Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-03

their "safety" appliances.
 If the Independent movement in Pepnsyl- vania has grown throughout the State it has in the town of Montrose, in Susquehanna county, Boss Cameron may we'll tremble. In that town 231 independent Republicans have petitioned the anti Cameron candidate for Governor to come on and give them speech Last year only 127 independent Republican votes were thrown in the entire county.
 The Brooklyn association of Young Repub- licans, which has declared against Folger, can do vigorous and effective work. Two years ago the Democratic majority in Kings county was reduced from 16, 492, given for Tilden, to 9,311, Hancocks majority. The next year the Young Republicans practically forced the nomination of Mir. Low. and his election was secured by 4,354 majority. The Democratic State ticket had only 565 majority, and one Republican candidate had majority.
 Yesterday throughout Great Britain the new Reply postal cards went into use These are of two classes-one printed on thick and one on thin cardboard. On each side is 6 half penny stamp with lines for the addresses | and spaces for the communication and the l answer. Wherever the card comes into the l postof6ce the appropriate stamp is defaced. 1 The system, it is thought, will be found par | ticularly useful for preserving evidence of 1 understandings and agreements and even of l contracts. l The government inspector of mines In Nova Scotia has prepared report which gives some facts concerning the coal supply. \ The Sydney coal field, on the east shore Of yCape Breton, has an area of available coal of l three hundred square miles. It has ten coal l seams from three to twelve feet in thickness and many smaller beds. Coal is also found at other points on Cape Breton. The Pictou field has an area of thirty-five square miles. ! There are sixteen seams, ranging from threc to thirty four feet in thickness. The area of the Cumberland field is estimated at three hundred square miles. The Cape Breton coal is highly bituminous and ooking, the Pictou less so, and the Cumberland is much like the Pictou. During the year 1881 there were 1, ,124, ,27O tons of coal raised in the Province.
 The pious Englishmen naturally think that the Lord was with the English army in Egypt. Sunday of thanksgiving was ordered over the ''signal success which has been given to
 our army in Egypt, which demands the
 thankful acknowledgements of the English
 people to God, who has endowed our
 generals with skill and foretbought, ou1
 soldiers with discipline and obedience
 and our whole army with valor." In
 the form of thanksgiving ordained by the
 Archbishop of York was this passage: "We
 glorify thee for the late victory granted to oul army, whereby, as in moment, peace has
 been restored to Egypt, the highway between
 England and our Indian Empire has beer
 made safe, and the pursuits of peace have al
 ready been resumed by the Egyptian people
 Teach us to see that thy hand hath done it, that
 thou was in the midst of our camp, to de
 liver us, and to give up our enemies before
 us."
 The report of the medical officer of the
 large district in London known as northeas
 London, or Hackney, gives some instructive
 particulars concerning the population ant
 health of the great city. It appears tha } whooping cough is 8 fertile cause of mortali l ty; not, as it is explained, that it is danger