Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.

good suggestion for Decoration Day has ! been made. This is that instead of placing ! cut flowers, which wilt and fade in few | hours, upon the soldiers graves, blooming pot plants be used and subsequently, planted l in the ground for a ~hole seasons blooming In the talk in the Legislature at Albany | over the woman suffrage movement bold member moved an amendment that the right to vote should be accorded to no woman un- der fifty years of age. It is asserted that able to make out list of such women.
 The States case in the trial of the MalIey boys and Blanche Douglass was substantially I closed yesterday. It has been shown that | the body of Jennie Cramer contained arsenic | enough to kill her if taken at one time, that there was a conspiracy to seduce her, that l this conspiracy was successful, and that the Malley boys and the Douglass woman were | with her until a late hour of the fatal Friday night. But no evidence has been brought forward which would justify jury in find ing the accused guilty of murder.
 l Last fall the Chicago City railroad com paay opened it's line of street cable cars to the public. Up to Saturday last five persons had been killed on this road and many
 more seriously injured. This is bad record,
 and it is asserted in Chicago that although the managers of the cable railroad possess a most valuable franchise they have not oper- ated their road with even ordinary care.
 There is considerable indignation expressed against the management, and one of the city
 papers insists that the directors of the road ougtt to be indicted for manslaughter.
 The Massachusetts Supreme Court has rendered an important decision concerning property in unpublished plays. Judge Dey-
 eps, overriding the we'll known decision of his own ccurt, made more than twenty eErJ ago in the American Cousin case, holds that while spectator at play is entitled to
 Gall the enjoyment he can derive
 f10a: it's representation, and may eveu. ii he thinks such an occupation likely to give him any pleasure or to improve his mind, take notes of what he sees, for paE- poses of criticism, etc, Ee has nO right to commit the play to memory, or take it down in shorthand and then reproduce it. In other words, the author does not by tine rep
 resentat1on of his play ..1andor it to the pub
 lc, but retains al his rights.
 The weekly clearing house statements con- tinue to show a shrirkage in the volume of
 business of the country, and the New York
 Public expresses the opinion that this tend ency cannot continue until the harvesting of
 new crops begins to stimulate trade without
 some serious embarrassment. It says Not
 only assurances of good crops, but the actual harvest and sale of 2 pat Of the years prod
 ucts, must precede any marked revival ct
 trade through purchases of the farmers Prices Of food and the cost of living for
 working people will be Infected more quickly, and yet it Is well known that retail prices ar9
 usually slow in following a decline in tht
 wholesale cost of products. Witk excellent crops it must still be four or five months be- fore an important revival in consumption of
 manufactured or imported products is likely to result, and meanwhile production and isp-