Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-11

TOT the laSG two or three years.
 The Georgia Supreme court has granted an injunction, on the petition of Bishop Beck with of the Episcopal church, restraining the members of 8 parish who attempted to mort gage reafsstate to raise money for the com pletion of a newchurch building. In low CT court the injunction was refused. This decision is welcomed as settling the tenure of church property in that State.
 The speakership of the State house of rep resentatives is already the subject of discus sion. Among those mentioned" are Edward D. Robbins of Wethersfeid. William E. Simonds of Canton, and MT. Pine of Derby. There is to be lively contest for the assist ant clerkship. Those already actively at work are Harris Pendleton, jr., of Guilford, William Sidney Downs of Derby, and James P. Andrews of Bristol. All these gentlemen were candidates last year.
 Senator Harrison of Indiana, whose chance of obtaining the next Republican nomination for President is considered good by some, thinks it possible for the Republicans to re- cover from their defeat if the ''boss'' system can only be overthrown. Senator Harrison says that the adverse results in the Northwest do not imperil the future success of the party there. but that it is the temperance question alone which operated unfavorably to the Republicans. He will urge revenue reform in Congress this winter, provided the tariff commission makes it's report in season, though in his opinion it would be better party policy to leave the matter for the Democratic Congress to manage, as their i'm Republicans before the country.
 Governor Cleveland does not see as much in the tidal wave as some of his brother Democrats do He is reported as saying : ''The members of the Republican party have rebuked those who have betrayed their trust The Democratic party had the sense to unite for good government The people in 1882 have taken the Democracy on trial for 1883. The party which behaves the best in 1883 will have the best chance in 1884. The people make each year their own choice, irrespective of the year before or of the year after If the Democracy give good govern l ment and do the things which the people II not. That is all I have to say.'' This is | good advice but when have the Democratic leaders been known to take good advice? In 8 suit brought by resident of Philadsl- phia on a claim for boarding his father and mother during the last years of their lives, 1 based upon an express contract that pay ment should be made, the Supreme court of Pennsylvania has decided that where there is l such express contract between a parent and child for compensation for services rendered the case is taken out of the ordinary rule ei | law that where the parties are members of
 the same family the relationship excludes the
 implication of promise to compensate fol
 board and lodging and other services, which
 are presumed to spring from kindliness and
 the duties of the family relation, and that
 when the fact of a contract to pay is proved
 in such a case, but the amount Is not fixed
 the party is entitled to recover the reasonable | value of the services
 In the jail of Davidson county, Tennessee
 is now confined, according to the Nashville
 Ame7fcan, a man who is charged with mur
 der, and who nightly, in fit of somnambu
 lism, repeats In pantomime the crime O
 which he is supposed to be guilty. He rise
 from his bed, and having peered about hi
 cell and into the corridor to assure himsel
 that he is not observed rolls up his bedclothe
 into the ssmblance of 8 man, sets the figur
 on chair, takes broom from the plac
 where it is kept, raises 1t to his shoulder, zoe through the motion of discharging gun