Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-03

agreement that all above $4,000 that he
might get from the city should be his. The
bargain was consummsted. and the lawyer
| eooIly pocketed $50, 200 as his fee for nego-
tiating the purchase. The city found 1t out
and brought equity proceedings to recover
the $50. 600, bat the courts held that the
bargain was bargain, and that the lawyer
was entitled to his fee.
The Hartford Oourant makes some remarks
very applicable to the present state OF af-
fairs, as follows: It Is one of the curious
phases Of human nature that people are more
ready to sell their property for less than it
is worth than for more than'it is worth. This
may lock ridiculous on the face of it and
may be ridiculous, but it is fact. On ris-
ing market cupidity becomes excited for fear
of selling before the highest point is reached,
and SO owners hold on, while, on falling
market, the strenuous desire is to sell before
prices fall any lower and so owners sell out.
People with invested property, who devote
their energies to selling their stocks at the
highest point and to buying in at the lowest
point, and generally to reaping the advanta-
ges of close communion With Wall street, find
themselves engaged in yhat in anybody else
they would call stock speculation; and more
over, in the long run, are only too apt to find
that their attempts to get the advantage of
everybody else have been to somebody elssS
advantage.
The police of Paris appear to have more
power than they ought to have. Within the
last few weeks three cases have occurred
which illustrate how they can treat people.
The first case was that of stableman in the
employ of a large cab company in Paris.
This man had been detected ill-treating
horse, and the managers of the stable re-
marked to the Inspector of Police that it was
pity the law did not admit of the offender
being sentenced to more than weeks i'm
prisonment. Make your mind easy" re-
piled the Inspector. "I will keep him In
prison for few months before bringing him
mp for trial" The second case is that of the
footman at the Rue Royale Club, who has
been in prison for two months on suspicion
Of having supplied marked packs of cards.
He has now been liberated, as, after all the
efforts of the police, he could not be induced
to give any information to his supposed
RccOmpI1eSH. ne nhS never &OHc InHOuSA
any. form of trial whatever. The third case
10 of different kind. In the course of the
past year a retired officer named ST. Elme
started Radical newspaper in Corsica. This
journal. which attacked in very severe terms
the Republicans now in Office, was much dis
liked by the Prefect of Corsica, by whose
order letters addressed to the editor were
seized in the postofies. M. st. Elme, !
meeting the Prefecs at cafe in the town of |
Aiaocio taxed him with this, and after some
strong language had been used on both sides, |
the landlord Of the cafe and his waiter set |
upon IL. st Elme and beat him numerically, |
For this offence M. st Elme (net the land |
lord Of the cafe) was summoned and sentenc-
ed to five months imprisonment. He appeal
ed against the sentence, but a few days be /
fore the appeal was heard he was SO badly |
bsatsn that he had to be brought in court |
upon a litter. The judgment pronounced by |
the court below was confirmed, though the |
term of imprisonment was reduced from five \
months to six weeks; but the unfortunate |
man died of his injuries the nsxt day.