The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-02-07

homicide committed without delibera-
ton and premeditation, although with
intent to Kill formed on the instant,
would be murder in the second degree, "
the punishment TO imprisonmet for life.
This is certainly worthy of attention,
and his proposition to confne in a luna
tic asylum for twenty years the persons
acquitted on the plea of insanity seems
the surest check to such persons as are
tempted to give way to the insane desire
to take life. lie says: = If a person 4is
SO insane as 10 take human life he
should be confined for a sufficiently long
time to protect the community against
any return of such violence. >
THE Presidential electors of New
Hampshire, at their meeting last fall,
were aStoniShed to find that not one of
their number was user of tobacco III
any form. Ex-Gov. Hale, the oldest
member, had never even been treated "
to glass of liquor.
\ MACHINE is now i'll operation in
Philadelphia which turns out 3, ,000 COM
plete paper match-boXes per hour.
\ LOUISVILLE editor alludeS to him
self as I'm "unfailing reservoir" He
probably has water on the brain.
CALIFORNIA has raised wheat enough
to furnish the Hour to put a griddle
cake ten rods wide around the earth in
forty minutes, if any spry cook could
be found to boss the job.
TIE New York Stor says it is Il severe
tax on fat judge to look grave.
THE Boston Investigator thinks that
if Adam is accountable for "conseQuen-
tial damage" he will have a rough time
of it.
TIE Duluth HroH says that there
IS no longer doubt that blast furnace
will be put III operation III Duluth next
summer. Some of its rivals are already
beginning to call Duluth "blarSted "
city.
THE success hitherto achieved in
almost circling the world with telegraph
wires has resulted in establishing tcIc-
graphic communication from Australia
to California, Il length of wire of no less
than $1,000 miles, enabling messages to
Eg sent between those places in four
hours and 4 half
PROF. Tyndall sails for England
Wednesday next Pref AaasSiz will
preside at the dinner to be given by Prof.
TyndalI Tuesday evening.
EDCCATIoN is a better Safeguard of
liberty than standing army. If we
rctrrmch the wages of the school-muster,
We must raise thosc Of the recruiting
sergeant.
REPRoyE thy friend privately. COM
mend linn publicly.
FRANCE presents Il strange spectacle
at present. Regarded as the most loose
in morals of all nations, and accepting
no rule whichprcSumcd torestrain their
enjoyment of al pleasures We yet see
the French Chamber stcrnly cmacting
the most stringent laws against drunk
cnncsS, and restricting the free use of
intoxicating liquors. We refer to this
fact aS an evidence of the great moral |
revolution which is about to sweep over !
the world to do away with the traffic in |
liquor.
BY vote east in Bradford county, !
Pa. last Friday, it WAS decided by Il
majority of between three and four
thousand, that no licenses would be
given in that county for the next three ,
years.
Is TIE Assembly yesterday rcsolu-
ton was adopted hy a large vote proyid- I
ing that no Intoxicating liquors shall he
kept or drank in the House. After
wards, thinking this provision inSuiH-
cicnt to effect the.object desired, Mr..
LaW-he presented Il resolution, which |
was also passed, that all bottles except .
those containing ink should be removed
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