The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1879-03-27
TIMELY TOPICS:


The sacred right of petition has been
indicated to the extent 6f 10, 167 petit
tions introduced in the House of Rep
resentatives during the Forty.fifth
United States Congress. They relate to
all sorts of subjects, and come from
private individuals, Aliens corporations,
literary. scientific, and labor-reform
societies, boards Of trade, State and
Territorial Legislatures !; in fact, from
almost every branch of trade and in
dustry. Under the rule OF the House
petitions are not presented in open ses.
sion, but are placed on file, and as
general thing are never heard Of.
Sixty:nine libel suits for one libel
Ambiguity has been the death of one
poor paper in ldarseilles, France. The
NouvelEiste, of Marseilles, stated some
months ago t1st the, tax receiver of st.
Etienne had embezzled, St0, 900. The
proprietor. must have bad more than
one .bad quarter of IN hour when he
discovered, as he very quickly did, that
there are sixty.nine ST. EGennes, towns
or communes in France. Every one of
the tax receivers Of these places brought
an action against the paper, which has
been ordered to pay $40 damages to
each collector, besides $40fne.
SAtshrst exhibition ciraplar" of the
Melbourne International exhibition OF
1880 has been received. It contains
long Lists OF commissioners and commit
tees and the "system of general classi-
fication," apparently based to con-
siderable extent upon. that OF Philndel-
phia. The president is the Hon. VIM.
John Clarke, member Of the legislative
council at Melbourne. Applications for
space should be sent IN not later than
June 80, 1879. The reception Of e1-
hibits will commence June /, 1880, and
none will be admitted after August 81.
The exhibition will remain open for six
calendar months, commencing October
l, 1880, and closing March 81, 1881.
Full particulars can be obtained from
James E. ,Danison, No. fsr123 Collins
street, West Melbourne, who will act as
general agent for American exhibitors.
A subiectoi more than ordinary in
terest is now under consideration by
committee of The Medico-L Legal society,
and it is deemed probable: that the re-
suit of the research and report Of the
committee will be the passage of law
providing for the versfcstion of every
case of supposed death occurring in
New York city. The wisdom and ne
cessity of such law, the Herald re-
marks, can hardly be questioned by any
one who has given the subject any care
full thought; and 30 thoroughly is it
acknowledged by Europeans that in
every principal country OF Europe legal
cognizance is taken OF the possibility of
syncope being mistake n fcr death. And
! iff..et all r u principal
cities on the continent thS< 81 is an officer
of the law whose duty it is to decide in
every case OF apparent death whether it
is or is not real. In England and Amer
lea, however, no protection is afford
ed by the statutes against the possibility
of live person being buried.
An original character, we'll known In
the Latin quarter, has just died in Paris
at an advanced age. Pere Roger, as he
was called, fancied he WAS an unappre-
ciated genius, and amused himself in
inventing new systems which were to
renovate society. He set up new re-
ligion, one article o. which-and the
one that procured the most adherents-
was to make every other day a day OF
rest. He habituated himself to eating
only on altsrnste days, and used to
argue that BY sleeping twenty -four con-
secutive hours and then working for
like period, the sarae sum OF labor
would be produced with saving OF food
and the time lost ct meals. During the
late war Pere Roger invented number
of means for annihila5ing the Prussians,
and never rardoned the war depart
ment for tho indifference it manifested
toward his Greek fire, which he called
the "prussovore. He was the author
OF some songs, which were sung in their
time by the students, and of poem
called "Le droit de boire," which, un-
fortunately for him, he never found a
publisher to bring out Like many
other philGnthropists, he died in a
state of utter destitution.