Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-30

labor statistics in this State will not please some of the labor organizations, but he will probably perform the duties of the office well He is young, ambitious and well trained.
 There's nothing like being a son of toil An Albany organization, 'sthe Sons of Foil, one of whose members has just been made postmaster, paraded the other evening in plug hats and white ties, and won much sympathy for the hardness of their lot.
 The returns from internal revenue taxes fer the first ten months of the current fiscal year show 8 falling off of little over $7, ,000,- 600, substantially all of which was in the taxes on spirits. The loss here was $6,978,- 395, while there was 8 slight advance ($67, 63O in the taxes on fermented liquors, and a decrease of $226, ,SO2 in the miscellaneous taxes. This indicates net loss of revenue on the year of about $8, 800, ,000.
 Baron Huddleston, the well known Eng fish judge, Is laughed at good deal in these days. He recently complained in court that his morning slunbers were daily disturbed by the growing of cock, and accordingly the neighborheod was searched for the offend ing fowl. None could be found, until at last it was discovered that one was confined in the Baron's own garden, which had been purchased by his own order and kept in a hamper ''to be killed when wanted.''
 A doctors wife in Glasgow prescribed for patient during her husbands absence. Her medicine produced salvation, and the patient sued for $250 damages. The plaintiff sought to shew that the wife was a responsi- ble agent of the husband The defendant denied that his wife had authority to pre- scribe; he had no power to delegate such a privilege, and the plaintiff took the medi- cine at her own risk. The judge coincided in this view, and found. plaintiff liable in costs.
 Portland, Maine, will be the meeting place next. The "Aryan Order of America will call itself together to settle on some plan for the establishment of herald's college ''for the benefit of families of historic lineage in the United States and British America, the formation of American heraldry proper, the recognition of honorable merit in the arts
 
 and sciences by the means of decorations, and the promotion of ethical representation in society," Whewi
 Russia is about to begina second railroad between the Black Sea and the Caspian, along the foot of the Caucasus on the north, while the existing railroad is south of, the mountains Like the other Russian rail roads, it will be of .fve-foot gauge- The cost, with harbor improvements at Novoris- six, is estimated at $9,500, ,0c0, or $55, 5,OO0 per mile. The line will give an outlet to a productive grain country as well as.to petro- leum. The latter does not depend upon it wholly, as there is now a pipe line sixty miles long leading from the wells to Novoris- six When built it will be possible to ride by rail all the way from the Atlantic to the Caspian Sea.
 The people of Charleston, South Carolina, apparently do not take any more interest in the library which they have than the people of New Haven do in the library which they have not The Charleston library, which was founded in 1748 and which has contin- ued in operation without interruption, ex- cept for short period during. the late war,