Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-30
tial year. In the vote for supreme court judge last fall the party boiled fourteen thou 1 sand ,rnfnn

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 judge last fall the party boiled fourteen thou sand votes.
 I The Mormons in Utah can't vote, but they
 are for Cleveland. Bishop Hart in an inter l view said: Those who first came to Utah
 founded those principles, and the Democratic party is their exponent. That is why we 1 favor the Democrats As to Mr. Cleveland ] our admiration is perfect He Is good, hon.
 est and upright, and fully worthy of the
 presidency. I think might say this for all
 Utah. The only people there who feel op-
 posed to him are the federal ofice-holders One of the shrewdest of the gamblers who are following the race horses around the country told reporter in Hartford that he had made it his business to get posted on the political situation so that he could bet safely when the election excitement increased. He said that in Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and other points where he had been the political feeling was like the handle of jug all on one side, the betting among the gamblers, who bet not for sentiment but to win, being 100 to 80 and 100to 60 against Cleveland, with scarcely any takers. This indicates WHICH way Gl0 Wll1Q -DlOW1nR.
 It seems that the proposed Jordan canal,
 the plans for which have appeared in the
 foreign scientific journals, is not to be, in any proper sense, canal, but rather large
 inland sea, some three hundred miles long,
 with an average of ten to fifteen miles in
 breadth. The waters of the Dead Sea would
 be raised from their present level about thir-
 teen hundred feet, and it's area, of course, be
 largely increased. The river Jordan, the
 Dead Sea and Lake Tiberias would all disap-
 pear with some square miles of land, princi-
 pally on the western side of the Jordan val
 ley as now existing, and in their place would
 be vast inland sheet of water, fertilizing the neighboring desert with the rainfall pro- duced by the evaporation from it's surface.
 According to this plan, therefore, there would
 be, instead of simple canal wide open channel, trayersing Palestine from north to south, navigable in every sense of the term, with safe harbors here and there on either side.
 Major General Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, thinks it would be good idea to have a na- tiona1 encampnent of the militia once every three years. His plan would be to have at least 25, 900 men in camp, composed of the national guard of several States, brigade of regular army infantry, battery and some cavalry, the whole to be under the command of some one of the major generals of the regular army. When large bodies of sol diers are brought together they learn from each other, and he has no doubt that such an encalnpment would prove decidedly ad- vantageous to the militia. He would have national encampment each year, but in differ ent sections, of the country; the first year, say, to include the national guard of the New England and the Middle States; the next year to have it in the West and the third year to comprise the militia in the South and Southwest Upon each of these occa- sions it would be well, he thinks, to have the regular army well represented, so that the State guardsmen would have the benefit of their experience and training. In the inter vening years there could be brigade and di- vision encampments.