Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-10

The stock market did quite as we'll yester- day could have been expected.
 The certificate of the Anti Vaccination society has recently been filed at Albany. It is difficult to see why anybody should want to form such society so soon after the mis erable experience of the Canadian anti-vac- cination society.
 The temperance movement is widespread. There is growing interest ip Stockholm and throughout Sweden in temperance. A gen. eral committee, with a clergyman at its head, has petition asking total prohibition of the liquor traffic, to be presented to the approaching Riksdag; it already contains a quarter of a million of names
 The Knights of Labor in Lynn, Massa- chusetts, have practically succeeded in secur- ing the closing of all retail stores in that city at o'clock p. m. the year round except on Mondays and Saturdays, and it is now seriously proposed that they move upon the liquor saloons and compel them to observe the same rule. This is an extraordinary plan, aiming almost at abolition of the liquor traffic, for nine-tenths of the saloons | would have to be closed altogether if they could not do business in the evenings. The publishers monopoly, which so ire ! ouently grows out of the uniform text t-book | laws, is on trial in the Minnesota courts. | The law requires county superintendents to make acquisition when books are needed I upon the St. Paul publisher who has fifteen. years contract to furnish all the books fol l the State. One superintendent refused, the publisher appealed to the courts, and the 1 district court decides the law unconstitu tional The Supreme court has yet to past | on it.
 The governor of Wyoming is not very
 "conservative" in talking about the demands | of his Territory for admission as a State. IT
 1870 it's population was only g, ,11S; in 1o8( | it was 20, ,789, and now it is estimated to b. 6S, 900. This rapid increase is not of the sam' solid kind which has built up Dakota, fol | Wyoming is a mining and grazing country
 and not farming region. When the gover
 nor says that by the time the present Con
 gress expires, Wyoming will have popula
 ton of 150,000. He is apparently too san guine.
 In the report of a leading inebiate asylum
 in England, under the heading of famil!
 history, it is shown that in eight cases uncle
 had been described as inebriates, in fou
 other cases grandfathers had been given tt
 drink, while in only two cases are father
 mentioned as being of drunken habits. 0
 the twenty-five cases referred to whiskey O
 whiskey and brandy was the liquor most il
 demand, it being the favorite drink of nln
 patients. Eight patients had craving 10
 spirits, and but only one for gin alone
 With regard to the causes of inebriety, bus
 mess and financial loss or trouble in ST
 others, sociability in four cases, and want
 employment in three others.
 A Nashville newspaper publishes state
 ment which indicates that the race problem in that section is being solved. The gram . jury empanelled at the recent term of tn } Criminal court included one negro, and afte i their work was completed, the white mem bers of the body concluded to "make put lie expression of their appreciation and ad miration of the course pursued by this col ored gentleman during the session." The , accordingly asked publication of the fac , l that this was the first instance in whic