Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-29

Mayor King, of Atchison, in his directions
 to the police force of the city says: ''There l is class called tMashers,' to whom I direct l the attention of the force, who may also be properly elassed as vagrants and should be arrested and prosecuted. I refer to street ! corner loafers and idlers who habitually con- gregate on prominent street corners and in
 front of prominent places, using vile lan- | guage and staring at and often insulting wo-
 men who have occasion to pass by. Arrest all such"
 | A southern correspondent of the New
 York Herald points out that there has been
 subscribed in the North and in Europe during the past eighteen months $1O0, OOO,0O0 for l investment in the South, east of the Missis-
 sippi and south of Richmond, to say nothing
 of the great enterprises in the Southwest. | This vast sum has gone into railroads to a considerable extent, but large part of it has gone into farms which have been equipped as 1 they never were before, and which offer
 some of the very best chances of rich re- | turns.
 | C. w. Siemens, the English engineer, says l in Nature that he believes gas will remain
 household illuminator in spite of whatever
 progress electricity may make. He thinks, however, that for lighthouses, halls, thor
 oughfares, etc., electricity will surely be pre-
 ferred He looks to see gas used as the gen.
 eral heating agent, and he expresses the be- | lief that the invention of the electric light will do gas interests much good. It will wake up their managers and compel closer
 attention to business and keener search for | possible improvements.
 The trials for bribery at the last Parlia-
 mentary election in England are having re- suits favorable to the interests of public mo-
 rality. The most unblushing venality was
 practised in the borough of Sandwich, where eight indictments were found, large num-
 Der of offenders escaping under cover of States evidence. Seven of them pleaded
 guilty; the eighth, the ringleader and chief dict of guilty. Indeed, the evidence was overwhelming. The defendant was agent for ! Sir Julian Goldsmid, liberal candidate; but 1 the corruption on the conservative side was 1 equally fragrant.
 Maine, Vermont, Florida, Mississippi and beer. New York leads, then come Pennsyl-
 vania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri. | Massachusetts. Its use is apparently con- stantly increasing Two hundred new brew I cries were established during the year ending | May l, 1881. While the sale of beer in the | United States in 1877 was only 9, 752, 900 bar
 rels, the total sales for the year ending May
 l, 1881, amounted to IA, 125 ,466 barrels, an
 increase of 4,373, 436 barrels in five years, or
 barrels, and an increase over 1880 of 1,324,- 1 566 barrels.
 \ Much has been said during the last year l about the danger to ocean travellers from abandoned ships, and it has been proposed
 that the governments of maritime nations provide for patroling the Atlantic where these derelicts are the most dangerous. The I need of some arrangement of this kind is it.
 lustrated by the abandoned ship Jamestown,
 which has recently gone ashore on the coast l of Iceland after having drifted about for ' nearly five months, a constant menace to the safe navigation of one of the most crowded
 seas. She has been passed frequently and | many of the reports made stated that she was directly in the track of vessels bound l from England for this coast Something | should be done before any serious accident is
 caused by one of these derelicts to one of the heavily laden passenger steamers
 Judge Pearson, of the Dauphin county,
 Pa. court, sustains Attorney General Palmer's opinion that the members of the Legislature