The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-11
Miscellaneous.

EX-Secretary Browning is member of the
| Illinois Constitutional Convention. He was
| elected. by the Democrats.
The Governors of thilty-one States have
united with the President in recommending
| Nov, Is as day Of thanksgiving and praise.
A disappointed negro woman in Mobile
| poisoned family of five of her own color, one
| day last week, and one of them died. She
| now meditates upon her dark crime in prison.
A census of South Carolina has just been
| made Official returns from nine counties
| show an increase of twenty two whites and a
decrease of ], 951 blacks since 1860.
The dogs of Fitchburg Mass, are doing
what they can for the public library, by each
paying a license, which is appropriated to its
| support.
The latest achievement of Chicago burglars
was the chloroforming (that'sa Chicago word)
of a family of seven persons. A gold watch
and $S5 were the burglars reward for their
pains.
1t is stated that the immediate cause of
Mr.. George Peabody's death, was congestion
of lungs, and that he passed away with
out much apparent suffering. He had expect
ed to return to America.
The New Haven Palladium says that it
has lately come to light that Rev. o. L
Judd, d. D., was some time since married to
Miss Susannah Reynolds, who will be remem-
hered as figuring conspicuously in the trial of
the famous Judd divorce case.
Preliminary steps have been taken ia the
arrangements for the coming annual festival
of the association of Dartmouth Alumni,
which occurs at Boston ON the third Thurs
day Of January in each year, as fixed by vote
al the last reunion.
A letter from Valetta, Malta, Oct. Is, says
that island was visited by very heavy fall CT
rain on the 10th, and great damage was done
by the flood which ensued. The scene pre-
sented in the town of Cospicua was terrific
Men,. women and children were saved from
drowning by being lifted up with ropes from
streets into the second floors Of houses 9th
ers, in their struggle for existence, broke
through the roofs of the first floor rooms into
the rooms above; while others were picked
undated town from the sea.
movement is now making in Wisconsin
to carry out the policy which has been adop-
ted in Cincinnati. and exclude the Bible from
the public schools of that State. Its leaders
are the Germans, and it is probable that it
VIII sueeeed.- Yhe decision OF the Supreme
Court OF Ohio, which has been appealed to by
those who favored the retention of the Bible
in the schools. will be awaited with interest.
Judge Story's decision in the famous case of
the Girard College is relied upon by those
who are in favor of the Bible, as indicating
what will be the judgment in the case. He
decided Isl, that it would be against public
policy to prohibit religious instruction in an
educational institution; and, I'd, that the
Bible is a religious but not sectarian book
The Rev. Mark Tia(ton, in his lecture on
"The Coming Woman claims that women
should find open to her all those avenues, and
only those avenues for securing a living, into
which it was safe and proper for her to enter
alone. The coming woman, he said, will in
quire, not so much what can do" as "what
a modest respect for the fiji ess of Things per-
mts me to do" The coming woman, he add
ed, will receive equal pay with man for any
work which she does equally as WELL To the
question, "Will the coming woman vote?" he
replied: "The Lord only knows. But ought
she to vote?" Law is simply the basis of So
cial order. 1t creates nothing, but only Sc
cures safety and peace. The tax woman is
required to paw is simply an equivalent for the
protection she receives from the law. No in
justice is done her, therefore, by Withholding
the ballot. Mr.. traitor does not believe that
if women engaged actively in politics, they
cOu]d purify it.