Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-13
MORNING. NOVEMBER IS. 1884.


 Cavalry, the Second Bengal Infantry, the Sec ond Goorkhas, the Guide Corps, the Fourth Madras Cavalry, the Madras Sappers and Miners, the Third Bombay Cavalry and the Second Bombay Native Infantry He holds three honorary Colonelcies in the militia, the commands being of the Second Brigade Eastern Division Militia Artillery Qord Suf- fields regiment), the Cornwall Militia and the Aberdeenshire Militia; and he is Captain General and Colonel of the Honorable Artil- lery company.
 case of considerable general interest has lately been decided by a court in Maine as to who are the legal heirs of an unmarried minor who leaves no relatives nearer than grandparents, uncles and aunts In 1882 little girl named Bessie Vose died in Wash 1ngton county, leaving some property. Her parents were already dead and she had no brothers or sisters. The property was in- 1 herited from her father, and the decree of 1 the probate court ordered it paid to her l fathers father. From this decision the ma ternal grandparents appealed. claiming that ! this decision was according to English law, which is not binding here. After protraeted litigation the finally reached the law court, and it has been finally decided that the property shall be equally divided between the three grandparents now living, and the case has been remanded to the probate court. It is said that this is the first case of the kind that ever came before the courts of the State.
 An important move has been made in the 1 direction of female education in France, The scheme already applied to the seculari- 1 zation of schools for boys is to be extended to girls. Girls lycees are to be established over the country in accordance with ma tlonal project elaborated by the superior council of public instruction. Hitherto there have been no good high schools for girls other than the convents and pension mats. In these, the teaching has certain unquestionable merits, but it is objected that 1t is ill-ftted to give girls that kind of edu- cation which is needed for making their way l in the world, while it only trains them in the tstrietest doctrines of the Church of Rome which is entirely out of the spirit of the un- denominational education provided for boys l According to the new national lycee sys- tenn, high schools for girls will be set up at one stroke in all the departments of France I and brought under a uniform administra, l tion with those for boys. How far they will be successful, counteract the influences Of l the church, remains to be seen.
 l Hon. William E. Simonds of Canton is re- ceiving good deal of notice in connection 1 with the speakership of the next house. The Hartford Post thus speaks of him. Mir. Si- monds is man of excellent legal acquire ments, and in his special field of practice, connected with patent law, he has won for himself enviable distinction His recent | work on patent law has received encomiums from the best judges on the United States l bench. It is not alone in special field, how 1 ever, that Mir. Simonds has shown himself man of mark He was an excellent soldier, serving in the Twenty-ffth Connecticut regi- ment, and his eloquent words at the reunions of that regiment establish his reputation as an orator. In legislative matters he has had the experience of one term, where his recog- nized ability won for him the chairmanship of the railroad committee, perhaps the most | important ehairmanship in that body, in 8 State where railroad struggles before every legislature are proverbial. it is certain that MT. Simonds won the good will of the mem 1 bers more thoroughly than it often happens to any man during single term.