Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-06

campaign; but I was with Judge Black d Brockie a few days during General Garfeid'a l sickness, and found him greatly disturbed and scanning eagerly the telegrams from the { Presidents sick chamber, and General Gar 1 field asked often in those weeks of suffering, Has Judge Black called yet2' and when told, i at last, he had been to the White House to ] inquire after him, he was deeply gratided. < London has just got around to wooden \ pavements and it is amusing to read what the London papers say abeut them. One says: Small boys are employed in some districts, who endesvor to keep the roads clean with the aid of hand brushes and l scoops, but they are of no avail to remove |, the ooagulated. dirt which sticks to the pave ment and forms a coating of a most offensive nature'' The same journal concludes that [ thorough scrubbing at frequent intervaif,'' 1 is the only adequate remedy, but admits That s'how this is to be done is problem yet to be solved.'' By and by it will be discovered in London, as it was long ago in this coun- try, That the s6saps1f wsy Co dsaI vs1sEl wooden pavement is to take it up and puc something besides wood in it's place.
 All the great canal schemes find opponents and the proposal to cut ship canal aeros Florida, shortening the route from the 2 t.
 lantic te the gulf. is no exception. A civil would cost $25O, 900, 900, that it would re. quire more time to go through tho canal
 than to keep the open sea, that it would be quarantined half the time and that no ship master would be foolish enough to patronize the canal if it was open. He argues that it
 would only be of service to She coasting
 trade, as ocean vessels would prefer to go
 around Florida rather than to pay the canal
 tolls. He points out that there is vast
 difference between canals across the grand isthmuses of Panama and S'aez, where ten
 thousand miles of sailing is saved, and one
 across the peninsula of Flor ida, where only
 from three hundred to five hundred miles
 could be saved. But it now seems probable
 that the canal will be dug,
 There is an ingenious convict in Detroit,
 and he showed his genuity in an attempt
 to escape from prison. He collected tin-foiI in which tobacco was wrapped, and with this  made an impression 6f the key that looked the door of the corridor leading to the cells. He then waited until workmen were sum- mon cd to repair the closet in the ward, and contrived to secrete piece of lead pipe used by tn sm This he melted in an old tin can over $ gas burner. at which the prisoners
 lighted their pipes during the hours when smoking is allowed. He had previously se- creted the handle of knife in which small fragment of blade remained, and
 with this he fashioned mould out of piece of wood, poured in the molten lead, and turned out key that with little whittling fitted the corridor door perfectly. A leg was then wrenched from an iron bedstead for
 use as a club, the other prisoners were taken into the plot, and general jail delivery was agreed upon. The keeper was to be called upon some pretext to the door of sthe corri-
 dor, which was to be unlocked previously.
 and at a signal rush was to be made for him by the convicts. The plot was discov-
 cred in the nick of time by 8 mere accident.