The Portland daily press., 1870-02-12
General News.


In the Missouri House the Ceneral School
Law has been 50 amended as 10 allow women
over twenty-one years of age, and owners of
real property to vote on questions affecting
the raising of taxes for schools purposes.
A queer mode Of punishment lately adopt
ed by a certain Poughkeepsie school, Is that
Of compelling q student TO run around the
school house 400 times, ) miles being the dis
tance. The offender is cured by being made
an invalid.
The South Carolina Legislators grow more
dignlhed every day. DeLarse accuses Jack
son Of having insulted grossly the Charleston
Sisters Of Charity. Jackson fatty denied the
truth Of the assertion. DeLarge then ex-
claimed: ~GFeat Cod Anaalas stlll lives"
This beats Congress.
ID. w. King, commission tobacco merchant
Of Hartford. who made au assignment recent
h. has been arrested On a criminal proeess.
charging frsLd. aud gave $500 bonds for nj,
appearance at the Police Court TO answer. A
eivii process for damages was also served and
be gave bonds for his appearance AT The
March term Of the Superior Court.
On Tuesday night some farmers I'm the
town OF Washington, n. Y, turned out with
lanterns, horses, and revolyers, and hunted
down aburglar named Hamilton C. Robin
son. and took him to Poughkeepsie, where he
was lodged in jail. Robinson had entered a
farmers sleeping room about two hours be.
ore and robbed him of Sl94.
A few weeks ago the assets of the Bank o.
the State of Georgia were sold at public out
cry in Savannah, and a lot of worthless secu.
rifles were sold in heap to the highest bid
der for s305. In this lot of "worthless trash
was $4,000 in bonds of the Blue Ridge Rail
road, of South Carolina. The day after the
sale the buyer, a well-known Atlanta broker
sold the Blue Ridge Railroad bonds for $780,
600, reserving the balance of the trash for an
other turn.
very particular man in Skaneateles, N
~ considered that a woman of imprope
Character had been buIied 100 near his wife il
the cemetery, and after the lapse of a montl
or two determined to remove the obnoxiou:
remains. He dug up coffin and pitched il
over the fence, scattering its contents abou
the road. The next day a neighbor picked
up coffin plate bearing the name of the
resurrectionist's wife. He had made mis-
take.
The Vicksburg Times of the 7th says
"The whole country appears to be filled with
strangers prospecting for lands or business 10.
cations, and SO far as our observation extends
they are principally from the Western States
No more desirable acquisition can be made te
our population than recruits drawn from the
hardy class who have made the Western will
derness to bloom and blossom as the rose
They are not only welcome, but more thar
welcome"
Says the Houston Telegraph: GAIL Texas is
del GIFTED at the great number of immigrants
who have poured into the State this season
| but there is yet room for millions more. and
II our Legislature does its duty we shall have
during this year larger accession to cur pop-
ulation than any other State in the world.
That body should pass law under which the
bureau of Immigration can be put to work
without delay. There should be a Joint com
mittee on immigration raised, composed of
the ablest members of the two hou. es. to
whom this subject should be committed. for
1t is eminenty worthy oI a joint committee.n