Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-06
News and othor Notes.

The Tewkesbury, Mass, almshouse is
the subject of n serious scandal in regard
10 the sale OF subjects, from $50 TO 250
infant corpses being yearly sold at from
SO to IS.
Official returns just made public show
that since january |, 1882, the United
States Government has paid SlI5,S54 as
fees to special counsel in the Star-route
case.
A man in Georgia is raising a mullen
crop, from which he expects to realize
handsomely. He says mullen tea Is good
for hog cholera, chicken.pox and hydro
phobia.
In London there are about l00,0
Jews. They excel any other religious
order in the number and magni6cence OF
their hospitals, alms.housos, synagogues,
and free schools.
The prospects are that in Santa Clara
county the barley crop will be very large
and wheat up to the average. The fruit
crop is likely to be the heaviest ever
known in the valley.
An Illinoise Judge has decided that
the Directors OF an insolvent bank are
personally liable for the banks debts to
depositors, on the ground that II is their
business to know its condition.
Tho Nebraska Legislature has just
passed bill providing that one Of the
two assistant physicians of the State
Asylum for the insane shall be woman.
They hold their terms for six years.
Two railroads are to be opened for
traffic in Yucatan next April. One is
from Merida to Uman, on the way to
Calkini; the other is from Merida to
Conkal, and forms part OF the line to
Progresso.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
bill granting pension of $40 per
month each TO such citizens OF the State
as, serving In the Federal or Con.
federate armies in the Civil War, lost
one or both eyes.
The growing practice of holding secret
examinations of persons charged with
crime is m abuse Of discretionary power
on the part Of the magistrate. The
secret examination Of Mcdowell at San
Bernardino, and Of the Lexington mur.
derers at San Jose. are certainly subject
to such criticism. IS. r. Post.
Governor Stanford has let contract
to Turton & Knox for the construction
of eighteen miles Of levee on Butte
creek. The work will be done by scrap
ers and horses, and only white men will
be employed Tho stuff to be handled
will, it is thought, measure between
100000 and 400, 900 cubic yards.
George Conkling anticipates his COM
ing trial with much complacency and no
misgiving os to the result, which he an.
ticipates will terminate with triumph.
ant vindication. His retirement is rarely
invaded, and, barring nm occasional stroll
about town, he is rarely seen abroad.
The Idaho Springs in Tennessee are
thus described: "Within a radius of
twenty five feet aro found about six DIFF
ferent kinds of water, which are we'll
known for their curative properties
They are the white, black and red sui
phur, iron, alum and soda, all used and
much liked by the visitors"
The Massachusetts, Legislature dc,
feated the bill TO compel corporations 10
pay employees every week. A mass of
testimony was taken before committee,
which showed that il was very doubtful
whether weekly payments would benefit
the laboring population and encourage
habits of economy as much as monthly
payments. Some of tho workingmen
who testified were not in favor of the
bill.