Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-25

Garfield would, Tn all probability, not now be the Republican candidate elect''
 An intelligent correspondent of the Dublin Freeman's Journal cheeringly prophecies the garnering of abundant harvests in Ireland this year from July to November. The late heavy rains, following the long drought, have caused potatoes to grow with great ra- pidity, the cereals which have appeared above ground are of a rich and heavy green hue, the artificial grasses are making satisfactory progress and the pastures look beautiful; indeed, E'the whole face of the country smiles upon the husbandman'' Should the weather be normally warm next month heavy cereal produce may be looked for in most districts. What is most needed in Ire- land now, according to this correspondent, is the development of dairy industries and a greater amount of land given over to the cul- tivation of culinary vegetables.
 ! fAii J9hr4xf examination of fifty-two wells used by the citizens of Madison, Wis, has re- gently been made. Ten were returned by the chemists suspicious, three as bad, thirty three very bad, five as good and only one as very good. The report was quite 8 shock to the good citizens, who had been praising the excellent water from their deep old wells. Most of these wells were over seventy feet in depth, and the water cool and bright, and gave no warning by taste smell that it was unfit for use as beverage. In all but six were found traces of sewage drainage, and in some the vile essences were present in quantities which made it wonderful that any who had drank from them should have escaped disease Ty- phoid fever and scarlet fever had not been absent from the city for several years
 The directory of large city contains a good deal that is curious. The New York directory has just been issued and among the names Smith holds its time-honored pre- eminence, covering no less than fifteen solid pages. Of Charles Smiths alone there are over one hundred, and of Johns there is a full page of fine and closely printed type. Of the female Smiths there are forty eight widows all in row, and all named Mary This does l not include the Mary A. s and Mary B. s who are widows, and of whom there is a mode A]NSO-SAASNA tinues to increase and multiply, filling in this years directory over eight pages, against seven and fraction in last. Of Joneses there are four and quarter pages; of Fay lors, three pages of Lewises, two pages, and so on. O'Brien heads the list of Irish names with three and half pages O'Connor following with two and half pages. There are four to five pages of German Schmidts and Schmitts, and two pages of Schneiders.
 The Richmond CVirginia) Commonwealth makes some remarks concerning MT. Tilden and political bosses generally that will meet with approval wherever they are read. It says ''The only objection that we have ever had to MT. Tilden, besides his lack of availability, his playing the role of boss and smart man. We do not like political bosses and smart men-'great organizers as their friends call them. We believe in plain speaking and open dealing. We do not like men who live in an atmosphere of mystery and above all things, dislike to have any mysterious, intangible machinery attached to our politics The leadership of these so- called organizations is one of the great evils of American politics, and it calls upon patri- otic citizens everywhere for remedy. Away with it In politics, as in business, let every man graduate his worth on the open scale of nature. Perhaps MT. Tilden has been in this, as in other respects, greatly slandered j; but the public looks upon him as a political boss, and hence much of his unpopularity." :" The survey in Florida for ship canal across the peninsula has been completed, and it's estimated cost is $5, 900, 900. An estimate of receipts at the rate of twenty-eight cents per ton of registered tonnage, based on a calculation of two-thirds of the tonnage that went through the Straits of Florida for the last fiscal year, would enable the canal to pay it's current expenses; but to realize per cent. interest on the cost of construction
 four times the tonnage of last year would have to pass through the canal. This brings us face to face with the point of the whole problem. With canal would business be thus quadrupled? General Gilmore, who made the survey, thinks it would. He counts on increasing cotton and grain shipments from New Orleans; but he evidently distrusts his own calculations, for he assumes that even if the canal should not pay as an investment, it's benefit to the country in other ways will more than compensate for it's cost. The New
 York Bulletin, in presenting the facts and General Gilmore's citation of Canadian canals in support of the | aforementioned point, very truly ob- serves: f'This is an infelicitous illustration
 to say the least of it. The condition of Ca- nadian finances and the state of her internal affairs will not bear the slightest investigation if it is idesired to them for exemplary purposes. We must begin at the other end of the Florida Canal scheme and work up a
 paying instead of an imaginary necessity for itn
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