Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-27
NY. MORNING. OCTOBER 27. 1884.

matter, even in the case of the most impor- tant cities, is apparent from the fact that there are in the United States il St. Pauls, 20 Bridgeports, IS Buffalos and Newarks, IT Brooklyns, Clevelands and Rochesters, IS Hartfords, 15 Louisvilles, 13 Bostons and Pittsburgs, Cincinnatis and Philadelphias 6 Chicagos, 2 Detroits, Milwaukees and St. Louises, 32 Washingtons, and New Works
 and Baltimores. New Orleans and San Fran
 cisco are not duplicated.
 According to the San Francisco Bulletin
 ''the times" are not very hard in that city.
 It says: Labor has been in good demand
 during the past year, and the result will be that great deal will be done in the way of improving homesteads There has not been for long time more favorable season for
 building than the present. A great many persons with small capital recognize this fact. It is easy to obtain money on real es-
 tate which is to be improved Homesteads
 multiply. The low price of all sorts of
 building material favors all that class who have lots to improve, and who have been waiting for just the right time to begin the improvements.
 The London Lancet suggests that the
 British agriculturists might make more use of sugar for feeding and fattening cattle. Owing to the glut in the market, the coarser sorts can be obtained at an exceptionally cheap rate, refuse molasses being quoted at one per cent. per pound, and jaggery at a very little more. At these rates, therefore. the farmer could we'll afford to treat his
 beasts more literally with saccharine addi- tions to the usual food. It has been ascer- tained that sugar exercises beneficial effect upon cows in regard to both the flavor and the quantity of their milk. It also improves pigs, and sheep thrive upon it when it is mixed with the ordinary provender All animals are partial to it, and in the cases of horses, sickness of skin is thought to be pro duced by a saccharine dietary.
 Ten years of penal servitude have not dis covered the Tichborne claimant He-has al ready begun an agitation intended to reopen his case and force a new trial to establish whether he is Arthur Orton, Thomas Castro or Sir Roger Charles Tichborne He still in sists that he is the latter individual and has gone so far to issue manifesto signed with the missing baronet's name, in which he charges the government officials with per jury, forgery and other crimes during his former trial. This stupendous impostor, singular as it may appear, yet numbers his adherents by tens of thousands, and among them are multitudes of wealthy dupes and several members of parliament Besides, to add to the interest of the complication likely to speedily ensue, it is not by any means i'm probable that the bogus claimant will succeed in getting into parliament himself, as it is thought some constituency will certainly re- turn him.
 The decision just made by the United States Circuit court in Illinois concerning the liability of the holders of national bank stock is important. In the case before the court 8 shareholder of bank that had failed was sued by a creditor of the bank While the suit was pending the shareholder died and the proceedings were continued against his administrator. The latter set up the de- fence that the liability of national bank shareholder does not survive against his es- tate. The court overruIed the demurrer. "My view, says Judge Blodgett, 'tis that Congress intended to give all persons deal ing with the bank the guarantee or assurance of his shareholders liability for the purpose of giving credit to the banks organized under the law. The capital paid in on shares might be lost or wasted by fraud or bad manage ment, but this additional shareholders liabil- ity could not be wasted, but remains as a fund to be resorted to for the payment of debts when the other means of payment are exhausted, and it would certainly very much abridge this security if the liability of Q shareholder is to cease with his death It against the estate of deceased shareholder ,