Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-20

The Boston fire department has adopted a simple but useful apparatus known as a jumping cloth" to be used in catching people jumping from burning buildings It feet square, with convenient arrangements around the edges for the men to hold it by The duck is strengthened by wide strips sewed diagonally from corner to corner The cloths occupy but little space when folded and are. easily carried with the fire apparatus. It is believed that they will prove very useful in saving life. Every fire department ought to have them.
 writes to Representative Morton: ''You are quite right as to my views of General Grants strength and popularity MT - has correctly reported me as having constantly expressed my confidence in his nomination and his strength as 8 candidate have no doubt of General Grant being able to draw a large class of voters whom no other Republican candidate could attract. I do not think that my judgment in this regard AR' NS H-AA eiASSSOA OJ my fOAJ o0AO1S DO1oOud1 attachment to the General, nor by my intimate knowledge of his character or my appreciation of his eminent capacities" It is Senator Windom's turn next
 The highest court in England has rendered a decision that where person makes state ment without malice and believing it to be
 true there is no libel In the suit in question
 shareholder in company made inquiries of
 third party in regard to statements pub lished in a newspaper abroad impugning the conduct of the companys manager. 'It, D
 was the answer in writing, referring to the published statement, lis correct according to the official statements" This sentence was
 made the basis of 8 suit for libel and the only defense was that it was written without malice and in the bona fide belief that 1t was true which it appears it was not in fact. The judge before whom the case came non-suited the plaintiff on this defense, and the supreme court sustained the ruling below on the
 ground that ''there was nothing to support the charge of malice on the part of the de- fendant."
 It IS not pleasant 70 thlnk that kOSSuth, the able Hungarian who was so applauded and fattered in this country about thirty years ago, was brilliant fraud yet it is charged that he in 1859, as 8 member of the
 so-called European committee" played his comrades false, and while they were planning
 a revolutionary outbreak in France, against Napoleon III, was in secret communication
 with the emperor, aud engaged himself as
 the paid agent of Napoleon to work against
 the Austrian Government in Italy, where he
 lived for some time in this capacity, being
 freely supplied with money, which he used,
 as is alleged, chiefly for his own benefit,
 doing little if anything of that which he was
 hired to do. He also at about this time, it is
 said offered the crown of Hungary to Prince
 Napoleon, that scion of the house of Bona
 parte known as ''Plon-Plon." Now that his reputation is shattered by these stories
 1t is suggested that he has rendered no ac- count of the large sums of money collected in this country and entrusted to him to be
 used in behalf of Hungarian independence, but it should be remembered that even if he spent the money for the purpose for which it was contributed he could not have ren- dered an account without exposing plans aud compromising persons.