Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-29
doubtful if the laboring classes are to decide the contest.

doubtful if the laboring classes are to decide the contest.
 Ex-District Attorney E. H. Lathrop, of
 Springfield, Mass, who has been promi-
 nent Butler Democrat takes himself from
 the Democratic State Central Committee and
 the Democratic party by means of letter
 which is said to speak the sentiments of
 many Butler men in Western Massachusetts.
 Mir. Lathrop is not in accord with the results
 of the Cincinnati convention. He believes
 that the majority of both parties honestly
 desire clean laws and fewer of them, pure
 elections and uncorruptible candidates in
 both State and nation,'' and does not believe
 that great convention is yet reduced of ne-
 cessity to search for mere availability or for
 money alone. He thinks well of Hancock,
 but he cannot forget, or cease to regret as
 yet, 'that with men in the party and repre-
 sented in the convention, of approved states
 manship and ability and unassailable integri-
 ty, ripe in civic judgment and attachments and foremost in the affections of the people, they were passed by for one whose known
 civic qualities are mostly negations, and whose career is blazoned only by the red light of military achievements" Moreover,
 he does not like the action of the Com
 mittee on Credentials upon the Massachu-
 setts contest.
 The rooms of the Women's Silk Culture Association of Philadelphia are now open
 daily for the formation of classes The ob-
 nf o1,<@o1 41 aI~ L
 silk culture, with view of introducing it
 into households, as @ branch of domestic in
 dustry. It is hoped that the cordial support and patronage of the public will be directed
 to this school as tending to encourage the development of the culture of one of the
 most valuable commodities in the world, for
 which large revenue goes to foreign lands.
 The culture of silk is better adapted to home
 industry than any other branch of work
 which opens as large field in the commercial market, it being valuable as a commodity and largely in demand. It particularly comments itself to schools, reformatories, and wherever
 women and children are congregated, with need for useful employment, as an oecupa-
 tion of an intelligent and moral bearing, not
 requiring constant attention, but enabling
 them to pursue their household duties At this
 school pupils may learn the art of raising silk
 worms, reeling the silk from the cocoons, and other matters pertaining to silk culture. The association purchases the leaves of the white or the smooth-leaved purple mulberry, or the osage orange, for feeding the silk worms. It has a large number of eggs for sale, in large or small quantities, with book of instructions upon raising the silk worm. It will purchase all the cocoons anybody can raise; also any reeled silk anybody may pro- duce at home. It can furnish any number of young trees.
 Miriam a Greek by birth but naturalized American citizen, who was tried before Min ister Maynard for the murder of an Egyptian lawyer, found guilty and sentenced to be hung at Alexandria October 16th, seems to have good prospect of escape from the gal lows, though there is no question about his guilt In no case where men have been con- victed by consuls of murder in the first de- gree has the verdict been approved by the law officers of the Government. About a year ago the consul at Nagasaki, Japan, tried man in a capital case and sentenced him to be hanged stay of execution was obtained until an application for mer cy could be forwarded to the Presi- dent. The papers were examined at the State department by the Attorney General, and the result was that all agreed that the crime was not murder but manslaughter. The mans sentence was, therefore, com muted to five years imprisonment, and he is now serving his sentence at the San Quentin prison, California. It was while investigating this case that the Cabinet discussed the con- stitutionality of the act which deprives an American citizen anywhere under the juris- diction of the United States of his right to trial by jury of twelve men. Although there was necessity for formally expressing an opinion on this subject then, it is understood that the President Secretary Evarts and At torney General Devens are clearly of the opinion that the statute conferring the power upon our ministers aud consuls in China, Japan, Siam, Egypt and Madagascar, to try capital or criminal cases of higher grades, is unconstitutional. No man has as yet been executed under this law, and Mr. Evarts has declared, it is said, that no man ever will be so long as he is Secretary of State
 The busy bee must go, according to French men of science. Not only are bees destructive to property, but they are actually dangerous to human life. The Prefect of the | Paris Police has been appealed to. M. Del pech has drawn up formidable brief, and is ! precise in his statements and clamorous in his demands It seems that keeping is lucrative in the neighborhood of Paris, and that also is the distillery of spirits and the refinery of sugar. Moreover, wherever there are sugar works the bees are active and abundant. At Say, for instance the loss at | tributable to them is estimated at $5,000 ! year. M. Delpech gives facts and figures. ! At another refinery the number of bees killed l daily amounted to twentytwo gallons He l himself saw large glass of syrup drunk up I in two hours As to loss of life he is equally I circumstantial. He gives full list of people !! who died of bee stings in the course of the ! year. Most of the cases occurred in Amer 1 ica, but many are furnished by France and | some by Germany. The death is very pain ! flu; and in some cases extremely sudden. At I Chemnitz. in Hungary, a peasant stung while cutting branch of a tree died on the | spot At Chester, in Pennsylvania, a farmer, examining some hives, was stung, fell at once | into a state of syncope, and died within ! quarter of an hour. In another case twen- l ty-five minutes elapsed between the wound | and it's fatal consequence. M. Delpech | accordingly appeals to the Prefect for | the protection of the police, and what he asks is that the keeping of bees may be placed in the. category of dangerous and unhealthy occupations. When the Frenehmen get the destructive bee abolished let them attack the less dangerous though | more annoying fly.