Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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 EDITORIAL NOTES.
 l The importation of diamonds into tn ! United States has been nearly twice as grea this year as it was last, and the greatest de 1 mand is for the finest stones. Let us have ! change and see If we can't check this dia ] mond buying.
 Chicago is notoriously bad place. but th' l dangerous character of the small boy of tha city is not so well known. The I7ate7-O Ocea7 says: "A policeman weighing 25O pounds walked through one of our principal streets
 on Saturday, leading a'small boy about tel
 years old, with the nippers around his wrist. , An Australian order for twelve locomotive has just been filled in Philadelphia. Tim, was when the English machinists monopolizeG
 the Australian market, but British locomo
 tives have fallen into disfavor. They are toe
 costly, too heavy, too liable to get out of or.
 der, too difficult to repair. The American
 engine is driving them out of the market
 The captain in charge of the steamer Mar
 ragansett at the time she collided with the
 Stonington and the captain of the Stonington
 are disgraced and the steamship company
 censured in the report of those who investi-
 gated the disaster. But this will not raise the
 dead who might now be living but for the
 inexcusable mistakes of the two captains
 The German papers of this city-the Con-
 necticut Botschafter and Neao EngIand A,a-
 seager-come out with the Republican na-
 tional and State tickets at the head of their
 columns, and both of them give strong and
 convincing reasons for their action. This
 action is in accordance with the plain ten
 dency of political opinion among the Ger
 mans of Connecticut
 The inhabitants of smoky Cincinnati are
 delighted with the successful experiments
 that have been made at the industrial expo
 sition there in the consumption of the smoke
 arising from the burning of soft coal, and
 they are figuring up what a big thing it would
 be if they could carry out the suggestion of
 Thomas Hughes in his opening speech at the
 exposition, and have clear skies over their
 heads all the time. Now that the possibility
 of consuming the smoke is demonstrated, it
 is only question of will and of dollars and
 cents. The saving of the millions of dol
 lars now expended to make good the damages
 caused by the running of furniture, books,
 pictures, etc., is certainly worth looking af-
 ter, to say nothing of the advantage of clear
 air over an atmosphere heavily laden with
 sooty smoke.
 Representative Blackburn, of Kentucky, said in the House of Representatives last year: f'We do not intend to stop until we have stricken the last vestige of your war measures from the statute-book-until we have an untrammelled election and an unsu- pervised ballot" This Representative Black burn is now on the stump and the following is the CisacinnaGti Commercials report of one of his speeches The speech of the evening was Blackburn's He denied having uttered the language attributed to him about ''wiping out the last vestige of war legislation" and said that John Sherman and the editor of the Clermont Courier, when they charged him with it, lied, and knew that they lied.'' He assailed the election laws, as he had done in the extra session, denounced President Hayes for his vetoes, and declared that the issue raised over those laws in the extra session was ''the issue to be decided at the polls in November next" He said that Senator Conklings statement in his New York speech on rebel claims was false, and the New York Senator knew it. He used this language about the solid South: 'Let rascals howl about solid South she is solid thank God. She was solid for Jeff Davis in 1860, and we will be solid for Hancock in 1S5O." Fe charged that the Republicans caused the war. This is his language verbatim: "The Re oublicans are the hardest people in the world % get along with. Up to 1861 we tried to get along with them. We endured them ust as long as we could, and when we could ,ndure them no longer said would dis Iolve the partnership, and we took up our ! yrip-sacks and left the home of our fathers" Again he said, "We will wipe out the army hen, pausing a moment, he said 'I mean i ve will wipe it out on election day." Many | ,ther things he said in this strain. It | ed-hot rebel speech, and his Democratic 1 learers applauded him to the echo.
 Next Wednesday, in Hoboken, New Jersey, |
 costly enterprise will meet it's fate in the ale at auction of the great Stevens battery. n 1S43 Robert L. Stevens, Hoboken mil onaire, conceived the idea of constructing mammoth war vessel capable of resisting all l orts of attacks, and he began work on the attery After his death his brother, Edwin 1 - Stevens, continued the labor on it, and rhen he died bequeathed $1, 300, ,OOO to com lete it. Less than $1Oo, ,O0O of the appro- riation remains, and the battery is still, fter 37 years, in an unfinished state. It was filled by the Stevenses to the State of New ersey, but the heirs have since brought suit ) have the title declared to be in them. The lew Jersey courts have refused to indorse 1eir claim, and the appeal of the heirs to the Tnited States court is yet pending. Mean nile the battery stands upon property be- ,nging to the Stevens estate at Hoboken. he heirs desire to put the property to re- use, and made application to hancelIor Runyon for an order directing the ,le of the mammoth machine. In their peti- on they allege that the ground on which le battery stands is 80,o00 square feet in { req; that from about the year 1842 or 1S43. ( , the present this plot of land, worth at 1, asst $125, 1000, has been occupied by the bat { ,ry or in preparation for it, and during all lat time no income has been derived from 5 :; that $1, 800, ,oO0 has already been spent , pon the construction of the battery; that ( ,e $1o0,o00 remaining of the oequest for ' le completion will not complete it, but that l: 800 900 will be required that the battery : snnot be used in its present shape for any t urpose; that it requires to be housed in, '