Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-24

The Massachusetts Senate has reconsider ed its vote to repay to Hampshire county $1, expended in arresting the North ampton bank robbers. It was said that al- though the bargain made with them (the robbers) may have been legitimate the cir cumstances warranted 8 careful examination. The bill was recommitted pending such in- quiry, and it is to be hoped that the inquiry will be thorough.
 Later information concerning the burning of the county court house at De Halb, Temper county, Mississippi, on the night of February 24, tends to show that this crime was com- mitted by some one of the mob who murd- dered Judge Chisholm and four other persons, the object being to destroy any indictments or other inconvenient records relating to the guilty persons which the building might con- tain. This deed probably ends the Chisholm case, so far as the law is concerned.
 Colonel Thomas A. Scott is one of those sensible men who believe in giving away money before they die. Colonel Scott has endowed the chair of mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania with $50, 900; he hassgiven a like sum to the Jefferson Medical College; he has given *25, 1000 to the Ortho- poodle, and $2O, ,O00 more to the Episcopal Hospital inPhiladelphia. An announcement of another gift by him of $50,OO to an edu- cational institution in the South will be made in few days This is better than post mortem philanthropy.
 An election case now pending in the Mas sachusetts House of Representatives raises | the question whether the provision of the State Constitution requiring voter to be able to read the Constitution and write his
 name shall be enforced. Seven persons who cannot write their names voted for the sitting
 member AS he holds his seat by plurality of only three votes, and as it is conceded
 that the unlawful votes cast for him should not have been counted, it is clear that the con- | testant was elected by plurality larger than | that returned for the-sitting member If the
 reading and writing qualification is to be | made effectual the contestant is entitled to l the seat.
 | The Missouri Legislature has killed bill to restrict the practice of medicine to the possessors of medical diplomas The argu- | ment which defeated the measure was that a good doctor is known by his cures, and that l bad one is not improved by certificate l 'It is a grave mistake" {" said one opponent of | the proposed law, Ito consider medicine a | science It is essentially empirical, and it's practice is simply a conformity with certain I l<al
 of the individual is of vastly more import
 ance as guide than the recorded experience l of others, and the only effective way to learn l the practice of medicine is to practice it. A special preparation is not superfuous, and a
 certificate of competency is not objectionable, but they should stand for what they are worth. The people are able to take care of
 themselves, and, as general thing, manage to ! starve out medical pretenders.'' Do theyS The New London Telegram is inclined to
 believe that Connecticut will fare better al
 the hands of this administration in the mat
 ter of offices than it has during the past foul
 years. It points out that the Connecticut
 delegation to Chicago exerted it's full share
 of influence in bringing about the nomina 1 tioa of General Garfield and that the Con.
 neeticut Republicans did grandly in Noveni ber, and continues: '.Under these circum
 stances it would seem that Connecticut should
 receive some substantial recognition at the
 hands of the present administration. Such
 recognition will have an influence on the po- litical future of the State and tend to hold 1 the State in the Republican column. There