The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-02-09
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY, FEB. o, 1881.

WEDNESDAY. FEB. o. 1881.
SHERIFFs AND CLERKS. The Committee to
whom the subject was referred in our Legisla-
ture, have reported bill limiting the tenure OF
the Office of Sheriff TO the term of FIVE years,
and fixing salaries for the offices Of Sheriff and
Clerks of the Courts, throughout the Common
wealth. We have not seen the bill, but under
stand that some of the salaries as follows
Sherifs; for Worcester, Essex, and Mddlesex
81 900 each-Suffolk, $4,000. CLERKS; for
Worcester and Middesex, 50, 900 each-Hamp-
shire and Hampden. ST. POO each-Berkshire,
81 ,60O-Norfolk, 81 ,500-Plymouth, $l,40O,
! and SO on, of the others, in proportion to the
business done in each County.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. A Bill has been
reported in the Senate of this State, the lead
ing provisions of which we understand TO be as
follows; That no female sh"ll be imprisoned
for any debt whatever that no person shall be
subject to Imprisonment before execution is Ia
ken out on any debt hereafter contract ed under
thirty dollars; that no person shall be arrested
or Imprisoned on any debt over thirty dollars
before execution is taken out, unless the cred
ltor first makes oath that the debt is due and
unpaid, and that he believes the debtor is about
to abscond; that property shall not be attack
ed on any 'orit, till the creditor makes oath that
the whole amount sued for is due and unpaid
that after judgment is rendered, ii the creditor
makes oath that he believes the debtor has con-
cealed or assigned any of his property, to avoid
payment, the Court shall inquire into the mat.
ter, and ifthe debtor refuses to answer, or does
not satisfy the Court of his inability to pay, be
shall be imprisoned on execution, and k ept in
close confinement till the property is surren-
dered, and may also be indicted for perjury
But ifthe Court decide in favor of the debtors
fairness and inability to pay, the creditor shall
pay all costs, and the debtor be for ever exempt
from Imprisonment, on that debt.
ECLIPSE. A great eclipse of the Sun will
! take place on Saturday next, the 10Th inst the
beginning of which will be at Sc minutes pa st
ii in the forenoon, the middle minutes past
|, and the end 30 minutes past in the after
noon. Eleven and half dgits or twenty three
twenty fourths will be eclipsed. Owing TO the
distance of the moon from the EARTH at this
time, it will not be quite total At Nantucket,
Martha 8 Vineyard and the south east extremi-
ty of Cape Cod, it will be annular, presenting
the appearance of an exceedingly narrow lu
minous ring on the outer edge of the sun, all
the rest being obscured. Not being central
here, the ring will not extend quite around
| Should it be pleasant many stars may be SEEN
! The best way of examining the eclipse without
injury to the eyes, will be to look through
densely smoked glass.
The JUDICIARY. The proposition to repeal
the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1889
and, thereby, virtually TO dissolve the Union of
these States, has been promptly met and sue
! cessfully put down. This act was one of the
very first. passed by Congress under the Con-
stitution, as one of the necessary means for car
rying that instrument into effect That Con-
gress consisted of large proportion of the
| trainers of the Constitution, who certainly best
understood the true exposition of it. The law
| has been in successful operation ever since, and
ii has remained, to this late day, for the South
| Carolina nulliferS to discover its unconstitu-
tionality; for that was the reason urged in IA
vor gifts repeal, by Warren R. Davis of S. c.,
Chairman of the Jud icary Committee. The
vote on rejecting the bill was Yeas 1877, Nays
81, as follows:
YpnS nd IT
land. McIntire, Wingate. Nay, Jarvis.
New HAMPSHIRE. Yeas, Brodhead Hubbard,
Weeks. Nays, Chandler, Harvey. ABSENT Ham
MONS
VERMONT, Yeas, Cahoone, Hunt, Mallary,
Swift. Absent, Everett.
| MASSACHUSETTS. Yeas Bailey, Bates, Crown
inshield, Davis, Dwight, Everett, Gorham. Gren-
J nell, Hodges, Kendall, Reed, Richardson, Varnum.
RHODE ISLAND. Yeas, Burgess, Pearce
CoNNEcTIcUT. Yeas, Barber, Ellsworth, Hunt
ngton, ingersoll, storrs, Young.
New YORK. Yeas, Arnold, Beekman, Boo kee,
Borst, Cowles, Crocheron, Dewitt, Dickinson,
Eager, Earll, Finch, Halsey, Hoffman, King, Lent,
Magee, Martindae Mcneil, Norton, Powers, Rose,
Sanford, Spencer, Storrs, Strong, Taylor, YER
plank, White. Nays, Angel, Cambreleng, Max
well. Absent, Chlds, Hawkins Tracy.
NEW JERSEY. Yeas, Condict, Cooper, Hughes
Pierson, Swan. Absent, Randolph
PENNSYLVANIA. Yeas, Buchanan, Coulter
| Crawford, Denny, Evans, Forward. Fry, Gilmore
Green, Hemphill, Ihrie, Irwin King, Lieper Nc
Creery, Miller, Muhlenburg, Scott, SILL Sterigere
Sutherland. Absent, Ford Mari, Ramsay, Smith
! Stevens.
DELAWARE. Yea, Johns
MARYLAND. Yea. Brown, Dorsey Howard
Mitchell, Spencer, Sprigg, Washington, Wilson
Absent, Semmes.
VIRGINIA Yeas, Armstrong, Barbour, Craig
Doddridge, Maxwell, Mercer. Nays, Alexander
Allen, Bouldin, Claiborne Davenport, Draper, Cor.
don, Loyal, Mccoy, Patton, Roane, Trezvant
Absent. Archer, Coke, Talafero.
NORTH CAROLINA. Yeas, Barringer, Deberry,
W. b. Shepard, A; H. Sheppard, Speght, Williams
| Nays, Aston, Conner, Hall, Potter. Absent,
Carson, Dudley, Rencher.
SouTH CAROLINA. Yeas, Drayton, McDuffie
Nays Barnwel, Blair, Campbell Davis, Martin
( Nuckols, Tucker.
Lumpkn, Thompson, Wilde. Absent Wayne.
KENTUCKY. Yeas Chiffon, Clarke, Kincaid
Letcher. Nays, Coleman, Daniell Gather, John.