Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-07

George Ripley, for many years past the
 literary editor of the New York Tribune, and who died in New York Sunday at the great age of 7S years, won far more than ordinary distinction as theologian, philosopher, es
 sayist, editor, reviewer and encyclopedia. Few Americans in our day have done more to encourage the love of literature for itera- ture's sake than he.
 It is related that Hancock once let his re. gard for the rebel General Beauregard run away with the respect he owed the Stars and Stripes. When Hancock was in con- mand of New Orleans he invited Beauregard to dinner one day. General Beauregard re-
 piled to the invitation in the following note:
 sGen. H.: Please don't humble me by those flags. I'll come and see you, but first re- move them" The flags were accordingly ordered down, and Beauregard dined with Gen. Hancock, who was thus guilty of an open insult to the flag to soothe the irritated nerves of an unrepentant rebel.
 The recent epidemic at North Adams,
 Mass, has been traced to the water supply
 Engineer Locke has made a map of the town, indicating by red dots every house
 where there was a case of sickness, and by
 small circles every house which escaped, GOV
 ering both the village proper and all the roads leading out of it. Afterward he drew
 the line of the water pipe on his map, and everywhere the red dots stop with the pipe and follow it's course. He cites numerous instances to prove that the water was the sole cause of the trouble, and shows that nearly everybody who was pointed out as not using the town water, although sick, had been ln
 the district and drank the water. He locates
 the impurity in an old mill-dam through
 which the water passes, and says he found it full of decaying vegetable matter which gave forth an offensive odor, perceived at some distance from the pond. That, he thinks, was sufficient to cause the outbreak, in con-
 nection with the peculiar weather which had
 prepared the people for the epidemic.
 Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Com mercial, is just sure that Indiana will be Republican in October as he is of Ohio. He thinks the slaughter of Hendricks and the candidacy of English was the deliberate work of Tilden. and that it was the most artistic 1 piece of political and personal spite he ever heard of He continues as follows:
 l It is a curious thing. There's good deal of copperhead sentiment in Indiana, and this I is ministered to by giving them union gen. l eral for a candidate for the first place, then l the greenback, soft-money element IS given a l hard-money man and banker candidate for
 usury and intense economy in the second | place Why English is the only man in the l United States who has an iron front door to his private house. His bedroom windows used to be all barred up like penitentiary or I an insane asylum, and the front door of his | house on the fashionable circle of the city is declared to be of iron. The boys say that
 when it bangs the sound can be heard all over 1 Indianapolis. You can see how popular he IS l likely to be. The iron door shows his mag l netic sympathy with the public. Then for l the October election the Democrats have in
 their candidate for Governor the most aston l ishing Greenbacker in the United States. He l is of the Wabash school of finance; would rather pay the national debt in cornstalks | than that it should be repudiated. He is more 1 popular than English because he has less l sense. But he will be beaten sure The Re l publicans are as sure of Indiana as they are l of Ohio
 | It is stated that there are twenty-five thou sand flour mills in the United States, and that l if run less than six months of the year they
 could grind all the wheat raised in the country. 1 This statement is probably true, and yet of the 1 I5O 900 900 bushels of wheat exported last year
 only 28, ,OO0, GOO bushels were ground. In 1878
 the exports were O,O00,000 bushels, of which
 only IS, 900, GOO bushels were ground. In 1877
 about 57, 900, 900 bushels were exported, and of
 this but IT, ,0oO, GOO bushels were ground To l the question why our wheat is not all ground in this country it is replied that European
 millers can and do grind the wheat better
 than it is ground here It is claimed that as l one of the good results of the millers' expo 1 sition recently held in Cincinnati, our millers l have learned the new methods of flour mak- 1 ing and that within the next twelve months 1 a great many of the smaller mills will cast
 aside their old machinery and replace it with the newest and best. By the old process these mills have been able to dispose of their l flour only for local consumption, but by the | introduction of the new machinery and the
 adoption of new methods they will be able to compete with the best millers of the world