Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

On an average sixty thousand stamps are found loose every year in the letter boxes of
 Great Britain.
 General T. c. Hindman of Arkansas was assassinated on September 26, 1868. In the following November the Helena bar appoint ed committee to draft resolutions of respect | and regret. The committee has just report ed a set of conventional resolutions. They do such things quicker in the slow-going East.
 It is hard work to scare English spar TOW. The time of day is announced every day at Woolwich, England, at 1 p. m. and 9:3O D. m by firing nine-pounder bronze gun. Notwithstanding this fact, 8 sparrow has made her nest in one of the boxes of the carriage on which the gun rests, and has matched out five little sparrows.
 The Wisconsin Supreme court decides that the law of that State taxing the Pullman car company two per cent. on gross receipts within the State does not apply to earnings from points outside to within the State or from one point to an- other, both outside, but across the State, and intimates that the power of the legislature to tax earnings of passenger traf- fic into, out of or across the State is grave doubt. The decision obviously rests on the reservation to Congress of the power to regulate commerce among the several States"
 It is supposed to be hard work to find out a woman's real age, but the Pall Mall Ga zette vouches for the correctness of the fol- lowing: Mime. Adams, 49; Mary Anderson, 26; Sarah Bernhardt, fl; Mrs. Besant, 38; Rosa Bonheur, 63; Miss Braddon, AS; Miss Gordon Cumming, AS; Lady Eastlake, 69; Empress Eugenie, 59; Emily Faithful, 50; Mrs. Gladstone, 73; Julia Ward Howe, 60; Mime. de Novikoff, 43; Jenny Lind. 64; Pau line Lucca, 45; Helen Modjeska, Al; Flor ence Nightingale, 65; Christine Nilsson, 42; Mrs. Oliphant, 67; Ouida, 45; Adelina Patti, 42; Christina Rosetti 55; Ellen Terry, 37; Mrs. Weldon, AS; Mrs. Henry Wood, 65.
 At the recent conference of officers of prisons and reformatories in Chicago the gen. eral impression was strongly in favor of the contract system for prison labor. Warden Brush of Sing Sing, New York, said he be- lieved in remunerative labor in prisons, and contract labor was the only remunerative labor He also argued that manufacturing and selling in the interest of the State would lead to corruption and fraud, and that it was not in the line of the duty of warden of prison to manage great manufacturing business, while at the same time attending faithfully to the regular and important re- responsibilities of his office. This is 8 strong argument
 John Esten Cooke of Virginia has made 8 searching investigation of the Pocahontas matter, and he is satisfied, from all the evi- dence to be had, that Smith was captured by party of Indians in 1907 and carried to the Indian capital on York river, where Powhat- tan ordered him to be slain. Pocahontas in | terfered to save him. She took Smiths head in her arms, so that it was impossible to beat l out his brains without hitting her. Pow | haitian consented to spare the prisoner and l treated him kindly. Afterward smith re- | leased some Indian prisoners, stating that it was for the sake of Pocahontas. He told his