The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-01-24

Justice Smith said, on opening his
court at Connorsville, Tenn: civilian
Henry Smith is arraigned for assault
ing his father" The magistrate had
on the previous day knocked his father
down with q club, and it was himself
that he was now arraigning. He con
tinued: 1.-THE evidence is conclusive.
and I'm not sure but 1 ought 10 send
myself to jail for ten days. But as hi;
Is my first ~offense, and l certainly haD
q good deal of provocation. 1 win sim
ply impose a fine of So"
According to DIR. S. Gibbon, a Lon
don heaith-oficer. the Jews are til,
longest-lived people in the great met
ropolis. They are VIGOROUSLY excmp:
from tubercular and scrofulous faint.
1t is very rare that one meets with pull
monary consumption among them. In
the district of White Chapel the medi
cal officer of health has reported that
on the north side of High street, occu-
pied by Jews, the average death rate is
twenty per thousand, while on the
south side, occupied by English and
Irish. it is forty-throe per thousand.
Senator Cameron has erected his new
house as nearly as possible on the true
meridian from which longitude is reck.
oned east and west in the United States.
In selecting sites for the capitol anu
Presidents house, the engineer, Mr..
Elliott, drew by celestial observation
true meridianal lines running due NORTH
and south, one of which passes through
the capitol and the other Direct;
through the white house and out Six.
teenth street, which used to be called
Meridian street. On the corner of THU
street, where it is intersected by Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island avenues and
n street, Senator Cameron's house is
situated.
A few days ago the neighbors were
drawn to a house on West Twenty-sixth
street, New York, by the most frightful
cries. They found a named
Mrs. Hall standing over her youngest
child. who was stripped naked and
stretched upon q table. With one hand
the mad mother held the struggling in
FAM upon the table and with the other
she b~randished a carving-knife in the
air. She told the frightened people
that she and her whole family were 90
ing to heaven. The child was rescued
and the woman o after became
calmer. She had been made insane by
viz ASNShs aOhih Vi hCL huoOauu.
Tho question of corporal punishment
in the public schools has arisen anew
in Boston. The superintendent says:
Teachers of both sexes use personal
violence with their pupils in such forms
and such frequency that the facts if
published would cause unpleasantness.
Some put children into painful and
even dangerous positions; some shake
them at times with such roughness as
to tear their clothing. while many still
apply the rattan as if it were a feather,
and strike not merely the hand, but
the head and body. Within the last
month or two some piteous cases have
been reported to me by parents whose
children had suffered. The monthly
reports of some grammar schools come
in ringing with the echoe, of blows"
A committee examined into the subject,
and a majority reported in favor of dis
missing teachers who inflicted whip
ping, except OF boys in the grammar
department.
The following twenty men are esti-
mated to be worth the sums following
their names.