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Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11

An international postage stamp is suggest
ed by Chambers Journal for the use of those
persons on either side OF the Atlantic who
have occasion to send the price of postage to
correspondents on the other. Courtesy re-
quires that in writing to a stranger for in
formation stamps for return postage should
be enclosed, but our stamps are not available
for use in foreign offices, nor theirs in ours.
To send small coin in letter is impractica-
BILE, or at least inconvenient, and our coins
too are not current abroad. Many persons
alse have friends to whom the price of post
age, cheap as it is now, is not small matter,
and who would be glad to send few stamps
in letter so that the expense of the answer
might not fall upon those i'll able to bear it.
English stamps can be obtained in our prin-
cipal cities, but not everybody knows where
to look for them In the country generally,
or in interior cities, they cannot be found.
An international stamp of q device agreed
upon by the postal authorities of England
and the United States and available only for
transatlantic postage, would be convenient
A letter is printed in Washington from
Bishop Penick of the Protestant Episcopal
church mission to Liberia, in reply to certain
criticisms of statements he had heretofore
made. This letter contains the following in
teresting declaration in regard to the tolera-
ton of system of slavery by the Lberian
government: 1t is true that the constitution
and legislation of Liberia are against sla-
very, but it is equally true that domestic
slavery does exist among the aborigines, and
that this is known to some, If not all. of the
officials of the Liberian government, many
of whom have talked to me of the evil The
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11
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CORRESPONDENCE.

Knoxville, Tennessee-Its Hotels, ,Business
Houses and Churches-Instit u lions of
learning Climate, etc.-Evidencss OF
PrOgress-Boys and dMen-Some New Ha.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11

A great many reasons have been given for
the app earance of SO many dead fish lately
along the shores of ponds and rivers. Seth
Green, who knows great deal about fish,
says that these dead fish are not poisoned but
st arved to death. He says the fish increase
rapidly and incline to keep together. In
this way they get up crowd and the strong
est get the food while the weaker ones perish
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11

A Brooklyn man suffering from rheuma-
tism was advised by his physician to try the
waters of some hot spring. Whats the
use?'' he returned. tive been in hot wateS
ever since was married. 49, Bro
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11

'tJug trains" are now run every Sunday
from Fort Scott in Kansas to Kansas City in
Missouri. The fare is placed at a reasonable
figure, and the trains are for the aceommo
dation of the thirsty citizens who wish to go
to Kansas City once week and replenish
their jugs. This proves the success of the
prohibitory law in Kansas.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11

Postmaster General James, it is said, is al
ready satisfied that the Postoffce department
can, within the next two years, and perhaps
earlier, be made to yield handsome revenue
to the government. lie can make it profit
able if anybody can.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11
The Neville Recipe for Ga rden Bugs.
From the New York SUM-

Mr. Edgar Neville has two-acre farm at
Avenue B and Fifth street, fremont, where
he has fought potato bugs, army worms, and
grasshoppers for fourteen years. Paris green
and hellebore, he found, killed the insects,
but poisoned the crops. He buried the po-
tato bugs foot deep, and they dug their way
out with characteristic cheerfulness. Mr..
Neville lay awake nights thinking of what he
should do, and five years ago hit upon a
compound which is deadly he says to bugs
of all kinds and harmless to man. He has
tried it for several years. and while his
neighbours crops have been ruined, his own
have been saved He is an old man now.
and he asks the San to spread abroad his rec
ipe, SO that it may do good everywhere. Il
is as follows:
"Dissolve one ounce of saltpetre, two
ounces of alum, and half pound of the COM
monest brown soap in three gallons of water,
and sprinkle with watering pot over the
growing plants.
Mr.. Neville recommends that seed be
soaked in this mixture before planting.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If this part of the world burns up this
year it will have to be dryer and warmer
than it is now
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

HAYES ON TEMPERANCE.-The Minneap.
oils Tribune publishes an extract from pri-
vate letter to its editor from ex-President
Hayes, in the course of which he makes the
following reference to certain published
statements to which his attention had been
called, impugning the consistency of his
temperance principles and practice "When
/ became president, was fully convinced
that, whatever might be the case in other
countries and with other people, in our eli
mate and with the excitable, nervous tenn
permanent of our people, the habitual use OF
intoxicating drinks was not safe. 1 regarded
the danger of the habit as especially great
in political and official life. 1t seemed to me
that to exclude liquors from the white house
would be wise and useful as an example, and
would be approved by good people generally,
The suggestion was particularly agreeable
TO Mrs. Hayes She had been total absti-
nence woman from childhood. We had
never used liquors in our own home, and il
was determined to continue our home Gus
tom in this respect in our official residence
in Washington, as we had done at Colum
bus. l was not a total abstainer when be.
came president, but the discussion which
arose over the change at the executive man.
sion soon satisfied me that there was no half
way course in the matter. During the
greater part of my term, at least during the
last three years, was in practice, as in the
DRY, persistent advocate of total abstinence
and shall continue to be so. All statements
to the contrary are untrue and without foun
dation."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20
Temperance Legislation.

That the liquor question is rapidly crowd
ing its way to the front, no attentive OBJ
server can deny. That mistakes will not be
made in even so good cause as this, Is too
much to expect. Timid politicians will re-
tard its progress, and the combined liquor
interest will make desperate and prolonged
resistance; but revolutions of this sort do
not go backward. Kansas has amended her
constitution 80 as TO prohibit forever under
heavy penalties, the manufacture and sale OF
intoxicating liquors. Wisconsin follows with
her anti-treating law. A recent statutory
enactment Of North Carolina forbids not
only the sale, but the manufacture or
importation, Of liquors containing alco-
hol. This law is made subject to rat
ification by popular vote. and it is said
to be favored by the whites generally and by
many of the most intelligent colored people.
South Carolina has passed law forbidding
the sale Of liquor except in corporate towns
and cities, where every dealer in liquors
must pay one hundred dollars to the county
for license, except in the city OF Charles
ton, where the license must be two hundred
dollars, and goes to the city. The Nebraska
legislature has enacted license law which
discriminates between small hamlets and
villages and cities of more than one thou
sand inhabitants, by placing the license
power in the former in the hands of the
county board, which in the cities is vested in
the city government. In every case thirty
treeholders must sign the petition for license,
and if objection is raised, the objector is
granted hearing. Married women can
bring suit for damages and for support of
children injured by sale. The fee required
of sellers in villages of less than one thou
sand inhabitants is $500, and is of course
designed to be practically prohibitory, while
the penalties for Illegal sale are extremely
severe. An act was also passed prohibiting
"treating," under heavy penalties. The
Delaware senate has passed a stringent pro-
hibitory bill, which is said to be likely to
pass the house, Notwithstanding Senator
Bayard's remonstrance. In Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, New Jersey, Texas and West
Virginia, liquor bills, prohibitory or local
option, have been considered, but failed of
enactment. In Ohio action is delayed. The
republican Legislators stand trembling on
the fence, not daring to jump either way. If
the party assumes the responsibility of a
prohibitory bill, the Germans, they fear,
will never vote with them again and if it
does not, the prohibitionists threaten to de-
sert in body. The party is not strong
enough to spare either, and yet, delay as
they may, the choice must come.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

A LARGER FIELD.-Of the call of Rev.
Phillips Brooks to Harvard to take the place
made vacant by the resignation of DR.. Pea
body, an exchange well says "This is not
quite agreeable to the Bostonians, some of
whom protest vigorously against his retire
ment to scholastic repose, as they call it, and
abandonment of the larger opportunities OF
influence and usefulness which he has so
well improved in his present pastoral charge
There seems to be some selfshness in the
substance of these reasons for his declining
the Harvard invitation, as well as some AFRO
gance in the form of the protests against his
leaving Boston. Great as his influence has
been in his present situation, 1t would not
be narrowed, but rather enlarged, by his &C.
ceptance of the new duties at Harvard.
There he would be brought into close per-
sonal relations with successive groups of
young men from all parts of the country,
who are likely to be leading men in social,
political and professional life. Their char
acters will be formed under his influence.
The value in such a place Of that power OF
impressing and guiding other minds which
Mr.. Brooks has in so unusual degree, can
hardly be overrated. His society, and the
people of Boston who are not of his church,
may be unwilling to lose him, but they should
not underrate the Importance of the field
which he is invited to occupy"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20
Notes and Notions.


THERE seems to be very general approval
of Secretary WINDOWS plan for refunding
the outstanding six per cents.
THE republican majority in Michigan at
the April election is estimated at 10000,
and may prove much larger.
THE senate with two hundred and sixty.
five nominations and five treaties before IL
will have plenty TO do when it begins real
work.
GOVERNOR LONG has appointed ex- United
States Attorney-General Devens to seat in
the state supreme court, vacated by Justice
Soule.
SPRINGFIELD Republican Judging from
the democratic party management for eight
years past, the fools Of the party live south
and its tools north. It would be great
blessing to the party If Malone could break
up that partnership"
THREE years ago the cities of st. Louis,
Kansas City, st. Joseph, jefferson City,
Springfield, Carthage, Clinton, Warrensburg
and Sedalis, in Missouri, were under the
control Of democratic administrations. To
day every one is republican, with the soil
tary exception of Sedalia.
The average age of members of the Gar
field cabinet is fifty-one. Mr.. Gladstone's
cabinet averages fifty-eight. The youngest
cabinet minister in America is thirty-seven,
the oldest sixty-eight. There are two septua-
genarians in the English cabinet but the
majority are between fifty and seventy.
IT is said that powerful syndicate of
bankers is being formed to buy up all the
skies offered in the market, to get the bene-
fit Of the probable rise in the price, believ.
ing they can secure nearly all the bonds, not
already controlled by the banks, before May
10th. The effect of this will be that very
few bonds will be extinguished under Win
dom's circular.
IT should be remembered that the demo-
Gratis did all in their power to coax Malone
into acting with them. They fawned upon
and flattered him to nauseating extent.
Nothing was said then about can unholy
alliance with repudiator." 1t was only
when he declined to be whipt into their
caucus that they discovered he was vile
man with whom they should not associate.
"SINcE the penal statute against liquor
selling was passed about March l." says
Governor st. John of Kansas in an inter-
view in Philadelphia, the liquor men have
been clearing out Of the interior of the state
until there is hardly one left. OF course,
along the Missouri line, where our larger
cities are, it is slower work, but after May
l, when the law comes into effect, we hope
to entirely abolish the traffic in spirits, ex-
cept for medicinal, scientific and mechanical
purnooac -
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20
Coming Out.

Senators are getting down to business in
their talk. That this struggle is not for
the possession of few offices, as was falsely
asserted by the democracy at the opening of
the debate, now plainly appears from their
own confessions. Said Senator Vest of
Missouri in the debate Monday, the 18th
inst: 1.-THE object of the present position
of therepublicans on this floor was this that
the republican party with its vast patronage,
its great influence, its patronage in the SEN
ate should throw itself into the coming con-
test in Virginia and crush out the real and
true democracy of that glorious common
wealth. If the democrats should sit here
supinely and submit to anything like this
they would deserve to be branded as dis.
honored men. lie would tell the gentlemen
on the other side in no spirit of bravado
that rather than submit to this interference
of the national republican party in that con-
test and rather than see the democratic
party of Virginia stricken down after that
fashion, the democratic senators would stand
here, God willing, until the SHOWS OF Deem
Der covered the hills in their winding sheets"
Said another prominent southern senator
ave would not continue this struggle
twenty-four hours if nothing were involved
except the possession of few Offices but
it means more than that. If the Malone
movement in Virginia succeeds, we may as
well make up our minds to surrender the
political control of half dozen of the other
southern states. Mahone's success will make
political rebellion and treason respectable in
the south, and Mahones will spring up in
| North Carolina, in South Carolina in Geor-
gia, in Alabama, and even in Mississippi.
The very existence of the democratic party
| in some states is at stake in this contest.
Disaifected democrats in every southern
state are watching the struggle with eager
interest, and they will rise in rebellion
against party discipline the moment they
see the democratic party overthrown in
Virginia. 1t is hard necessity, but we are
forced to begin here on the floor of the sem
ate the struggle TO retain the political con.
troll of that state If Malone wins in the
election next November, Virginia is irretriev-
ably lost to democracy"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20
Population and Elevation.

A novel and interesting feature Of the
new census relates to the distribution Of the
population Of the United States in elevation
above the sea level. Il is found that $780,
600 people, or somewhat more than fifteen
per cent Of the whole population, live within
one hundred feet of the sea level. These in
clude the population Of the seaboard cities,
the inhabitants of the low lands along the
coast, and OF the islands. There are 10,775,-
600 of them inhabiting the interior Of the
New England, middle and southern states.
Next come those who live more than five
hundred and less than one thousand feet
above the sea level, and these are more than
one-third of the whole population of the
country their number is 19,025,617. They
inhabit chiefly the prairie states and the
great grain region Of the northwest, though
some portions of those vast plains, the west
ern parts of Kansas and Nebraska and a
large part of Minnesota, have greater ele-
walton and are included in the next division,
which lies between one thousand and fifteen
hundred feet above the sea. The population
between these limits is computed at 1904.
600. Still higher, between fifteen hundred
and two thousand feet, 1,S76,ss5 people live,
mostly in the upper river valleys of the west
and at the foot Of the mountain ranges.
Higher on the same slopes, there is popu-
lation of 664,S51 between two thousand and
three thousand feet above the sea, and even
so high as from five thousand to six thousand
feet, or more than mile, nearly as high as
the summit of Mount Washington, 271, 1921
inhabitants are found. These include the
people who live in the mountain towns of
Colorado and in the Salt Lake valleys. But
even these are not the highest inhabited re-,
gions in the United States, for no less than
26,400 are found living more than ten thou
sand feet above the sea level.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

BAD LooK.-It would seem as if we were
in danger of repetition Of Ireland's sad
experience, an anti-rent movement of for,
midable proportions having broken out in
Chicago. The labor union of that city has
adopted, it is said, unanimously, resolu
ton advising all tenants to refuse to give up
their tenements on the first of May, or to
rent others, or to pay any increased rent
Possibly these anti-renters expect that a spe
cial session of the legislature will be called
and an act passed for their benefit upon the
model of Mr.. Gladstone's Irish land bin
The time for such legislation may possibly
come in this country, but 1t is long way
off yet, and in the meantime tenants must
pay their rents and submit to the laws a,
they are, which are yet somewhat stronger
than labor unions, as has been proved when
ever the latter have unwisely ventured to try
conclusions with them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.-The preva-
lence of diphtherfa in many localities in the
state this spring significantly recalls the eff
forts made by many members of the legis.
lature last fall, efforts that were strongly re-
inforced by intelligent outside public opin-
ion, to obtain the establishment of state
board of health. The board would have
found an abundant field for the exercise of
the fullest powers with which its members
could have been clothed. Instances have
come within the knowledge of many of the
readers of this journal where not only re-
strictive but humane exercise of their du,
ties by the members OF board of health would
have operated effectually to limit the spread
of the fearful contagion and TO relieve mis-.
cry and suffering. Let every philanthropic
individual make note of the experiences Of
this fatal season, and when this subject
again comes before the assembled wisdom
be prepared TO enforce the demand for suci
a board with evidence of its necessity 80 i'm
perative that not only will the board be ere
ated, but endowed literally enough with thu
means OF usefulness to make it effective
not the paltry sum Of $1,000 to which
the late legislature, in the supreme heigh
OF its munifcence, proposed to limit it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

TRUE NoBILITY.-Fortunate indeed would
it be for the country if all our public men,
on retiring to private life, could say as Vice
President Wheeler truthfully said to his old
neighbors the other day al entered public
life with no capital save the character
formed upon the principles, precepts and ex-
amples of the rugged New England men
who were the pioneers of this goodly town
Your representative in congress at a time
when corruption and venality were charged
to those holding representative trusts, when
eager greed, under the forms of law, made
its iproads upon the public treasury, it was
my constant aim 80 to order my action as to
keep the capital good And if during thu
long years of my public life can point x
no brilliant achievements, am happy to re
ceive this testimonial that my purpose Il
maintain my integrity was not altogether /
| failure"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

AN EXCITED SENATE.-Wednesda the
18th instant was the most exciting day in
the senate since the debate on the pending
question occurred. There was full chorus
of speeches from both sides of the house,
with hot duet obligato by Hill and Ma
hone, in which the fiery little Virginian
charged his burly antagonist with coward
ice. Mr. Dawes charged the democracy
with negotiating, through their representa-
tive men, for Mr.. Mahone's vote. There
was running fire of denial from the dem
ocratic side of the chamber, Mr.. Malone ex
planning that he had been approached by
both parties on the subject of his vote, but
not improperly. Meanwhile the stream o.
talk flows on and gives no sign of exhaustion
ct the fountain-head How or when tn,
deadlock will end no one can tell
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

SPECIE MpoRTATIoNs.-We are aston
ished at the flood OF specie which poured
into this country from Europe last year, but
this years receipts make those appear insig-
nificant. From the beginning OF the year
to the LIST instant the receipts were fourteen
millions, against two and one-half millions
for the same time last year. There are no
indications of diminution of the flow,
though where the immense quantity of bull.
lion is TO come from is mystery, unless it
is carried back to Europe almost as soon as
it arrives here by the crowds Of extravagani
tourists who are doing the continent
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

KELLY WIss.-Tammany had lively
election Monday evening, three tickets be.
ing in the field. The regular John Kelly
ticket, headed by him, was successful by
fifty majority in total of seven hundred
and eleven votes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

In Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Alabama, state independent parties, formed
by fusion of republicans, independent
democrats and gresnbackers are in existence
and growing.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

AT Danvile, fast day, Rev. Mr. Mcdonald
preached sermon in which he denounced band
promenade concerts and summer bosrders from
the city as corrupting to Danyillian morals
Upon the conclusion of his remarks, Hon. b. N.
Davis roso to defend the assailed designations and
created quite sensation by replying to the
preacher within the limits Of the sanctuary, the
audience sympathizng with Mr. Davis
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-04-20

ALL tue 'i''''''s eA'ep' 'ne "o''"" messy nut
mann, condemned to death for connection with
the cars assassination, namely, Russakoft,
Micbaalor Kihaltschitiscb Jeliahoff and sonhia
$500, 'e nop''
rieonsky were hangeo az Ten CLOCK frday
morning. Michaelotfs rope broke twice. Order
WAS not disturbed There was an immense CON-
co,rsa ., snec,a,ors
'o"-'e vi 'pee'"'
MISS HATTIE DuKLL, after fasting little less
than fiftv davs Mt Iowa CITY. Town finally died
"a ,va. b,s,aa r,a.s., - ~. ,..., I,.,v.s,
- -. -s..,.-.,l -.
a'e'y ai'er oea.h an eAaininaton WAS hade oy
competent medical authority. Not a drop of
blood was found i'm the body. which weighed
80 a. "a. Tha .,o,ash - ,,.. ..,i-a,..
iorty-nNe Pounus' Inc s'o"iach also WAS enureiy
void of any substance. No further analysis has
vet been made public
DISPATCH from Paris says commupica-
ton published in the Frankfort Gazette acquires
imnortance in connection with the racent srrast 81
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urana Duke NchoiAs CohstsntihoVich' IL Is
stated that nihlist who was captured after the
assa ssination of the emneror paye Inflammation
'rh,oh ,od 10 tho d,scovery Of q nina haa;nn,,,r.
nnder the Grand Dnke Constantine's naIaca ana