Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-04

When have Shuff1ed off this mortal coil.
 Louisville papers assert that there are not
 less than one thousand names in the registra-
 tion books of that city, as qualified voters, ot persons who never existed. There are near l ly twenty thousand names in all and Citi- zens' committee which made an investigation has discovered some astounding frauds. In l one district 792 names were registered, and 1 256 of them cannot be found at the numbers 1 or neighborhood designated or in the city di- 1 rectory. If any of the black-listed attempt to vote at the county election in August they will be forced to show where they live, and if 1 they can't do that, the committee say, they l will be sent to the penitentiary.
 I The inhabitants of Boston are rejoicing ] over the arrest of a man who, in all proba- bility, has for some weeks past been en- gagged in the infamous work of attempting to set fire to business buildings in Boston. As these fires have all been kindled in the same 1 manner, and under almost the same condi- | tions, they have borne unmistakable evidence of having been the work of single indi- vidua1, and, as the man arrested on Thurs day night had just succeeded in starting fire in the precise manner of those previously lighted the presumption amounts almost to certainty that he is also guilty of the pre- vious crimes. His name stands upon the books of the fire commissioners as an appli-
 cant for position in the department, and it is suggested that he might have had an idea that if fires in the city were to increase the department might be enlarged and he might get place.
 The London Inner Circle railroad is 8 mar
 vellous feat of engineering skill. It runs
 throughout it's entire distance under the busi-
 est centre of the largest city in the world, and
 the operations attending the excavation
 and construction have proceed
 ed without serious injury to or interruption
 of business or traffic. Quicksands have had
 to be passed through, beds of old rivers spanned, lofty warehouses and massive build
 ings secured while their foundations have
 been undermined, and an intricate network
 of gas and water pipes sustained until sup
 ports had been applied to them from below
 Added to this the six main sewers had seve-
 ral times to be reconstructed. Day and night
 the work has been carried on for eighteen
 months, and now the engineers are able to an
 nounce that their tunnel is complete. The
 laying of the rails and the building of the
 stations are the only portion of the immense
 work that remains to be done, and in a very
 short time trains will be passing over the
 whole of this wonderful subterranean road
 Randolph Tucker, member of Congress
 from the Sixth district of Virginia, in a
 speech delivered the other day at Staunton,
 Virginia, made it plain that ''reconstruc-
 tion" is not yet complete. He said: When
 I remember how in 1876 Blaine rushed down
 the aisle in Congress, hurling anathemas at
 the southern people, his whole aspect filled
 with acrimonious hate of them and their
 honored leader, Jefferson Davis wonder at
 the impudence which enables him now to come whining with an expression of regret that he had to allude to the southern States as separate section The Republican party, with Blaine and Logan as it's leaders, has constantly endeavored to solidify the ignorant negroes and hurl them against the inteli- gence and virtue of the southern people. What northern man has ever come down here since the war and taken our hands with real good will unless he was 8 Democrat: x
 I have never acknowledged that the southern cause was wrong and never will
 The international electrical exhibition which is to take place at Philadelphia next month under the auspices of the Franklin Institute will be well worth seeing. It is not a business enterprise, and it's object is not to make money for the Institute nor to adver- tise the exhibitors, but to promote the ad vancement of science in this special field Exhibits are invited and expected from all parts of the civilized world. Congress has recognized the value of the object by exempt ing from duty all articles imported merely for the exhibition on the usual condition if sold withdrawn for consumption they shall be chargeable with the legal duties 1 The Institute offers no awards or premiumsa but report will be made by board of skilled examiners, who will when requested make special examinations or competitive tests, if practicable, at the expense of the exhibitors. Articles for exhibition will be l received early the eleventh of this l month, and the exhibition will be formally opened September 2d, and continue open daily, Sundays excepted, until October 11th. l An international electrical congress will be 1 held in Philadelphia during the exhibition.