Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Judging from the meeting last evening it form has not been dead in Connecticut, but only sleeping.
 Congress is to be asked by the holders of the Centennial Exposition stock to make up their losses, amounting to nearly $2, 900, 900. It will be remembered that in 1875 the State of Pennsylvania appropriated $1,O5O, ,OOO, and Philadelphia one million and a half to aid the exposition, for which stock was issued. On this stock about twenty. seven per cent. ill cash was refunded. Now the project of repaying the balance will be urged, on the ground that the exposition was of such national benefit that the country can afford to pay for it. The country can afford to pay for it, but it is highly probable that the country never will
 A number of Boston gentlemen who de- scribe themselves former soldiers under General Grant, and including Theodore Ly- man, s. M. Quincy, Charles F. Adams, jr. !, Henry L. Higginson, Francis A. Walker, Samuel A. Green, A. P. Martin and others of prominence, have written to General Grant commenting his recent paper in vindication of Fitz John Porter. They say that mo act which has marked his great career should bring him more honor than the moral cour- age and spirit of fairness and justice exhibit ed in his defense of gallant Union soldier, condemned on insufficient or mistaken evi- dence." This is the general opinion.
 IL. must be composed of Mark Tapleys They allege, in face of the defeat of Governor St John, who was the sole representative of their cause on the Republican State ticket and ran 2+, ,116 behind his fellows, that it is s'useless for anyone to deny the fact that the sentiment in favor of prohibition has steadily strengthened in the State for years,' , and say that ''while the prohibitionists of all three parties concentrated on Mr. Click, nearly all of the prohibition Demo- crats and Greenbackers voted their respective party tickets, and thousands of prohibition Republicans voted for MT. Click, and several thousand refused to vote for anyone for Governor-ap not realizing that they thereby endangered their cause.''
 Canon Basil Wilberforee says that he read the Archbishop of York's recent denuncia- ton of the vices of workingmen. The par ticular sins which the archbishop condemned were Sporting, drinking and other debasing pastimes." The canon say he turned over his newspaper after reading the above, and he observed: 1. The restoration of the drink ing and dancing license to house notorious f1~ 9 counts of the gambling transactions of the aristocracy in a well known West End racing club. 3. The betting upon the next horse race chronicled in the same type as the news from Egypt and the doings of the imperial Parliament. 4. Two highly aristocratic di vorce cases. He is accordingly driven to the conclusion that ''to scold the workingmen for sporting and vice, and not to carry the same crusade boldly into higher quarters, is to strain at national gnats and swallow ma tional camels wholesale.''
 An important suit in regard to the respon- sibility of telegraph companies has just been decided in Louisiana James Crangle sued the Western Union Telegraph company for a loss of $21O which he had sustained in conse quence of an error made by a telegraph op- orator in sending bis message. The counsel for the company claimed that the original 1 dispatch, which was produced in court, was so badly written that the operator was no l responsible for the mistake in transmission ! and also claimed protection under the print ed contract on the message, particularly tha portion regarding the repeating of the same
 The court decided that a telegraph compan,
 cannot by special contract relieve itsel
 from responsibility for the faults or negli
 gence of it's servants, and also that "a condi
 tion in @ contract that telegraph compan.
 shall not be responsible for errors or negli 1 gence of it's servants unless message is re
 peated, and then only to the extent of th
 cost of repeating such message is an unjus
 and unreasonable condition, and cannot b.
 enforced.''
 The Democrats in Congress are not show
 ing any extra zeal in the cause of Civil Ser
 vice Reform. Mir. Pendleton was asked
 day or two ago when he proposed to call hi
 bill up and said that his time had been yer,
 fully occupied for several days in prepara tion for discussing the bill to regulate pro
 ceedings in consular courts, which he ,ex
 poets to get up on Monday at the latest
 While he could not say precisely upon wha