Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-02-17
General Intelligence.

General Intelligence.
According to the Portland Oregonian,
the fact is becoming daily more appar-
ent that the days of San Franciscos
monopoly of the northern trade are end
ed, and that much Of this trade is rapid
| ly concentrating at Portland.
The Supreme court of Vermont has
discharged three persons serving ling
sentences, imposed by justice courts, for
selling liquor, on the ground that the
LIQUOR law was unconstitutional when it
allowed such commitment, not giving
the accused the right of appeal.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
said in his inaugural: ~ shall made it a
rule to grant no pardon except for causes
appearing since the trial and in cases
Of manifest injustice"
The New York Herald is gratified to
learn that, though there were only two
members Of the national senate in their
places on Tuesday morning when the
chaplain began his prayer, the proceed
ings were altogether decorous, on the
ground that wherever at the capital
there are two senators gathered togeth-
er there Is some one who needs to be
prayed for. But il notes as bad sign
that of the whole seventy-six there were
only two who knew their greatest need.
Glass blowing is one of the most diff
fcu't of occupations, and the glass-mak-
ing factories have much more work to
do than they have capacity for. In 1882,
$35 600, 900 worth of glass was manutac-
tured, making a gain in fifty years OF
$32 100000.
One Of the elephants sent rs tribute
from Burmah to China killed several
persons in Pekin recently, having APP
parently become mad. The thickness
of his skull and hide making it impossi-
bic to kill him, his keepers have dis
posed of him in an eminently Chinese
fashion by digging pit for him, in
which he is to be allowed to starve to
death.
The total abstinence movements max
ing progress in England which e9i-
IDENTITY causes uneasiness, not merely
among the publicans but among the pol.
iticians as well. AS foreign wines and
spirits and the excise tax collected on
beer and from brewers and publlcans'
licenses constitute very large proper
ton of the British revenues, the receipts
from beer, wines and spirits alone being
estimated at considerably over ESQ, 000,'
COO in all recent budgets, the anxiety OF
English statesmen over the growth OF
the total abstinence movement IS merely
natural.
The Christian Register has found out
that musical criticism as seen in the
= of
writing. a display of pedantry in the use
of musical technicalities, connection
of unntelligibie bosh. The most
dis tressing musical critic Is one WHO is
always trying to make, US believe that
we have been imposed upon and that
we ought to have been coldly and critic
allv unre ponsive at the music which III
our ignorence we thought qnlte enJoya-
ble.y If the critic does nothing else lie
can attack the tempo. That is an un-
falling resource, and it conveys the I'M
preston that the critic knows some
the piece ofwhich he writes
50, Ehe late Artemus Ward, illustrating to
his English readers the practical char
acter of the American mind and its pas
sion for political oratory, tells story of
an execution somewhere in Ohio3whe1e
the Sheriff. having led the doomed man
on to the scafold, paused before putting
the rope around his neck and asked him
the customary question whether he had
to say before being swung of. |
The man..hesitated a moment, probably |
to collect his thoughts, when local ora
tor pushed his way rapidly to, the front
ofthe crowd and said: at ouriill-starred |
fellow citizen don't feel inclined to make |
l.. i,,tk ;,,o hr,r I
like to avail myself of the present oc-
essity for new tariff"
The New York Tribune says: "The !
local option method seems to be the |
plan most favored in the south of deal |
ing with the liquor question. Three |
states have adopted it-Kentucky, Mis-. |
sissippi, and South Carolina. In the |
former state a number of counties have |
passed prohibitary acts. The right to |
sell fiouor has also been refused in the |
of some colleges and |
churches. In Mississippi about fifty diff
ferent localities have forbidden the sale
of intoxicants, while less number have
taken the same course in South Carolina |
There has been less agitation of prohibi-
ton in the southern than in the north
ern states, but the formerappear, never
theless to be making commendable
in dealing with the subject.
Marcus H, Rogers, formely Berk-
Shire country editor, is travelling in
Spain, and writes that the ladies of that
country surpass any he has ever seen
FOR beauty, symmetry an disseminating air
and action. They have eyes and hair
~ black az let and 90 without
hats in the street wear
ng bit of b'a k lace on their heads.
Their hair is abundant and dressed with
fne taste, with numerous curls and
'beau-catchers" over their foreheads,
ind, as they have fine forms, generally
pe3king, they are certainly superb
Features. In no other country of Eu-
.ope or the east has lie seen as hand
,ome ladies as can be seen on Broadway,
1ut ne thinks that the ladies of Valencia
,r Seville can take the premium over
he ladies of New York for good looks.
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