Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-07

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gloves. walking sticks parasols and umbrel-
las And no one dares complain, because the
Prince himself lives up to the strictest letter
of his laws.
The Civil Service commission has struck a
snag in that clause of the law which provides
that when two persons of one family are en-
ployed in the civil service no other member
of that family shall be eligible to appoint
msnt, and it has concluded to ask for the
Attorney Generals opinion whether the
words lone family in the law mean only
parents and their children, or also nephews
and nieces, grandchildren, cousins and rela-
tives by marriage. 1t is to be hoped that the
Attorney General will know.
The officers of an electric light company In
Nashville, Tennessee, are frank gentlemen.
A war is in progress there between the gas
and electric light companies and it has been
openly charged that the latter used money IL
legitimately at the last municipal election
for the purpose Of securing city fathers who
would give the electric light folks a fat con
tract. The charge is not denied by the Off
GERS of the company, who say they ''do not
consider it an offense against propriety or
public morals to aid in the necessary expenses
of public candidates"
Judge Field, of the United States Supreme
court, is hearty believer in Tilden. He
thinks that if the people could be satisfied
s'that Mr.. TIlden's physical condition was
such that he could direct the canvass, he
would sweep the country Mr.. Tilden, he
thought, was previously wronged in 1876, and
there is disposition to undo that wrong.
The American people love justice, and would
redress a wrong in the spirit of fairness that
pervades all classes. There is no doubt, he
thought, that the outrageous wrong was
committed in 1876, and he knew whereof he
spoke, because he was q member of the elec-
toral commission. Judge Field thinks Butler
has no show.
It is dawning on the minds of the Massa-
chusetts Independents who decided to beat
Butler with the aid o the regular Repubh-
cans that their scheme is not just what they
fondly believed it to be. Ths Boston Her
aid says: The policy of an Independent
movement in the State g lection is one the
wisdom of which is exceedingly doubtful
The truly Independent voters ought to be
willing to go for any respectable. candidate
for governor as against the erratic person
now in the governors chair. So for as We
are concerned, we should not object to q
respectable Democrat any more than to a
respectable Republican. 1t makes no ma
terial difference whether the State govern
ment be Republican or Democrat, so long as
it is clean, progressive and public spirited.
But no diversion should be planned to divide
the friends of good government. The op-
position to Governor Butler and Butlerism
in politics ought to be broad enough to take
in all men who value the good name of the
State. We do not believe it is
going to be very difficult mat
ter to beat Butler. He is rapidly
playing himself out in the estimation of all
reasoning voters. With 8 candidate like
Henry L. Pierce, Thomas Talbot, Charles
Francis Adams, jr., George D. Robinson Or a
dozen others who might be named, the inde-
pendent voters ought to be satisfied and the
State carried without a question. So far as
we can judge, the Republican managers are
well disposed and the Republican voters are
satisfied that candidate must be selected
with Judgment, and not created by boom.
man who has been in q lunatic asylum
for more than forty years is now suing be-
fore the Civil Tribunal of Tarascon, in the
south of France, for release on the ground
that he is not Iunatic. The case is an ex-
traordinary one. Jean Mistral, the person
in question, is the son of the late Joseph
Mistral, who was formerly q wealthy wool
stapler at st. Remy, in Provence. During a
journey through Poland in 1897, Jean, who
travelled for his father, fell in love with
Wilhelmine Dombrowska, beautiful girl of
poor family, and married her. jeans father
then refused to supply him with money to
return home, but at length having found
means to buy an old cart and worn-out horse,
taey resolved to make their way to France.
By dint of Wilhelmine's skill on the guitar,
which procured lodging and food On the
journey, they succeeded in reaching st. Remy
with their strange equipage, Jean in rags and
leading the horse and Wilhelmine seated
weary in the cart, NJ. Mistral, who had
been apprised from Tarascon of
their arrival, met them with several of his
men, and ordered his son to be seized as a
madman. Jean, despite the protests of the
crowd and the supplications of his wife, was
carried to his fathers house, and sent to a
lunatic asylum at Pont st. Come, where he
has remained up to the present time. Will
helmine Dombrowska is believed to have
made her way back to Poland. NJ. Fournier,
who for ten years has been trying to secure
the release of his relative, now invokes the
Intervention of the legal tribunals. Jean
Mistral is entitled to fortune of e16, 200,
which is in the hands of a nephew, who was
appointed guardian by a family council and
is the defendant in the case.