Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1859 — Abolition of the Grand Jury in Michigan. [ARTICLE]

A bolition of the Grand Jury in Michigan.

The Detroit Free Press says, the act providing for the trial of criminals by information goes into effect sixty dacs after the 12th of February, at which time it became a law. This law virtually abolishes the Grand Jury* which has for so long exercised its inquisitorial functions, reserving for the Circuit Judge power to call it into session whenever special cases need its aid. All cases are to be examined before a Justice of the Peace*, and by them co mitted directly to the higher courts,instead of indictments, as has been previously < one. o<7”l’he great center iron tube of the Victoria bridge, at Montreal, was completed in March, by meansofa staging built on the ice underneath. It wide, and 22 feet high, elevated 60 feet above the level of the river, which allows passage under itot the steamboats, and other craft of that vicinity. Youmg Mem Beware. —At the Columbia Court in Wisconsin, in an action between Maria Benedict plaintiff, against George Hollingsworth defendant, a verdict of fifteen hundred dollars was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for breech of promise of marriage. OfjTA youn lady, at a party some time since, rem irked to a female friend: ‘I can’t think what induces young men to drink to such recess when they know it is so conjurious to their institution!’

0C?“A couple of little boys, broth ts, in Green County, Indiana, quarreled the other day about the possession of an axe. After a one of them succeeded in getting the axe, and immediatley struck his little brother in the head, killing him instantly. GO” A Woman in New York recently complained against a Chatham street merchant for selling her a horse-hair mattrass lined with rat-tails! ■ _ Meekness. —A boy was asked what meekness was. He thought a moment, an 1 s lid: “Meekness gives smooth answers to rough questions. (KT”11 is said to be a well known fact that during the last ten years Kossuth has been studying military science.