Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-09

The politicians arc already busy preparing for the city election next month. It is quito possible that there will be some more Demo- cratic harmony visible between now and then.
 Some of the Massachusetts newspapers do not hesitate to say Governor Benjamin F. Butler. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. " The probability is that Butler will make good Governor
 colored girl, fourteen years old, is under sentence of death in Virginia, and the sxscu- tion is appointed for the 17th of this month She was convicted of poisoning a man and 6 woman. The crine was aggravated, but it is difficult to see what good end the hanging of child will serve.
 "reformer" in speech in Boston re. gently made the following remarks: 'It seems to me that, if what have said be true, society must be entirely revolutionized. Rem must be abolished for rent, according to this doctrine. can be nothing more nor les. than robbery! Why should pay others for
 
 to occupy myself Why should reward robber. if he is robber, by continually pay | ing him tribute :? It seems to mo, therefore | that there can be no such thing as absolute | equality among men until the doctrine oi | property in land is entirely destroyed" Thi. is fine doctrine to preach in Boston. Russia hopes that her trade with Chins will be increased by the line of steamers she has recently established between Chinese ports and Vladivostock, her new port II eastern Siberia. Heretofore tea intended fol Moscow and Mini Novgorod has been sent Mongolia to Krachta and thence through Si beria to Europe. By the new system the te, can be conveyed from Vladivostock by rivel boats to Irkutsk, which is expected to be \ come the chief mart of the Russian tea trade Some notion of the importance of the cara van trade, heretofore, may be seen in th fact that about 35, ,OOO, ,OOO pounds of tea hay been annually conveyed to Kraohta.
 An English gentleman, in long letter t the Pall Mall Gazette, corrects the hypothesi of that journal that the short honey crop il Russia last season was due to the decline i the price of beeswax. The real cause wa the failure of tho blossoms to ss crete as much honey as usual. M, Hoge states that bee keepers pre- fer to keep the honeyconb for rsflling instead of selling them for wax, as it pay them better to do 50. He says: "In tn United States broken combs are careful preserved and made over into comb founds tion' This is done by running thin sheets c WAX through 8 machine constructed some what like clothes wringer; tho roll CTS il stead of being made of rubber are made C engraved metal, which makes impressions O each side of the sheets exactly like the bo toms of the natural cells. These Hounds tions are placed in the frames, and the be. accept them only when made of pure bss wax, and thankful for that much of sta and fill them with honey. With the utiliz, tion of broken combs for these foundation the export of bseswax from tho Unite States has steadily decreased, while the pr ? duction of honey is constantly on the il | crease.
 . News comes from Sierra Leone that after delay of five years punishment has be. } awarded for a most atrocious crime. In IS two agents of the Church Missionary socist at Onitsha on the Niger, William F. John al John Williams by name, and their wives, ti' two native girls together back to bac i whipped them with barbarous cruelty, rubb
 pepper into their wounds and left them lyil
 on the ground under broiling sun. One
 them died and the other miraculously St
 vived. Williams and his wife were sentenc