Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Another very lively day in Wall street yes

Another very lively day in Wall street yes terday.
 A few years ago there were in this country no newspapers conducted by colorsd men, but now there are 120. This is a striking illustration of the rapid progress made by the l negroes.
 w. T. H. Harris, who is one of the most profound of the philosophers who are set tling great problems at Concord, has ven- tured to make the following declaration: "If man were not immortal there would be a break in the chain of beings that reaches from the pure external passive up to the | pure active, and hence the external elevation of the second person into equality with the first person would be impossible, and there fore the Arst person would not know himself in the second, hence there would be no self activity at all, and consequently, also, no | derivatiye or finite being. But this is inn | possible P Certainly.
 The gathering of representative Catholic prelates of the United States in Rome next fall, ,says correspondent of the Boston Pilot, will discuss the relations of bishops to priests, | of priests to people, and both to bishops, the conditions of tenure and property. and fnan- cial matters generally, the instruction of the clergy the establishment of bishops, legal courts, the appointment of clergymen as members of such courts, the formation. maintenance and preservation of diocesan archives, and such like special means for carrying out in due and fitting manner the ecclesiastical law. The question of the educa- ks ,& ryin nI, It is the general desire to have, as far as possible the training of priests from all countries carried on at Rome.
 At Winthrop, Maine, the Quakers have in-- Sxoduced wonderful innovation on old cus- toEzs. They are building meeting house whicn will exceed in decorative splendor any other Friends meeting house in the country. Their meeting houses are bare and unpainR ed This one will be tastefully upholstered. It will also be finished in hard wood A bell is talked of, but it is thought that the COR servatiye tendencies of the Friends will be sufficiently strained by the upholstery, the hardwood finish and the generally scclesias- tical appearance.of the house. The denom. ination has hitherto stoutly resisted all in-
 
 are that the old rigidity of Quaker customs will have to accept modifiu ation ia order te keep the younger Quakers from running of and joining other denominations.
 Milwaukee newspaper not long ago ere ated a rather unpleasant sensation by deelar ing that leprosy is comparatively common disease among the Norwegian settlers of north ern Wisconsin. It turns out, however, that this was mistake The Milwaukee news paper now says it was misIed by information received from prominent physician, but the protracted search Go which it was led by in quiring letters from vatious parts of the country has discovered no cases of the dis ease except four in the Charity hospital on Blackwelps Island, New York. One of these Is | Norwegian There is no leprosy in Min nesota or Wisconsin. The only places in North America where lepresy is known to ex-. ist are Tracadie in Nova Scotia, where it ap- reared many years ago and has had success sion of victims in that neighborhood ever since, and a little settlement on the gulf in Louisiana. where also it is of long standing and of unknown origin. In neither place does it spread to any distance from the place where it first appeared.
 The Springfield Republicans Nihilist gives some interesting information concerning the