Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-11
What is so rare as day in October ?

What is so rare day in October?
 Almost everybody expects Indiana to give a Democratic majority tomorrow, as she usually does, and Ohio to go Republican, as usual. Any different result will make de- cided sensation
 The New York Democrats will to-day pay the efficient Supervisor of Elections John I. Davenport the compliment of petitioning for hls removal from the office which he has so administered as to become a terror to those who would carry elections by fraud It is not expected that the petition will be suc- cessful.
 In the opening of bids at the treasury in Washington day or two ago fact was dis closed which shows very clearly why the De Pauws and other Democratic manufacturers have announced their intention of voting the Republican ticket. The bids were for fur nlsh1ng plate-glass to the United States courthouse at Austin, Texas There were five bidders for American glass, the lowest being that of De Pauw of Indiana, for the sum of $1,59S. Notwithstanding the high duties on glass, however, one of the foreign bidders named lower figure, namely, S1 ,593, or with duties remitted, $1 ,O62. Anybody can easily see from these bids that if the free-trade plank of the Democratic platform should be enforced and even slight reduc- tion in the tariff on plate-glass be made, no more glass could be manufactured in this country.
 The report of General Walker concerning the census in South Carolina is published. He believes that the census of 1870 in that State was incorrect, owing mainly to the de- fects of the law under which it was taken. Concerning the census of 1880 he says at the end of his report $ I know of no reason, therefore, why any further charge should be made against the enumeration recently brought to Q conclusion by the commissioner and sworn officers of the government in South Carolina. The presumption which existed against their work has been con- pletely overthrown and strong counter presumption has been created by the verif- cation upon the ground of the schedules of inhabitants in the case of eighteen enumer- ation districts successively taken for special investigation account of their exception ally questionable character. ' This seems to settle it. Our congratulations to South Car olina.
 The following are some of the reasons which are influencing independent, conserva- tive men, to support the Republican ticket. They are from the Springfield Repae6Zicaaa General Hancock is good man, but Gener- al Garfield is good administration. That is the difference between the parties and the candidates, and it is a big difference. The Republican party under Hayes is administer ing the government with degree of efficien- cy, integrity and wisdom which conspires with other elements of thrift to make us prosperous and happy. General Garfield as President simply takes the place of Hayes in controlling and improving this vast admins trative machine. If Hancock could fit in with as little jar and disturbance as Garfield would, there would be little to distinguish the candidates, except Garfeld's civil expert ence. But Hancock cannot or at least will not fit into the administrative machine he goes into the presidency to turn out the ex- isting civil service and appoint new, untried and unselected men in their places, and, on the mathematical law of probabilities, he will make mistake at least one time in ten. Garfield in four years would have to pick out for office but few thousand men and mostly by promotion; Hancock will attempt at once to pick out 100, ,OO0, with nothing to promote from. His 10000 inevitable mistakes scat tered over the country will make his admin istration hurricane of scandal"
 The following curious composition was re. gently placed upon the blackboard at teach ers institute in Vermont and a prize of a Websters dictionary offered to any person who could read it and pronounce it correctly The book was not carried off, however, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made: "A sacrilegious son of Belial, who suffered from bronchitis, having exhausted his finances, in order to make good the deficit, resolved to ally himself to 8 come- ly, lenient and docile young lady of the Malay or Caucasian race. He accordingly pur- chased calliope and coral necklace of a chameleon hue, and securing a suit of rooms dt d pEluC1pdl HOIeI, uo engaged the n6du waiter as his coadjutor. He then dispatched letter of the most unexceptional caligraphy eztant, inviting the young lady to matinee She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrifcable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal, on receiving which he procured a carbine and a bowie knife, said that he would not now forge letters hymeneal with the queen went to an isolated spot sev- cred his jugular vein and discharged the con- tents of his carbine into his abdomen. The debris were removed by the coroner" The mistakes in pronunciation were made on the following words Sacrilegious Belial, bron- chitis, exhausted, finances, deficit, comedy, lenient, doeile, Malay, calliope, chameleon, suit, coadjutor, caligraphy, matinee, sacrifi- cable, carbine, hymeneal, isolated, jugular and debris.
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 The organ grinder has turn for business. Boston Transcript.
 The wife who gives her dyspeptic husband