Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-30

quarterly sale, against the 122 tons in April
 of last year. Of Cape ivory there has been continued scarcity, while of the west coast Of Africa supply there is now much less in hand than formerly Stores in the London docks now amount to only 133 tons, compared with 213 tons for last year. One dealer has just had invoiced to him no fewer than 522 tusks. These tusks represent PIC elephants. Facts 1 like these are leading to 8 renewal of the old predictions that the elephant will before many years belong to the list of extinct ami mals.
 Father Cuddihy, the Milford Mass. Catho- lie priest who has forbidden the Grand Army post to enter the Catholic cemetery on Deco ration Day has written letter to the local paper to state that 1T entirely disapprove and differ from your mode of honoring our Catholic dead by putting penny's worth of cotton bunting on their graves" You get | $1O0 year from the town," he says; ''why not then have solemn high mass and service according to Catholic usage for the Catholic soldier who has fought his last fight and l has passed from your jurisdiction to that of l the church that prays for his soul? You will | therefore, on receipt of this, take the proper | action to mend your ways and rectify your mistake in timen "An Irishnan, an Ameri- can citizen, and soldier of the late civil war;" replies to Father Cuddihy's injudicious epistle, and informs him that he has never met anything so devoid of Christian charity, common courtesy, or regard for the opinions and beliefs of others as his action in this matter
 Secretary Teller has decided not to allow the various religious denominations to se- lect Indian agents, but where mission schools are maintained by several of the churches he thinks it will be proper to consult them, since they have direct interest at these points. In practice under the late custom it has been found that many men of no busi- ness capacity whatever have succeeded in ob- taining strong church endorsements, and in some cases men have secured this influence who turned out to be morally unfit for the position. The Secretary says his examina- tion of the results of this system of selection has convinced him that it has proved a de- cided failure. He finds that the average time that agents thus selected have been able to hold their places has been considerably less than two years, and very considerable portion have been removed for incompetency. He also objects to the system on the ground that it introduces divided responsibility and agents selected under this plan. are in- clined to hold themselves somewhat inde- pendent of the department. He instances case where the church organization inter ested in a certain agent assumed almost entire independence of the department The Secretary had decided, after an inves- tigation, that certain agent should be re- moved for good cause, and, as a mat ter of courtesy. he asked the denomination interested to suggest successor. No atten- tion was paid to this, but instead the Secre- tary was notified that the charges would be investigated. The Secretary says that here after, while he will accept suggestions from all well-informed persons, he will no longer recognize the right of any organization to make selections of Indian agents.