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    • WHERE CHARITY BEGINS J
    • RATHER TOO BAD,
    • PECULIAR PEOPLE.
    • ALI BABA IN PALL MALL.
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      February 8, 1868.] The Tomahawk. 57

      February 8 , 1868 . ] THE TOMAHAWK . 57

      Where Charity Begins J

      WHERE CHARITY BEGINS J

      The Pall Mall Gazette, In A Recent Numbe...

      The Pall Mall Gazette , in a recent number , slightly touched the table on a subject hig trusts hly , . for interesting It it is is a more pity top than ic that , — probable the able misappropriation journal that that did not all- of believing continue chariindividual of r \ f what -nrhcti- becomes T-4 « , the f * r » T- * i British « = » e of r \ f the tli donation p » cheques r » T- »*»/ -ii-iP ' c g he T iver - » o generall rr , has r »*»*• o not 11 \ r the pulls rviillc remotest out nnf- in in what rurYt idea itt '

      the charity Dail . " y Telegraph would term " his periodical y spasms of correspondence Only a few days in reference ago the public to this were subject treated , and to heard an edif , doubt ying - less a view ' much to t the o its feeding surprise of , that starving the money fellow it creatures had subscribed had fallen with working into the hands had of been religious forced propagandist to sit out !! stirring . In a word discourse , hungry

      men a on hope " the devil and believe " as the , not price of of every a meal -day . occurrence This sort of ; but thing there is , we is another " charitable scandal , " which is ;—indeed , we should not use tablished the word respectabl " occurrence y , right " , and at all left , for , in what all the we allude pomp of to report is es- , —chairmen , secretaries , and what not . Need we say that we refer our midst to a type and to which ordinary so Charitable of us are Institution called existing dail many upon y

      monthl Let us y , take or , yearly an instance , to subscribe : — ? , THE SUPERANNUATED RESPECTABLE OLD WOMEN'S SOCIETY , { Founded in 1804 , -with a view to the support of Sixty aged Gentlewomen , } Patron : The Right \ 111 the Earl of KJtf Spoonbury OfUUWBURI

      IJtlJl JjHHon JTAUiN . . XXXO , XV 1 AJK .. L . ,. Account for the Half-year ending December 31 , 1867 . Receipts . £ s . d . Expenditure . £ s . d . The Earl of Spoon- Annual Dinner .. 239 10 4 bury 100 Secretary ' s Salary ... 200 o o Titus PecksniffEsq . 500 Matron ' s ditto 100 o o

      A Friend , 039 Under Officer ' s ditto 201 9 8 The Boys of the Sun- Directors' Fees ( Atday School , Upper tendance , & c . ) 300 o o Muffington o on Feeding One Decayed Oliver Snobb , Esq . 100 Gentlewoman for Mrs . Snobb o 10 o Twelve Months ... 906 JMiss . TJ . 1 S 9 Snobb lJUUUU o \ J 3 % \ o J Burying J-1 UI y " » g ditto U 1 L 1 . U I M . 7 o w

      Miss Clementina ^ . Tracts supplied to Snobb o 2 6 ditto during life ... I o O A Well-wisher Printing , & c 500 ( through the Misses Auditors 5 o o Snobb ) 014 X 100 o o Jeremiah Griggs , Esq . 500 The Worshipful Company of Kettleholders 50 o o Anonymous 200 o o Annual Subscriptions 400 2 9 Endowment Fund ... 299 1 3

      1 , 062 7 6 1 , 062 7 6 I have examined the above Accounts , and Hezekiah find them Filch to be , correc Auditor t , .

      Rather Too Bad,

      RATHER TOO BAD ,

      Promoter George Of Francis Female Suffra...

      Promoter George of Francis Female Suffrage Train , the and Distinguished Tramways , the Statesman Maecenas , the of tamination verse America , is , about the which Regenerator to vindicate it has received of his Europe spotless at , the the honour Guardian hands from of of the the the Irish Uni con - - his Police damage , by bringing s at ; £ 100 an , 000 action . Reall against y this the is Government most ungrateful , laying of George Francis Train , for he has obtained the notoriety , which

      hoped he was . bidding He knows for , exactly far more how cheaply to get than up he as could a magnanimous ever have martyr . He attempted , however , one rather mean piece of revenge cerned — in namel his arrest y , sending and detention tickets for . This his lecture was cruel to . all Fortu con - - natel strong y , enoug it was h unsuccessful in the offenders , for to the induce sense them of penitence to submit to the penance .

      Peculiar People.

      PECULIAR PEOPLE .

      Lunatic The Peculiar Asylum Or Peop A Pr...

      Lunatic The Peculiar asylum or Peop a prison le are . a They sect whose hold that proper it is place a sin is to in call a of in their the aid wicked of doctors folly . in Their sickness cours — e quoting of treatment some text in sickness in support is as simple as that described by Sir Samuel Baker in his account and and of the p pray ray African s s for for him him tribes ; : a a . One g elass lass of of of the brandy brand " Klders y and and water water " anoints is is g eriven iven the . and and patient the the

      rest Creator is left from to Providence discovering . anything If men had of the been art prevented of healing , by , their or if the some requisite sense in remedies expecting had a miracle been denied every time them , one there fall s ill ght , but be professors in the present may state seek of the world gnify it such with idle the negli title gence of p , ious thoug faith h its , of is simp it , as ly it wicked appears — they and when have helpless been in many children instances are the , it victims is time for the law to to teach these Peculiarle

      absurd by prompt form and of attempt creed just he punishment likes , but . if he " A takes man to may " practising peop profess reason it any , he to must We save mi be g all ht taug children have ht to a respect Sect from arise future the who laws perdition thoug of humanity ht by it cutting incumbent and their morality on throats them . while they were yet in a state of innocence . We say all this , pace Mr . Codd , the coroner of Essex , ( he taking seems certainl counsel y of to the have Recorder a cod ' s came head to on the his conclusion shoulders ) , that who if after the parents believed sincerely in the Lord , the letting their children Jonas die for Chuzzlewit want of medical would have aid was said not ) its manslaug a bad look hter . out E ' codl for the ( as

      An Elder of the " Peculiars " has written a defence of his Sect is to a a specimen contemporary : . The grammar is certainly peculiar . Here

      * Peculiar " And , respecting ' is when they the views had to they reg hold ister , and their why chapels call themselves , '' & c . most As heartil for the y sense advocate of the , but letter if — every deest pack . Freedom of fools of who reli can gion con we - be trive allowed to support to form their sects folly and by to isolated out texts their of ridiculous Scripture fancies are to regardless sufficient excuse of life for and their property , crimes , carry pl the eading sooner their we fanaticism have a modified as a Inquisition , the better . ,

      Ali Baba In Pall Mall.

      ALI BABA IN PALL MALL .

      Ended Another In Vapour Fenian , After A...

      ended Another in vapour Fenian , after alarm alarming —another every Department Fenian consp of the iracy State has , civil and military . to At throw a recent some inspection light on the of the mysteries gas lamps of that the big vainly Government endeavour

      discovered office in Pall on Mal several l , the of intelligent the Morg standards iana of the that secret Department mark so well dits is known supposed to the to police indicat , by e which gas to his the forty Fenian co-consp Captain irators of — Ban the - thieves ever , an !— opportunity what buildings offers are . to be attacked and destroyed when-The x 11 c faithful lamiiui oil into Morg 1 the vjLUigia discovered iana . 11 ct . , , handmaid iiaiiuiuciiu . to iu of Bellona xjcinjiit * , , could uumu for not uui pour puui

      boiling gas and not oil lamps ; but she covers immediately treachery informed , the they police were , examined and all Scotland , but in Yard vain ; was no on susp the icious gut strangers vive . Sentinel with g s loomy were the looks came marks had the order been were observed carefully of the day obliterated about at Pall the place ! Mall Redoubled , . and As sleepless a precaution vigilance patrols , be all

      the But order the of troubles the nig of ht the . authorities were not yet over . In the course Company of , the that week some a mischievous complaint was and received ill-disposod from person the Gas or persons had wilfully obliterated the marks placed by the which Company the ' s meter foreman had on been all the duly War examined Department ; and gas much lamps extra , for trouble pany to and replace expense the usual would marks have by to which be incurre the War d by O the ffice Com gas - charges have for many years been examined . We understand that the officials at Pall Mall at once resumed their usual daily slumbers ,

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Feb. 8, 1868, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_08021868/page/5/