Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-23

The Boston Courier does not hesitate to call that noble institution, the Concord School of Philosophy, the Unconquered School of verbosity.
 And now it is related that teaspoonful of powdered charcoal taken every morning will keep off the cholera. Should think it might if the practice were persisted in.
 York yesterday was not 8 very impressive affair The weakness of the movement is becoming more and more apparent.
 The Independents of this city are said not to be very harmonious. Two things are needed to make an independent movement a cess-independenee and unselfshness.
 In view of the fact that this is 0 cholera year gentleman who has some fruit trees suggests that the Board of Health would be wise if they would prohibit the small boys from stealing his green fruit.
 It is asserted that the fund of $250, ,0O0 raised by George Jones for the benefit of General Grant was placed in trust with E. D. Morgan, who invested it in Wabash secu- rites and guaranteed per cent. interest for eight years, and that his estate is now being charged to make good the guaranty.
 A correspondent who has noticed that some of the ministers are against Blaine sug- gests that perhaps they have more at stake in this contest than they think. If by their help the free-traders win, their salaries, as well as the salaries of others, will have to come down, and they will have to depend more on donation parties' than they do now. We commend this pleasing prospect to the careful and prayerful consideration of the assistant Democratic preachers.
 Suicide in the Austrian army has increased to an extent that may well alarm the militia " authorities. Statistics show that the to- tai number of suicides from 1869 to 1878 is 2,536, an average of 253 year. In 1878 the average was 307 and in the following year 314 The motives attributed are dissatis- faction with military service, fear of punish ment, monetary difficulties and mortified am list of military suicides, it would be interest ing to trace how far the experiences of sol dier's life under the European system en- courage self-destruction.
 Secretary Teller has decided that the good faith of a pre-emptor of public land may be inquired into at any time before the issue of his patent, and that the sale of 8 apre-emption claim to an innocent purchaser is no bar to investigation. In thousands of cases the pre-emptor and the purchaser have com bined to defraud the government and exclude the honest settler. The fraud may not be discovered until after the patent has been issued, or it may not be discovered at all. About 600, 900 claims are now pending, in volving not less than seventy five millions of acres, and entries covering many millions of acres are believed to be fraudulent
 2. An official German publication makes some interesting revelations concerning pamphlet entitled "Berlin Society,"" which recently created considerable sensation in the political and diplomatic circles of the Continent. The material that served to com pile the first half of the work was taken from confidential letters which the former reader to the Empress Augusta, Mme. Gerard, ad dressed to the late M. Leon Gambetta. That StdGeSInauS uC6fdTy nolT0Ssy mlIlo Adam, found them among his papers. The description of characters is due to the pen of an Alsatian named Weiss, tutor in Russian family. The notes furnished by Herr Weiss were handed to Mime. Adam by Mne. de Noyikoff, who took them with her to Paris. Mime. Adam, assisted by the ex-Secretary of Legation, M. Otto de Loe, prepared the mate rial for publication. Possibly others con tributed from behind the scenes to the pam phlet. in question, but it's principal authors were the persons above mentioned.
 The inhabitants of London do not feel very comfortable over the probability that the cholera will break out among them. In 1854 cholera carried off many victims in Soho and Westminster and in the southern districts of London. At Footing 1895 pau per children were crowded into space only large enough to contain 500. Sixty-four of these children were attacked by cholera in one night, and in week no fewer than 1so of them died. Their deaths were right ly enough attributed to oyercrowding and to