Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-31
EW HAVEN CONN FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 8l 1884

presented, hope MT. Blaine will be elected. I think he will make better President than the other man. I think Republicans will lower themselves, perhaps disgrace them selves, in having any connection with par ty which lent itself to the disruption of the American Union, and which has never in any way acknowledged it's sin, or sought par don of the country and the friends of free dom throughout the world"
 Some time ago the Rev. Professor Wood row, of the Presbyterian theological sem mary at Columbia, South Carolina, was par tially converted to Darwinism In lecture to his students he said that, while man was directly indebted to God for his soul. he was probably akin in his bodily part to the an- thropoid ape; and he also said that there was nothing in this teaching contrary to holy scripture or the standards of the Presbyte- rian church, provided these were rightly in- terpreted. The more orthodox brethren took the alarm and the professor soon had a hornets nest about his ears, but the trustees of the seminary sustained him. Now, how ever, the synod of South Carolina, by vote of 50 to 40, has formally disapproved of the teaching of evolution in the seminary s'ex- eept in purely expository manner" Prob ably the question will be taken, by one side or the other, to the general assembly,
 The most extensive preparations are being made in New York city for a thorough sur veillance of the preliminary registration and the election by United States election officers. The yU0Tg iG hoipfr of MT. John I. Davenport, whose previous la- bors as chief supervisor have made him fa- nous. Inspection of the registration lists is now being carried on by nearly 800 super visors and 700 deputy marshals, and these numbers will be largely increased before elec- tion day. MT. Davenport has issued a con- pilation of the election laws in a pamphlet of 100 pages for the use of his officers; and the current expense of the work with the force now employed is over $10,000 day. These figures do not seem so large when it is re- membered that there are over TOO polling places in the city. In 1880 the number of officers employed was over $500, and it is probable that the entire roll of the present year, when completed, may equal that num- ber
 MT. R. G. Hooper of Montville in this State writes as follows concerning the effect upon his business of the miserable tariff agi- tation foisted on the country by the last ses- sion of Congress: We had to stop our mill about the 18th of July last, because there was no sale for our goods. Our business was good up to the fall of 1882, and we had more
 
 orders than we could fill, and we were con- templating increasing our business one-third We went so far as to get prices for the addi- tional machinery, but after the election of the present Congress in the fall of 1882, our orders began to fall off, and it has been get ting worse ever since. Buyers say that they are not going to stock up with goods until the agitation of the tariff is out of the way :. We were paying more wages when we stopped last July than we were paying in 1880. The only hope I have to be able to start my mill again is in the election of Blaine and Logan, so that we may know what to depend upon in regard to the tariff
 In 8 recent lecture delivered in London on Bad Food and it's Detection it was stated bL1AG III0 1hcGOuotSF IS uSol0SS auu plays 1uCO the hands rather of the fraudulent dairyman than of the consumer. Fat being lighter than water, rich milk might appear water ed by this test and tricks of the milk trade might thus be fostersd by it's use. The inn portanee of purity in milk could not be over estimated, but the only method known by which it could be satisfactorily tested was 1a4a apo1uciS Tha of was also somewhat complicated. A simple yet infallible test for alum in flour was shown. On portion of adulterated flour being placed in 8 small quantity of chloro- form the four floats, while the alum or other mineral matter sinks to the bottom In similar way alum in bread may be instantly detected by placing small piece of the sus- pected loaf in a solution of 1ogwood and carbonate of ammonia; if alum be present, the bread will turn blue