Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-03

daily allowance of thirteen or fourteen l copecks they cannot even buy pound of l beef for froth. In addition to this, the | nurses, who are very badly paid, steal the l food of the patients whenever they ean." Considerable surprise is also sometimes l pressed in St. Petersburg society at the rapid growth of wealth among hospital authorities. Charles Francis Adams, jr., is in Washing 1 ton looking after the interests of the Union Pacific railroad. It is said that most of the ! members of the Senate Judiciary committee favor the extension of the debt to the govern I ment for sixty years, because they believe it ! is the best the government can do, and are
 influenced also largely by the plea that it is 1 not Gould and the large fish who will suffer i most if the stock is wiped out and made valueless by taking rigorous steps, but the 1 small and innocent stockholders. MT. Adams 1 reputation for honesty also gives senators kinder feeling towards the road than they entertained while the Gould party made no attempt to conceal that they managed the property and defed the government to en- force it's rights. But while the railroad people are very free in declaring that some l progress has been made with other members 1 of the committee, nothing has changed l Senator Edmunds' views. He is convinced that the present alleged humility of the road officials is for purpose, and that if any con-
 sessions are made they will become as diff cult to deal with as before No one knows just what his plans are, but he proposes to get all he can for the government, and leave nothing at the discretion of the parties who control the Union Pacific.
 Professor Hopkins, of Auburn theological seminary, preached sermon in Rochester on Thanksgiving day severely attacking the press. In the course of his remarks he said:
 ''The editors of these papers, the men who by these organs preach to millions of our coun- trymen, are for the most part persons ill the last degree unfit for the function of public teacher. They are young men, recently out of school or college, half educated, and with no such knowledge of history, philosophy, criticism, or even of the art of writing, as to fit them for their work; or they are older men who have been trained in the typograph- ieal art, and who take up the editors pro- fession merely adjunct to it. The style of writing in a large part of these journ- als does little credit to the supposed literary character of the writers. The average editor makes no attempt even to elevate the stand ard of taste. He writes down to the demand of the lowest order of intellect" The Rochester press is indignant and vigor- ously defends itself It is a noteworthy fact that in the very city in which Dr. Hopkins
 
 ly discredited by the facts. The editor-in- chief of the Post Express is well known Yale graduate of the famous class of '53''; the editor-in-chief of the Democrat was col lege mate of Garfield at Williams, and is a man of fine literary ability; several of his as- sociates college men of years experience. The city editor of the Herald is a Rochester University man, and some of his verses have had wide reading
 The death of "Oklahoma" Pa yne does no end the trouble caused by the invasion of thet Indian territory by white squatters. An other expedition is even now fitting out in Kansas, and Representative Ryan of that State proposes to meet the difficulty by in- troducing in the House bill opening the re- zion called 'fOklahoma'' to settlement under the homestead laws. He says he is not clear that the lands should be so opened, "but it is imperative that some decision should be made in regard to them.'' The matter as it is viewed in the West is thus stated by MT. Ryan: As the matter now stands, many of our people, acting under legal advice, good or bad, insist that the lands a part of the public domain, and as such are open to set clement under the homestead and pre-emp- tion laws. Every attempt of that sort irri- tates the Indians, who are organized and armed to repel what they believe to be an intrusion upon their rights. Congress or the courts ought to do something, either to al low settlers to occupy the lands or to pre- scribe some severe penalties for violation | of the laws. Thus far there has not been I prosecution to judgment in the courts of single one of the invaders. The penalty is a fine, but none has been imposed. The in- truders are simply expelled from the terri | tory and allowed to go free. This kind of l treatment is not calculated to impress the I offenders with high respect for the author ity of the government; on the contrary, they
 generally say the government does not press
 the suits against them because it dares not l bring them to the test of judicial decision.