Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-15

not1nce that it will be their special care to avid the slightest departure from the rules of legitimate banking and to make amost careful selection of their officers At the same time they hold out expectations of 10 to 15 per cent. dividends
 Politics hasn't agreed very well with the Good Templars of Wisconsin. In 1880 they had 480 lodges and 20, ,08s members in good standing. The next year the agitation for a prohibitory amendment began, and the off cers of the Good Templars took an active part in organizing an independent temperance party, the head of the order becoming it's candidate for Governor. During that year the order lost % lodges and 1918 members The political agitation was continued in 1882, and the order lost 67 lodges and 1858 mem bers; also in 1888, and there dropped out 32 more lodges with 2, ,6S2 members The wiser heads at last saw the folly of the policy which led to such results, and an address was adopted which recalled the fact that the order had prospered for thirty years while working on the line of moral suasion in be- half of total abstinence, and advised an abandonment of the disastrous campaign in favor of prohibition by law
 The California harvest moon looks down on some fine sights, according to the San Francisco Bulletin. The grain barges from the San Joaquin and the Sacramento are coming down the bay in stately procession, escorted by fleets of small steamers and schooners laden with hay, melons, etc. In IL ll~ ripe for the reaper There must be 30, 900, ,000 bushels of it this year, 'more or less, :" the Bull letin thinks, and something like 0,000, 900 bushels of the other cereals. The green squares of the vineyards, scattered among the tawny harvest-ields and climbing the hillsides, show finely in the light of the harvest moon. The air is full of the aroma of ripening fruit. Apples, peaches, pears, pluns, grapes, apricots, blackberries, toma- toes, sweet potatoes, cueumbers, and the rest are making their way to the San Francisco market-stalls Everywhere the harvest moon looks down on a scene of teeming plenty. ] The new bill on primary education which has been introduced by the Belgian govern ment is designed to do away with the objec- tionable features of the law of 1879. Under this law the State determines the number of primary schools, and schools for infants and adults, in each commune, as well as the number of teachers, whom it forms in it's own training schools, and of whom it has virtually the nomination. It fixes the bud get of the schools, and leaves the commune neither initiative norindependenee. The re- IL. 1e one-half of the Nation were imposed upon the other half If the present bill becomes law, all compulsory measures on the part of the State will be abandoned, and each commune will be allowed to decide for itself the relig ious character of its schools. In short, the object of the bill is to provide instruction for all: to allow the communes which pay for them to have the schools that the inhabitants prefer on condition that the instruction given comes up to the proper standard; to do away with the anomaly of building expensive school houses, and keeping up staff of teachers where the parents are unwilling to send their children to them and to put stop to the hostile feeling that is now prevalent all over the country between communal schools and pri- vate schools, and the pressure now put upon parents to send their children to one or the other.
 The criminal court of Lausanne, Switzer- land, has been occupied with an inquiry into a great financial scandal. M. Curchod, Di- rector of the Banque Union Vaudois, was ar rested as defaulter. A careful audit of the banks securities took place, and it was found that deficiency of 4, ,O0O, 900 francs existed. The prisoner had been speculating on the diff ferent European bourses, particularly at Paris, Frankfort, and Vienna, and at one time had risked as much as 30, ,000, 900 francs of the banks money. For some time all went pros perously In order to obtain the sanction of other officials to his operations they were allowed to E'stand in, " until M. Curchod ran the whole bank for his own purposes. While fortune continued to favor him, M. Curehod was the darling of society, and the most pop ular man in Lausanne. His entertainments were superb, and rivalled those of royal fam i1ies He was lavish in his gifts to the ladies, and his popularity with the fair sex may account for no inconsiderable portion of the deficit He was arraigned, charged with breach of trust and embezzlement. The judge, in summing up, was vefy severe upon the prisoner, and pointed out the importance of maintaining a high standard of honesty among men intrusted with the funds of others. The jury found M. Curchod guilty, and he was sentenced to the full penalty of the 1aw-two years imprisonment with hard labor and ten years deprivation of civil rights.
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