The Portland daily press., 1870-02-18
General News.

Inc Professors Of Dartmouth College have
had their salaries raised from $500 10 S2000 |
The woman suffrage advocates are advocat-
ing the cause before the Massachusetts Leg
islature.
Dir. A. c. Hamlin of Bangor read a paper
before the Institute of Technology in Boston,
last evening" on the "Gems of North Amer
ica," illustrated by diagrams and specimens,
and manufactured articles.
There is rejoicing among the bloods of
New York because the new city charter pro-
vides that when fellow goes on spree and
falls into the hands Of policeman he need
not be locked up he has hundred dollars
to "recegnize" himself with. But if he is so
disguised in liquor as to be unrecognizabie, IL
is all night with him.
A murder, resembling in some OF Its details
the tragedy at Pantin, has just been discovered
at Nenville. France. A woolcomber, named
Pvre. aged AZ, married, and father of two
children, killed an old man, Sylvain Rene, who
lived in cottage close by, and then dug a grave
and buried him in a field He then planted
tree on the spot so that the neighbors should
not remark that the earth had been removed.
Robbery was the motive for the crime. but the
murderer appears to have obtained only about
shilling.
There was trial OF some Sons of st. Girls
pin in Worcester, Mass, the other day, when
it appeared that the oath taken by members
pledges secrecy, not TO teach any new hand
any part of the trade without consent of the
lodge, to enforce that obligation against any
violator, to refuse to take the place of any
member discharged on account of refusing to
teach new. hand, and to be governed by the
lodge. None of the officials had reliable
memory about any particulars, but constantly
referred to matters as on the record" The
record was ordered to be produced, when it
appeared that it had been spirited away.
The experience of French executioners goes
to show that the head of decaritated person
from the body. In one case the teeth of a
woman whose head had been thrown into a
basket after it was cut off, were found firmly
fastened into the willow of the basket. An
head thrown nPSaRe hs SFo " SiSd
up the sod with it when it was lifted. An
other was found to have rolled itself over and
over in the sawdust of the scaffold. In an
other case, where the head had been placed in
the same basket with the body, to be carried
to the cemetery, it was found to have bitten
the thigh of the body till the blood came.
Since the passage of the act against biga-
my the Mormons have adopted new ar
rangement in reference to marriages, so that
now no one can find proof of the second or
any subsequent marriage. All marriages are
now performed in the Endowment House."
and whatever transplres there is secret. The
men who perform the ceremony are oath
bound, and even if placed before Grand Ju.
ry on oath would manage to evade in some
way. Under the law of 1862, it is impossible
to prove a marriage according to the rules of
evidence, which accept no testimony except
that OF party who witnessed the solemniza'
ton of it, No license is required beforehand
and no record, unless it be secret one, kept
afterwards.
MISS Susan u. Anthony, who is proud TO
own that she is can old maid" of so, celebrat.
ed her semi-centenary in the parlors of the
New York Woman's Bureau on Tuesday eve
ming. The apartments at an early hour were
filled with the "bright and fair" dia-
monds and pearls flashed in the gas-lghts;
silks and satins swept the carpets; while male
forms in black coats fitted to and fro, like I'M
easy spirits in a friendly but foreign cline.
There were many congenial female reformers
in the party. Miss Anthony wore dress of
rich shot silk, dark red and black, cut square
in front, with stomacher of white lace and a
pretty little cameo brooch. All female vani-
ties she vigorously discarded-no hoop, no
train, no hustle, no pan1er, no chignon, no
powder, no paint, no rouge, no patches, no
nonsense of any kind; Mrs. Phelps assisted"
in receiving guests, and all were greeted with
graceful cordially. Numerous substantial
gifts in the shape OF checks, ETC., attested the
sincerity Of these expressions. Letters of
congratulation were read from MANY of her
friends OF both sexes, Susan made little gem
OF speech, and, says the female scribe of the
Tribune, "a dainty lunch concluded the affair.
and her guests left Miss A. to remember that
she had twinge of pain-hand- shaking, not
rheumatism-in her right arm, and various
comfortable little documents with figures at
tached reposing in her desk" During the
evening poem by Alice Cary was read, the
last verse of which is:
"a perfect woman, nob,y planned"
To aid, not o amuse one,
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