Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-17

ly escape being impressed by the beauty of such day as yesterday.
 Has husband right to put court plaster over the mouth of his wife to stop her talk ing? is the question which is agitating an In diana court The woman has sued for di- vorce.
 The mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, doesn't scare easily. He has taken radical stand on the temperance question, and thereby bit terly offended powerful element of the pop ulation. He received ghastly warning some days ago. a coffin being left at his door, but, in no way daunted, he promptly sold the coffin and turned the money over to the local temperance society.
 The lot on which the Young Mems Chris tian Association building in Atlanta, Geor- gia, will stand is very appropriate place for such building. It once bought the freedom of slave. It was owned by free negro woman, whose husband was a slave. She offered this lot for her husbands free dom, and her offer was accepted. The lot now sells for $12, ,000.
 The new registration law which applies to the larger cities of Ohio worked admirably in Cleveland, not only preventing fraud but doing away with the crowd of loafers that have been accustomed to hang around ballot boxes in the city, pulling, hauling and black guarding the voters, so that many men thought it more of an annoyance to vote than the privilege was worth. The new law is given credit for the fact that the election was the most quiet and orderly seen in the city for years.
 On Tuesday, the 3d of November, there will be elections in this State of members of the State senate from the odd numbered sen atorial districts, and of representatives from all the towns in the State. The persons chosen this fall hold office for one year. In November, 1886, full legislature, in both branches, will be chosen for two years, and from that time elections for and sessions of the legislature will be biennial The cleo tions occur this year two weeks from next Tuesday. The Republicans should make first-class nominations.
 The new South continues to prosper. During the last three months over $50, 00O,- 900 has been invested in business enterprises there. The amount in each State is as follows Alabama, $5,964, GOO; Arkansas, $500, ,000; Florida, $1 ,237, ,000; Georgia, $2,O52, 900; Kentucky, s14,0O5, ,O00; Louisiana, $1 ,955,- 900; Maryland, $6, 1O7, 800; Mississippi, $571,- 800; North Carolina, $2, 543, ,00O; South Car olina, $592, ,OOO; Tennessee, $2,30O, ,000; Tex as, s2,2s0, ,000; Virginia: S2, 735 ,000; West Virginia, $9, GA, 900. In these new enter prises there is wide diversity of industries, the list including furnaces, foundries and machine shops, steel works, cotton seed oil mills, cotton congresses, fruit canning fac tories, etc.
 Amoskeag Falls, on the Merrimac river, was once the great fishing place of New Hampshire. It was here Passacanaway and his tribe of Indians lived and had their noted l fishing place in primitive times, when the water teemed with salmon, shad and lam prey cells. Forty years ago high dam was built at Lawrence and another lower down. These stopped all the fish, of course, and the upper river became barren. Ten years ago | fshways were put in the dams, but they did | little good In 1881 citizen carried two | hundred lamprey eels above the dams and l put them into the Merrimac. The result is l that this year thousands of cells have appear I ed, gone up the fshways and up the river | 150 miles above Amoskeag Falls, showing
 that the river has been successfully re- stocked.
 1 A remarkable case of conflicting evidence was brought out by recent trial for bigamy 1 in England. The defendant, one James
 Malcolm, was identified by various witnesses
 as being the man who, under the name of 1 Macdonald, met young woman at Brighton,
 whom he married after an incredibly brief
 wooing, having at the same time wife hy- ing. Various circumstances told heavily
 against him. For instance, Macdonald gave
 as an excuse for his return to London every
 night that he was obliged to be on board his
 ship at o'clock in the morning, and Nal colm was marketman whose duties also be-
 gan at the same early hour. The name of the sea captains ship was the Kaikoura, and