The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1882-11-16
MISCELLANEOUS,

Col. Lounsbnry and NJ. II. Jewell, pro.
ranged to establish a daily paper in the
National Park, to be called the National
Park Herald. Col. Lounsberry has gone
East to arrange for associated press dis.
patches, material, etc.
The various railway lines running be-
tween St. Paul and Chicago are actually
engaged in cutting rates. Passengers may
now travel between these cities for the
comparative trife Of 50. When railroads
quarrel the public reaps the benefit and
there is never any attempt at reconciliation
from the outside.
What was known as the Kinickerbocker
block between Fourth and Fifth streets,
Nicollet avenue, Minneapolis, was totally
destroyed by fire on the 18th inst The
total loss is estimated at $127, 700, Of which,
500, 800 is covered by insurance. This is
the most disastrous fire that has scourged
Minneapolis since the mill fire of Decem.
Der last.
John C. New, the able assistant secretary
of the treasury, who would like Folgers
portfolio, is credited in an Indianapolis
special to the Cincinnati Enquirer with this
emphatic declaration: 'Folger has tried to
keep the people of New York from know
ing that he was candidate for governor,
and, by -, he has succeeded"
Courier-Journal: The Democratic party
in control of the next national house Of
representatives will: First--clect revc-
nue. reform speaker. Sccond-Organize a
revcnue-reform ways and means committee.
Third-perfect a revenuc-rcform bill and in.
troducc it at once. Fourth-cut down the
expenditures of government from thirty to
fifty per cent. Fifth-put stop to the al-
surd policy of paying off the national debt
at the rate of ST., ,OOO,ooO and $l5,0OO,OQj q
month.
From that ont-of.the-way and neglected
portion of American territory called
Alaska comes news Of various petty
troubles. The natives who seem strangely
inclined to assert themselves. having offer
cd insult to the occupants of boat belong
ing to the L. S. revenue cutter, Corwin, the
commander Of that vessel attacked and de-
stroycd their village and drove its inhabi.
fonts shelterlcss to the interior. Then the
custom collector w. G.. Morris, who is
about the only government official in that
country save the naval officers, became un.
, duly impressed with sense of his position
and established himself as little tyrant.
He bullied the natives, shot their pet dogs
and otherwise exasperatcd them till they
rose on masse and drove him to take shell
ter in his house where his life was saved
only by the interference Of naval force.
Mr.. Morris seems likely to get the oppor-
tunity to return to civilization.
New York World: "a plague on both
your houses" is the brief moral of yestcr.
days tremendous popular verdict. 1t
rings the knell of the Republican ornaniza-
ton. 1t gives notice to every young and
aspiring man in the country that the future
belongs to the new issues, and to the Dem-
ocratic party. The claim of the Republic
can party to have saved the country and
paid the debt and grown the crops has fl
nally ceased, to the average American citi-
zen, to be q valid reason why he should
vote to prolong the reign of branded thieves
because they call themselves Republicans.
1t is less to any presumed merit OF the
Democratic party than to the proved crimes
and follics Of the leaders whom the Repuh-
lican party has accepted that the Demo-
cratic party owes this wonderful success.
The election of 1874 was an opportunity for
the Democraticrrarty of which it did not
avail itself. The election of 1SS2 is an OPP
portunity for the Democratic party, and
the question to be answered by the next
house is whether it shall throw away this
opportunity also.