Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-25

nearly one-half of the debt of the United
States at its highest point. They also wish
the government to reserve all the paying
lines for itself and to require all private en-
terprises taking the others to yield to the
government the ''absolate right to fix rates
and fares and from time to time alter the
same"
The writer of paper recently read before
the French Academy Of Medicine expresses
the opinion that one in every 5000 persons
is buried alive. while official statistice show
that the mortality among sailors from ships
wreck averages one in 1000. The question
has of late been much discussed by the med
ical body just mentioned; and it seems to be
settled that none of the accepted Indications
of death. with the single exception of the
unmistakable decomposition of the body, are
to be regarded as perfectly conclusive. It is
certain that the possibility Of such frightful
death weighs on the mind of many of the
French, as, according to 9 recent declaration
of the President of the Chamber of Notaries,
express instructions.ar given in one will out
of every ten to have the testator's heart
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of the coffin is screwed down.
The bill to legalize the incorporation .
national trades unions which was introduced
by Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is q
noteworthy one. Il provides that any asso-
citation of working people 'shaving two or
more branches in the States or Territories of
the United States, for the purpose of aiding
its members to become more skillful and
efficient workers, the promotion of their
general intelligence. the elevation of their
character, the regulation of their wages and
their hours and conditions of labor" or for
other lawful objects. is declared to be ma
tienal trade union within the meaning of
this act. Upon application to any United
State court, every national trade union shall
be provided with charter of incorporation,
which shall entitle such association and each
or all of its branches to sue and be sued, and
to grant, receive, and use property for its
objects as defined in its charter. The bill
still further provides that any person who
shall prevent or endeavor to prevent any
such organization from carrying out its law
full objects. shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished by fine or
imprisonment. or both, to be inflicted by
any court of competent jurisdiction.
A correspondent of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat has been making an extensive jour
ney in the Red River valley, and he does
not draw quite as fattaring picture of the
condition of things there as the railroad ad-
vertisements do. He reports the condition
number are Scandinavians, as miserable in
the extreme. Three months ia which to
grow the single crop of spring wheat, which
yields but ID to 16 bushels per acre, and
costs from 40 to rs cents per bushel; floods
on the bottom lands and drought on the up
lands; a limited market and monopoly in
transportation in the hands of the st. Paul
and Manitoba railroad these are the causes
which have brought the poor Mortimer to
the verge of despair. Nor does the corre-
spondent find any prospect of relief in the
future, regarding the country as hopelsssly
incapable of sustaining considerable popu-
lation. "The extreme Northwest" he de-
clares, ''whatever the most mastery manipu-
lated advertising bureau may say to the
ria and Finland of our continent. swayed by
an autocrat the most despotic that ever ruled
a farmers home"
If we may believe a writer in a Russian
paper the mother of Turgenief.was not very
agreeable lady to live with. She was proud
and vain to the point of folly, ruling her chill
dren as despot:cally as her slaves. She was
as proud of her noble descent as of er-rich
es, and after she became widow her AFRO.
gance knew no bounds. She ordered hel
household like to royal one; her serfs bore
the titles of Office in use at court. Thus
her postboy was called Postmaster General
her steward, chief of the gendarmes, and SO
forth. No one might speak to her unless
addressed. Not even her sons might appear
in her presence unannounced. And when hel
eldest son Nicholas married without her con
sent, she withdrew from him all pecuniarN
aid, and let him suffer the most cruel priva
tions. { When, in 1849, the cholera broke ou
in her district, she happened to hear tha
the infection was spread by means of bac
terra that pervaded the air and were breathei
In with it. She thereupon ordered her stew
ard of the household to construct for hel
some contrivance by means of which, she
could see objects when going out of door
without breathing the pestilential air. She
therefore caused kind of sedan chair to bt
made with glass roof, which had
the appearance of one of those chests in
which in the Greek church the figures OF
saints are borne abroad. Thus it came
about that, going out in her machine, pious
person who saw it pass fell on his knees ac-
cordfnq to custom, crossed himself, and
offered the bearers penny for the good OF
the Church.