Connecticut western news., 1879-03-19
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

made war against Chinese 1mmlgra- tion. In 1573 Morga called for the ex- pulsion of the Chinese from Manila, say ing that they were vicious and wicked people, and too large eaters to be profta- ble. The number which came to Manila was too great he said. Shortly after this the countrymen of Morga killed or drove into the desert about 25,000 Chinese. Only two years after this massacre, the number of Chinese had so increased in Manila that decree was issued limiting them to 6,O00 who must be '' employed in cultivation" and requiring each of these 5000 to pay the Captain General half an ounce or $8 for permission to re- main. Thirty years afterwards they had grown to 40, ,0OO, and had to be reduced again by second grand massacre. In 1762 the then Captain General ordered all the Chinese in the Philippines to be hanged. In 1919 the Chinese were again butchered on suspicion of poisoning the wells." At the present time milder means are resorted to of averting Mon golian inundation of Manila, such as i'm posing extraordinary taxes on the Chinese residents. But the Chinese cannot be kept out of the Philippines even by extraordinary taxes.
 MT. William Allen Butler, whose opinion was called for on the question of how far the laws of New York State affect the publication of lottery adver- tisements, has written letter relative to the subject. The point disputed was whether the sections of law regarding the advertisement of lotteries applied to lotteries legally established in other States as well as to lotteries carried on in New York. MT. Butler, who shows that the affirmative of this proposition is true, calls attention to the decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Charles against the people 1 Comstock, 1SO, where it was held that "the mis- chief which the law intended to prevent is the same by the publication of an &C., count of foreign as of domestic lot tery, and that the words in the statute -" such illegal lottery y"-refer to "Iot- teries for disposing of money or property which had not been authorized by the laws of New York State; and all other gaming lotteries are illegal there, though they may have been authorized by the laws of other States" In accordance with this, Judge Westbrook charged the Grand Jury of Ulster County that the proprietors of newspapers advertising lotteries are guilty of misdemeanor.
 The Christmas dinner at the United States Consulate at Bangkok (Siam) was as patriotic as native dishes, ,could make it. The shM of fare was supremely American, and must have made the Americans present feel as if they were still in their own land, instead of in
 Indo-C China, thousands and thousands of miles away. It embraced not only roast
 turkey, boiled corn beef, chicken, mince,
 pumpkin and whortleberry pies, but
 Kennebec salmon, New York Holsters,
 Cape Ann mackeral, Little Neck clans,
 Beverly baked beans, California pota.
 toes, Boston peas, Philadelphia toma.
 toes, Schenectady asparagus, California
 peaches, Baltimore raspberries, New
 Jersey pears, and Connecticut blackber
 ries. It may seem remarkable to the
 average American reader that all thit
 American fish, fruit and flesh should be
 procurable at Bangkok, but he must re
 member that our edibles of almost ever,
 kind go in cans to every part of ths
 world.
 A large number of the young me1
 of Rochester, N. Y., have organized
 themselves into an association that vii
 be productive of good. They pledge
 themselves to refuse any and all invita-
 tions to partake at another's expense o
 any wines, liquors or other intoxicating
 beverages whatever at any public bar
 hotel CT saloon, or in any place wher : reciprocation of similar nature is DOS
 sible, and they also declare that they vii ) never, during their connection with thi
 order, extend any invitation to any per son or persons to partake at their e1 7 pense of any wines, liquors or other in ! toxicating beverages whatever at an, public bar, hotel or saloon. If societ 7 similar to this were organized in ever } neighborhood its results would be bene fical. Two-thirds of our drunkenness 5 comes from the purely American an : purely vicious habit of treating. Me 5 get drunk every day who go into a sa . loon to take one drink, and being treate r are expected by the treating law to trea their friends, and are full of vile whisk l before they realize what they are doing , Arrangements are being perfecte :, :, for grand reunion of New York, Ne Jersey and Pennsylvania editors an their wives and families at Cape May June next. The different association D it is expected, if the arrangement carried out, will meet in their respectiv States and then adjourn to meet at Car May. There will be a jolly time of i Il Just imagine the gathering. The fra ternity of three States gathered at on 2 !. point. The sanctum, the complaints ( "A subscribers, the annoyances of the ofic v will be left behind, and there will L u only desire to spend a few days , harmless recreation. Editors know ho 4 to enjoy themselves, and that they wi
 do so at Cape May next June is sure # be the case.
 a Returned emigrants to Brazil tell fl sad story of the Restitution and suffe r ings of those who went to that countl y expecting to find work at good pa.