Points And Decisions

Justlce Pipe of Colorado has rendered a decisión that the recent state law prohibiting gambling is unconstitutlonal, and the devil is laughing a great loud ha! ha! The Supreme rourt of the United States decides that a negro if fairly tried by a "jury of his peers," even if all the members of the Jury are white, the color eonstituiing no issue. Judge Cable of the New Haven city court the other day put his foot down hard on the practice of refunding to pawnbrokers the money advanced on stolen goods. He said the custom was a direct encouragement of crime. The Supreme Judicial court of Maine decides that a newspaper has the right to crltlcise the manner of construction of a city hall, and that no action for damages can be brought by the builders in consequence of such criticism. The Iowa Supreme court notities attorneys that the court must not be loaded wlth shorthund notes and that cases must be abstracted when presented to the court. It would be well if testimony taking and Jury choosing could be abstracted too. The Supreme court of Illinois, in the case of an ex-slave who had married a new wife after gaining his freedom, decided that a former marriage wlth a slave woman could be repudlated. The children of the second wife lnherit. A teacher in Chambersburg, Pa., licked a bad boy who kicked a girl and drew a knife to prevent punishment. The boy's father had the teacher arrested, but the judge decided that the teacher had not exceeded his authority. The famous quintuplet babies of Paducah, Ky., are mixed up in a lawsuit. A doctor had arranged to make a ghastly exhibit of the five little bodies, but the undertaker, who wanted to exhibit them himself, refused to let them be taken away until a bilí of J500 was paid.