Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-04

Some people living in the vicinity of the Methodist church at WaItham, Mass, where a religious revival is in prog ress are circulating petition declaring it nuisance and asking that it be abated on the ground that the noise and din are very an moving.
 Judge Fox of Taunton, Mass, is not a be- iever in ''cattle shows" Remarking upon the thirty -four drunks that appeared before him last week, all picked up on the fair grounds, he said that in his opinion the Bris- tol county agricultural society, ''instsad of receiving bounty from the State as benefi- cent institution, ought to be indicted for keeping liquor and gambling nuisance.'
 Philadelphia is a city of magnificent dis tances, and many of it's inhabitants have ex- perienced great inconvenience from the fact that they were not able to buy postage stamps without going long distance, some- times several miles, to postal station. To remedy this embarrassment the postmaster has recently, by permission of the depart ment, established fifty branch offices in re- S.SA~ SSoASS stamps. The proprietor of the store is paid $24 per annum for his services, and agrees to keep on hand stamps and post cards to the value of $25. A small swinging sign for each office, costing less than $2. completes the ex- pense and the system is received with great satisfaction.
 There is Methodist church in Birmipg- l ham, Alabama, which does not appear to be much concerned about saving the souls of negroes. card has just been published by the pastor, Rev. E. H. King, which reads as | follows: ''1n view of certain occurrences and misapprehsnsion which exists in the , minds of some, desire to make the follow | ing statement through the columns of your paper. The First Methodist Episcopal church 1 of this city, of which I am pastor, is for | white persons exclusively, and colored per- l sons are not invited or expected to attend. ' | The Methodist church in the North had bet | ter send 8 missionary to the church at Bir- | mingham.
 The bosses in Pennsylvania find much difficulty in getting orators to present their cause. There was a curious illustration of ! this at the meeting in Philadelphia Saturday l evening. It was desired to have some speaker of character on the platform with General Beaver. By great effort and the exertion of much private pressure Judge Kelley was driven into concenting that his name should be used in the advertisements of the meeting, but with the explicit announcement that he l would speak Ion tariff. revenue and indus trial questions" And this he did solely. Gen. Beaver gained some advantage perhaps, from the fact that Kelley had consented to
 appear on the same platform with himself,
 but the evident fact that the Judge had de-
 clinsd to speak on "State issues, " and that he
 did not desire to be understood as commit
 ting himself to anything more than the empti.
 est form of an association with Gen. Beavers
 canvass, offset any moral effect which might
 have been hoped for by the Cameron man
 agers.
 "Woman's sphere" is enlarging daily. II
 has been discovered in Grand Rapids Michi
 gan, that woman can be a head waiter The
 manner in which the business entrusted tc
 this new phenomenon is conducted is thus de
 scribed by correspondent "A visitor ii
 met at the dining hall door by tall, fin,
 looking young woman of graceful carriage
 neatly attired, who escorts him to his sea