Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-19

irium he has made the remark that he might have carried away the bank and all it's off, cers if he had wanted to steal anything.
 Giving bail for a prisoner seems to be g somewhat serious affair in Texas. Recently in that State couple of train robbers who gave bonds and then fled the jurisdiction were summarily killed in an attempt at re- arrest. The State, however, holds that this killing did not satisfy it's requirements, and sues the bail for $50, o,0o0 Although the pro- ceedure looks little harsh upon the face of it, it will have a tendency to promote good deal more caution in applications for bail pieces in suspicious crimes. To that extent it might be proftabiy initiated elsewhere.
 
 The Toronto Glo6e, which ought to know something about the English civil service system, does not have g very bad opinion of the civil service in the United States It says that everybody who has had occasion to confer with American civil servants must have noticed also that the proportion of su- perciiious Jacks in office among them is very much smaller than in the Canadian and Brit ish aervice; the American is continually having brought before him the fact that the people are his masters, while on our side of the line far too many public servants consid- CT themselves vastly superior to the tax pay ing classes"
 The selection 0 Hon. Benjamin H. Brews ter of Pennsylvania as Attorney General gives general satisfaction One of his friends declares that the following extract from an address made by him to the students of Princeton is a fair presentation of the ideal which will guide his conduct in public life. "The highest public distinctions in this country have no attraction for right minded men unless they are the unsought reward of personal worth, dignity and character, men, tai ability and blameless life. Obtained in any other way, they are disgrace to those who hold them. They were intended to be great honors, not rich sinecures. The com pensations attached to the best of them is not equal the income that any man can earn who is fit to have them and discharge their duties. If mon crawl to high places by craft and low contrivance; if they hold them at the cost of all love of truth and practice of heroic virtue; if they accept stations which they are unequal to from want of informa- tion and want of mental capacity, and which they fill like impostors and usurpers, puffed up with vanity, and merely greedy for the pay of the place, they are in pillory."
 An important matter which the Legislature will be called upon to consider is the plan for the establishment of 8 primary court with final jurisdiction in civil matters over all controversies involving small amount of property, and in criminal matters over minor ofenses. As the Hartford Post describes the proposition, it is to divide the State into twenty or twenty-five districts, with dis. each one shall include some large town and judge for each to be appointed by the Gen. eral Assembly for four years with fixed salary, and deputy judge, or more than one if needed, to be appointed for each district and paid a per diem. The bar association in presenting the advantages of this scheme say that it will give to the mass of the peo- pie fair tribunal for the speedy settlement of their controversies, and at an expense 4AuGA 4oSS Iudn uuu0E tue present SyS- tenn; 1t will enable the State to try and finaI- ly dispose of all complaints for minor offen- ses, within @ reasonably short time after commission, and thus secure the more effi- cient punishment of all such crimes, as well as render possible the enforcement of some excellent laws that are now more or less 8 dead letter it will do away with the necessi- ty for fourteen city courts it will eventually do away with the necessity for courts of com mon pleas; it will relieve the superior court of large amount of business that ought to be vested in an inferior court, and that, in fact, can be more speedily as well as more disposed of by such a court it will relieve the supreme court of errors of 8 large amount of business that now burdens the docket of that court to no good purpose, and will give to the superior court the benefit of more of the time of the supreme court judges.