Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-23

ground of mental incapacity and undue in- fuence. The amount involved is said to be
 between $2. COG, 900 and S, 100000.
 The bill passed by the House for the relief of innocent buyers of patented articles ap- pears to 'tmeet long felt want" It pro- vldes that such purchasers who buy for their own use and not for sale machinery alone excepted. can be sued but not. assessed, for costs, unless the damage assessed by the jury shall exceed $20. People in the West using wire fences, instruments for driving wells, and other articles for farm use which they purchased without knowing them, have been swindled by ''shysters," who have brought suits as regular business, obtained small verdict and then made their money by assess ing heavy fees This bill puts an end to that, and, at the same time, does not prevent the owners of patents from prosecuting those who make B trade of dealing in their exclu- sive property.
 The New York Globe (negro organ) thus frees it's mind: The Democratic party of the United States has had ample opportunity to gain the good will, confidence and respect of colored men. But neither in the North nor the South has it made one overture that could be regarded as an earnest of honorable intention. It has lost no opportunity to bad ger, to rob, to oppress and to murder col ored men for opinions sake and out of the excess of unadulterated cussedness Colored men, those who think, are not to be caught with chaf. "The New Emancipation" means that colored men are sick of the non- sense, the subterfuge, and the prescription of the Republican party, and of the studied villiany, lawlessness, and murderation of the Democratic party. ''The New Emancipa- tion" means that oolored men are learning to look out for humber one"
 The extent of lottery gambling in Italy is indicated by the statement that the death of Professor De Sanctis, which lately occurred, caused SO large purchase of lottery tickets bearing numbers corresponding to that event, in the table of incidents and things, that the government made two million lire ($4OO, ,OOO) out of the blunder of the augurs According to the system of lotteries in use in Italy, the player writes down on his ticket five numbers, which are copied on the coun- terfoil, and in the book of the bank from which the ticket is taken; and if the first htree numbers drawn from the wheel of for tune are contained in these five the player wins tern; if the whole five agree with those chosen by the player he wins quin- quaine, which gives 8 prize many times greater than the sum played, tern giving one correspondingly low. When, therefore, any public disaster extraordinary event occurs, the printed table of lottery numbers being generally consulted, the same numbers are certain to be chosen by many players with the usual result of large gain to the government, but in exceedingly rare instances great loss, as the fortuitous coincidence of the numbers indicated by the tables with those drawn from the wheel would result in a run of luck to the players which might be an embarrassment to the treasury; though, as there is no certainty that any prizes will be drawn, the chances are enormously in it's favor.-