Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-16

lars, being only about fifteen thousand dol l lars less than the contract price of the Dol | phin.
 There is such demand for arsenic in Cali | fornia with which to destroy grasshoppers | that it is sold by the hundred pounds. It is 1 found to be the best remedy for the scourge, as the grasshoppers eagerly eat a mixture | containing it.
 When the lawyers get through with Buffa- | To Bill and Doctor Carver the two wild west l erners will wish that they had gone out onto | 'Fthe plains"-say the Hamden plains-and | settled their difficulty ''man fashion" instead | of appealing to the law.
 There is very strange lawyer in Modesto, l California. He publishes a card wherein he | says that he will not hereafter defend any of | the criminal class ''I prefer" he says, ito | aid in sending that class to the State prison, l where they properly belong, rather than l keeping them free to prey upon the commit nifty, I have heretofore done to my 1 sorrow"
 A petition has been presented to the legis- l lature of New Hampshire asking for change in the div orce law to the effect that, "after a divorce from the bonds of matrimonY, the party against whom the divorce was granted shall not marry within 8 fixed time, say two years from the final decree of divorce" In New York State the law provides that the party agsinst whom judgment for divorce is obtained shall not marry again within the lifetime of the plaintiff The provision is, | ze. of appeals has held that marriage se-eonltad ed in any other State, notWiAFThstanding u prohibition -stands good in New York
 - Bishop Stevens of the Protestant Episc' 0 pal Church has decided that women are eliI !, ible as members of the vestry, the questio having come up through the choosing of tW
 ladies to the vestry of a church in the Phil
 delphia diocese. The first decision of tt
 bishop was unfavorable, but, after reconsit ering and laying the matter before psrso1
 we'll versed in ecclesiastical and secular lay
 he reversed his opinion. The question WI
 considered as @ legal one entirely, the cha
 acter of the church requiring that vestr.
 man must be a citizen of the Commonwealth
 and the point being whether or not wome
 were citizens in the meaning of the law. IT
 lawyers decided that the female members l a congregation were part of the corpor l. tion, and therefore entitled to be elected d vestrywomen.
 W The municipal council of Paris has aga f. entered upon the work of remaining tl t streets of that city, in order to bring the |, more closely into harmony with the presel
 political opinions of the people. Under u + empire a number of the Paris streets whie g bore names too closely associated with the T
 publican past were altered, and now the T Y publican municipality propose to elimina us these names from the directory, substitutir el for them titles more in accordance with the
 ideas of men and measures deserving of ir l. mortality. For example, Pue Royale is V be called Rue de la Concorde; Rue St. Dor h. inioue will hereafter be Rue Danton. Lenoi : who revived the cotton manufactories
 France after the revolution, is to be sent in F obscurity, in order that the name Delesclu rs may live in the future. In the same WI n Darboy, the name of the Archbishop mu " dered by the Commune, is to be replaced
 that of the materialist Helyitius. For u
 new streets there are the names of Lou
 Blanc, Desmeulins, Spinoza and St. Just
 s. G. w. Benjamin, minister to Persi
 regards the establishment of United Stat
 l legation in that country as very wise ae