Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-04

and that they will be able to show, out of MT Tilden's own mouth, that he was worse thai he now claims MT. Bayard to have been l They also declare that in spite of the attemp of Tilden and his managers to make it appea | that MT. Bayard was secessionist as a mat ter of fact it was more largely owing to his in fuence than to any other citizen of Delawar that no ordinance of secession was passed b, that State.
 The Boston Post rebukes the Democrat. papers which '' are so anxious to become conspicuous and to be quoted by the Repub hcan press, that every now and then they | cry out that the Democratic nominee must bt I neither MT. Tilden nor any man having Til den smell about his garments'" s'Mr. Til ! den," says the Post, s'may not be the Demo cratic candidate, he may not, in the opinion I of the National convention, be the most available man to nominate, but these few Democratic papers, before referred to, ought to bear in mind that the only Democratic Presidential candidate who has given the par ty victory in twenty years had considerable of Tilden smell about his garments"
 Mir. Shepard one of our consuls in Eng land, has furnished an account of the English system of postoffice savings banks, which has been looked upon with some favor in this country. They were established in 1861, when the money order system went into eff feet. The smallest amount dapositable is twenty-five cents, the largest in any one year one hundred and fifty dollars, and the maxi mum for single person altogether seven hundred and fifty dollars. Thefnterest paid by the Government is two and a half per cent. on all amounts of pound or over Sums under pound draw no interest In case of change of residence of depositor, the account can be transferred accordingly without difficulty or much expense. The sys- tenn is said to be very popular with the peo- pie, as the aggregate of about three and a half million of depositors seems to attest. These are represented mainly by servants, la borers and persons of small means
 A strange little pamphlet has just made its appearance in Paris written in the ingenious ly prophetic style of the historian who de-
 
 entities his sketch, s'The Campaign of Ger many against Russia and France in the years 1580-1, written in 1881, on the fifteenth ami versary of the battle of Warsaw" In June of the year 1880, begins the chronicler, po- ltical complications had gone so far that on the 10th of that month declarations of war on the part of Russia and France were delivered at the courts of Vienna and Berlin The writer then describes the course of hostilities on the Russo. German frontier, the interven hon of Italy in favor of the Franco Russian alliance, the campaign in Alsace- Lorraine, the espousal by England of the cause of Ger many and Austria, and the final overthrow of the triple offensive coalition, causing in France the deposition of the Dictator Gam betta, and the election of Prince Napoleon as President of the Republic. The latter, with the consent of the Chambers, enters into peace negotiations with Germany France cession of sace-Lorraine and promises to pay an indemnity of twelve milliards as well as agree to general European disarmament
 An interesting contribution has been made by the Cologne Zeitung to the old question, | Was Shylock Jew? A writer in that paper l has discovered in the eleventh book of Grego- l rio Leti's ''Life of Pope Sixtus "" story to l the following effect Ten years before the l probable date of the production of Shake l speares play Roman merchant named Paul | Maria Secchi, and who was a good Catholic l Christian, learned that Sir Francis Drake had | San Domingo. He imparted his | news to Jewish trader, Simeon Ceneda, who | either disbelieved it or had an interest in | making it appear so, and obstinately contested emphasize his contradiction, he added he | would stake pound weight of his flesh on | the contrary. The Christian took him at his | word, stalking 1000 scudi against the pound of flesh, and the bet was attested by two wit nesses. On the truth of Drake's conquest | being confirmed, the Christian demanded the fulflment of the wager. In vain the Jew of | fered money instead of the stake he had | agreed to, and finally appealed to the Cover | nor. The Governor appealed to the Pope, | who sentenced them both to the galleys-a | punishment they were allowed to make up for by payment of 1000 scudi each to the Hospital of the Sixtine Bridge. Leti's 'Life | of Sixtus V.' was published in 1869 at Lau- same. Catholic writers have never looked | upo.. it with any favor, but whether trust | worthy history or not, this story is curious