Good Sunday Morning!

While you slept:

• The old form of communications known as the telegram ended last night in the last place they were still regularly being sent: India, reports The BBC.

     There was a rush of people sending last minute messages to their family members so they would have one as a keepsake. Many people learned to dread the arrival of a telegram because it frequently meant the announcement of a death.

     If we ever received one growing up I don't remember it. I suspect phones had largely replaced them in urban areas by the time I came around.

     Telegrams once flooded the Governor's office in Alabama from around the globe over the Scottsboro boys trials. 



     Of course there is a service online that will send a replica of an old fashioned telegram for $7.15. They are cute, but not quite the same, and I can't imagine using one to announce a death.

• Glee actor Cory Monteith---Fin---has died at the age of 31.

He was found in a hotel room in Vancouver, Canada. Foul play is not believed to be involved, but he had talked about a longtime struggle with drugs.

• And, of course, the jurors in the George Zimmerman trial acquited him of all charges. USA Today quote: Jesse Jackson as calling the verdict 

The Scotsboro Boys.

"Old South justice. I'm disappointed and I'm saddened for the family."