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is greatly needed at the present time by the tax-burthened, rowdy- 

 ruled citizens of this great but misgoverned city. By a municipal 

 party, we mean one that will be independent of the political issues 

 of the nation, and give its attention solely to the management of 

 our own municipal affairs." 



There is also vigorous denunciation of the aldermen and magis- 

 trates " who are given to the habit of releasing rowdies and 

 rascals from the clutches of the police, because just now the elec- 

 tioneering campaign commences, and the huckstering politicians 

 . . . are becoming exceedingly amiable towards that class of 

 their constituency. A bully or two in a ward are as pearls above 

 price at an election. ..." 



Evidently Sunday was not quite the day of recreation then that 

 it is now, as may be seen from the following item : " Desecration 

 OF the Sabbath. — It appears that the Directors of the Long 

 Island Railroad are making an effort to have their cars run on 

 the Sabbath ; in reply to which, the Brooklyn Evening Star makes 

 the following appropriate remarks : ' In the progress of the age, 

 nothing has been rendered clearer to the vision of the American 

 people, than the fact that the observance of the Sabbath as a 

 day of worship and repose is the greatest of their privileges . . . 

 we believe that nine tenths of the community are favorable to the 

 entire avoidance of all business and the suspension of travel on 

 Sunday. . . .'" 



Certain of women's fashions in dress also come in for con- 

 demnation and satirical comment, as follows : " The ladies of the 

 Commercial Metropolis, despairing of ever getting clean streets, 

 through the medium of corporation brooms, have taken the matter 

 into their own hands. The sidewalks and crossings, instead of 

 being swept by the sans cullottes offspring of poverty, are now 

 cleansed by the fashionable ladies, who carry home, under their 

 long skirts the street gatherings of their promenades." Germs 

 and bacteria were apparently unknown, although they were un- 

 doubtedly present in even greater numbers than in these days of 

 clean streets and short skirts. 



