Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-25

one of it's reporters disguise himself in tn,
 garb of disreputable tramp and visit them
 all in succession on recent Sunday morn 1 ing. He met with only scant courtesy. Al many of the churches aversion and disgust
 were plainly written on the faces of the ush- ! CTS, and in almost all he was carefully as-
 signed the poorest and least conspicuous seat, l from which he could with ease withdraw, not 1 disturbing the worship of the well-dressed
 Christians around him, and try his luck in the next church on his list The bible has
 been revised ,and it is evident that 8 good deal of what is called Christianity nowadays also 1 needs revision.
 Democratic co mmittees in States adjacent
 to Indiana are now endeavoring to frighten Indiana manufacturers with circular letters covertly threatening a loss of patronage if they do not at once declare their neutrality in politics. Of course the implication is that these manufacturers are compelling their workmen to take the Republican side, and the circular is little less than deliberate at tempt st blackmai1. Thus far the manufac- turers' responses have been very satisfactory The Oliver Chilled Plough Works of South Bend, for instance, have replied that their workmen will vote precisely as they please, but that it is a striking fact that most of them have been converted during the last four years by their own observation, reading and reflection to sound protection principles
 ''In conclusion, !" says the company's letter, permit us to say that we are abundantly ! able to manage our business in our own way, { and we need no advice from you or any other | political manager as to it's conduct"
 The example of the great snail industry in Burgundy, which is acquiring greater devel- opment year by year, owing to the fine quail l ty of the flesh of the vine leaf fed mollusk, has stimulated the Swiss to efforts in the same direction. A number of gardens, be- ! tween Davos and Landquart, in the canton | of Grisons, have lately been transformed by 1 their owners into snail farms. During the | summer time the children are employed to gather the snails from field and hedge and | bring them to the farms, where they are placed in bushes and fed upon refuse vegeta- l ble leaves. A thick bed of sawdust sur 1 rounds each bush, and serves the double pur- pose of an insuperable barrier to the escape of the inhabitants and shelter for the win
 ter. At the approach of cold weather the snails, which have then waxed fat, bury | themselves in the sawdust, and close the door of the house on their back. They are l raked out, packed up in cwt. baskets, and sent off to Italy, where, as Burgundy snails" they sell at IS francs to 20 francs the package.
 The Democrats who do not like to be call ed free traders protest that the Morrison bill was not free trade measure, nor one which American workingmen and manufac- turers had any reason to dread, or from which British manufacturers had anything
 to hope. But the London Telegraph, which
 knows what the British manufacturers want,
 said last spring, 0 few days after the defeat
 of the Morrison bill: "A bill to establish in
 America what the English call free trade has
 just been defeated in the house by the, mar
 TOW majority of four. The measure was of
 enormous importance for English manufao-
 turers, as it would have enabled them to ex-
 port goods to the States without the crush
 ing tariff now imposed, and it's fate was
 watched with intense interest by Englishmen.
 We're it passed, it would have been worth e1Q0, ,000, GOO per annum to British manufaoz
 tuaers' One sesanais the
 eqhivalent of five hundred million dollars.
 If that bill would have been worth that enor-
 nous sum to English manufacturers yearly,
 it could only have been by allowing their
 goods to much larger amount to super
 sede American manufactures