Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-11

The voters of Providence, Rhode Island, seem to have some cause for complaining be- cause their city, which pays one.half of the State taxes, has but one vote of the thirty seven in the State Senate.
 The number of killed and wounded by the earthquake at Chios is stated as 15,o0o, or nearly quarter of the population of this city. Forty thousand famished sufferers re- quire immediate assistance, and the generous people of this country will doubtless respond literally to the call for help. t.. g There will be another meeting of the in- dignant inhabitants of filthy New York to- morrow evening to take action concerning
 the defeat of the street cleaning bill. The
 cali for the meeting begins thus: ssWe will
 have olean streets ! Shall our representa-
 tives, whom we have elected, dare to op-
 pose our will ?' The Hera1d suggests that
 New York be made free city. @r5i- 2
 Much difficulty is experienced in obtaining
 laborers for the railroads under construction
 throughout Colorado. The Denver and Rio
 Grande alone requires from 5000 to 10000
 laborers for grading the 800 miles of exten-
 sions which they have under contract in Col
 orado and the adjoining territories. They
 offer work at about $2 per day to able bodied
 men who apply at either Denver or South
 Pueblo.
 It is stated that there is now in the vaults
 of the United States treasury alarger amount
 of gold than there was ever known to {
 be in one place in the history of modern
 times, and probably more than could be au-l ]
 thenticated as existing in single treasury at ] any time before in the world. There is now
 about $173, ,OO0, 900 of gold coin and bullion, ! exclusive of some $55 5,000,O 900 of silver, while
 the bank of England has only about $75, ,0o0,- 900 of gold Nobody seems to want the coin, 1 for as fast as it is paid out it returns.
 There is considerable interest concerning the session of the New Hampshire Legisla- ture to be held next June, the first under the biennial system, recently adopted in that State. Whether or not United States Sem ator will be chosen to succeed Senator Rol- lins is not yet decided. Mir. Rollins endeav- ored to get an act passed by Congress per mitting the election to take place next June, but failed, and the lawyers in the State are divided in opinion as to whether MT. Rollins successor should be chosen in 1881 or 1883. Mir. Rollins is very anxious for reelection, and half dozen other prominent men, in cluding x-Governor Walter Hartman, ex- Senator Patterson, General Gilman Marston and William E. Chandler. are aspirants for the place.
 Mir. Hunt, the new Mayor of Philadelphia, 1 seems to be man who knows what ought to ! be dene and is determined to do it. He has announced his intention to make the police l force 8 non-partisan body, and he also says 1T do not propose even so much as to take l clerks of my own appointment in with me. | I do not think the Mayor of the city needs ! Confidential persons around him. After | and femiliar with affairs, when sver see changes are needed will make | them. have no patience with this idea so prevalent that when an executive officer goes in he must turn out everybody under him and put his friends in their places. In what sver appointments I may be called upon to make hereafter propose to recognize every f class of citizens, without distinction of race, politics or creed" It is to be hoped that Mayor Hunt has not bitten off more than he san chew.
 It has been ''hard scratching" for many in he northwest the past winter. German and near Big Lake, Dakota. Last year he 'aised wheat on 60 acres, getting 9 bushels o the acre, and received $1, POO for it. Lay ng in what he considered an ample supply of uel out of these proceeds, he set his house in ,rder for the winter. Two other families lecided to leave their own houses, and to odge with him as a measure of mutual pro- ection and comfort. Very soon the ample upply of fuel was all consumed, and the hree families had to bestir themselves to :eep from freezing. They dug railroad ties nd telegraph posts out of the deep snow and turned them. After this source of supply | lad been exhausted, the two families that ad quilted their own houses were con- 'elled to take part in tearing them down, nd the woodwork soon went the way of the ther fuel. Next followed the furniture A trong horses to sleigh to force his way to he nearest railroad station for 8 load of coal. Ie was caught in snowdrift, and two days lter was found frozen stiff in his sleigh his og, dead, lying upon him, and the five orses standing dead in their tracks. His ody was taken to his family, nailed up in a OK, and placed in the grain loft, to be kept | here until the ground should thaw sufficient to allow of his burial Another family the neighborhood was saved from starva- on by making soup of an ox-skin.
 .. .-ss. HIT OR MISS.