Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-15

don was Gordon Saltonstall, who was the chief officer of the colony for seventeen years ending with 1724, when he died in office. At that time there were only forty towns in the State and the population of the State WAS only 1000.
 One of the most curious results of last Tuesdays election in Pennsylvania was the suicide of German tramp, who took tho Republican defeat so much to heart that he went out and hanged himself. No German has been discovered in this State who is like ly to commit suicide on account of the defeat of the Republicans
 The city of London intends to do it's own electric lighting. The work will not be done in hurry, but when done it will be well done, and customers will be supplied with the electric light at cost. The city has been driv- en to take this step by the pertinacious and conflicting claims of rival companies. They all want the privilege of digging up the streets and conducting their business in their own way.
 According to writer in the Boston Med teal Journal, the opium habit may be dis continued with perfect safety and without discomfort by gradually reducing the doses of morphia and substituting bromide of potassium in increasing doses. The point is to keep up the proper proportion between the two drugs, and hence the necessity of medical supervision. It has been said that such modes of cure simply substitute one bad habit for another; but it should be borne in mind that the bromide habit is easily cured
 The movement in England for @ memorial to Longfellow has been remarkably success full. The Prince Of Wales is chairman of the committee. A letter from Francis Bennock, treasurer of the fund contains the folio wing : "You will be interested to learn that our Longfellow Memorial committee exceeds four hundred, and we must perforoe close it, or every name in England of any importance will be included in it. I question whether any other name on earth would. or could, have brought together so many phases of thought, embracing such variety of leading men. have received spontaneously, with out any appeal, over $500, which, after our committed meeting next week, will, I expect, be promptly raised to e5, ,OOO.'' After pay. ing for bust, to be placed in Westminster or elsewhere, the rest of tho $25, 900 will be used in establishing IIongfellow scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge
 The Railroad Commissioners of the Stat of Massachusetts have decided that it is ille gal for the New York and New England Rail- road company to charge 8 higher rate pe1 ton for carry ing coal from Norwich to Webs ter, 8 distance of forty three miles, than from Norwich to Worcester, & distance oi fifty miles. And they base the validity of their action upon decision of the Su- preme Court of the United States, which af- firms the absolute right of State to fz maximum rates for transportation either within State or begun outside of 8 State and carried within it, or begun within it and carried without. If the commissioners ars right in their law, the Supreme Court of the United States has by it's decision not only de clared the right of the State to regulate com merce on railroads within the State, but ha, given the State concurrent jurisdiction witl Congress to regulate commerce between tn. States Congress not having taken the in itiative.
 Congressman Springer, of Illinois, is il the field as a candidate for Speak or of the next House. He hal an elaborate platform to stand upon, a follows: Economy in public expenditures honesty and accountability in public off cials, reduction of federal taxation to the ex tent of at least $75, ,OOO, Oe0 per annum. ex cept as to the tax on whiskey; the entir | abolition of the internal revenue system ant all the offices connected herewith the re duction of tariff taxes to revenue basis ir such gradual and considerate manner as no to reduce wages or embarrass the bushes interests of the country the maintenance O the public credit a sound and stable cua rency, adequate to the wants of trade, an