Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-15


 That harvesting contest between two Eng
 fish farmers--ones a beer drinker and tn other tsetotaler- ended in such way tha
 1t cannot be used by temperance lecturers t, \ illustrate the 'Valu 6 of total abstinence. Tn beer thinker t;amt, out almost an acre ahead The ques' tion of taxation is live on, everywhere. It is very much alive just nov
 in California, where the proposed valuation
 this year Is ;R70o, ,O00, ,Oo0 or over SIS COG, oOt
 more than Last yaar. and $85, ,00O, 900 more
 than that of Missouri, State that has twice
 the population of California These figures
 are larger than those of any States in the
 Union except Massachusetts, Illinois and
 New York.
 II Wendell Phi illips is decidedly "down on'
 the Republicals party. He says: 'I dis
 trust and despise the Republicans as hypo.
 critics and tims servers, as double-dealers, as
 soulless carrion masquerading in the grave
 clothes of their honored predecessors They
 have no right to seek their candidate among
 high minded and honorable men. Let them
 choose a fitting leader. from among the
 Tewksbury Marshes-those peddlers of poor
 mems bones.' Soulless carrion masquerad-
 ing in secondhand grave clothes is good. Virginia is not much behind the times It
 is the fashion there to pay men for
 attending political meetings. The
 law touches bribery at the polls, but,
 if 8 man accepts the promise of a
 fee for going to mass meeting or 8 caucus,
 what can the law do about it? The payment
 of the reward is contingent o.a voting the l night ticket, and is made after election. In
 some cenes, it is said, membership in clubs
 entities the voters to tickets, one for each meeting attended, which, after election, are l eashed in small gams
 | The new postal notes are not very well re- ceived. Underhill's Counterfeit Reporter co'ademns them as discredit to the govern naent. It ikens the design of the notes to a ! Chinese wash receipt, and asserts that so ill., 1 adapted are tbey to the purpose for which 1 they were Intended that notes were success 1 fully altered before they had been in circula- l tion four days The Reporter urges, also, that as the notes are payable to the bearer, the signature of the person who cashes note \ is not necessary, and that they should be made payable at any money-order office to make them of real value to the public.
 The Rev. Gsrvey Bradsted is pastor of s Methodist church in Egypt, New Jersey, and has made mistake which will somewhat i'm pair his reputation as prophet. Three weeks ago he amazed his congregation by the announcement that on Saturday, September 8th, he would die natural death and join his dead brother in heaven. He stated that the brother had been killed in battle during the late war. Ten years ago he dreamed that he had met that brother in heaven and was then informed that in just ten years he 1 would meet him again, and would never re- | turn to earth again. The preacher then bads ! his congregation 8 final farewell assuring l them that at 10 o'clock on the following Sat I urday night ke would join the ssinsz irs pAr- adise. So impressed were many people with 1 the solemnity of the preaoher's manner that ! about one hundred members of the church | gathered at his residence some time before \ the fatal hour. Mir. Bradsted was seated in | a room opening upon the street. The door was open and the preacher could be seen by all who had gathered about. Evidently he was awaiting with confidence the approach I of death. His head rested upon his arms. ] As the hour approached the crowd began to get nervous and portion of it appeared to expect that the Angel of Death would ap- pear in person and carry of their pastor bodily. Ten o'clock, however, passed, but nothing happened and the preacher still lives. He thinks he made mistake in the day and hour.
 An interesting case has just been tried at Lockport, New York. involving the validity of verbal contracts made by telephone. Far ley, Ferguson $ Wilson, of Rochester, were plaintiffs, and Faubel X Roux, of Lockport defendants, and the action was to recover $200 damages for failure to deliver wheat. MT. Wilson, one of the plaintiffs, testified /. that on January 29, 1883, being at his place of business in Rochester, he called up by l Faubel Roux, at Lockport, and, After the preliminary ''halIoes" had been ex- changed, he was informed from the Lock 2 port end that MT. Faubel was talking to him. q The witness had never seen MT. Faubel, and l lid not know his voice. Upon counsel pro- seeding to ask what Faubel said, an objec- ion was interposed, over which an argument rose, the counsel for the plaintiffs insisting that the practical use of 2, he telephone for business pur- d ,oses had made new rule of evidence neces- d arY, and that conversation by this means with el person who said that he was Faubel should ;. ' e admitted. The court held otherwise, rul- n az that the identity of the defendant must al rst be established by some satisfactory evi- m ence. MT. Faubel. being called to the stand - '. sstified that he had the conversation de- m ,ribed by Mir. Wilson, but they differed as to e he tenor of the agreement made by them fc uring the talk, which was over a line of 56 nl liIes Did MT. Wilson and MT. Faubel l a1 gree through the telephone that the defend de nts should deliver to the plaintiffs six car ct pads of white wheat p was substantially the U, m uestion which the court submitted to the ne Try. The jury found that they did not, and a Fter 8 deliberation of one hour returned a SC srdict for the defendants This result is u nl .ther aggravating to the plaintiffs, from the su .et that the defendants before the trial of- At red the plaintiffs $1OO in settlement sn
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