Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-30

system. With population of over 16,O00
 the city has only eleven saloons. If the i-
 cense were reduced to $1oo per year there l would be from fifty to seventy-fiv saloons, perhaps more. With such competition the
 saloons would necessarily become very
 shabby. and besides there would be little or
 no money made by anybody. AS it is now, we make money.
 The people of Philadelphia are uneasy
 about the cholera, and the health authorities | of the city are taking active precautions
 against the dreaded disease Philadelphia
 has had sad experience with cholera The
 first epidemic was in 1882, when dead bodies
 were carted through the streets by dozens and dumped into a common ditch. Another visitation caused hundreds of deaths in 1849,
 and another in 1867. AS the cholera years l were seventeen years apart there are many
 superstitious people who look for another
 outbreak this year.
 Bishop Warren declares that the assertion I that colored ministers in the South are lead ing their focks astray by low and sensual lives is not true as far as it relates to minis ters of the Methodist church. Every minis 1 ter. white or black, is every year exam ined as to his character in open con 1 ference. Occasionally man is found who gives evidence of having fallen from grace
 He is tried and, if found guilty, is expelled from the ministry. In one case at the last
 conference, where Bishop Warren presided, a minister was thus dealt with whose offence l was not lewdness or drunkenness, but the l fact that he did not pay his debts.
 Professor George l.. Prentiss of the Union Theological seminary has been investigating the question as to how the salvation of in fants was regarded by the church in the past.
 and reaches the conclusion that most of the 1 reformed theoIogians of the sixteenth and
 seventeenth centuries still held that infants dying out of the Christian pale and covenant were lost that if single Westminster divine believed that all who die in infancy are elect and consequently saved, he never, so far as is known, averred such belief; that there were no doubt differences of opinion as to the pre- else terms and means of infant salvation,
 but that no record is found of any difference of opinion as to it's being limited.
 The State of Missouri has been much aff1ic-
 ted with quacks and stringent law has been adopted for their suppression. No one is al
 lowed to practice medicine in Missouri unless
 holding diploma from medical college of recognized standing. All other practitioners must undergo an examination before the State board of health, which consists of seven members, including five physicians. Every
 ku oIa io kr licf If thorized medical practitioners in his district, and the health board keeps a list for the en tire State. This law applies also to dentists and bone-setters. Dealers in patent medi- cines are required to take out 8 special license, and persons violating any of these provisions are subject to fine of not less than $50 and not more than $500, im- prisonment up to whole year.
 Mir. Joseph Chamberlain. president of the l English Board of Trade, has been called upon l by deputation of the British Medical Asso- | ciation to consider the inadequate medical | and sanitary arrangements of the great steamers which carry immigrants across the | Atlantic. One of the statements of the dep- l utation was that from the very low salary | paid It becomes quite impossible to se- cure the services of an efficient | physician for such vessels It seems | that these positioRs4 arc arsnersiw nlt0d. hy | a very poor class of men, who, from bad | habits rather than from incompetency, can | find no employment on the land. Continu- l ing their indulgence in spirits on board ship, | they are rarely In condition to attend the | sick. The pay offered is wretchedly small | and their position on board ship degrades their profession. The are rated on par with head waiter, and lower than an assist ant engineer. On joining the vessel they sign papers which make them liable to dis charge at few hours notice and their mea- gre pay can be withheld for causes of the most trivial character. They arc not pro- vided with suitable berths, but are made to sleep in an out-of the way corner. Entirely under the control of the captain and subject to his will. should they complain of made quste or unwholesome food supplied to their sick they are subjected to his anger and on arrival are at once discharged. The upshot of this, according to the declarations made, is that it is only the very worst class of men who take these most responsible positions.