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Show Want Whipping Post In Washington. (Philadelphia North-American.) Washington. Whether wife-beaters in the District of Columbia shall be punished at the whipping post congress may be asked to decide at its coming session. Superintendent of Police Sylvester, in his annual report recommended the whipping post. He asserts that wife beaters, as a class, stand in no fear of heavy fines or jail sentences, and that the only way wife-beating can be adequately punished is by whioping. In some instances it is said, a wife has been beaten for the sole purpose of getting a jail sentence for the beater, ! who would rather be in prison than be compelled to work. One -of the judges of the police court, in ; sentencing a wife-beater to a long jail sentence, said he reerretted he could not have him publicly whipped. . |