The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1878-08-24
THE TRAMH Nu1sAycE-PROrOsED LAVA

The TRANP NUIsAScE-PROPosED LAVA
correspondent of the Baltimore american says
"We who reside outside the city limits realize
daily that tramps are nuisance. If we could
have in this State something like "Marstons
Tramp law" which recently passed the New Hamp-
shire Legislature it might prove great boon to
the State, certainly to many poor widow who is
daily heeced by these longing villains. inclose
a copy of the law for publication:
Section 1. Any person going about from place
to place and asking or subsisting upon charity,
shall be taken and deemed to be tramp, and
shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor
in the State prison not more than fifteen months.
Sec. 2. Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling
house or kindle any fire on the land of another,
without the consent of the owner or occupant
thereof, shall be found carrying any frearm or
other dangerous weapon, or who shall threaten to
do injury to any person, or to the real personal
estate of another, shall be punished by imprison-
ment at hard labor in the State prison not more
than two years.
See. 3. Any tramp who shall wilfully and ma
leiOusly do any injury to any person, to the
real or personal estate of another shall be punish
ed by imprisonment at hard labor in the State
prison not more than five years.
Sec. 4. Any act of beggary or vagrancy by any
person not resident Of this State shall be evil
dence that the person committing the same is a
tramp within the meaning of this act.
See. D. Any person, on view OF any offence de-
seribed in this act, may apprehend the offender
and take him before Justice of the Peace for ex-
animation, and on his conviction shall be entitled
to n reward of ten dollars therefor.
Sec 6. The Mayor of every city, and the Select
men of every town are hereby authorized and re-
quired to appoint special constables, whose duty
it shall be to arrest and prosecute all tramps in
their respective cities and towns.
Sec. Z. This act shall not apply to any female
or minor under the age of seventeen years, nor to
any blind person.
EGS~Volcanic action in the Southern Pacific this
year has been very marked and has extended over
a considerable area. At the island of Tanna in
the group of the New Hebrides, the first eruption
took place on January 10th. The bottom Of the
harbor at the west side rose above the water for
about fifty fathoms length at the first earthquake
shock A new volcano burst out close to ''Sul-
phur Bay" between it and an old volcano. On
the 1lth of February there was a second great
eruption, the bottom of the harbOr being again
upheaved for fifty fathoms. Where there used to
be five fathoms of water there is now bar across
the mouth of the harbOr with only fifteen feet of
water A tidal wave about fifty feet high swept
the east point of the harbor, destroying all the
native plantations. The old mountain was very
active, roaring and throwing up huge rocks. The
tidal wave was local so was the shock. On the
west side the earth was cracked and sunk very
considerably the east side the land was swept
by the tidal wave and the plantations on both sides
are destroyed.