like Tom Scott gets up a little excursion of a few thousand miles, like this, there is much more business than pleasure in it. In fact, it's more likely that "there's millions in it."—Buffalo Express.

Tom Scott and his Mexico-Texas Pacific excursion party left Washington, to-day, for New Orleans, where a government steamer waits to take them the rest of the way. The party comprises Senators Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Morton, ex-Senator Chandler, Tom Scott and wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Perley Poore, Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator Morton, and ex-Governor Brown of Georgia and wife. Vice-President Wilson, Secretaries Bristow and Jewell, and a number of others were going, but on second thought backed out as they saw the significance of the thing.—Springfield Republican.

The Providence Journal continues to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Yesterday, we made a note of its admiration for the Democratic convention and ticket. It is quite as complimentary to the Prohibitionists. Their State convention it describes as "full, earnest, straightforward—an important assemblage;" moreover "serious" and "unanimous," with a public sentiment behind it which "is not to be ignored with impunity." And it quotes without dissent or refutation the remark of the president that this third-party movement is the protest of the people against the corruption which they know it is proposed to bring into the canvass."

For the leading Republican organ of Rhode Island, this is very singular behavior.—Springfield Republican.