Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-17

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 It is not improper for us, at the close of the great trial, to remind our readers how well they have been served by the reports of the proceedings which have appeared in this pa per. Those reports have been graphic, full and fair, and form the most complete record of the trial in existence except that kept by the Court.
 Wheat bids fair to be cheaper next fall, if not before. The area devoted to winter wheat in the Western States is twelve per cent lar ger than last year, with a prospect that the yield will increase in even larger proportion. For the first time in five years winter wheat in England promises good crop. and the same is true in Europe. There would be no widespread grief if the spectators who have filled the Chicago elevators and are waiting for a rise should be disappointed.
 The stock of the Edison electric light com pany has fallen to $1,5OO a share, and the genuineness of "the wizards !" claims is freely attacked. It is even charged that he has done nothing to make such light more practicable than 1t was thirty years ago, and that the large claims than speculation in electric light stock, and the "bearing" of gas stocks to the great ad- vantage of string." The glass globes sur rounding the lights at Menlo Park are crack ing, and although it is evident that the electric light is not yet 8 complete success Edison keeps promising, or his newspaper friends do for him, that it will be in 8 little while. Moral: Don't sell your gas stock too cheaply.
 There Is reason for believing that the Gree D. back leaders are seriously bent upon running a candidate for Pre- sident, and some of the Greenbackers in Congress do not hesitate to say that their purpose is to nominate General Butler. They claim that the Greenbackers and the laboring men will unite upon him, and that together they will poll a larger vote than anybody not in the secret of their organ ization and plans suspect. They pretend to have confidence that they will be able to throw the election into the House of Representatives, and that then they will be able to bring the Democrats to support Butler and thus secure his election. The way in which they talk of the matter indicates that the scheme has been carefully matured and that definite plan of operation has been agreed upon by the leaders.
 The indications that New Jersey does not belong to the United States multiply. Gov ernor Mcclellan says there is no need of 8 State tax, and recommends the abolition of such burden. He says that the Comptroller gives perfectly satisfactory and clear state ment of the case, from which 1t appears that, with the balances now on hand, the. receipts of the State. fund, independently of those de- rived from the State tax, will hereafter suffice to meet the necessary expenses, allowing 8 large margin for contingencies. He secs no reason to believe that it will ever again be necessary to impose State tax, with the sin gle condition that the appropriations are con fined within reasonable limits, and that the honesty and economy which the people have a right to demand are practised. The State debt is only $1, ,ss6, 300. -
 Those who have an idea that the United States Senate is a polite and .dignifed body when 1t is doing, business would have thought differently had. they been present when Senator Morrill, was de- liveripg his address upon the rate of interest at which the national debt should be refund ed. Only ten Senators listened to Mir. Nor Till, the rest being buaiIy engaged in reading or writing, or roaming about and talking with each other and with such visitors as they happened to meet. There was so much bus tie and buzzing that the President was fre-