Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-28

Small pamphlets containing biography of Prince Napoleon, with portrait made up to resemble Napoleon l., are being circulated in
 great numbers among the French peasantry, and it is pointed out that the circulation of similar lives of Louis Napoleon preceded the coup d'etat.
 Mir. Oliver Dalrymple, of Minnesota, is no
 one horse farmer. He says he shall cultivate thirty thousand acres Of wheat this year. He will operate twenty steam threshers and one
 hundred and thirty-fiv reaping machines.
 Last year he employed six hundred workmen,
 and this year he will need at least seven hun dred
 Miss Flood, who is said to De engaged to Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., will not be under the
 odious necessity of asking her husband for
 money every time she goes out shopping if
 she exercises strict economy. Her father has
 just given her $2, 500, 900 in four per cents.,
 which will give her an annual income of
 $1OO, 1000.
 It takes a woman to concoct real satisfy ing revenge. The city editor of the Dubuque Times is woman and quarreled with the city l editor of the Dubuque Telegraph, who is 8
 man. The latter got married the other day, | and his female rival wrote up the wedding. the ceremony, the guests and dresses, but omitted all mention of the groom's name.
 When the Mayor of Augusta recently or | dered the liquor shops. in that city closed
 there was immediate inquiry as to how any | liquor shops happened to be open in State | 1,-- k, l..
 strictly enforced. Neal Dow writes to the
 Tribune explaining that there are still some
 liquor shops in Maine, but he expects that by l and by the machinery of the law will be so l adjusted that ''when it strikes rumseller he will think horse kicked him and will be en-
 tirely squelched by one experience of its pow
 er." ''In all our rural districts and in our
 smaller towns and villages" says MT. Dow,
 ''the liquor traffic is absolutely unknown, where it WAS universal and open before the en-
 actment of prohibition"
 The teachers in the public schools of Jersey City seem to know their rights in the matter of salaries and dare to maintain them. They
 have issued an appeal to taxpayers in which | they complain that the government of the
 city, having recently increased its laborers' | wages 20 per cent, has simultaneously re-
 dueed the salaries of teachers IT per cent thus making both ends meet and touting for votes at the expense of the children of the
 people. The address of the teachers contains a tabulated statement from which it appears
 among other things that in 1876, which was
 year of depression, $1s4,ooO. were expended
 for teachers salaries, against $146, 900 in 1879,
 which was year of returning prosperity And
 this although during 1879 three thousand l more pupils were taught than in 1878. The English railway commission, which has | heretofore interfered in an effective way to secure from the companies under it's super vision proper accommodations for passengers
 and freight, has received check from the l Queens Bench division of the English high
 court of justice. Some three years ago the | corporation of Hastings complained to the commissioners that the station accommoda- tions at that place were defective, and prayed
 for an order directing the Southeastern Rail-
 way Company to improve them. After a hearing an order was made requiring very ex- tensive improvements. Hastings being popu-
 lar watering-place, much resorted to by inva-