Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-23

The Republicans in Virginia are working hard, and from this time to the election their campaign is to be made hotter than ever. Good luck to them.
 A correspondent makes in another column a very pertinent inquiry concerning the omis- sion from the programme of the Church Con- gress of any reference to the temperance re- form.
 Another screed from "Town Born" adorn. ed yesterdays Palladium. We suspect that if some of the town born could get hold of him he would wish he had never been born even in New Haven.
 The President is a hard man to drive When reminded the other day of a petition CTS services to the party he suggested that all men who have such claims against the party present them at the polls-seek cleo tive not appointive offices. This is decidedly chilling to "the boys"
 Solomon has again appeared, this time in China. He was called upon to decide as to which of two women owned an infant. He drew chalk ring on the ground, placed the baby in the center, and told the women whoever dragged it out must be the owner. One, from affection, declined to pull at the child and was awarded it.
 The intelligent compositor is not confined to the United States, though some of the work he has done here is not excelled in any country. London newspaper lately print ed a highly favorable critique of new ten or's performance, and ended with this re- markab1e statement: 'fHe was sentenced to five years penal servitude, that society will for some time be freed from the inf1iction of his presence
 Chicago evidently needs something to raise it's moral tone. grand jury just made up there contains one proprietor of two low groggeries, two bummers who have no home nor visible means of support, one saloon keeper, favorite of one of the county com missioners, and two keepers of the most dis reputable bawdy houses. With such gang it would seem impossible to find true bills against criminals of any sort.
 There is an effort to induce the legislature of Massachusetts to create State board of arbitration, but the newspapers of Massachu- setts, of both political parties, are taking up the subject seriously in opposition to the scheme On the one hand it is said that no governor, however wise, could choose board representative of both elements and sufh- ciently expert to perform the multifarious duties imposed upon it, and on the other it is asserted that there would be danger to the laboring classes if such power were put into the hands of the government. There is truth in this.
 Cremation is making rapid progress in Europe. In Germany the Gotha crematory was opened in 1878, and two hundred bodies have been burned there. There are three hundred and sixty two crematories in Italy In Milan there are six thousand members of single society. In France the topic has been much discussed, but the practice is still illegal The committee of the Belgian Cham Der has favorably reported upon a petition for 8 law making cremation option l. In Autria opinion is about evenly divided for and against the practice In England Lady Hanham and the wife of Captain Hanham were cremated in 1889, but they set no fash ion, although they brought the subject prom inently forward.
 Dr. Ferran, the Spanish inoculator for cholera, has had the fullest measure of praise, followed by deluge of abuse which the facts do not seem to justify. Reports as to the efficacy of inoculation have now been re- ceived from seven Spanish towns containing an aggregate of Al ,641 inhabitants. Of these 20, 3S2 were inoculated, leaving 21 ,259 not so treated. Of the latter 2. .45 per cent were at- tackled with cholera, and of these 52.O2 per cent. died. Of the 20, 382 ineculated 1. 13 per cent. were attacked and of these 32. .33 per cent. died. Some of the medical writers consider this remarkable showing in Fer ran's favor. They say that he considered two inoculations, a ''mild" and "massiveh one, necessary to insure success, and these could not always be given in the confusion attending the onset of cholera in the towns specified. Again, the pressure upon him was so severe that he could not always ascer= tain whether his inoculations had taken or not.
 In an article on negro education the New Orleans Pieayune Oem.1 says' The truth is that the white people of the South, although the expense of the undertaking falls almost entirely upon them, are making the most ! strenuous efforts to educate the colored chill