The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-13

PiieouSIs iOftityiDk ooN SHe
him, and prejudiced judge.
In France no man can be a juror
unless 80 years Of age and in posses
sion OF his civil aud political rights,
and mentally and physically capaci-
tsted. .Usures 8, those condemned Tor
outrsges to morality and religion.
bankrupts, vagabond.. nota-ies, civil
servants. lsbo.ers, illiterate persons.
are exempted from serving as larcrs;
a Juror having served at one asslzss,
is exempted from the others for
year. The sssizss sit every three
months. aad en- an average 10. fifteen
daye.
One juror is chosen Tor every $50
inhabitants Il a circuit; from the list
thus made out. thirty-six names, with
Jour supplementals, are selected Tor
each ass:zs. and are published before
hand in the official gazette. The
Judge draws the first twelve names
out Of an urn, with two supplemental
rames; but the public prosecutor and
the prisoners counsel, can challenge
alternately each twelve names; the
sixteen remaining in the urn. become
then de faoto. the jury.
Neither Jury nor coHnsel is allo ed
TO directly question a prisoner or q
witness; such must be asked through
the Judge. The latter opens the case
by the examination-not now 30
brow.beaten as formerly-of the
prisoner. where bis life-history passes
under the scalpel. Speeches fer
the prosecution and defense COM
pleted, the Jurors retire to
tberir room. Each juror writes,
yes, or no, on a slip OF paper,
and drops it into an urn; the fore
man draws each vote cut, the ma
joli.y Of vote, seven to five, carries
the verdict; if there be FIVE votes for.
and Eve against, with two blanks, the
verdict is, mo" The verdict is then
signed by all the jurors, and the fore-
man hands it to the court, declaring
on his conscience. honor, and before
God, that is the true finding. The
voting papers are burned before leav-
ing the room. If the number OF votes
be stated, that annuls the verdict.
The foreman is the first name drawn
from the urn; a juror who absents
himself without valid cause, can be
fined from 500 to l 800 francs.
The extraordinary May weather
with which we are favored, not only
forces trees into budding, buds into
leaf and birds to seriously hirt, but
matches lunatics. On Sunday lsst no
less than five were picked up in
Paris, the doctors attributing the out
break to the sudden bursts OF hot
sunshine. Il affected the communists
also, as, unable to observe "the day
We Celebrate" perhaps in the old
style, did o within doors; at one
meeting, two orators short of argu.
mepts and Billingsgste, took mouth
fuls of flesh out of each others arms.
having stripped. the better to express
their sentiments. That and lnnatic
discusses. are all fSey havs-ifi- Cem+
mon. There was a society of Irish
men who met on 81. Pstrick's day to
drown the shamrock with all honOrs.
Marshal Macmahon and other semi
hibernians. put in an appearance:
Owing to differences respecting the
cisiizing powers OF dynamite. so M
merous were the Invitations just Ter
turned, that the society has been dis
.olved. Another has been formed OF
to widest sprigs from che Emeralt
Isle snd the ststes It has. not in-
Appropriately its headquarters in
Bel!eville.
The tribunal of Angouleme has
ruled, that the crying of false news,
with the view to induce the purchs se
OF Journals. is swindle, and subject
to the same penalties as pickpocket.
ing: Two boys have bsen sentenced
nader that Interpretation.
The executioner, Delbseh, has pc
sjsioned the budget committee. on
the peculiar position he and his as
sistants occupy. Owing 10 the hu-
nnanitsrian views OF NJ. Grevy, the
petitioners have now no work to do,
and their modest salaries were,it was
to be understood. augmented By
special qualifications for each culprlt
guillotined. Their salary was simply
a retaining fee; either Augment then
that fee. or increase tdse number OF
decapitations, for even headsmen
must live. In 1892, Samson also PEI
titioned fer al increase of pay, fol
himself and his staff. He sad the
new machine-Fhe gaillotine - had
tYipled the number OF executions; tie
necessaries OF life had run up in
price; that IeopdaGt executions
respects bly,, he must have aiGs on
whom be could rely, and those in h5s
employ have struck. and will not re-
sumo work TIL guaranteed double H.
come. Samson declared, he lad
fourteen individuals daily to nourish,
of whom eight we're on boayC
wages; be had three horses to iced
three carriers to maintain, and othel
accessories, to keep up his position
CONNIE al Jant. His assistants, his ole
domestics, had devoted their lives II
the service of decapitation, and q
possess rights and claims on human
noronnol forf,rna ~