Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-21
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Senator Platt was reelected yesterday, as he well deserved to be.
 High license is popular in Nebraska. The law makes the license fee $1 ,000 in cities of a certain grade and $500 in all other places. A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey legislature for the abolition of capital punishment. What is the matter with ''Jer- sey justices"
 Lord Napier, in recent address before the Church of England Temperance society, said that while commanding the armies in India return which was made to him relat- ing to IS, 900 men showed that there was no crime committed among the total abstainers,
 but the whole body of crime was among the non-abstainers.
 A discussion has been going on in one of the English sporting papers on the destruc- ton caused by thoughtless fox hunters. MT. R. Wright of Richmond, Yorkshire, declares that he has lost S30, 900 through fox hunting in eight years, as the hunt destroys his brood mares and foals, while the neighbor ing farmers are still greater sufferers.
 A eide whether colored persons can be legally excluded from the skating rinks of that city. A colored member of the Suffolk bar and his companion who were denied admission to a rink had the manager arrested. The coun- sel of the latter asked time to prepare the de fense and the trial was set down for Friday of this week. The complaint is based statute of the State which reads as follows: "Whoever makes any distinction, discrilnina- tion or restriction on account of color or race or except for good cause, in respect to the admission of any person to, or his treat ment in, public place of amusement, pub lie conveyance, public meeting or licensed inn shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars" It will be interesting to see what the court does with the case.
 MT. Clevelands ''real" sentiments on the subject of civil service reform are told by "a gentleman who has long been one of his officers in the State government" This gen tleman tells a Washington correspondent who informs the public that MT. Cleveland is undoubtedly a reformer. The necessity of reform is one of his strongest convictions, and reform is impossible without turning out most of the present office-holders. There are one hundred and two thousand of them, and at least four-fifths of these should be dismissed The best evidence that they should be turned out is that they have been put in by Republicans. They are the regular army of politics, men who useful to the party and have been provided with places so that they might help to perpetuate Republi- can rule. Of course they must go and men who will serve the Democratic well as these have served the Republican party should be put in their places.
 "white book" has been issued at Berlin containing the history of the negotiations between Germany and England concerning the settlement of the claims of German citi- zens in the Fiji islands, which England until last June refused to submit to a mixed commission of English and German officials When England annexed the islands in 1874, all debts they had contracted before were declared irrecoverable, and the title deeds to | land were referred to a special English com mission, which proceeded so slowly, and so stubbornly contested proofs of German 1 ownership, that Germany was forced
 frequently to remonstrats Finally in April, | 1883, Germany proposed the mixed commis- l sion, which after repeated refusals was con- l scented to by Earl Granville. Consul-General | Kranel has been appointed on behalf of Ger | many. The last dispatch in the white book l is from Granville in September, notifying Germany of Englands concurrence
 Professor Graham Bell recently expressed apprehension that the intermarriage of deaf | mutes might produce deaf mute race in this country The report of the special committee of the board of directors of the
 Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, appointed to collect information as to the lives and occupations of pupils who have left the institution, does not harmon | ize with Professor Bells opinion. The prin- cipal, A. L. E. Crouter, who writes the