Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-08

The Illinois Legislature tried to afford pro- lection to the people of Chicago, who are frequently pestered by suits for small sums brought before justices of the peace in re- mote parts of the county, by the passage of law dividing Cook county into two jurisdic- tions for justices of the peace. one comprising the city and the other the country towns. Under this law citizen of Chicago could not be sued in any town outside the city limits. The Supreme Court has decided that this law is unconstitutional, because it is special 1egis- lation
 "A petition as is petition" was presented at the last meeting of the Common Council of Cleveland, Ohio. After the usual formal introduction the petition goes on thus:
 We, the undersigned property owners and residents on Quito street, Thirteenth ward, most respectfully petition your honorable body to relieve with all possible dispatch from the odium of bearing the name of that cowardly wretch whose greatest fear as he crouches in his cell is not the fear of the Great Judge into whose presence he will shortly be ushered, but the righteous indig- nation of his fellow whose feelings he has outraged beyond human endurance. As there is one Garfield street in the city, your
 
 name of Abram street
 The determined stand taken by Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania against the multiplica- tion of the graveyard insurance companies'' will be heartily and generally approved. To what extent this business has been carried in Pennsylvania is not known the official record is so carelessly kept. But it is known that nearly three hundred charters have been is- sued during the past year, and that proceed ings under them have been in reckless def- ance of the law. Suits are now pending against thirty of them in one county; many mysterious deaths have occurred, and the scandal has become notorious. It is not, however, enough to prevent the incorpora- tion of new companies The operation of those already in existence should be SUD- pressed.
 The New York Court of Appeals has de- cided that a marriage valid in the State wherein it is contracted is valid in every oth- CT State of the Union even in State which may have forbidden by local law one of the contracting parties to marry within its ter
  man who has been prohibited from marrying by the Supreme Court of New York in a suit brought against him for divorce by his wife, may cross the Hudson River into New Jersey and again marry there and return to New York to find all the incidents of this second marriage as to his rights of property and his offspring valid in New York, notwith- standing the prohibition of his marriage by the New York courts. This decision calls to the crying need of one system of marriage and divorce in all the States.
 A little while ago the English papers were congratulating themselves that if, owing to the manipulation of the grain market, Amer jean spectators got up corners in beef and in pork as well as wheat, the English people could turn to their colonies, notably Austra- lia, for fine quality of mutton. But that has apparently been tried with far from en- couraging results. We are told that disap- pointment continues to attend the sales of beef and mutton in the London market, and Australian shippers have made 8 very bad venture. ''The tastes and prejudice of the public, as well as of butchers, are against frozen meat, however good it may be, and its only use is to disorganize highly sensitive market. It will not sell except there be famine of other sorts, and that is not in pros pect just yet.''
 The Russian Minister of Ways of Commu- nication has issued an interesting series of for the settlement of disputes passengers on railroad trains in re- gard to the right to close or open the win dows. The rules are five in number, of which the first lays down the law that all windows are to be kept closed in winter time, while the carriage is being warmed. The second modifes this during the rest of the year, passengers having the right then to demand the opening of the windows if the is not lower than 55 Q Fahren- heit When this temperature is attained the l stoves must be lighted and the windows kept closed. Rule No. 3 states that on the mercury rising above 550 Fahrenheit, all the windows in the carriage may be