Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-29

the celebrated Amistad case written by the
 Hon. Lynde Harrison. It is an interesting
 and valuable contribution to the history of
 New Haven.
 Woman suffrage is enjoying quite a boom
 in Boston. Two thousand two hundred and
 thirty-eight women voted for school officers
 at the recent election in Boston. They nom
 mated eight candidates for the school board and all but one of their nominees were in-
 dorsed by the Republicans and Independents,
 while three of them were supported by the
 Democrats. These tive were elected and two
 of the others ran ahead of their ticket.
 There are drawbacks even to the use of
 natural gas. One reason why everybody in
 Pittsburg does not use it is that in repairing
 the frequent leaks the gas has to be shut of
 from every consumer on the main. For in-
 stance, glass factory was suddenly left
 without gas for an hour and a half, a big furnace chilled and the company lost $24, 900. A big restaurant was left without fuel
 in it's ranges at II o'clock and had to send it's customers away hungry. So business men put clause in their gas contracts call ing for constant supply or else indemnifea- ton for losses.
 An improved method of tanning-namely,
 with soap and oil, together with carbolic
 acid-has been brought to notice by an
 Australian inventor. The skins, which have
 been lined in the ordinary manner, also
 haired and prepared if for the production of
 sole leather, are placed in tin bath consist
 ing of mixture of ten gallons of water, in
 which two hundred pounds of soap are dis
 solved, and containing one gallon of carbolie
 acid, in which the skins are left until they
 have become converted into leather. This
 process, it is asserted, may be considerably
 accelerated by adding pint of fresh carbolic
 acid to the tanning fluid from time to time.
 For softer leather the raw, lined and haired skins are for one or two days placed in a
 mixture of four parts carbon bisulphide and one of carbolic acid, and then washed.
 The general term of the city court of New York has rendered a decision that is of inter est to those who own dogs and those who live near those who own dogs. In this case suit had been brought to recover damages for the bite of dog belonging to defendants son. The dog was not of dangerous breed, and it's previous character had been good. It was playful and gentle beast, with no known propensity to bite, but on the single occasion complained of it did set it's teeth in the person of Bridget Laherty. The court holds that the owner was not responsible. If the dog had been of dangerous ill-na- tured kind or had previously bitten people and thereby shown a liability to bite others, it would have been different But a man is entitled to keep gentle and harmless dog, and in the language of the court the animal is ''entitled to one bite'' before his master can be held liable.
 The Philadelphia Press pertinsntly replies | to the cry of 'foreign markets" which the | free traders have so much to say about. Says I the Press: Go to China, and duty confronts you; to rapidly disintegrating Turkey, and ! before you land your goods per cent. ad ! valorem is demanded; to the Fiji Islands and Tasmania, and they demand 10 per cent. ad ! valorem; to Newfoundland, Belgium ol
 Greece, and you must pay 1s per cent; Hol- land and New Zealand, 15 per cent; Austria I 20 to 25 per cent; Canada, 25 to 30 per cent. Victoria and Chili, % per cent; Spain, 24 1 per cent; Portugal, 26 per cent; Brazil, S(