Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-01

nOld meetings at Springfield next week to ar
 range plan of action.
 Some of tho Mississippi editors are vsry
 polite to their enemies. One of them, speak
 ing of an opposition candidate, refers to him
 as Ca jug bsllied ruat''
 There's room at the top in Philadelphia
 for some of the young lawyers who find il l hard to live in this city. lawyer of that 1 city has just received fee of fifty thousand
 dollars from the corporation.
 Things are getting mixed A man who
 killed another in one of the southern States
 the other day was referred to as e very s'Ren-
 tiemanly" person, and now another south
 ern murderer is spoken of as g ''young man
 of fine character" We had supposed that
 all the real gentlemen were in jail.
 John Huntington of Cleveland stumbled
 into good thing by investing S26, 900 in the Standard Oil company some years ago. He
 has drawn large dividends ever since, and
 the othsr day in New York he was offered
 $1 ,O00, 900 for his interest, and sold it. He
 went home with deed for 8 S10o, GOO house in one pocket, and drafts for $500, 900 in the other.
 One of the best of the nominations made
 by the Republican town convention was that of Charles R. Spiegsl for Town Clerk
 Mr. Spiegel is a gentleman of good ability and strict integrity. He has also the impor- fapt and I. .;- thoroughly acquainted with the duties he will have to perform if he is elected He was MT. Botsford' 's'chief assistant when that gentle man was Town Clerk, and was distinguished for his faithful attention to duty and for his efficiency.
 A recent police court case in England showed what can be done with the law in the right or, more properly, wrong hands. A man walking through 8 field on a Sunday saw rabbit struggling in trap and meroi- fully ended it's suferings. The magistrate, however, graveIy declared hina guilty of two ofenees-k killing game on Sunday and killing game without a Iieense-and fined him $5 and the costs of She action.
 The archbishop of Canterbury lately preached 8 sermon which has excited great attention and in some quarters surprise He dwelt in trenchant language on the want of sympathy between classes and openly assert ed his dread of what would be the result of the hate engendsrsd among the lower by the indifference of the higher. It appears that his language had special reference to the in difference shown to the state of the poor around them by the rich city people who go up to Londen to business from points within 8 radius of thirty miles of the metropolis and show not the slightest interest in the affairs of the parishes in which they live Clergy men holding livings in such places give ample confirmation of the primate's words.
 There are at least two sides to the stshort haul" question. One of them is that indi- cated blythe Topeka Commonwsalth. The Union Pacific has direct line from Kansas City to Junction City, and naturally takes the freight between the two places. The Atehi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific have line, which is longer, via En- poria. They want some of the business, and cut on the Union Pacific rates and get freight at low rate via Emporis Go Junction. Ought they not be allowed to do this without being forced to carry Council Grove goods at the same price? If they are not allowed to do t Junction will no longer be & competi live point and the recipient of low rates, and without any injury to Council Grove. Of course if the Santa Fe and Mis- 'ourl Pacific railroads are barred from taking freight to Junction below Union Pacific rates, hey will not get it, and then Council Grove will not be any better of and Junction placed n worse position. Take another instance. We will suppose that corn is low in the east 'rn markets and that Cloud county has arge surplus The railroad company desires 0 give such rates to the farmers of that county as will enable them to get their corn to market. To do this they probably would be willing to take 1t at the bare cost of handling. Would you bar them from the privilege of loing this, by telling them if they do they must handle all the freight to the county vest of Cloud at the same rates?
 Monsignor Capel recently said that the Catholic Church could, by the utterance of a word, order Catholic schools to be started in very parish, and he asked: ''Do you SUD- 'ose some millions of people are going to 'ay taxes twice ovor-once for their own