Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-03-08
From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
Homestead Exemption.

There are three homestead exemption bills be-
fore the legislature. The authors of the re-
spective bills holly press their particular plans;
and in the difference concerning details there is
danger that the session will close without the
adoption of any one of them.
We should deeply regret failure to pass
homestead exemption law at this session Of the
legislature. The party in power is solemnly
pledged to the passage of such law, and its
action must redeem its promise seriously dis
credit it in the future.
The idea Of homestead exemption is al excel
lent one, and, if it can be judciously embodied i'll
law, will be of great and general benefit. 1t
will give safe shelter under homestead roofs. 1t
will retain population in, and invite emigration
into the State. 1t will have large moral in
fuence, and make our population permanently
identified with the soil. 1t will lessen vagrancy,
and make the dismemberment of families less
frequent. 1t will give tone of sef-respect and
Of sociability to men the man who has the bond
of permanent residence is under the strongest OBJ
legations to maintain character, has the strong
est inducements TO make his home, pleasant and
respectable, the greatest security and confidence
in the future.
To make the right kind of law, that is the
question To assist in answering it, we outline
our own views. 1t should cover a homestead
not exceeding So, 500 in value. Where the home
be sold for the creditors, the wife and children
being made privileged creditors somewhat as
they are in the English bankrupt law for the
SO, 500, to be reinvested, under the appreciation
Of q court in a new homestead for their benefit
In case of party fleeing the State to avoid his
creditors, the homestead exemption law should
not apply, unless his wife and children remained !;
and they should at no time have the right Of sell
ing or leasing for more than one year the home
90,
establish that the wife and children of debtor
held more than SO, 600 Of property capable of
being used for their necessities, no homestead
exemption should apply in their behalf.
PHILADELPHIA Gas WoRKs.---The seventeenth
annual report Of the trustees of the Philadelphia
Gas Works has been published, containing much
statistical information The quantity Of gas man
ufactured in 1851 was 200 S42, 900 cubic feet or
| is, 1915, 900 cubic feet more than the preceding
year The amount used in the works and lost
by leakage was more than % per cent. Of the
quantity made. The large increase in leakage
is attributable to mains in the streets breaking
on two occasions by the caving of cellar vault,
| and the sinking Of culvert, together with the
waste Of gas at the several large fires in 1851
There were 699, 059 bushels of carbonized coal
used at the works, and sos, 63S bushels of coke.
| During the past year there was an unusual
! amount VI plpc lhlu III luc Olty' Inc iSnShi vi
pipe thus laid is A. 141 linear feet chiefly Of two
! three and four-inch calibre, with a few six-incf
and eight-inch--m making, with those previously
laid an aggregate length of $40, 40S feet, 1922
miles. The new meters and service-pipes added
are 1,2l1, making the whole number in use 10, i99
The number of city consumers on the 3lst D
December was 10, 406, using 1876, $50 lights; 1856
public lamps in streets; 90 in lighthouses, an(
Sc in public squares. Southwark and Moya
mensing, 1913 private and 178 public lights
making total Of 143, 441 supplied by the works
CAMPHISE AT DISTANCE young girl abou
16, Miss Mary F. Choate, of Carltonville Mass
was killed by the explosion and ignition Of col
1 OF camphine. There was cooking-stove in thu
pantry, but the can stood on the shelf, severa
feet distant, where no fire could communicate