Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-19

Doa1o, ana an energetlc campaign on that s7ine is the expected result. Investments in the United States appear tol be very popular in Scotland now, judging|
 from the thriving condition of companies1 which devote their attention to them. The first Scottish American Trust company paid] in 1882 per cent. dividends and increased its reserve funds from $19O, 900 to $20o, ,0oO ;I it's capital is $1, 5000, ,ooO and its $500 shares stand at 55 premium. The second company with $2, 900, 900 capital, has over 55 premium| for it's $500 shares; it earned in 1882 ovsrl S9 per cent, paid 84, and increased it's re- sserves from $22o,ooo to $235, 900. A third| scompany paid 7l per cent, made about thel ssame addition to reserves, and has about theI ssame rating for it's stock as the last named Another paid 10 per cent. and the Oregon! Eand Washington bank claims to show 8 nett lgain of 20 per cent. The Dundee Land h.
 vestment company and the Texas Land andI Cattle company, with capitals of $2, 500, oOOI and $3,15o, 900, have started and got into| working order in Dundee within ths pastl ayear. We hope the prosperity of theseE scompanies will continue All the 'fsnap" isn't in the West. yearI Gago almost the entire business portion of theE little city of HaverhiI, Mass, covering anE area of about eight acres, was laid in ashes, and 250 business firms suffered. The as- ssessed value of the property destroyed wasE s$1, 300, 900 and the insurance amounted toI I$1, 800,O00 The seventy five companiesT which held policies on the burned property .paid their losses promptly and in full, theI lshoe manufacturers began to plan for the fu- iture, even before the fire was over, and every body took hold with will to rebuild the burned district and restore and enlarge theB business which was the city's one great indus try. The result has been that the burned district has been covered with buildings much
 better than those that were burned and that
 the shoe manufacturers have provided them
 selves with improved machinery, and Haver-
 hill has to-day larger valuation and larger
 business than she had 8 year ago or than she '
 would have had but for that fire.
 In England the expenses of holding an cleo lion are fixed by law and borne by the candi- dates. The returning officer in Liverpool in ]
 making out his bill charged Messrs. Smith $ and Forwood, the two candidates, with aS number of items not allowed by the ballot act For instance. while the ballot act pro vides for thirty-fve persons to count votes in 9 borough of the size of Liverpool, one hun dred and ffty-one were employed; again, the act did not make provision for an extraE clerk at each polling booth, to take the place of the regular clerk in case he should sudden ly become unable to serve, while the return ing officer thought such clerks necessary, and employed then; and, worst of all, there was no mention of refreshment for the DO Iicemen in their arduous task of guarding the polls; altogether the returning officer charged the candidates soma 5000 more than they were obliged to pay. The latter were placed in disagreeRble position; there
 was no doubt that the extra expenses were necessary, and no doubt that un- Ser =tlae law= the retepaFers and not the eandi dates were liable for them, but the candidates finally compromised with the returning ofa- OCT by paying about half of the extra sxpen- ses and leaving the rest to be borne by theE