Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-25
EI,iTOIttAL NNIkS.

The enthusiasm for Blaine Is powerful Under it's influence gentleman of this city about fifty years old who has never voted will be made" this year and vote for Blain, and Logan.
 Since the assassination of Garfield, when prices in Wall street began to go down, the depreciation has amounted to over one bil lion dollars. When the "turn" will come nobody can tell, but thousands of uneasy in vestors are anxiously watching for it.
 Again we remind the bitter Blaine parti sans that it will be good plan to allow the
 Independents to live. Some of them may
 repent, and if they do not they are (so it ii
 said) of no account. Therefore there is
 nothing to be gained by being cruel to them.
 The commencement exercises of a higt
 school in Philadelphia, managed by Quakers
 have just taken place, and it is noticeable that though there were Elizabeths and Mar
 garets and Gertrudes and Susans smeng the graduates, there were no Lizzies and Mag gies and Gerties and Susies.
 A correspondent Of the Boston Herald de. elares his purpose to support Blaine ia pref. erenee to any Democratis nominee, because he does not believe that any Democrat, how ever pure and well meaning he might be, "ooald withstand the pressure which would be brought to bear upon him by the hungry, bowling wolves who would be clamoring for ofics and the benefits of federal patronage '
 T6nS T. for the year ending the last day of the our- rent month, say five hundred and fifty thousand persons one-third of them Ger mans, and these Germans of 6 class more in. dependent in means, and more definitely pre- pared to enter upon actual material produc- tion than has been usual The Germans are good citizens; like the Scotch they are in Vest they are in search of land for homes i; they are friends of liberty. The more we have of them the better.
 The Washington Sunday Herald has the following: Mr. Blaine's nearest friends are in jubilant condition over some recent information from New York. It is reported that two great railroad magnates Gone of whom is 8 man whose name is a synonym for shrewdness and cunning) have each agreed to furnish $1O0. 900 to the Blaine campaign fund.- and that other smaller capitalists have offer. ed their assistance in sums in the same pro- portion to their wealth, until about a mil lion and half dollars have been promised. The reason given for this most unexpected iberality is that the two great capitalists are the main proprietors of lines of railroad run ming through Texas to the southvsrd, and if MT. Blaine is elected his foreign policy will very much stimulate the business of these roads, both in freight land passengers.
 Fresh from a journey of four thousand miles in mule cart and OK wagon, up and down the most disturbed districts in south Africa, with the exception of Zululand, the Rev. Wardlaw Thompson, the travelling see- retary of the London Missionary Society, reports that in all the tribes of South Africa bad brandy is the greatest curse of the natives. The brandy keg does far moro harm than the powder barrel. In North BechuanaIand brandy has been kept out hitherto with considerable success; and in Basutoland, in the old times, the import of brandy was forbidden. Since the late Basuto war liquor has been introduced feeely. As result, half the chiefs in Basu- toland are dig somaniacs. They drink morn ing, noon, and night, and many of their absurd actions are attributable. not to the