Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-08

year it's wine export was worth only $24, 0OO, GOO. On the other hand the imports of wine in 1872 reached only $1 ,6O0, ,O00, and last year rose to $34, 900 900, or $1 ,oOo, ,OOO more than the country exported in one of her best years. The indisputable fact, there fore, stares France in the face that she can- not make as much wine as is demanded for home consumption, which is as significant for that latitude as the inability of the United States to raise wheat enough for the uses of our country would be in this. The phylloxera, of course, is the trouble, and it resists successfully all attempts at ex- tirpation. American vines defy this insect, and the time may come when we shall export wine to France as we now do wheat
 note from Congressman Frank E. Beltz- hoover, of Pennsylvania, has been printed, in which he says that the letter purporting to have been written by him, and stating that 8 pension bill could not be passed because the rebels in the House and Senate were opposed to pensions, Is ''an infamous forgery. J, There was no occasion or necessity for such a letter, he adds. and no reason why it should AaFO DScA WE4bI6A NIT. Dc1IZAOONGE nus got himself into as bad fix as Wade Hampton has, as will appear from the following from the editor of the Carlisle Herald, which first published the letter:
 CARLISLE, PENN, Sept. D. o. E. Snaith, Editor of the P9essP hiEadelplia:
 The letter was received by most respcta- ble citizen of the Cumberland valley in an- swer to one addressed to Mr. Beltzhoover in arH fn o11 o1C character is beyond impeachment, and the letter was by him forwarded to us. It is written on house of representatives note pa- per. Mir. Beltzhoover's handwriting is pe- culiar and very familiar to us. Werecognized the letter to be his immediately. It has been one of the best known men in the country. It will be produced and proved to be Beltz- hoover's. More from us tomorrow.
 W. TRYCKETT.
 An ingenious police officer of Chicago has conceived the idea of extending the telephone to wider and more important uses in connec- tion with the suppression of crime in the city. The advantages of the alarm telegraph and telephones connecting the stations have long been apparent in the way of sending in- formation, and it is now proposed, an pertinent in the more disturbed and danger ous districts, to extend, the system after the pattern of the fire alarm telegraph by putting up boxes, with telephone communications at suitable points, the keys of which are to be to orderly and law abiding citizens, as well as the police, so that in case of a fracas, robbery accident, or anything call ing for the services of the police, they can be summoned with the least possible delay. In connection with the alarm a reserve force is to be maintained at the stations with wagons and ambulances and all the parapher- naia necessary for riot or accident. Should it be murder, robbery or any other crime, the perpetrators of which have escaped the alarm is to be given to every man ill the. district by sounding large bell, which is Upon hearing this, every officer on duty is to run to the nearest telephone box and corr respond with the station, and it is also pro- posed that they report by the same means every hour, whether anything occurs on their beats or not. It is not expected that the scheme will go into perfect practical ope- ration at once. Drunken roughs may smash the boxes, thieves cut the wires, and small boys play pranks with the arrangements but this was no more than was done with the fire alarm telegraph when 1t was first established, and that the police telephone alarm contains the germs of an equally sound idea is evi 1enf