Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-14
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Mr.. Murray says that this is his
fourth visit to Egypt, and each
year he finds the wretchedness
greater. The deplorable aspect of
the people, who in many places
have that pinched look which only
long-continued starvation can give,
largely takes away from the pleas
ure of travelling on the Nile. At
Girgeth he found that the children's
food was sugar cane, previously
sucked by others.
st. Louis shysters must be hard
up. The Republican of that city
printed something about somebody
resembling libel, and the person
referred to was visited within q
brief period by no less than forty
different lawyers, who solicited
permission to institute suit. The
Supreme Court of Missouri has de.
cided that lawyer offering to COM
mence suit without compensa-
ton is guilty of champerty, and
liable to fine and Imprisonment.
The Supreme Court of Rhode
Island, having been consulted by
the Governor in regard to the right
of husband to vote by virtue of
his interest In the real estate of his
wife, has decided substantially,
that q husband to whom his wife
has borne no living children, has
not q sufficient interest in the wife's
estate to entitle him to the fran
chise; but that q husband to whom
his wife has borne living children,
and who has thereby acquired q
life interest in the wife's estate,
may vote by virtue of that interest.
This decision DISTINGUISHES num-
Der of persons. As vote in Rhode
Island has a market value varying
from So up to $40 in warmly-con-
tested elections, this decision is of
some financial Importance.
February 20 was the
seventy-eighth anniversary of
the foundation of the Bank
of France. Three months
after the formation of the Govern
ment of the eighteenth Brumaire,
several bankers, encouraged by the
First Consul, and backed by a
Councillor of State, M. Cretet, who
subsequently, became director of the
Bank Of France and Minister of
the Interior, held meeting and de-
cided upon the creation Of a bank
on the model of the Bank of Eng-
land. They fixed the capital at
$6,O00,0 900, in 10000 shares, at 5000
each. The Government imm edi-
ately intrusted to this company its
current account, and bought 5000
shares. The bank has once sus-
pended payment, in 1914, when the
allied army entered Paris. The
Provisional Governor, the celebrat-
ed Lafitte, bricked up the cellars
containing bullion and money,
burned the notes, and broke the
plates.
A few weeks ago some rowdy I'M
dergraduates at Cambridge Eng
land) made a disturbance at the
Roman Catholic chapel, proceed
ing which drew from the authori-
ties notice that should any such
offender be discovered be would be
vigorously dealt with. Probably at
the beginning of the century such
gross misconduct would have passed
unnoticed. At that time the pulpit
of the Baptist chapel there was &C.
cupied by Anthony Robinson, a
man of great wit and ability, whom
the younger gownsmen frequently
annoyed with perfect impunity SO
far as the authorities were concern
ed. On one occasion a wager was
made by an undergraduate that he
would take his station on the steps
of the pulpit with a large ear
trumpet, and remain there ill the
close of the service. He did so,
with his friends tittering below,
and the congregation scandalized.
The preacher alone seemed insensi-
BILE to what was going on, but pres
emily, in the course of his sermon,
he said: mot only does the mercy
of God extend to the most enor-
'mous Of criminals, so that none,
however guilty, may not, If duly
penitent, be partakers of the divine
grace, but also there are none so
low, so mean, so worthless, as not
to be objects of Gods fatherly solic-
itude and care. Indeed, l do hope
that it may one day be extended"
and here, leaning over the pulpit,
he placed his hand Ola the under
graduates head, "to this silly
boy" The trumpet dropped, the
lad bOlted, and the wager was lost,