Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-07

I nil the vacancy caused by Governor Robin
 son's resignation, he overlooked the require
 ment that lists Of the registered voters shall
 be posted fifteen days before the election,
 and appointed day so near at hand that it
 was impossible to comply with this require 1 ment.
 l One of the most sensible and useful of
 charitable societies is the Industrial Aid
 society of Boston. This society is founded
 on the idea Of supplying labor both as g prevention of pauperism in those who are l willing to work and as g test of character for l those who prefer to beg. After nearly half
 century of usefulness it is in a prosperous condition and steadily enlarging it's activity Last year it received 2,977 applications for employment from men and boys and found places for 1.971; 2,477 applications from women and girls and found places for 92s This labor has been distributed among fam flies, shops, factories, farms, ships. etc, and geographically throughout Now England and as far west as Minnesota
 Governor Robinson'S inaugural address contained much that is worth attention, and what he said about divorce is especially nots- worthy. It is az follows: Step by step greater facility in obtaining dissolution of the marriage bond has been secured, the causes for full divorce have been increased from two to nine, and the party against whom a divorce has been granted may now, in all cases, after two years, marry again, even in the face of record of shameless debauch- cry, brutality or prohigacy. The evil is so threatening, the tendencies are so dangerous that the protest of every thoughtful person ought to be uttered against further destruc- tion of the safeguards of the marriage con- tract, or of domestic purity and integrity. For the credit of the State, in jealous regard for the sanctity of the home, in the interest of good morals and good order in society, I trust you will not regard it your duty to make still easier the abrogation of the mar riage tie.
 Professor Wylie, the chemist of the Agri- cultural department, in his annual report calls attention to the adaptability of sorghum molssses to the production of alcohol. There is little doubt, he says, that the conversion or the sugars in the molasses into alcohol will prove far more profitable than feeding them to stock. He has made some very fair samples Of alcohol and rum, and the success which has attended these expert ments is sufficient to justify the conclusien that much greater increase in sorghum pro duction throughout the couRtry will result in the uss of the molasses on large scale as source of alcohol and rum. Molassas con- tains about 32 per cent. of suerose and non sucrose. in all 64 per cent. of fermentable::m ter. Under favorable conditions the sugars present will yield forty per cent. of it's weight as alcohol. One gallon of naolasses, there fore, would give nearly half g gallon of com mercial alcohol aud two thirds of a gallon of whisky OF rum. Thus sorghum, which has been announced as the source from which this country could easily raise it's own sugar is more likely to prove great runa -produc- ing product, for. on Professor Wylis's theory, whisky can be produced from it st cost of not more than fifty cents gallon.