Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-07

who once buttered his watermelons, is indus triously at work in Indiana in behalf of a prohibitory amendment to the State consti- tuition.
 In order that patrons of the London and Northwestern railroad may get good milk at the restaurants on the line of that road the directors have bought 300 COWS, whose en- tire milk product will be sold at those places.
 decision of considerable interest to own CTS and occupants of houses in Philadelphia has been rendered by the Supreme court of Pennsylvania, which declares that bay-win- dows overlapping the sidewalk are an unjus- tifable encroachment on tho public highway, prejudicial to the interests of the community and the rights of individual property owners in the city.
 MT. Gladstone has again denied that he sympathized with the South in our civil war. From Canterbury he was recently addressed on the subject by gentleman who had heard lecturer, in arguing that MT. Gladstone's foreign policy was nearly always wrong de- clare that he had sympathy with the South ern cause This gentleman wrote to Mir. Gladstone asking if it were true, and from one of his secretaries received the following response: ''In reply to the note which Mir. Gladstone received from you, I am directed by him to inform you that the statement at- tributing to him sympathy with the South i2 the American war is not true, end is contrary to authenticated facts long ago made public" Ex-Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is not fha Tr;s h lof he aided in defeating an Irishman who want ed place on the Democratic ticket in Marion county and in getting his own nephew nomi. mated. A few days ago he attended meet ing in one of the wards of Indianapolis where the Irish voters are numerous, and when he rose to speak he was greeted with such expressions these "Fhat are yez dooin' down here? Yez never visited us be- fore" "Ah, yez are a stranger, Tommy but yezl know us betther before yez leave.'' ''Do yez cum down here to get us to vote for yer nevvy ?" and other like outbursts. ''Now I want you to keep quiet until I get through MT. Hendricks blandly put in, and met by the curt response: Make it short, thin, or we'll egg yez.'
 
 srn Pacific railroad, is a very rich man, but he is evidently honest. Twenty-Five years ago, poor and struggling young man, he engaged ln losing newspaper enterprise in Racine, Wisconsin. To start in it he raised $500 on a note endorsed by Mr. Ritohie, local lawyer. Ritchie had to pay the note Now, after quarter of century, he has written to MT. Willard to inform him that he stlli holds that piece of paper, but will settle 1t for $500, though by accumulation of in- terest It has grown to much larger sum. He received in reply letter containing check for $1,000. Accompanying it was & note stating that MT. Willard had twenty years be- fore put into tho hands of an agent the busi- ness of finding out what claims were due against him resulting from that early col lapse, with directions to settle the same He therefore supposed that his indebtedness to Mr. Ritchie had been wiped out. He refusaus any reduction, insisting upon discharging it in full This is the kind of man to % into 8 ''blind pool' with.
 Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, has some very decided opinions about the Edmunds law and the work of the commission under it. He says the law is infamous for reas,ons innumerable; that it is bill of pains and