Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-13

Only thirteen lawyers in the State House of Representatives It will be interesting to see how the House gets along without moro Illegal talent"
 Another candidate for the assistant clerk ship of the House is Mr. A. w. Paige of Danbury who, as many think, was unfairly beaten when he was 8 candidate for the place two years ago.
 General Ben Harrison of Indiana has evil dently quite g boom in Washington. but if his friends want to make him the next Re- publican nominee for President they will have to be more careful than thsy have been
 Alfred Tennyson's now prose play, ssThe Promise of May" was produced in London Saturday night, and though intended to be serious seems to have caused muck laughter. Probably the great poet will now give up try ing to shine as drRmatist.
 The Springfield Union Saturday wondered if any of the Massachusetts ministers would on Sunday preach from Luke 1895, compar- ing the Republican party in Massachusetts to the unjust judge, who said: "Yet because
 
 lest by her continual coming she weary me'
 Captain Stiles T. Stanton, Republican can- didate for Secretary of State, has reason to feel fiattered by the vote which he received. His home indorsement was 8 splendid one his own town, Stonington, giving him 3O2 more votes than Gen Bulkeley received In New London he ran 2S6 ahead and in Groton 59. His vote in other parts of the State was a large one.
 Hops are so high that brewers are looking about for substitutes. A trade papsr repre- sentlng the wholesale druggists says the brewers have purchased so largelo of chamy- mile flowers and calumba root that the price of these articles has gone to a very high fig ure. Now the brewers are looking further, l and some of them have procured large quan- | titles of aloes. This ought to interest beer drinkers.
 The project of ship canal across the pe- nlnsula of Malacca has been revived, such 8 I work being capable of shortening the jour- ney from Calcutta to Hong Kong by about one third. M Leon Dru, the author of the present scheme, proposes to cut the canal 1 from the junction of the Pakcham river with 1 the river Saona to Tusan, from whence it would follow the Htaoung or Tayoung bed 1 to the Gulf of Siam. The total length of the cutting would be about 66 miles, or several l miles less than that of the Suez canal, and several more than that of Panama The work would cost, according to the estimates, l LOG, ,OOO, ,OOOf.
 Some idea of the extent to which Geners1 | Butler ran ahead of the Democratic ticket in 1 Massachusetts may be ascertained by a con- parison of the vote in two cities Lowell 1 gave Butler 5,OG5, Bishop 3,53s. For Lieu tenant Governor, Ames (Rep.) had 4, ,Ose, Bowerman (Den ,521. The vote of the Democratic candidates for Secretary of State, l Treasurer Auditor and Attorney General varied from 4, 483 to 4,352, while the Rspub- | lican candidates had from f. 1OS to 4, ,O91, | showing 6 Democratic majority on these offices of about 400, where Butler's plurality was ,527. In Haverhill Butler had 245 more votes than Bishop, yet Ames, for Lieutenant Governor obtained 311 plurality; Pierce, Secretary of State 364 Gleason for State Treasurer, 245; Ladd, Auditor, 396; and |
 Mir. Andrew Sherman contributes to the last number of the Nation an interesting paper on Abraham Lincoln as civil service refornaer. He gives an account of what took place at small gathering oi ''old whigs" in Mir. Lincoln's room in Chicago hotel in 1857. All present agreed that James Buchanan owed his nomi nation and election te the Presidency, the year before, to the potency of the officia machinery of Pierce's administration, whicf was brought to bear, with all it's patronag. and influence, in his favor Mr. Lincoln WA
 very emphatic in his expression of disgus
 with what is now known as tho ''spoils sys
 tenn" in politics. A political party, he said
 that cannot maintain itself by virtue of thu
 righteousness and popularity of it's prlnci
 ples, and, when in official power, by earnin,
 and retaining the respect and confidence 0 the people, ought to find no permanent plac in American politics. Out of power, am