Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-06

In some parts of our glorious country 1t has been the custom to pretend to despise the cents, although they make the dollars This custom has prevailed in San Francisco, and 1 the attempt now making to introduce one
 cent coins there is naturally meeting with wig orous opposition from the small dealers. At public meeting, 8 cigar dealer denounced their circulation as movement of capitalists in favor of the Chinamen. The circulation of | cents where fve-cent pieces have heretofore | been given, he said, would injure the white man, and introduce bankruptcy, and cause | many small storekeepers to sell out at less
 than cost within 8 month. Another speaker said that the penny had nos more to do with
 hard times than the rising of the sun, but, a vote being taken, there were found to be only two advocates of the cent piece present.
 The report of Captain R. H. Pratt, in
 charge of the Indian training school at Oar lisle Barracks, Pa, is interesting and signif- cant. In October, 40 Indian children, rep resentatives of eleven different tribes, were re- csived. They have readily adapted them selves to their new situation, and prove un-
 expectedly apt in receiving and retaining in- struction. They are desirous to learn and enter into their work with zeal and earnest ness. Many of them already read and write we'll They have 8 printing press in opera tion, cultivate twelve acres of land, and ssve- ral of them are learning useful trades. Nu- merous applications have been received from Indian tribes to accept more children for training. Spotted Tail alone is desirous of sending 800 children from his tribe. The re-
 port dwells upon the futility of attempts to educate the Indian children on the reserva- tions, and suggests that the true solution of the problem is in the establishment of many schools similar to that at Carlisle Barracks. A bill has already been reported from the committee for the utilization of large mum Der of vacant military posts and barracks, for the use of such industrial training schools Every friend of the Indians will be glad to see this work prosper, for in it is lasting so- lution of the Indian problem.
 Even If the ice crop in this part of the world turns out to be poor, there will be enough in the Maine ice houses to supply the deficiency. Some idea of what the ice busi- ness is in Maine may be gathered from the statistics of the storage capacity of the houses from Hallowell to Richmond, on both sides the Kennebec river-a distance of about fifteen miles-with 8 few added below. It may be promised that all these houses have been filled the present season. The Knicker- booker Company is the largest on the river and is Philadelphia concern. The Knicker- T. C..sx capacity, to which it may add 15, GOO tons the present winter. At Farmingdale the Knick- erbockers south houses hold 53, ,OO0 tons; north houses, 23,00o; at Hallowell, 10000; at Boothby this company also put up 45,oOO tons. Other houses, in order, are as follows: HallowelI-Paige & Wall, 15, ,O0O tons. Farm ingdale-A. Rich, jr., 5o,o0o; P. G. Brad street ct al., 0,OOO. Pittston-S. H. Allen & Co.,, 25,ooO; J. L. Cheeseman, 6,Oo0; Centennial Ice Company, 10000; Kennebec and Moosehead Ice Company, 5000; Great Falls, 15, 900; Kennebec Ice Company (Mar- blehead), 14.0OO; Dingley Brothers, 5000; Independent Company, Washington, 5000; E. D. Haley, 16,oOO; Oakland Company, g. 900; Consumers Ice Company, New York, 3o oOO. Dresden-Kennebec Mutual Ice Company, 14,0O0; Gardiner Ice Company, 30, 900; Dresden Ice Company, 3o,Ooo; Cedar Grove Ice Company (Baltimore), 10000. Richmond-Haynes & Dewitt Ice Company (Augusta) 45,OoO; Lincoln Ice Company tDresden), 3o.Oo0; Orient Ice Company, 12,- GOO. Perkins-Sagadahoc Ice Company, 2o,- GOO; 0. G. Underwood (East Boston,, 10, 900;
 E. 0. Russell (Boston parties) 10000. Bow
 doinham-J. P. Norton Gewiston), 24,ooo;
 Twing's Point Ice Company, 28,o0O.