Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The news of the safety of the Danmark'a passengers made general joy. The whole civilized world was watching for it. Public indignation is aroused in Pennsyl- vania over the case of boy only fourteen years old who is confined in Moyamensing suit. A petition is in circulation for the abolition of imprisonment for debt of de- kfendsnts under the age of twenty-oue. The Roman Catholic victory over the Que bee Jesuit estates bill in the Dominion par liament has given new life to the project to colonize the province of Ontario with French
 Catholics. The demand is also renewed for
 grants of money for the teachingof the
 French language in the public schools, and
 the use of French as the official language of
 the province.
 The courts at Boston decided the other day that the law could not permit local col lecting bureau to persecute delinquent debt ors by sending after them agents gotten up as corpses in burlesque grave clothes. The notion was not only ingenious. but humorous as we'll, conveying a cheerful suggestion of pursuing the. deadbeat even to the tomb. But some of the victims did not enjoy being followed around by imitation cadavers. and 50 the business was put stop to.
 In setting aside the verdict of $20, ,000 for damages against the Pennsylvania railroad company for personal injuries sustained by @ commercial traveller at Wampum, Penn sylvania, Judge Laubie of the Circuit court, Youngstown, Ohio, said: Nowhere are such large verdicts given as in this county. Why it should be we do not know. The prosper ity of the city and county depends largely upon those very railroads, and why preju- dice should exist against them we do not know. This results in bringing from sur rounding States How of these damages into this county, and makes 1t an Fl Dorado, a land of gold. open for the people who have been injured in this and adjoining States This verdict was excessive, and was rendered under prejudice by the jury, and is therefore set aside.
 The new Earl of Carlisle is strong tee totaller. and so is Lady Carlisle. Since he has had the management of the estates as one of the trustees he has cloeed all the public houses on the property. The cellar at Castle Howard contained some of the best home brewed ale in England, and the brew-houses were famous everywhere; but they have been entirely destroyed and the vats emptied. For over fifty years the late Lord Carlisle has been in confinement Gin charge of Dr. New ington) at Ticshurst, and for thirty-four years was rector of the valuable family living at Lendesberough in Yorkshire. The es- tates in Cumberland and Yorkshire are very large; and at the time of the death of the seventh Earl of Carlisle, who was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, they were put into the hands of trustees to pay off the mort gages, which were heavy. As the ex.Viceroy died in 1864, the accumulations have been sufficient to extinguish the debt.
 In studying the figures of the Massachu- setss State census Colonel Carol D. Wright throws some new light upon the question of the comparative growth of the native and so- called foreign population in the State. It has been shown that of the 470, 200 married women in Massachusetts, four years ago, 291 ,604 or 62.01 per cent. were native born and 17s, ,65s or 37.99 per cent. were foreign born. Of the native born married women only 79. S2 per cent. were mothers. while of the foreign born married women s6.73 per cent. were mothers. Moreover the foreign born mothers had had sos, ,54s children born to them while the native born mothers had had only 7s4, ,4s9. According to these figures 1t has been supposed that the native stock