Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-08-12

arouse an agitation against the Jews. These
persons figure and labor in different cities
and provinces in Austria proper, in Hungary,
Bohemia and GalScia. The Emperor has
often expressed his determination to prevent
any such agitation, and the Crown Prince has
often spoken very warmly in favor of the
Jewish subjects of the empire Now the
assembled Bishops OF the empire have de-
clded to take action, and an official message
has been issued by them to all the clergy in
their respective dioceses, prohibiting in strin-
gent terms and under severe penalties from
lending their aid in any way in stirring up
anti-Semitic feeling and prejudice This step
is likely to have s. decisive effect.
The United States district Judge of Mis-
souri, has decided that the statute directed
against improper proceedings in the election
of federal officers cannot be construed to
cover offenses respecting the choice of local
and State officers, though the same day and
place be the ncene of the twofold election.
Under the ey IS of the United States officials,
violence and fraud therefore may pass I'M
checked, if the voter abused and cheated in
tended to vote for State officers. The State
be interference, with the denial of rights and
the reversal of the popular desire expressed
by the ballot. The act of Congress is not
corrective Of outrages which have to do with
the selection of other than federal officials
This decision it is believed relates to novel
point.
The celebration of the Web ter centennial
interesting affair. 1t will occur during the
first part of next month, the exact date de-
pending upon President Arthur's engage
ments; for although the President is conf
IDENTITY expected at every point of interest
from Maine to California during the coming
fall it is positively believed that Marshfield is
one of the few places at which he will actual
ly appear. The programme includes short
exercises at the tomb, q visit to the house,
and gathering, with speeches and perhaps
lunch, on one of the prominent hills which
diversity the old Webster estate. 1t is re-
ported that the Hon. Stephen M. Allen.
president of the Webster club of Boston, has
just discovered an important document bear
ing upon the famous 9TH of March speech,
which places that historical performance in a
more creditable light than that in which Mr..
Wsbster's critics have hithe rto beheld It,
Two rather startling engineering schemes
are engaging some attention in Europe. They
contemplate nothing less than the creation of
seaports out of two great inland cities, Man
chester and Paris. Manchester lies on the
river Irwell, some thirty-seven miles distant
from the broad and deep Nersey, SO that
good start for the proposed ship canal has
already been made by nature. 1t is estimat-
ed that to deepen this river sufficiently to adj
NIT the tide would cost at least 1925, 900, 900,
and might cost SIS, OOO, 900; but that, in car
riage alone, upward of $5,OOO,0Oo per year
would be saved, while property in Manches-
ter would rise enormously, villages would
spring up along the way, and Liverpool and
Birkenhead would see the grass growing in
some of their now busy thoroughfares, all to
the clear gain of Manchester The details of
the Paris project are these The Seine is to
be deepened by dredging between Rouen and
Poissy, forming maritime basin 1O3 miles
long by $50 feet wide. At Poissy the exca-
walton would reach depth of some fifty feet
below the present bottom, the quantity of
matter to be taken out being estimated at
rs, O0O, 900 cubic metres. From Poissy the
scheme contemplates the construction of a
cascade of locks, rising to an upper canal, fed
by water from the Seine, and extending to
Aubervilliers, village five miles out of Paris.
The first of these works would cost only $780,
900, 900 and the second only $40, 900, 900.