Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-13

SOEkAam SuRaE- OOul415slOA0E 11OE4Ak u1u 1 not share Professor Golfers enthusiasm in regard to the sugar, and it is intimated that /! this disagreement was the cause of Professor Golfers decapitation.
 The Interior department has already sent out seventeen special agents, twelve of whom are new appointees, to investigate fraudulent entries of the public lands, and will send out others from time to time as the service may require. Some of these agents have report ed a number of fraudulent entries, but it is too soon to expect full reports from all of them. This is matter which has long nee6- ed attention, and it is to be hoped that the investigation will be thorough.
 The New York Tribune has received the following significant warming from a ''publicist of large experience and recognized ability:' ''The great mass of the people are not prosperous There is unrest, not only among the lower classes, but among the mid dle classes also.. The concentration of cap- ital and the rapidly acquired fortunes and unwise display of them by the few are creat- ing dissatisfaction among the many. which will manifest itself whenever there ia g. de- cided change in the condition of the country in manner that will try the strength of re- publican institutions as it hes never yet been tried. The danger then will not be from blatant and lazy revolutionists, but from men of an altogether different type. The ex- pertinent of manhood suffrage has not yet been worked out"
 During the comparatively short time that has elapsed since the opening of the Suez canal several species of animals have passed from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, and vice versa, and this notwithstanding the lakes, the sandy nature of the ground, the disturbance of the ova and larvae by the pas sage of ships, and the too great saltness of the canal water. Two species of fishes, at least, have passed from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and with them have gone Q razor. shell, barnacle and an ascidian. An other species of razor shell, the common cockle, and a crustacean (SpI@r0n1G) are on their way through. Several fishes have pen etrated northward to the Mediterranean, &C., companied by at least three species of mol lusks, and whole caravan of forms IS resting in the basin of the great Bitter Lakes. As yet, no rays, cuttlefsh or other carniVorous animals have been tempted into the compar- atively unpopulated waters of the canal.
 The action of the British government in sending to this country large number of the most wretched people in Ireland is not very popular here. The people the British gov ernment is forwarding to these shores, in lots of from seventy. five to one hundred, are mostly evicted tenants, who are wholly un- able to support themselves or even to pay their passage to this country. Government officers go through the country pGriodi- cally selecting from those willing to emigrate the better men and women, who are allowed to go to Australia or some other colony, while the others, the dregs and refuse of the popu- lation, are to be transported by thousands to the United States, at the governments ex- pense, to be turned loose in our ports without means, paupers of the lowest class. This IS ,eally looking gift horse in the mouth.
 The report of the Utica lunatic asylum for 1882 contains some interesting facts regard ing the insane Out of 412 admissions only ten persons had received collegiate, 50 an academic, and 37 8 common school education. Of the remainder, 31 could read and write, 230 could read only, and 24 had received no education. This is another testimony to the value of education. A large proportion, 159 out of the 412, were hereditarily predlsposed through the paternal or maternal branch to insanity. The exciting cause in nearly every case was i'll health following some spe- cial disease, or the result of vicious habits. Jntemperance was responsible for the insanity of 28 men and women. Paresis Gncomplete paralysis) brought to the asylum 26 men and women. 'Tsolation" is put down as the cause of eight cases. But the larger number insane from any one cause are given to ill health from over-Work, grief and anxiety, and want of sleep; these number 99, of whom AS are men and 51 women.
 The Hartford Courant very properly says of the bill giving the accused in criminal trials the last appeal to the jury: ''Yester- day, by close vote in thin House, the most pernicious bill introduced during this session was passed It is bill giving to the counsel of the accused in criminal trials the right to make the closing argument to the jury In all trials, wherever common law prevails the opening and closing of the case belongs to the party on whom the burden of proof rests, This is universally accepted as the fair and reasonable rule No one would have the hardihood to question it in the trial of civil causes But in the trial of criminal causes there is vastly more reason for the rule; for not only does the burden of proof rest upon the State, but it is bound to convince the jury beyond any reasonable doubt. Is the State so anxious to make the punishment of crime difficult that it is ready to reverse, in aid of the criminal, the plainest rule of jus tice ?" The bill might have been entitled sAn act to help out criminal lawyers" It