Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-07

l entire list of penal statutes, Az in number l directed against tha press, and substitute i four classes of ofenses: incentives to crime when actually followed by the commission o the crime, the encouragement of insubordi nation in the army or navy, seditious erie and insults to foreign sovereigns and ambas sadors.
 A law on the subject of libel is. meeting with great favor in the western States I passed the Wisconsin legislature without op position, and is now pending in the legisla
 latures of Illinois and Missouri. It provide.
 that ''when newspaper shall, upon the in formation of the falsity of an article appear ing in it's columns, publish a correction ol
 retraction in two successive numbers, it shall
 not be liable in a civil suit except for actual
 damages sustained by the plaintiff"
 MT. Frank M. Bemis contradicts Senator
 Vests assertion that no Democratic legisla-
 ture ever passed 8 prohibitory liquor law.
 He says 'Maine and Vermont are the only
 States that now have as sstringent prohibitory liquor laws as when the Republican party
 came into power. Maine passed the law first
 in 1s46; then followed the more stringent
 one of June 2, 1851. Both times the State
 legislature was overwhelmingly Democratic
 Anderson and Hubbard were the Democratic
 Governors who signed the pfohibitory bills. ?
 He instances further: Vermont passed
 the law Nov. 2s, 1852, Fairbanks, Democratic
 Governor, signing the bill; Massachusetts,
 May P, 1852, Gov. Boutwell, Democrat; !;
 Rhode Island, March 7, 1852, Gov. Allen,
 Democrat, Legislature same Michigan, Feb.
 12, 1853, Gov. McCleland, Democrat, leeisla- ture largely Democratic
 About hundred of President Hayes nom- nations were allowed to lapse by the failure
 of the Senate to act upon them, and Presi- dent Garfield will have to make nominations for these places. Among the more important of the lapsed nominations are the following: Stanley Matthews, to be justice ot the Su- preme Court; E. c. Billings, to be United States circuit judge for the fifth circuit FL iott F. Shepard, to be district attorney for the southern district of New York; John Jacobus, to be United States marshal for the southern district of New York; William Faxon, to be postmaster at Hartford; W. H. Haskell, to be postmaster at Albany, and W. H. Daniels to be collector of customs at Buffalo. The Hartford Cour- ant says that President Garfield will, with out doubt, renominate MT. Faxon at an early day for the postoffice in that city, but in most of the cases where Mir. Hayes made nominations during the last few weeks of his term, new nominations are probable
 A caution to wives is contained in decis- ion made last week in the Circuit Court of the United States in Boston in the case of Virginia B. Matthews Us. Caleb H. Warner ct 1l. The plaintiff claimed that she was the owner of 15O bonds of the Memphis and Little Rock railroad and of fifty bonds of the Carolina Central railroad that some person to her unknown and without her authority placed these bonds in the hands of the de- tendants as security for the notes of Nathan Matthews, a brother of Edward Matthews, he husband of the complainant, amouiting % $25O,OO0. The opinion finds that the ponds were put by the complainant into the custody and possession of her husband and 'on, and were so much the property of the husband that he could use them as he did, md the opinion holds that the only relief to which the complainant is entitled is to re- leem by paying the loan made by the defend l lnts.
 An interesting trial of a new stenographic l machine was made in the French Chamber of | Deputies the other morning in the presence | # M. Gambetta and a number of other of- | icials and members. The mechanism, which | 5 an Italian invention, is worked by kind | f keyboard similar to that of piano, and | he stenographic signs are automatically i rinted on a continuous ribbon of paper The signs registered of course represent | ounds, irrespective of spelling, and the lachine can be used by person unacquaint- with the language spoken. The daughter f the inventor worked the machine success ully. taking down speech read at average peed in Italian, and one read in French by I. Gambetta, she being ignorant of the lat sr language. comparison between the peed of the machine and that of the short and writers of the Chamber proved favor ble to the former. Further experiments i'll be made with view to a possible adop- on of the apparatus, which is already in SC in the Italian Chambers.
 At the meeting of the National Republican committee in Washington Saturday, the sub consisting of Messrs. George c. orham, Edward McPhersoh and William E. handler, which had been appointed by Sec ,tary Dorsey to consider and report plans representation in national conventions, lbmitted O majority and @ minority report. he majority report, which was submitted by [essrs. Chandler and McPherson, proposed lat hereafter national conventions shall be of four delegates at large from lch State, two from each Congressional dis jet, one for each Republican Senator and 1e district delegate for each Republican ember of Congress, provided that the dis jet delegates should be chosen by the voters !. their respective districts and at conven- ons held in the districts. MT. Gorham's mil ority report recommended that the national invention of 1881 shoud d consist of a 1mber of delegates from each State equal
 twice the number of Senators and Repre- ntatiyes in Congress, and that the Repubi- ms of each State should direct the manner
 choosing it's delegates. After some dis ssion the two reports were referred to 8 mmittee of five, who are to consider the bject fully and report to future meeting
 the full committee.
 SPaTTER WORK Lawyers motto-s'Be truthful and multi y and replevin the earth. " Now that warm weather has set in, mar sges begin to abate.-Dara6asy Neacs. Mir Edison ia now Derfectinp an invention (