Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-20

O~~-~NeAS-A -ae@o In Italy. At 6 convention just hold in Mo oena there were representatives of twenty seven cremation societies established :n diff ferent Italian cities
 The immunity of deer parks from taxation IS under discussion in England. The number ot these parks is greater than is commonly supposed. There are no less than 334 deer parks south of the Tweed. The largest is said to be at the Cheshire seat of Lord Eger. ton and contains 2'5OO acres
 The Harrisburg (Pa.) 7eEegraph (Stalwart) announces that mo true Republican can or does hold any aninosity toward nor has any oeslre or intention to prescribe the honest Republican who voted the Independent tick ct" This announcement is under the cir cumstances, quite kind end generous.
 An analysis of tho vote cast in Indiana for candidates for the Legislature is said to show a majority in faver of submitting prohibi tory amendment to the people. In eighty seven counties the nominees who favored submission received 2O9, SO5, while the Dem ocratic candidates received 2O7.624 votes. But as the Democrats contrsl the Legislature, thls majority in favor of giving the people an opportunity to express an opinion on pro hlbltion will, of course, count for nothing.
 A sacred concert" was given at the Grand Opera House last evening and Prosecuting Attorney Pickett caused tho arrest of Mir. Clark Peck, proprietor of the house, and sev- eral of those connected with the concert. The ground on which this action was taken was that the performance was given without a license. Those arrested will of course have to be fined, but they will have a host of sym pathizers, including the 2,5OO people who heard and enjoyed the csncert
 Another candidate for the spaakership of the State House of Representatives is MT. E. R. Starr of Litchdeld, the proprietor of tho famous ''Echo" farm. Ar. Starr is & man of fine personal appearance, q good speaker and skillful parliamentarian. It is urged in hi 8 favor that he is farmer and that no Speaker has been chosen from the farmers. More over, Litchfield county has not had Speak CT since the Republican party was organized in 1854. Mir. Starr carried Litchfisld, which
 
 The Waterbury American thinks that if tho present license law is repealed one of two things is pretty sure to follow--a legislative muddle resulting in nothing positive and sat isfactory, out and out retreat, with the fences all down and the liquor interests mas. ters of the field. We agree with the Anaeai caz in thinking that the safer and better way is to have the working of the present law carefully considered and then to have such amendments made are proved on sufficient evidence to be necessary
 The Baltimore Journal of Commerce calls attention to the fact that the sale of govern ment lands in the southern States is assum ing large proportions. Of the S,650, 21e acres sold in 1879 there were 4s1, ,174, or 5t per cent of the whole, located in Arkansas Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the only southern States in which the gov ernment still owns lands. In 1880 the tota sales amounted to 9,16G, us acres. 996,S l acres, or 10. 9 per cent. being in the South l The total sales in 1881 reached 1O,759, 1O7 | acres, of which 1 ,517, 136, or Al per cent were In the States named. In the year sndet
 
 | acres, and the sales in southern States had in creased to 2,355, 764 acres, or 15 per cent o the whole In three years the sales in tn South have increased nearly fve-fold. Par of these purchases are doubtless speculative but another and large part are due to tn large flow southward Of people migratin from the North in recent years.
 1 lawsuit which has lately beon going O in Paris revealed some rather notable fact concerning the business and profits of pr Evans, the American dentist whose service to the Empress Eugenie during the siege o Paris, when he rescued her from the Tui cries and took her in his carriage to plac of safety, have made him famous the worl over. The prisoner was William Williams .ol his late clerk and cashier Williamson lhs been in Dr. Evans service the last ten year during which time he has, according to h ] own admission, appropriate 300, ,OoO francs