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Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03
JUST ESCAPED.

Adam missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn't laugh in his sleeve.-N.Y. Egen- ialg Post.
 Professor in hydrostatics eff you had purchased crown of gold and thought part of it was silver, what would you dol" Jun for: e'Take it back "-Nidgara Under.
 ''Adolphus, let us leave the avenue and stroll along the margin of the river" Not any, Evangeine; no more margins for me" (Adolphus had been speculating in futures that week. COurfeT-J0atrnaI.
 It is getting to be aesthetic for ladies to thank gentlemen who rise and offer them a seat in street car. We received one thank this morning, being the first in five years. To be sure, we haven't got much.-N. '. C0nl- nlerciGL AdUertiSer.
 "Hinc ilae Iachryms "-Master Tommy (returning from the funeraI-"Why did Uncle Jonas cry so for, Aunt :? He cried more than anybody!" Aunt (grimly): ''Of course. Most of the property is left to him, my dear. ."-Puneh.
 Little Jack had a Christmas present of a railroad. He hurriedly dragged out the en- zine, the cars, etc, and searched the box, all the things" said his mother, ''what al @ you looking for?" ''The accidents. ."-Le Figaro.
 ''You may say what you please" solemnly remarked a red-nosed listener to temper ance lecturer ''but whisky once saved my life" "How was that?" "Why, I wanted a drink so bad that I got up once in the mid dle of the night and went out to hunt for saloon. While was gone the house caught fire and burned up my wife. "-!SdH FTdHcas- co Post.
 An agent for the sale of some household article attempted to mount the steps of 6 house recently, but the dog came around the corner and took half yard of cloth from the back of his coat. The man WAS sliding out, when the owner of the house came and asked, Did doze dog bide you ?'' 'ae didn't bite me, but he ruined my coat, ," was the reply. My goot friend, excuse doze dog if he didn't bite you. He ish young dog now, but by and by he shall take hold of some agents and eat der bones ride out of them. He bides a coat now, but he shall soon do better !"
 He was a country young fellow, a little awkward and bashful, but of sterling worth of character She was Cincinnati belle and had sense enough to appreciate his worth, despite his awkwardness and bsshfulness, and was his fiancee. On a gloomy Sunday evening last winter they were standing in front of the window in the parlor of her home, on East Walnut Hills watching the snowhakes rapidly falling outside. He was not up in society small talk and, being hard up for something to say, remarked as ke saw. the snow falling: ''This will be hard on the old mans calves and sheep" ''Never mind, dear," said she, slipping her arm around him, 'I will take care of one of them."- Cincinnati Commercial
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03
A Rogues' Congress.

i Sketch from Reality By Novelist.
 George W Cable, the Louisiana novelist, in his latest essay on Prison Reform, in the New Orleans Times Democrat, writes:
 ''In one of our large cities there is now in session a general assembly of rogues from all parts of the country, and from many foreign lands. In this body may be seen representa- tives of every vicious class; counterfeiters, tramps, sneak thieves, house burners, stage shoppers, town vagrants, murderers, poison CTS, common drunks, pickpockets, burglars, defaulters, ravishers, embezzlers, wharf rats bandits-what you will.
 ''The excuse for the existence of this body is-the reduction of crime Its meetings are held daily from sunrise to sunset, in large paved court, shut out from the public eye on every side by cordon of lofty buildings. The total of it's delegates in the three or four groups into which iS Is divided often ex- ceeds 300. The order Is only what might be expected. There is no little congeniality among its members, and their deliberations are characterized by some mirth and noise which, at certain intervals, rise into concert ed howlings as signals for the introduction of this or that business of the day. There are no desks, chairs or benches The mem- bers attend en costume, and the display of rags and tatters, and much noticeable naked ness, is a prominent feature. The stench of the place is another.
 'Without that show of method which de- Lucrative bodies commonly display, they yet accomplish all the ends of executive sessions, committees, conferences, debates, personal ities and contests for the foor-or pave ment The head of this body is one of it's own number, chosen for his superlative strength and ferocity, which qualities he uses to enforce his enlightened ideas of de- cency and order. The graduates of this school, after terms of training, varying in length from five days all the way up to numerous months, are sent out with their diplomas written on their hearts and fore heads, and are scattered broadcast in the streets and hiding places of the city, among the towns and villages of the State, and far out along the highways and bypaths of other States, and into the darkest retreats of vice in other cities. What business is coneocted here is known to law-abiding folk only in ferentially, and each present reader must be left to his individual guessing powers; but it would be shorter work, no doubt, to name the crimes not devised here, provided there be at least one with which to begin the enum- eration. Like many other collective bodies its members come and go singly or by install ments, the whole number never being all old or all new, and the analogy is continued ip the fact that some of it's members go and come again repeatedly.
 'Tt will be seen, then, that this institution must be also a school public school, sus- tained at the expense of the city and State, boarded and lodged by the one and officered and guarded by the other. As an establish
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03
Price Four Cents.

ment for the acquisition of certain accom- pEshments its efficiency is very near perfee- ton. But what State or city is it that can afford to allow itself this hideous luxury,
 'It is our own city of New Orleans, which. in it's parish prison, combines in one a rogues' congress and high school of vice. If our parish prison were a vell-ordsred house of detention, no prisoner would ever see the face of another. Our rogues' con gress would be prorogued ,aTe de.
 " Where IS your prison yard ? said the present writer to the jailer in the central prison of distant city.
 ''Prison yard The man could not under stand. Prison yard? ? .What2 A place for prisoners to roam around and talk to each other in, to concoct new yiIfianies in, which will be put into effect directly they are out, to plan escapes, to stimulate each other with vicious braggadocio, to communicate each others vices and vicious arts to each and all, to make larger gathering of lAv-breakers than they would dare attempt to make in g state of freedoms fouler den of vice than any that our police has ever broken up 2 No, we have no prison yard-''
 The visitor from New Orleans was tempt ed-but that was not the time and place to speak, and for the honor of his town be re- mained silent-was tempted to say to the jsiler:
 Monsieur Jailer, you don't know every tHluB- lou Fe never seen our IGOgue5 hOlsc of Congress, down yonder. We have it di- vided like this jail-into departments. You have one wing for females, another for petty male offenders third for men under eraEer charges. We have four divisions. These have nothing to do with the question of the degree of criminality involved in the charges. First, we divids males and females, making two divisions; then we separate whites and blacks; we are very particular about that, and that makes four. Each class has its gal lery of cells and its common yard The cells stand open all day. All ages sometimes even down to childhood, and all degrees of vicious ness and depravity and brutality-'roIn q lad who has stolen five dollars out of g carelessly kept till to man who has killed his wife with an a1e-swarm and companion together. In the male yards men strip naked in the open air at will and souse themselves into huge tank of water. 4 captain of the yard chosen for his transcendent brutality, often the principal in some horrible murder, holds sway over the rest Prisoners are taken out every day, brought into court and acquitted of all charges against them, whose every mo- ment's experience within its walls is g brutal punishment to any but utter beast"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

Then as the immense cars will require per fectly straight track, there must at every change of direction and at every switch be an arrangement like 8 turn-table, and at every change of grade a tilting- table. These ma chimes will be very expensive to build and maintain, and must be pretty numerous. Again, there is the obvious danger in hand ing loaded ships, the difficulty of building "cradles" to support them properly, and the chance that, in high wind, they may be blown over. It is also to be considered that the tendency is constantly toward building larger vessels, and the railroad, to equal canal, must be able to handle anything that canal could pass. These objections have much force.
 The great height and size of many Of the buildings in New York city make the work of the firemen very difficult and dangerous when one of those enormous buildings is on fire In a recent interview Chief Bates spoke words of wisdom concerning the danger aris- ing from the prevalent method of building in New York. He said:
 Twenty or even ten years ago the depart ment considered itself doing well if it con- quered fire in a building five stories high and sixty feet deep after battling all night long, and now we have buildings 200 or more feet in depth and rising ten stories some times distance of over 100 feet in air. We have made great strides toward the perfee- tiop of our system and apparatus, and our appurtenances embrace everything that has been found useful in other cities, but can- not say that this progress has been propor- tional to the growth either of the city or the buildings that compose it. The twenty-five foot two story and attic dwellingi is giving way to towering tenements and apartment houses~ and the four-story business houses are being elbowed out by gigantic structures. in some cases 8 block in length. This explains the heavy losses by recent fires. These great buildings are stored with hundreds of thou sands of dollars, perhaps 0 million dollars worth of stock, and fire need not burn over much ground in order to pile up the losses. Across the street, where that enormous new building has been put up by the Astors, there were eight houses few months ago. fire in that block would have attacked but one of those at time. But now a fire in one of those great lofts, especially if it were a loft packed with inhammable goods, would not be restrained within an end or corner. In 8 few minutes we might have four hun dred feet of flame belching out on all sides. Such hreS are dangerous as well as costiy- III the case of one dangerous fire, we have great force of men and machines which we can concentrate but suppose two broke out, and it was windy, and one got beyond con- troll To be sure we could call on Brooklyn, but that would take time.
 Chief Bates did not think it impossible that there might yet be fire in New York quite as destructive as the Chicago and Bos- ko,, G~ae ;S fbof cI,nh 6ra has not come before now.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

Hartford does not intend to compel any future smallpox patients to remove to its pest house, but will have them isolated st their own homes if they should dislike being taken to the pest-house.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

bill has been introduced into the Iowa Legislature to create State Board of Exam iners and to encourage training in the science aud art of teaching. It provides that one of the Board shall be woman. Two classes of certificates are to be issued to candidates. Those passing examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, history of the United States, algebra, botany, natural philosophy, drawing, civil government, constitution and school laws of Iowa and didactics. are to re- ceive State certificate, which authorizes the teacher to teach for five years in the public schools of the State. Another will be given to candidates passing examination in the studies required to entitle them to the State certificate and in addition thereto passing examination in geometry, trigonometry, chemistry zoology, geology, astronomy, political economy, rhetoric, English htera- ture, general history and such other studies as the board of examiners may require.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03
HECK.ER'S PERFECT BAKING POWDER.
A FAIR TEST.

10 the Editor of the Journal SG Couriers
 Sir:-The contract for supplying the United States government with seventy-five thousand 75,OOOO lbs. of Baking Powder during the en- suing year has been awarded to Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder, it having been tested by Dr. Ed ward C.. Love, analytical chemist for the government, and recom- mended by him for it's excellence and because it contained a higher percentage of gas (which means it will make lighter bread and bis cuit) than either the "Royal'' or the other cream tartar baking powders which he examined. The samples analysed by Dr. Love were furnished by the government com missiOners, and were without the manufacturers label or name, and designated with number known only to the commissioners.
 twill thus be seen that when Hecker's Perfect Baking Powder s submitted to an impartial test it's superiority is acknowledged, and the popular verdict so emphat- ically expressed in it's favor is fully sustained.
 GEO. V. KICKER X CO.,.
 POS Cherry St., N. Y.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

Rev. Dwight Spencer, Baptist minister who has been for two years Home mission ary in Utah, being asked by what means the Mormon problem in Utah can be solved, says: Legislation and light, but legislation first. Let Congress pass a law making polygamy crime, and let the leading polyg- amists be sent to prison and their property be placed in the hands of trustees for the support of their wives and children and Mormonism would not be heard of in ten actment of Congress. Having statute of this kind the government should enforce it and then send teachers to educate the chil- dren and the problem is solved"
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Capital punishment in Wisconsin was abol- ished more than twenty five years ago. Dur ing the past year there has been such crime in the State that vigorous attempt to bring back the death penalty is being made. It is said, however, that the general record of crime in the State without the death penalty is so favorable that the old law is likely to stand
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

William l.. Merry sets forth in the San Francisco Aryonaut the objections to Captain Eads proposed ship railroad. In the first place, the scheme requires a specially solid road bed, as well as a very wide one, and the:swamps and tropical rains at Tehauntepec make it impossible to build such thing.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

Russia is not behind the rest of the world in some things. The Ladies' University at St. Petersburg has physical laboratory with 13O students, chemical laboratory with 60 students and a physiological laboratory with 100 students The botanical cabinet has twenty microscopes, and the treasury con tained on Jan. g, loo roubles. The whole institution is maintained by private contribu- tions and by entrance fees of S25 per year, the Minister of Public Instruction allowing only $1, ,50O per year. The lectures are de- livered by professors of tue St. Petersburg University, and since last year the pro- granme has been rendered quite equal to that of the male university; a special unathe- nautical faculty was recently opened. The number of students at this Free Ladies Uni versity is 9SO, and 42 assistants.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

Mount Carmel Cider. IN PIETs and qunrtz The quality is the anask \ jafe E E. HAIL q SON.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-03

The South has been seriously hurt by the credit system, and some of the newspapers of that section are attacking it. Thus the Atlanta Consultation says: ''The farmer, in- debted to the small provision dealer, is com- pelled to pitch his crop pretty much at the dictation of the latter This is the secret of the all-cotton policy which the majority of our farmers are compe}ledto to pursue, although they know it is ruinous in the end. Their creditors will not be satisfied with anything else than cotton and it is only upon the prospective crop of cotton that they can ob- tain credit, Another difficulty in the way ;ust now is the so-called usury law, which as- fumes to fix the rate of interest at per cent Those who have money to lend can secure better rates and run no risks, and thus the farmer is compelled to buy his fer tilizers and supplies on time and pay a rate of interest that runs all the way from 30 to 100 per cent"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-12-29
RELIGIOUS.

DR. J. w. Cor will preach at the Chris.
tian church next Sunday.
The Christian church at Frankfort was
damaged 81 800 by ERE Monday.
The Christian church At Winchester
called Ed. J. c. Tully at a salary Of 81 SOC
q year.
Ed. J. q. Livingston will preach al
Halls Gap church next Sunday at II A. NJ
and 64P.M.
Thirty ministers in Louisville preach
ed temperance serpl ions Sunday, but the
amount Of grog consumed next day is said
by experts to have been quite up to the
average.
The New York Tribune says that 40 far
Mr.. Barnes "labors have proved almost
barren Of result" and the Cincinnati Com.
Haciai advises him to bic himself back Ia
Kentucky, "where his prayers and oils
have proven 30 efIicacious in healing the
maladies Of mind and body" The Trb.
unSs assertion is con,radicted by some Of
the other New York papers and BY a pri.
vate letter received from Mr.. Barnes yes.
fardaw
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-12-29
An Fnterpnslna Kewspnper.


The Louisville Weekly Commercial an
nounces that hereafter its yearly subscrip.
ton price will be only One Dollar. This
reduction will make the Commercial the
cheapest and best general newspaper in the
State.
Il will also be greatly improved. On
January let, II will appear in an entire
new and handsome dress and will contain,
among other valuable features, Whyte-
Melville's celebrated novel "KATERFEL-
To-" The adventures Of the hero and
his thoroughbred race mare Katerfelto,
with the charming and yet thrilling love
story Of Waif and John Garnet, make the
tale one Of profound interest throughout
There is not a dull chapter in the entire
novel.
In order 10 obtain the first chapters Of
this tale Of unparalleled popularity, sub
scriptions should be sent to the Commercial
at once. By special arrangement we are
able to offer the Semi-Weekly INTERIOR
JOURNAL and the Weekly Commercial to-
gether al the astounding price Of only
So 25 per year, giving our citizens their
home paper and the best family newspaper
in the State, for little more than the price
Of one. Send your subscriptions at once.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-12-29
Personal.

Ma. GEORGE BURToS l. back from the
mountains enjoying Christmas.
E-MRs II. q. BRioHr Is with her old
friends in Danville this Christmas.
-E II. HAYpES went to the big hop at
Lebanon osiensibly, but really, &c.
Ma J. w. Rour has gone to Bellwood
Seminary to see his daughter, Mis- Susie.
Miss PArrm Mccormack, Of our re-
portorial oorps, il visiting Miss Lackey,
at Parksville.
-MRs. HELEN HUFFMAN, Mrs. l.. +.
Huffman and Ann Cook, Jr.. have returned
from Hu-tonville.
Mn. AND Mas RoBr McALIsTER and
Mis- Cornie Cooper have been visiting in
Danville this week.
Miss MAGGIE RUSSELL, Of Harrods.
burg, IL spending the holidays with Misses
Lydia and Josie Brady.
-TnE daily papers describe a pleasing
entertainment given at Lebanon by the
Marion Commandery, Knights Templsr,
on Christmas night, a, which Misses Matte
and Bessie Fogle, through Maj. Lisle, pre-
senied il with a handsome banner Of white
silk, similar TO the one borne by the DE Mo-
lay Commandery, at Louisville.
Ma. W. @. McKISSEy has resigned
his position with Mr.. ID. w. Vandeveer to
take a elerkship with the Laurel Coal Co.
Of which his brother, j /. Mckinney is a
stakeholder We are glad to know that
the pecuniary consideration which induces
Mr.. Mckinney to leave the place Of his
birth il a nice, round figure over his pre-
vious salary.
LIEUT.. john ScorT. Of the U. $. Ar.
my now stationed at For' Omaha, near the
city Of that name, made ~ very pleasant
call thi. week. lie is on a short furlough
to zee hi. wife and a new boy and to take
them back with him on his return. The
Lieut., who is very accomplished Scotch
gentleman, was stationed at Crab Orchard
during the reconstruction" and there met
Miss IAwles-, whom he afterwards mar
ried and who for most Of the time has lived
with him on the extreme frontier.
--MIssEs Neitie and Lula Bronsion and
Katie Phelps, Of Richmond, are guests Of
Mis- Lula Mckinney, who is at home from
Daughters College, a, Mr.. Richard Cobbs.
We we're much pleased to form the &C
quaintance Of the Misses Bronston, who are
elegant and accomplished ladies, and esPe-
cially to know Miss Neltie, with whose
graceful writings We have become 40 famil-
lar in the columns Of the newsy Herald She
is known as its assistant editor, but from
all We can learn il the edilor-in-ehief and
her brother Joe the assistant, for he gives
assistance only when not seeing after his
sweetheart in Lexington.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-12-29
IAKn sI0cK ANn cR0P.

George Benedict bought lot Of ewes
at $500.
"A. T. Nunnelley sold to J. II. Miller
3 horses at $9O@llO.
-Firstclass Utley hay press for sale.
John Bright, Stanford.
Albert Horsman, Of Bath, sold 5000
lbs. Of tobacco last week 10 A. j. Atchison
at 10 cents.
Fourteen broke mules and 2 thorough
bred bull calves for sale. r. B. a E. p
Woods, Stanford, Ky.
The l,O0l head Of short-horn cattl,
sold at regular sales in Kentucky this year
brought their owners s2ls,24s, an averag,
Of over $2ls per head. This exceeds tn,
average Of every other State save Illinoi
and is within $40 Of that.
Cattle are not much changed in Gin
cinnati and rule about ~ follows: Common
2C92l; good TO choice butcher, 4S4i; com
mon to choice shippers, 4l@6l cows, 4@
4 heifers. 4lC94i. Hogs appear firm a
So 3O@6.4e for selected butchers; s6.l5@
30 for fair to good packers, and $3.50
so for common. Sheep are dull at 2i@
5; lambs sre easy at HOS cents.
Capt. II. T. Bush, auctioneer. report
good crowd and good prices at the sale o
DR.. Clifton Fowler on Tuesday last A pal
Of mules brought $500; vearline mules, s6S
horses, SIS; cows and heiiers. s2s@Sl; ia
hogs, S5 go per cwt; shoais, s2.95 per head
corn in CRIB, 81 95; wheat, so cents; hay pc
stack, (about $500 lbs,) sll; shares o.
Hustonville & G. RiveHT'pike stock. $l7.5t
per share; 7 shares Of Turnersville 4 Nc
Kinney, SO so, (shares Of S50) A big lOI
Of Canary birds sold at 90c(aSl75.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-12-29
KlRRnaES


Mr.. A. q. Faulkner and Miss Lucy J
Butt were married yesterday.
Mr.. Ephraim +. Bailey and Miss Al
NJ. Stephenson were married at Mr.. Daytor
fuckers yesterday.
Mr.. Geeree w. LAY and Miss Mary
Emily Jane Walls obtained license TO mar
" at Mr.. r. @. walls' yesterday.
MIR. Geo. Il. Kersey obtained license
yesterday TO marry Miss Ida NJ, the pretty,
black-eyed daughter Of Mr.. Geo. w. Russell
In the parlor Of the Myers Housewed.
nesday, by Rev. I. 8. McElroy, Mr.. james
X. Henry, Of Garrard, to Mics jamie N
welleford, Of Madison. Mr.. Henry is a
clever, industrious and reliable citizen, and
having chosen a wife who is both sensible
and practical, their journey through life
can not fail TO be pleasant and harmonious
They left for their home near Kirksvills
BY the afternoon train.