Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-02

1 sents his claims forcibly.
 l Governor Hoadley has been telling re- 1 porter that he doesn't know anything about | politics, and some of his enemies assert that l he tells the truth.
 l The s'Around the World" letter which we 1 publish this morning will be found very i'm I teresting, dealing, as it does, with places notable in Biblical history. Other letters of ] the same character and quite interesting I are to follow.
 Boston spent only $6,2OO in entertaining ! seven members of the Siamese embassy two ! days, and some of the taxpayers who didn't l get any of the good things which the money l bought are complaining ''CitY Halls' find | it hard work to satisfy everybody.
 The last visitation of cholera in this eoun- | try was in 1866-'67. It began in Toulon in l 1865, and MarseIlles suffered severely from 1 the dread disease il October of that year. Following the lines of travel westward it 1 reached the United States the following l year.
 l The opposition to vaccination in England, which is encouraged by the Anti-vaccination I l Thus, the other day at Leicester the goods of twenty persons who had declined to pay the fines imposed upon them for the non-vacqin- l ation of their children were sold at public 1 auction. Fifty policemen were present to l protect the auctioneer. Though the sale was very disorderly, no violence was used. At a meeting held afterward resolutions were passed condsmning the law which permitted the breaking up of peoples homes for the 1 non-paymsnt of vaccination faes.
 It's aa i'll wind that blows ne good. The l recent violent rains in Texas raised the
 streams to height never known before, and l the streams brought down with their flood
 and lodged upon a mans farm the wreckage I of many other farmsteads. The raft or pile l of ruins was Q mile long and a quarter of a
 mile wide, and contained hundreds of cords of wood, thousands of fence rails many thou.
 sand feet of lumber, furniture in great vari- l ety, but in sad state of repair and mostly l in fragments, farming tools, henooops and
 miscellaneous rubbish, and, what the heir of
 the freshet valued most of all, several kegs
 and barrels of whiskey and many Tasks filled 1 with the same seductive Auid
 The following extract from Mr. Blaine's
 book is interesting in view of what is said
 about his ideas in regard to foreign affairs:
 Tranquil at home, developing it's inexhausti-
 ble resources with rapidity and success un-
 known in history, bound in sincere friend
 ship. and beyond the possibility of hostile
 rivalry, with the other republics of the com
 tinents, standing midway between Asia and Europe, power on the Pacific as yell as on the Atlantic, with no temptation to inter-
 meddle in the questions which disturb the
 old world, the republic of the United States desires to live in amicable relations with all peoples, demanding only the abstinence ef
 foreign intervention in the development of
 that policy which her political creed, her
 territorial extent, and the close and cordial
 neighborhood of kindred governments have made the essential rule of her national life.
 The Cologne Gazette, which frequently
 speaks by inspiration from Berlin, has just published a peculiarly interesting article 1 against England. The article boldly states
 that the understanding reached between
 England and France concerning Egyptian affairs in the conference is undoubtedly due 1 to their common hatred of Germany. Engs
 land. the Gazette says, aims at leadership
 wherever it can be attained without assuming l the burdens of the costly armameats which