Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-05-08

| into the newspaper business again. If hs
| had stayed in it he might have been quite al
happy as he is to-day, though it is not proba.
| BILE that hs would have been richer
A solemn undertaken in Newcastle-en-
Tyne, in the north of England, inserted
| recently in local newspaper the following
| advertisement: why live and be miserable
when you can be buried in comfort for three
pounds temp
The failure of the Marine bank appears ia
have been caused by over-oertifcation of the
checks of Grant & Ward It is supposed
| that thsre are several banks in New York
which over-certify brokers' checks more or
less frequently in order to help the brokers
| do business conveniently. The Marine bank
is, We believe, the first one that has ever
| failed from that cause, but the practice Is q
| dangerous one, and also against the law.
The new marriage Law under confederation
by the Bavarians proposes to give the par.
ishes the power to forbid the marriage Of
couples who do not possess sufficient means
to maintain themselves. or who, during the
previous three years, have received helr
from the public funds, or who have not paid
| their quota of taxes, or regarding whom
there is n ason to suspect that trouble will
result to the household from the want of So
briefly, economy or love of work.
Sheep husbandry seems to be rather
precarions occupation in Georgia. The At
lanta Constitution reports that John Pusser,
of PnIaski cnnpkv losk ar,rinr, hrroad ont onn
sheep, and this spring gathered 800. John
Rogers out of LOO psnned 1,30o. while
many others haze suffered similarly, and they
all attribute their losses chiefly to the rava-
ges OF dogs. Yet the Constitution says the
industry has more than held its own in the
State, the returns for 1884 showing gain of
about 1000 over those for 1885, Il says
that no State in the Union has better advan-
tages for this business, and if State dog
law were passed the hocks would. double in
tive years. The dog is the only obstacle in
the way of extensive sheep husbandry in
Georgia, and it advises a local option law as
the most practical way of dealing with the
matter.
curious dispute between an eminent
medical professor and the relatives of dead
man is now being carried on In . Russian
town. 1t appears that the late lamsnted,
some time prior to his death finding hinself
in impeeunious circumstances entered into q
compact with medical man. The terms OF
the agreement were that the doctor, upon
paying certain sum of money to the friends
of the defunct, should obtain sole possession
of the skull of the latter. The instrument
was drawn up in legal form and duly attssted.
Fortune, however, subsequently smiled upon
the quondam pauper; he became wealthy,
and thus the necessity which prompted him
to this singular bargain no longer existed In
process of tinae he was gathered to his
fathers, whereupon the enthusiastic professor
claimed his bond, and declined to accept
monetary compensation on its being refused
him. An appeal is to be made to the courts
TO settle the question of ownership.
Early in the present session OF Congress
Senator Edmunds introduced a bill providing
for the funding of the debt due the govern
ment by the Union and Central Pacific rail-
roads in equal ssmi-annual payments ex-
tending over the next sixty years But the
bill Just reported from the Judiciary commit
tee ia almost the identical scheme proposed
bv Mr.. Edmunds, with this striking change
Union Pacific is everywhere stricken out,