Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-03

5. 1880.
 rate of interest at three per cent. As Cover
 nor Holiday is not repudiator Ee will prob ably veto the bill, and it is doubtful if it can be passed over his veto.
 The Chinese Government wants to know if | this Government is going to protect the peaceful and industrious citizens of China
 who are residents of this country. The Chi
 nese Government should not have occasion to
 ask such 8 question.
 A plan for ship canal across Cape God to
 furnish an outlet for southern commerce has
 been prepared by Mir. Clemens Herschel, 8 civil engineer of Boston. He estimates the
 cost of connecting Cape God Bay with Bug
 zard's Bay, all told, at S2, 500, 900, which is
 much less than previous estimates. The pro-
 posed canal would be about seven and half
 miles in length.
 The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was very much
 out of temper because St. Louis was not se- lected as the place for holding the National Democratic Convention, and charged that the
 claims of the city were defeated by 'sbad gen
 eralship and big drunk" Byington writes
 to the Norwalk Gazette that he fears the charge is too true from what he saw of the af- fair. He also says that it was Confederate preponderation" that settled the locality in fa- vor of Cincinnati
 The town and city elections in Maine show,
 by great Republican gains, that the people are not disposed to condone the fraud that was intended to deprive them of their rights. In the disfranchised towns and cities the senti- ment of the people has been made especially plain. In Portland for example, where the combined Democrats and Greenbackers had majority of 40, in total of 5,s44, last year, the Republicans have majority of ,234. in total vote of 5,57O, this year. A like result has been reached in Bath, another disfran- chised city.
 The capital of great and civilized country ought to be a safer place to live in than Wash ington seems to be. Not long ago young ->~- at an early hour in the evening by some ne- groes whose purpose in committing the crime was robbery. Last week young lady while on her way to church was seized by negro and so brutally outraged that she has since died. Crime of various kinds so fourishes in Washington that the citizens talk of vigi- lance committee if more effective police force is not provided.
 When Panitelli Andrea Fachiri, Antonio z. Vouros and Antonio Andrew Fachiri in charge of the New York branch of the famous cotton and produce commission house of Ralli Brothers, London, went down to their office Monday morning. they were surprised at being handed notes which informed them that they retired immediately from the employ ment of Ralli Brothers. These notes caused the recipients sensation, and also made a sensation among the many business acqusint- ances of the three. This summary proceeding is explained by the fact that the head of the London house had discovered that the New York managers were speculating, which was against the rigid rule of the firm, to the ob- servance of which rule even gentlemen who invest s5O, 900 in the concern are required to bind themselves. There is no way of know ing how much the New York managers have made, but on the whole their speculation has probably been bad one.
 The British army is composed of 121, ,44t Englishmen, 13,916 Scotchmen, and 36, ,S85 Irishmen. Besides these there are 2, 654 for eigners, serving mostly in the Colonial Corps, and 8, ,970 men concerning whose nationality no particulars are given. The religion of the soldier appears to follow his nationality pretty closely, as there are 13, 7Os Presbyterians and 39, 743 Roman Catholics; the Church of Eng land claims 114, ,O31, and 7,462 are described as ''other Protestants. There is one Jew in the cavalry, and 152 Hindoos and Mahome- tans are to be found in the Colonial Corps. The statistics as to the height of men serving in the army will be somewhat disappointing to those who are wont to boast of the stature of an Englishman; 415 men per 1000 are under 5 feet z inches, and only 20 per 1000 are 6 feet and upwards. AS regards the age of men now serving there is slight improvement as compared with former years, 1O6 men only l per 1000 being under twenty years of age, 1 while 261 per 1000 are over thirty, leaving l nearly two-thirds of the non commissioned | officers and rank and file in the prime of life. |
 The new civil damage biIl now pending in l the Massachusetts Senate, provides that a liquor seller shall be answerable for all dam ages which may follow the sale of liquor to an intoxicated person, or to any one who he has reasonable cause to suppose will become in- toxicated, or to any one to whom he has been warned not to sell. The owner of the building in which the sale is made is not to be answera- ble for the damage which may result from the sale, but the seller is required, before receiv- ing his license, to give bond, with sufficient | sureties, in the sum of two thousand dollars, to satisfy any judgment which may be recov- | cred under this law. The temperance people | make some forcible objections to this bill. It would be very difficult to prove that a custo- mer was intoxicated when the sale was made, or that the seller had reason to suppose that | he would become so. If the customer were already intoxicated when the sale was made, the mischief would be already done, and the person who ought to be held answerable would be he who supplied the liquor which caused the drunkenness. A clever lawyer would have little trouble in confusing 8 jury on the essential points. The warning by 8 wife or relative might be of some value.
 FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
 The bee hive is the poorest thing in the world to fall back on.
 The man who was hurt by falling back sud