Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-01
are much alarmed. They demand protec. tive duty.

story told of him by Dr. Hammond, to the l effect that he (Garcelon) treated wounded I men after the battle of Antietem unskillfuly l surgeon general of Maine after the battle of | Antietam, but denies that he met Dr. Ham, mond on that occasion. He would probably remember the incident if it occurred, but SO | would Dr. Hammond, whose memory of the l name and alleged rank of the person whose | treatment of the wounded he rebuked is too
 precise to allow the supposition that he mis, took the identity of the offender. There is no apparent motive for misrepresentation on his part, while Dr. Garcalon's professional pride
 and regard for his general reputation would be strong inducements for him to forget what
 it was highly disagreeable to remember. The Philadelphia Times includes sketch of President Hayes in its series of sketches of presidential candidates. It is written by the well known correspondent, H. V. Boynton, and is appreciative, critical and compliment
 ary. The best reasons for regarding Presi-
 dent Hayes as possible candidate seem to
 be, in addition to his popularity with the peo-
 pie, his invariable good luck and the desire of
 business men with large interests that there shall be no change in government policy. His luck was conspicuous in the war, where his record is brilliant one he was elected to
 Congress while he was at the front refusing
 to return home to take part in the canvass;
 was re elected, and was three times elected Governor of Ohio. defeating such able op- ponents as Thurman, Pendleton and Allen.
 His luck or something else carried him through the ordealof 18767, and made him President in spite of large popular majority against him. In his letter of acceptance,
 however, he declared his 'infexible purpose, if elected not to be candidate for election to second term." He has recently declared that he has not changed his mind, but some continue to think that he would take re- nomination if it were offered to him.
 Orange growing, like the Chinese question, has two sides, and one side is thus described by correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle First inquire the price of quinine then null tiply the number of ounces you will probably consume in the ten years necessary to bring budded trees to bearing by the average cost SOA-OS the cost of your land if cleared, and of clearing if not; then your trees at fifty cents each; then allow certainly one ''freeze-b -back"-that means before your trees are seven years old they are likely to be frozen down to the root at least once, and if you get off with this you are lucky then the cost and labor of caring for them. Orange trees will not grow in Florida without constant fertilization and incess ant care. say constant; for the first hard rain will wash your fertilizer down, down to where the pre- historic sand meets the coral reef upon which the State is built. After waiting ten years, and this is the shortest time you can depend upon for crop Of oranges of any amount, you must foot up quinine, time, labor, fertilizer, price of enlarged liver and more enlarged spleen, incidental expenses, etc, before you place any figures on the profit side of your ledger. Having your grove in bearing order, you ought to realize nice income for life, provided neither your trees nor yourself get ''the yellows' or ''the drop" The yeliows in trees, as in man, is jaundce, owing to ob- structed circulation. The ''drop' is when oranges drop of before they are ripe in man 1t is when he drops on himself. The cure for the yellows in orange trees is to saw them of close to the ground in tho human vegetable it is to get out. Likewise for the drop, oys- ter shell lime in the case of trees in man, 8 contract with a sawmill for one box before mentioned, crawl in, turn up your toes, and get friend to nail on the cover.
 The decision concerning negotiable bills Of lading just rendered by the United States Supreme Court is an important one. The case involved the title to lot Of cotton through a negotiable bill of ladipg. The cot ton was shipped from St. Louis to Philadel phia by Norvell & Co.,, who indorsed their bill of lading to the Merchants National Bank of St. Louis, which discounted their time draft. While the cotton was on it's way from St. Louis to Philadelphia, the indorsed bill Of lading was stolen by one of the firm of Kuhn
 & Brother, by whom it was indorsed to Miller
 & Brother for gu advance of $8, 500. Miller
 $ Brother sold the cotton to Shaw & Esrey,
 against whom this suit WAS brought in the Circuit Court of the United States in Phila- delphia, by the Merchants National Bank Of St. Louis. The jury found that there was no negligence on the part of the bank in losing possession of the bill of lading, and that Miller & Brother had sufficient reasons for knowing or suspecting that Kuhn
 & Brother were not the lawful owners of it, and hence had no right to dispose of it. The Supreme Court, affirming the judgment
 below, holds that, under these circumstan
 ces, Miller & Brother did not acquire good kn fha hut hot tba tla still in the bank. The court considers the general principles which govern negotiable
 bills of lading, and points out the distinction
 between bills of lafing and bills of exchange and promissory notes. Tho latter are ex-
 ceptional in their character. They are rep
 resentatives of money, circulating in the
 commercial world as evidence of money.
 They may be used by any person to make purchases, pay debts, or use in making re- mittances. Purchasers in good faith may often hold them against the true owner. Bills of lading, on the other hand, are regard ed as so much cotton, grain, iron, or other article of merchandise. In commerce they are different from bills of exchange and notes, and answer 8 different purpose. A statute which simply makes them negotiable by in dorsement and delivery does not make them equal in all respects to bills of exchange and I notes. Whatever might be the rule in the case of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, the purchaser of stolen bill of lading, with reason to believe that his vendor was not the lawful owner, does not acquire any title to the merchandise as against the true owner. 
 DUST THOU AIsT.
 There is a town in Kansas named ''Mon- key Wrench" The inhabitants are probably hard nuts.
 Jones being told he looked seedy, and asked
 what business he was in, replied: s'The hard