Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-26

eral Grant be invited as the guest of the Ma tional and State committees and that pub lie demonstration in his honor be feature of
 the procession In addition he would have
 the ex-President sit as chairman of the meet
 ing and in that capacity make brief address in favor of Garfield and Arthur. He also
 suggests that Senator Conlling be made the
 orator of the night, and that he then make
 the ssfnest effort of his ife'' Such meet
 ing would be worth going to if one could get anywhere near it.
 The curious fact appears from recent
 Irish statistics that while the charity of the
 world has been invoked in behalf of starving
 Ireland, the savings bank deposits of the
 people in that unhappy island have actually
 increased in amount, and the sum invested there in Government stocks has also largely
 increased. The deposits in the postoffice
 savings banks for the year ending Decem-
 Der 31 were $457, ,500 more than for
 the year preceding This increase was
 greater than for any previous year with two
 exceptions, and for the first quarter of the
 present year the increase was at more rapid rate. The deposits in other savings banks, however, have decreased $430, GOO, which nearly offsets the gain in the postoffice banks, but on the whole there has been small in- crease. The people have not drawn upon their savings, but have slightly added to them. The increase in the amount invested in government stocks for the past year was $3, O15, 900. Of the eight counties in which the famine has been most severely felt it seems that the deposits have increased in six and have diminished in only two. These are interesting facts, but they not especially credftable to those who have been laying up money while their countrymen were starving
 J. Austin Strong of Austin, Texas an- nounces the rather startling discovery that C all epidemics and diseases to which the human family have been made heirs originate solely from amalgamation of the white, black and brown races of men, deadly crime against the natural laws, and which is re- corded in Biblical history as the mark of the beast'" MT. Strong adds: '.Now is the time for the people of the United States to know that epidenlics can be, and started up North, which they will eoncede when re- fecting on the fact that the French have made speciality of amalgamation with all the Indian tribes on the Northern borders and that their offspring became affinity bat teries for infection, who with affinity hybrids from Rio Janeiro, from the phosphoresent zone, can start smallpox, yellow fever or cholera. It can be proven that yellow fever is endemic wherever the affinities exist to set it off, and salty atmosphere to float the Yapor infection, therefore it is endemic in Havana; and the medical profession know that it originates in human beings"
 When the Hon. George McCrary, late Sec retary of War, was in Congress he a member of the Poland committee, and bis opinion concerning General Garfield and his alleged connection with the Credit Mobilier is therefore valuable. He says that in the investigation there appeared conflict of tes- timony between General Garfield and Oakes Ames as to the character of their transac- tions, but the committee was unanimously of the opinion that even upon Ames' own state ment General Garfield had done no wrong, and Democrats and Republicans united in so reporting The paragraph in the report which seems to decide the disputed question of fast in favor of Ames was based upon en- tries in his memorandum book which were offered to corroborate his testimony. "It was, says MT. MeCrary, almost no more than the common case of difference in recol- lection between parties to a past transaction. Such conflicts of daily occurrence in our courts, and are decided they must be, one way or the other, without any reflection 1 upon the veracity of the witness whose re- collection is not sustained. With respect, however, to this transaction I must say that l subsequent developments and further con- sideration of the matter long ago led me to the conclusion that the memorandum of Mir Ames was very unreliable, and l have for 1 years felt assured of the correctness of Gen eral Garfelds recollection of the facts in 1 dispute" l