Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-08

EDITORIAL NOTES.
 Another election next month. Don't you wish there was another this month
 Elections were held yesterday in all the ter ritories and in thirty-three States; all the Virginia and Ohio.
 A law in Pennsylvania provides that 'i shall not be lawful for any political organiza- tion to parade through the streets of the city of Philadelphia after dark within ten days next preceding any general election.''
 Considering the noise and bitterness with which the Democratic campaign in this city has been conducted, the quiet and good or der which prevailed at the polls yesterday were remarkable. No serious trouble oc- cured, and there were but few arrests.
 It costs something to run some campaigns. It is said that the Cameron committee in Pennsylvania has expended about $500, 900. The Independent committee has not had over third of this amount, and the Democrats perhaps, have had one-half as much, making 8 total of over $5oO,OoO spent by the State committee. In 1860 the entire expense of the Lincoln canvass in Pennsylvania was $.6,OOO.
 Five cases involving the constitutionality of the civil rights act of 1875 are to be ar- gued at this term of the United States Su preme court. Two of the cases are for deny ing colored persons an entrance to Califor- mia theatre and one in New York; two other cases are against hotels in Kansas and Mis- souri which were not open for eolored peo- pie; and the fifth case is against railroad in Tennessee, which would not admit a negro to first class car. The right of Congress to legislate in the manner adopted by the civil rights bill will now be passed upon finally
 Three hundred and ninety-five Mormon proselytes have just arrived in New York from Europe The majority of them are English, but one hundred and fifteen are Scandinavians. They include members of all branches of trade and most of them have friends and relatives in Utah. One of the more intelligent was asked his ideas on the question of polygamy, and he replied eva- sive]y that nothing had been kept secret from them, and that they were ''bound to preserve all the sacred laws, rights and usages of the Mormon belief"
 Under the act of Assembly in Pennsylva- mia all bets on elections in that State are null and void, and any person making bet on an electlon or offering to make such bet, forfelts three times the amount bet or of fered to be bet, and ali public officers and grand Jurles are required to commence pro. ceed1ngs against any person known to be guilty. It Is also made the duty of election officers to reject the vote of any voter who has made bet on the election or who is in- terested in such bet, and it is the duty of the directors of the poor to sue for and collect for the use of the poor for the proper dis trict or county all money wagered on elec- tiens They can recover it from either stakeholder or winner
 One of the first of recent agitators for a revival of Irish manufacturers, MT. Edward McMahon, has taken practical step forward by starting hat factory that occupies an area of quarter of an acre. Estimating his full number of hands at 20 women and 30 men, his output of hats would be, says a Dublin newspaper, some 40 dozen a day. In Dublin, 40 years ago, there were 1000 opera tive hatters, but at the present time there are not 100, so that, says this newspaper, 'such has been the decadence of Irish manufactures that MT. McMahon, who would keep every Irishman and Irish woman at home, even In the work house, hoping for better times, has been compelled to employ some English hands, trusting, of course, that an increase of the population and tn / education of the Irish youth in the handicraft of hat t-makins eign labor.
 The Legislature of New Zealand is abou to try two very important experiments. One is a land bill, supported by Sir George Grey the principle of which is that ths colon, shall sell no moro land, but shall give lease of twenty one years, with provision for com pensatiou if the lease is cancelled at the ent of that time. It is believed that this ar rangement will be great temptation to set tiers, yet leave to the government the ulti mate control of the soil. The other bill brought in by Major Atkinson, provides fo ! compulsory insurance. Every man mus pay either e66 down before he is twenty ! three or 2s week for twelve years, in or der to secure 15s. 8 week if single, and 22s l Cd. week if married, during sickness, an, l los. week as superannuation allo owance af l ter sixty-five. Those are bold proposal and it is believed they may pass, the Radics party supporting the first in particular yer strongly.
 l The Garfield board of audit will, it is said ! go to work immediately on the claims pre- | sented, now amounting to over one hundret l thousand dollars. Each claim will be take
 up separately, testimony heard, and then th sum decided upon which the board (Comr troller Lawrence, Treasurer Gilfllan an
 Second Auditor Upton) thinks proper to |
 paid in each case. Listening to these partie
 and passing upon the value of the servic,
 rendered by each applicant will, very likely
 occupy the board during the rest of tn 1 month. After all the claims have been aut
 tied if the gross amount exceeds the appre
 priation of $57 ,50O pro rata allowance vi
 be made. This is not likely to happen,
 Judge Lawrence has intimated that the boar
 would be more likely than not to turn back
 part of the appropriation into the Treasur.
 Many of the claimants will receive nothin,
 and the doctors will be allowed only fra
 tion of what they have asked for.
 The malaria-stricken people of this ci
 and vicinity will be interested in the pro
 pect of an advance in the price of quinir
 It is known that Meyers, of London, who
 the greatest importer of the bark in Euror
 has been, to serve his own purposes, stim lating the market, and has bought up mo
 of the quinine of Europe. Primarily sta
 ing with his interests. and following wi
 those of the Bohringer house of Milan, a s,
 den movement at present exists for forci e European quinine upon this country. T
 importation, outside the ordinary amount,
 the present movement is about 100, GOO ouno 6 nearly all of which has been sold by co