Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-30

convention at Hartford the clause, tsThe unit rule was enforced" should have had ''not' in it.
 The Baltimore Gazette claims. to have ; knowledge that the exact amount of United
 States per cent. bonds held by Mr. William
 H. Vanderbilt is $47, ,O5O, GOO, and that he is
 also an investor in 4 and 5 per cent. bonds to
 a small extent-say three or four millions.
 Is that all /?
 l The London Times is well satisfied with
 Gladstone's choice of members of his Minis i try. It says: ''On the whole, the difficult ! task which MT. Gladstone undertook seems to have been judiciously performed thus i far. liberal administration has been formed which promises to be at once strong, moderate and representative. It will be served by able subordinates, and 1t only re- mains that it should be prudently guided" If ! MT. Gladstone continues to show as little of l the visionary" he is accused of being as he
 has since his elevation, he will sadly disappoint
 his enemies.
 There is some talk of refunding the three
 per cant British consols at a rate of interest
 one-half per cent. lower. The market price
 of the outstanding consols is higher now than it has been for generation, being indeed but a shade below par. This fact would naturally suggest to an able fnancier like MT. Gladstone an issue of bonds which could be put upon the market to day at about the same price at which the existing securities have stood on an average for many years. The reduction
 ~R srka. ly. and if he could accomplish the operation
 Mr. Gladstone would win much credit.
 James P. Root is daily in receipt of letters and personal applications for admission to the Chicago convention. No plan has yet been adopted for the distribution of tickets. The committee will meet prior to the convention and adopt plan. The delegates the alter mates and the press will be provided for, be yond which he is unable to say anything although he considers it more than likely that after providing for Republican Senators and members of Congress, and those who have contributed toward the expenses of fitting up the building the balance will be distributed among the delegates pro rata. MT. Root ad- vises every one desirous of ticket to be pretty friendly with the delegates from his district.
 The Canadian idea of the Fortune Bay af- | fair, which is just now so much discussed, may | be gathered from the following statements | made by leading Canadian journal, which | makes out four distinct breaches of the law | by the American fishermen First, it says, | they iisregarded Provincial act which pro- hibits the seining of herring on the coast be- tween the goth of October and the 26th of April second, they violated special clause in the law which provides for the observance of Sunday by coast fishermen third, they | were 'sbarring" fish in violation of the act | which demands that seines shall be immedi- ately hauled fourth. they were interfering | with the rights of private property by draw ing seines from the shore, in direct contraven- ton of the terms of the Washington treaty. |
 Philadelphia is astonished to find that it is | to have an elevated railroad. The enterprise | was kept secret until very lately, and the | first public intimation of it was the rapid de- | molition of houses. Contrary to what has | been done in New York city, the line within | the city proper is to run on property owned | by the company, except where it crosses | streets. The projectors are the Pennsylvania | Railroad Company, and it is to run from their | present depot, in West Philadelphia, to Broad | and Market streets, in the heart of the city. | The job of purchasing the ground of it's 250 | owners was undertakents . year ago by trusty | agents, and the buyers were over hundred | rhn kn ho l at the proper time. By this plan the proper | ty was all acquired at reasonable prices. The | structure is to be of brick and iron and the | Schuylkill is to be crossed by massive bridge. |
 The right of an Indian to vote under the | Fourteenth amendment is to be tested by a | civil suit just brought in the United States | Court for Nebraska. John Elk, an Indian, | living in the oity of Omaha, offered himself for registration before the recent city election and was refused because he was Indian, and could not be citizen. On election day | he went to the polls and offered his vote, but it was rejected on the ground that he was not registered, and, being an Indian, had no right to vote. Suit was brought against the regis trar with claim for damages to the amount | of six thousand dollars, the ground of action being that Elk was citizen under the Four teenth amendment, and should not be dis criminated against on account of race under the Fifteenth amendment. The complaint, setting forth the facts as here stated, will have 8 hearing before Judge McCrary, the newly | appointed judge of the United States Circuit | Court, and Judge Dundy of the District Court | of Nebraska, early in May. The Hon. A. J. Popp1eton and J. L. Webster are the attorneys 1 for the Indian, and they have taken hold of | the case with the purpose of seeing that jus-