July, 1879.
THE WEST SHORE.
199
Civil. DAMAGE LAW.
The following is the text of the Civil
Damage law, as passed at the late ses
sion of the Massachusetts legislature :
SrcTIOM 1. Every husband, wife,
child, parent, guardian, employer, or
other person, who shall be injured in
person or property, or means of sup
port, by any intoxicated person, or in
consequence of the intoxication, habit
ual or otherwise, of any person, shall
have a right of action in his or her own
name, severally or jointly, aerainst anv
person or persons who shall, tiy selling
or giving intoxicating liquors,, hav
caused the intoxication, in whole or i
part, of such person; and any person or
persons owning, renting, leasing, or
or rmittme the occupation of, any build
ing or premises, and having knowledge
that intoxicating liquors arc to be sold
therein, or who, having leased the same
for other purposes, shall knowingly
permit therein the sale of any intoxi
cating liquort, shall, if any such liquors
sold or given therein have caused, in
whole or in part, the intoxication of any
person, be liable, severally or jointly,
with the person or persons selling or
giving intoxicating liquors as aforesaid,
for all damages sustained, and the same
may be recovered in an action of tort;
()rovuie, however, that no owner or
essor of any building or premises held
under lease at the date of the passage
ol this act, shall be liable, under the
provisions of this act, for any damage
resulting from the lawful sale or giving
away of spirituous or intoxicnting li
quors on said premises during the term
of such lease. A married woman may
brinif such action in her own name
and all damages recovered by her shall
inure to her separate use; ana all dam
ages recovered by a minor, under this
act, shall be paid, either to such minor,
or to such person in trust for him, and
on such terms as the court may oircci.
In case of the death of either party, the
action, and right of action, shall survive
to or against his executor or adminis
trator.
Si 1 . J. No license for the sale of in
Button shall hereafter bt
e ranted without the consent, in writing
of the owner or lessor of the building
or premises upon which the business if
lo lie conducted; and the pajn-r con
tuiiiinsf said written consent shall In-
kept on file by the clerk of the city or
town in which said license is issued.
Sic, 1. Any owner or leor of real
estate who shall pay any money on at
count of his liability incurred under this
act for any act ot his tenant, may, in
n action of contract, recover of said
tt unit the money paid.
Ban. a. This' act shall take effect
uHn it passage.
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Epitoh Wkst Siiohk : Alter all
our wanderings in and about the Holy
Land, Jerusalem, the "Holy City,"
still, of Jews and Christians, is the first
and last place to bt visited. Thousands
have strenuously essayed to write its
history, and as signally failed. No city
on earth has passed through more
changeful scenes; no city has basked
in the sunshine of a greater measure
of divine favor, nor passed through a
more terrible ordeal of retributive jus
tice. Seventeen times has Jerusalem
been sacked and pillaged; again ami
again its walls have been razed to the
ground and rebuilt; millions of men
have been slaughtered 111 its streets,
hile its gutters and sewers have been
glutted with human gore. Once the
oy of the whole earth, it is to day,
beautiful in its sore desolation. Despite
all the differences that sunder lews and
Christians, no sooner do they COM
within these venerable walls than they
ire in the self-same liclovcd city ol
their fathers, and they tread upon sacred
ground; a ike they arc actuated by dc-
otional feelings, and if they have not
wandered counter lo their rcsectivc
tenets, a thousand strangely beautiful
thoughts that come all unhidden revel
in their pent-up souls, and they find
themselves overcome by the tenderest
and sweetest emotions that can possibly
find lodgment in the human breast.
To the rude and bigoted Moliammc
Ian, also, this is a cherished city, though
secondary, in oitil of religious leaching,
to Mecca and Medina. Thus it is that
the visitoi, without being conscious of
the mental operation, forgets its isola
tion, and sees in its dreary and inhospi
table aspect, a passing loveliness that
transcends the modem splendor of all
other cities. As we have intimated in
a former communication, this city is tfl
loiibledly undergoing an imHrtant
and mot wonderful transition slate
Says a letter-writer in the Philadelphia
(U. S. I'rrts : " I he I urks are ur
prised at the inteiet which the Jews
have, of late, manifested in Palestine
That a people should abandon tin- mtret
favored regions of K 11 rope and seek a
irrmanent abiding-place in this, the
most sterile ami desolate part of the
Turkish Empire, is something that
wcs their comprehension. Whoever
emigrates lo Palestine must expect to
battle with the most fickle of climates,
to endure hardship of every kind, and
to lead a life of poverty and suffering.
There is no denying the fact, however,
that of late years, a passion for emigra
tion to their ancient capital, ha de
veloped itself among the Jews in all
parts of Europe. Kvery year since
the Crimean war, they have Wen (mur
ing into Palestine. Though thousands
have perished by fever and famine, the
cry is, 'Still they come.' The great
body of them live on the charity funds
raised by the Rothschilds, Mnntetlere,
and other rich Jews. They have tried
to check the tide of immigration, hut in
vain. It flows on in unabated volume,
and more extensive, consequently, is
the misery of this stranger population.
Palestine is a wasted laud that ages
only can regenerate. It will never
cease, however, to lie a consecrated land
in the eyes of Jews and Christians, and
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a shiiiie lo which pilgrims win repan
limn all pails of Ibe world."
I am happy in being able lo add the
above valuable testimony in lonliima-
tion of my own oliscrvations in this and
former letters iclalive lo the general
I1111 in u-iisiii s ol ibis laud. The auiboi
have quoted, however, is re tadical
mid severe in his strictures than I should
like to be, and I am somewhat disposed
to differ with him when he draws such
a sombre picture of the present and
ftilure condition of Palcstmr and the
hopelessness of its capital city. It b
true, thai lo an American or Kotucan,
Irmsalcm presents a pitiable and l.i
mcnlahlc appeal. une. Hut I Mievc it
is still within (be prut hue of scicn.e,
DM kid by the moral sentiment of the
nineteenth century, to reinstate this In
teresting country and 111 il lot the abode
il millions of enlightened people. Al
though ibe aualliema of heaven has
been pronounced upon this devoted city
many times, yet,
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Kvery considerable library ronlain
volume lilted with the salient detail
of Jerusalem; ami hence it would h
n.iili.r etiN-dieirt nor interesting for
rne to retreat, in this connection, what
everybody knows concerning thi city.
In penning the closing letter of the
eric, therefore, it may suffice to In
dulge in short recapitulation. The
derivation of the. name Jerusalem h