Show MARWOOD There is undoubtedly rejoicing among the criminal classes of Great Britain and Ireland Marwcod the national hangman has gone to his long home to make settlement of an account that is awful to contemplate from earth whatever it may be in heaven We dont know but it is the better way to have one man do the hanging for the nation as long as he lives This plan concentrates thp loathing and hate of the country w upon the individual instead of distributing dis-tributing it about among a score or more of men who can be hired to perform the ugly duty of officiating at the official executions The early residents of Salt Lake will remember remem-ber the party who was popularly believed to have taken the place of the sheriff and for 8300 cut the rope that held the scaffold trap and swung an unfortunate being into eternity That act shrouded the executioners life in darkness His existence thereafter was most miserable mis-erable men avoiding him and boys in the street from safe distance taunting him with his awful act He was known by the suggestive title CuttheRope better than by I his own familiar name If this poor man were held in such disesteem in a little community how intense must have been the hatred toward Marwood who adjusted the ropes and managed all the executions in a great kingdom for many years I One can imagine that life would be a burden to such a creature and that he would gladly escape the world if the fear ofmeeting the unfortunate unfortun-ate fellows whose business he had done did not make himafiaid to go AN INDIANA judge feels that his State has been scandalized by the exposures of Dorsey who states that 8400000 of the Republican corruption fund was necessary to induce the Hoosiers to vote the Garfield ticket The judge has laid Dorseys revelations before the grand jury and asked that body to investigate of course with the view to the indictment and prosecution of the guilty It is a safe wager that nobody will get into trouble from anything the grand jury will do Bribery and corruption are cardinal doctrines of the Republican party That organization has carried elections elec-tions so often by the use of money that it does not regard the practice as even immoral much less a crime and it is not certain that the Democrats are in a condition to hurl stones at their wicked oppon 4 ente |