Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-02

Alabama will elect her State officers and Legislature to-day, and with fair count the Democrats will be defeated. The Repubi-
 cans, Greenbackers and independent Demo
 erats outnumber the regular Democrats most
 decidedly, but the latter have the control of
 the election machinery, and they have done
 all they can to fix things for the vote
 counting. The law provides that in the ap-
 pointment of election inspectors in the sev-
 eral counties the Republicans shall have a cer
 tain number, but the Democrats obey the
 letter and violate the spirit in giving the Re
 publican appointments to men who can
 neither read nor write.
 In Massachusetts one of the great ques-
 tions is What is Butler going to dol There
 are signs that he intends to run for Governor,
 and it is also stated that he will not run for
 Governor but will try to get elected to Con-
 gress from the Seventh district. The latter
 seems the wisest course for him to pursue
 for he would be beaten very badly if he
 should head the Democratic State ticket
 Last year he made avery respectable appear
 ance in the count, but for the last twenty
 years the Republican majority in Massachu-
 setts has been from two to four times as
 large in presidential election years as in the
 years preceding them, and the majority
 against him this year. if he should run for
 Governor, would not be f1attering
 Greenbacker Murch, of Maine, who has
 been renominated for Congress, is not so
 popular with the stone-cutters of his district
 as he was two years ago. They were prom ised more work and better wages if only they sent one of their number to Congress- He has been there two years, and they are no better off than before. Not so well, in fact, for stone cutting continues to be dull. A correspondent recently saw number of these constituents and talked freely with them.
 ''See here mister" one of them said, i've were to have better lay, - bit of it. But he is having jolly time among the big fellows in Washington. That's all nice; but we aint no better of. No, sir" "You will vote for him again, though, I suppose ?'' Mot much. He don't fool us again: :''
 We think, and have reason to think, that accidents to steamboats in this country are frequent enough now, but according to Gen. eral Dumont, Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels, there has been great improvement l since 1851, which was before the adoption of the Steamboat laws. In that year there were l about 1, TOO steamboats running in the West, l out of which number 66 were lost, with an | aggregate loss of 628 lives. In 1879 there l were upward of 1, 300 steamboats running in | the United States and notwithstanding the | fact that the boats in 1879 were on an ave rage half as large again as those running in | 1851, and at least five times the number of were carried there were only nine | teen boats lost, and but upon nine of these 1 lives were lost, aggregating TIT. Although | the number cannot be definitely stated, it is | believed that notwithstanding the recent | heavy loss of life from steamboat disasters l tine aggregate for the present year will not be l as great as it was in the last fiscal year. |
 The Dry Goods Bulletin, which has hereto l fore avoided everything that bore the appear ance of favor to either political party, finds in the present contest a necessity to take | sides, and of course turns to the one that has always upheld the great commercial inter ests, and now alone offers the promise of sta bility. The Bulletin says: ''The Republican of course, the candidates, Gar field and Arthur-are pledged to sustain the | policy which has secured the present de- | velopment of American industries. The l Democratic party is pledged to no such purely l American interests, and Hancock and English | have no guide-post directing their way If elected. For ourselves, we must select | known advantage, which grows daily more | and more needful, and which has built up l must decline to recognize that which is at | least uncertain and that may, by a single | enactment, injure, enfeeble, or | destroy our present prosperity"
 lady writer in the New York Evening | Mail shows how women with skill and will | enough to make their own dresses save | money. She was herself dressmaker once, and gives away" her old associates and rivals mercilessly She visited the most l dressmaking establishment in New York, and singled out several very ele- | gant and several plain dresses. One was a black silk trimmed with beaded passementerie I and beaded fringe, the price of which was S175. The other was plain brown eombina l tion suit of mixed goods, partly self-trimmed | and very plainly made. Its cost was $35 | Both were stylish and elegant Now the ac- tua1 cost of the first was as follows Twelve l yards gros- grain silk, at $2. 50 per yard, $50; 4 yards fringe, $1.25 per yard, $5.623 hn- | d E1 & l yards passementerie, $8; 1 cord and piquets, 1 $2; II dozen crochet buttons, 1124; total l for materials, $48 25 In addition three days | work of two hands, at $2 day each, $12; total, $60 25. This leaves the fashionable | a profit of $114.75. There are | very few sewing women who get $2 day, l for the last few years. One dollar | a day is the ordinary pay at present for opera tive dressmakers The 1885 dress cost as | follows Eight yards satine, 40 cents a yard, | B. 20; yards cardinal satin, $1 per yASd. l 5; Innings, bones, silks, etc, 60 cents; toteA $s 8O work of two hands one day, 1 s4 total cost, $12. 80; profit to dressmaker, $22 20 The milliners make even greater l profits than the modistes. Take the highest price for the very best materials for sum- mer bonnet, $17.70, as follows: Fine French chip bonnet, $2.5O; ? yards fine Chantilly ace, S5 3 yards satin brocade ribbon, $1.95; handsome French flowers, $5; buckle or cut ,rystal ornament, $1.50; lining, satin for shirring, etc., 75 cents one hours labor, $1. The milliners sell this bonnet for $50, making profit of $32.3O. If these figures are re- fable, fashionable dressmaker or milliner lon't need to sigh for glucose factory.
 NORTHERN OUTRAGEs.
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