Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-27
MORNING. AUGUST 27. 1881.

in circulation, and it corrects some of then
 The Retreats for Habitual Drunkard'
 which have been established in England dc 1 not, according to the report of the official in | spector, appear to have accomplished much
 There are but two of them, and the number of patients admitted during the last year has
 been only fifteen, of which seven were fe.
 males. Five have been discharged and ten
 remain under treatment. The inspector, MT.
 Hofmann, admits that he is unable to point
 out single case where permanent cure has
 been effected. In several cases, however,
 some good has resulted, and the general
 health of the patients has improved of course
 during their stay in the retreats. The ex-
 pertinent, it will be seen, has been conducted
 upon small scale. The most successful of
 the American retreats have hardly reformed
 one out of fifteen of those subjected to their
 treatment and yet they are regarded as
 rather remarkably successful MT. Inspec-
 tor Hoffman is not discouraged, but thinks
 with few amendments and further expe-
 rience in working, great progress may. be
 made toward attaining the beneficial object
 proposed.
 , as follows: siIt is situated 6,22O feet above
 the sea, is 22 miles long from north to south
 and 124 miles wide, the general contour be- ing parallelogram. The greatest measured depth that we have good authority for is 1,- 5O6 feet. The temperature never goes below 39o Fahrenheit, and in the summer never above 6Oo, unless it be near the shore in some sheltered cove or where . stream of sum- warmed water runs into it. At depth of 800 feet the temperature never changes, be- ing 394. This fact accounts for another that of drowned persons never rising-the water being so cold that no gases are gener- ated hence the body in time simply goes to pieces from the action of the water. It is as buoyant as any other pure water at the same altitude there being no appreciable differ epce in the readings of the hydrome ter, hence the statements that wood does not float for any tinle persons cannot swim, and the like, are fallacies. The air being very light at this elevation above the level of the sea, exercise of any kind, either on land or water, cannot be so long continued as in low CT and heavier atmospheres."
 Senator Edmunds was invited to address the Republican State convention to be held in Mass, September 21st. He has not accepted the invitation but has done the | next best thing in suggesting an outline of | principles and measures for which the Re- l publican party should labor. This outline is | To preserve and improve the laws for the se- as,sI ,ir1,E fa r,ao1ra effective as possible provisions for the purity lnd fairness of Congressional elections to establish by law the methods of ascertaining he result of Presidential elections, so as to tive the conclusive effect the Constitution demands to the action of each State, and to prevent the exercise by the houses of Con- ,ress of anything in the nature of appellate r revisory power over the action of the con- tituted authority of the State in such cases; o so improve the civil service as to diminish nd, if possible, remove the evils of place uniting, and the interchange of favors be- ween the members of the legislative and ex- cutive branches of the government, and to rec the tenure of great number of officers rom dependence upon political favor or po- tical opinion; to readjust the revenue laws pon the basis of producing the greatest rev nue with the least and nearest equal burden Q the people, and of developing and encour- ging the industrial pursuits of every calling f our citizens; to bring both the theory and ractice of the government in regard to the urrency to the point of 0 fixed and uniform letalic standard of value and making coin nly legal tender in the payment of debts nd to promote, 50 far as the national gov can lawfully do 50, the increaso and illusion of education among all the citizens, nd in every part of the republic.