Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A lawyer has been discovered in London whose name is Thomas Jolly Death Wouldn't this be better name for 8 doctors The seventeen-year locusts have appeared in Philadelphia and they will probably ap- pear in other places. Good entomologists say that they are not likely to do very much damage.
 The negroes of Illinois can have their rights hereafter. The legislature of that State has passed civil rights bill giving ne- groes the same rights as white people in ho- tels, restaurants, theaters and other public places. An offender may be forced to pay not less than $25 nor more than $500 to the person aggrieved, and also, being deemed guilty of 8 misdemeanor, be fined not over $500 and imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
 An interesting effort to do good and at the same time not lose any money is that of the New York tenement-house building associa- tion, of which Joseph w. Drexel is the head. The idea is to build downtown where the rookeries are now located and to put up blocks in which good tenements can be rent ed by laboring men for from SS to s14 a month for two or three rooms. Dividends on the stock are limited to per cent, and the surplus, if there is any, is to be reserved for the benefit of tenants who will be given shares ln it proportional to rents paid; these tenant-rights will be convertible into shares.
 The San Francisco Pacific controverts the of 1i,b% wines prevents intemperance. It says: "Our impression is that the lowest, slowest, most illlterate, most unimpressible, most unim- provable, if not vicious, population outside of the great cities is found in the oldest wine districts in this State, and that the use of the product of vineyards has been the most act i've cause of this condition of tie population. Further, the use of wine has not diminished the consumption of distilled liquors or beer, but on the contrary has increased it by creat- ing an appetite for stronger drinks.
 The pilot chart for June shows vast pro cession of icebergs in the neighborhood of the Banks, extending from the fortieth to the forty-ninth parallel and from the fortieth to the ffty-fifth meridian. The Hydrograph-
 
 limit of ieebergs will probably advance as far south as 39 deg, and indicates as safe route between New York and Queenstown line crossing the fftieth meridian little be- low 39 deg. The danger from ice in cross ing the Banks at this season is shown by the fact that twenty-five vessels were dam aged by collision with ice in that locality during May.
 A law was passed by the Ohio legislature on the 29th of April of the present year pro- viding that all future executions should take place in the penitentiary. The question has since arisen whether the passage of the law affects the case of a criminal previously con- demned to be hung sometime prior to July 1. An attempt was made so to apply the law But the attorney general of the State has decided that the original sentence must be executed by the sheriff within the time and at the place directed, the place being the county jail; and he has furthermore decided that, though the Governor, by granting re- prieve, may change the hour of execution, he cannot change the place.
 While excavating the bed for a gasometer at the Dumfries (Scotland) gas works the contractor came upon bed of peat in which