Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-08

They won't find it on this one.
 A school boy in Lawrence, Mass, answered that ''the two principal forms of govern ment in the world are mayor and aldermen" If that boy lives he will be member of the Common Council at least.
 Ono of the striking phenomena of the crisis through which Ireland is passing is the falling off in the number of Irish recruits for the army. During the first half of the cen tury Irishmen are said to have furnished nearly if not quite 70 per cent. of the Bit ish forces. The proportion has been smaller since the setting in of the tide of emigration to this country in 1847, but it has now fallen to 20 per cent, and is falling, and there is no doubt that the reason is that the political discomfort has reached the enlisting class.
 Fifteen cities in Massachusetts had their municipal elections Tuesday and voted on the license question. Five of them, Nal den New Bedford, Newton, Somerville and Taunton, voted against license. and ten' Brockton. Cambridge Chelsea, Fall River, Fitchburg Gloucester, Haverhill, Holyoke, Lawrence and Springfield, voted for it. Four cities, Brockton, Fitchburg, Gloucester and Haverhill, which voted against license last year, changed their minds and decided to try the license policy this year, and two, Taunton and New Bedford, changed from i- cense to no license. On the whole the i- cense policy gains both in the number of votes and of cities.
 George NT Weston, well known writer on financial subjects, strongly and ably argues that the general prosperity of this country will be best promoted by continuing present rates of taxation and the great annual sur plus, for the purpose of rapidly paying off the $4OO, ,OCO, ,OOO of national debt which the government has the right to call for payment. The argument is that money col lected in small sums from all, and paid out to the capitalists who now have their hoard ings in government bonds will compel the latter to invest i'll general enterprises and make flush times, instead of owning an inter- est-bearing debt. There is force in this, but the people have decided that they want the national income reduced.
 
 Committee Elections, which meets to-day. is that of Cain, who asks for admission into Cannon's place delegate from Utah. It seems that the Governor issued no notice of an election, and Cain has no certificate. He received all the votes at q one sided election held by the Mormons but he is poly gamist it is believed that the committee will decide against him. The remaining cases are Sessinghaus vs. Frost of the second Missouri district, Buchanan vs. Manning of the second Mississippi, Lee vs. Richardson of the second South Carolina, and Cook vs Cutts of the sixth Iowa. In all of these report is ex- pected in favor of the sitting members, all of whom are Democrats except Cutts
 The Russian petroleum industry in the province of Baku the Caspian Sea has risen to great importance. Professor Vam- bery has lately pointed out how valuable to Russia this industry has become from a mili- tary point of view by drawing together a large fleet of formidable vessels serviceable for driving her English rivals out of the Cen tral Asian market and for transporting troops in case of war. There three gunboats, four large warships, five transports and five steamers, besides nineteen steamers subven- toned by the government for trading pur- poses, and forty steamers belonging to pri- vate commercial companies. Not year passes that several steamers, either for pe