Morning journal and courier., 1880-11-08

lars worth at time. The milk may be de- livered, if desired, in locked cans, and if
 there is any surplus the company will make 1t into butter cheese. The company should agree to pay fixed percentage on its stock provided the earnings are sufficient, and the surplus, if any, should be divided among the
 milk producers in proportion to the quantity of milk supplied. The board of directors
 should be composed of business men and consumers, and the chairmen of the State | and city boards of health should always be \ members of it. This is the plan in substance ! Similar arrangements are said to have worked with entire success on great scale in Lon \ don, and on smaller scale in Syracuse, New York. The plan is cordially approved by ! Governor Long, Mayor Prince and the Bos- ! ton board of health.
 call is issued from the headquarters of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society signed by about one hundred gentlemen from all parts of the State, for convention to meet at Boston Wednesday, November F, to consider the cause of temperance in the light of history and present exigencies, and see if new departure should not be taken in dis cussions and methods of work, which shall
 unite the moral forces of the commonwealth and enlist the cooperation of good people in
 carrying forward this reform. In the lan-
 guage of the official notice of the meeting
 ''This convention is called for the consider
 ation and discussion of the subject of tenn
 perance exclusively on moral grounds, and
 not for the purpose of discussing or act
 ing upon the political or legal as-
 poets of the subject. The subscri-
 bers feel that the exigencies of the
 time call loudly upon every Christian and
 philanthropist to cooperate with his fellow citizens to give new impetus to the cause which should be dear to every true heart I Especially should there be systematized and set in motion educational influences which 1 shall develop the young in the principles of self-control and sobriety." If the new move 1 ment can be kept out of politics it may amount to something.
 The minister of the United States at St. | Petersburg in a recent dispatch to the depart l ment of State draws a gloomy picture of the | present economic and social condition of Russia. The grain crop of the past season, he says, has proved failure, and American | wheat is imported now even at St. Peters, burg. It is also entering at Odessa and other Russian ports. But large market for this American cereal cannot be predicted, as very little bread made of wheat is used in Russia The mass of the people must have a cheaper and coarser article, such rye or Indian corn. The scarcity of grain in the Empire is 70 great that it currently reported and generally believed that the Imperial govern nent was considering the propriety of pro- 1ibiting the exportation of rye. There will 'e much suffering among the poor classes. Ir. Foster, the minister, in his dispatch, Iuotes from the GOL0s of St. Petersburg as oIlows "From all sides comes news of the harvest being below the average of want and lunger from which will spring disease and, cry likely, death. Beetles, worms and ocusts are eating up the corn; the diminu- ion of cattle surpasses all belief; diphtheria 5 taking off the coming generation; bread tuffs have already reached five kopecks per 'ound. Every one feels that Russia does not ubsist by the produce of it's own land, but is Easting its capital in cutting wood, selling urplus cattle pulling straw from it's thatched oofs and depriving itself of it's very clothes nd shoes"