Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-22

nicipaI Council seriously discussed the advisabihty of cremating the bodies Of those who shesuld die of the seourge. Foremost in promoting this scheme was the Mayor of the Eighth Arron- aisssment, M. Koechlin-Sehwartz, who Is president of the Paris Cremation society. The health authorities of the Department of the Seine having now decided against ere
 nation, on the report of Doctor Brouardel, the medical expert attached to sbe Paris courts. M. KoechIin- Schwartz has ad- dressed caustic letter to the prefect of police. pointing out the incongruity of leav- ing the decision in this matter to one so ob- viously prejudiced as Doctor Brouardel. That gentleman had on previous occasions opposed cremation as interfering with the ends of justice in cases of poisoning. Doc tor Brouardel's further objection that the danger of contagIon would be increased by cremation M Koechiin-Schwartz easily shows to be fallacious.
 The University of Texas. situated in Aus tin, has recently been opened after much delay and tribulation. In the early days of the Texan republic bill passed ths Congress providing forsthe establishment of the Tex an University, and set aside 23I, 400 acres of public land for its benefit. Under this act the present beautiful site in Austin was re- served for the use to which 1t Is now put. Later the legislature of the State of Texas gave the university $1Oo,eO0 and a vast amount of land. The parts of the act regu- lating the apportionment of land were not fulfilled, however, so that only the money was secured. and the money went to the common schools. The General Assembly of 1879 set apart 100000 acres for the university as reparation for the loss of the school lands, and later. in 1882, another grant of lands was carried by com- promise gift to both common schools and the university. The building stands upon Uni versity Hill, in Austin, and is surrounded by forty acres of fenesd grounds. Eight chairs in the faculty have already been filled by men of known worth, and the completion of one wing of the building enables the university to open it's doors at once. ...
 A number of well known Boston women, who believe it to be the duty of women to vote for members of the school board, have issued 8 circular to the women of Boston appealing to them to do their duty in this matter. part of the circular, which is a strong one, is as follows: The Citizens Law and Order League declares that in Charlestown member of the school commit tee, who is a distiller, gave permission to have certain changes made in schoolhouse in order to accommodate the proprietors of the act prohibiting the sale of liquor within 400 feet of public schools. The schoolhouse on Washington street, near Dover, was va- cated last year to save large number of saloons in it's vicinity. After the time for granting licenses the building was used for school purposes, but is vacated again this year, as in the former instance. At the last election, few hundred more votes from the women of Boston would have retained on the school board faithful and tried servants of the public. These gentlemen failed of re- election because those votes were lacking. Upon whom does the responsibility rest? If the conduct Of our schools is committed to men thus subservient to the demands of the liquor traffic, what can we Expect but that the moral interests of our youth will suffer?
 
 ACQUITTED.