Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-21

porarily residing in this country contracting
for service in private or official capacity, mol
| to the importation of skilled 1aborers to Ia
| Dor Sin any new industry not at present es-
| tablished in the United States" +" nor to pro
fessional actors, artists, lecturers or singers,
nor to persons employed as domestic ser
wants. Finally it does not apply to the case
of person assisting a relative or friend to
emigrate to this country. It is to be hoped
that the bill will become law, for American
| labor needs protection.
A prosecution of four medical men, some
of the most eminent in Paris, has turned out
badly for the prosecutor. The well known
DR.. Trelet Of the Faculty of Medicine, DR..
Deleus, surgeon of ST. Antoine hospital, and
Drs. PIGGY, Rucio and nephew were arraigned
at the bar of the Correctional Police, charged
by one Bouyer, himself a doctor, but who
had never practised and who edited a fnan-
cial journal, with having against his will per-
formed upon him painful and deleterious
operations; moreover, that they had forcibly
and maliciously removed him from his 1odg-
ings to an asylum. The accused doctors had
attended the plaintiff gratis on the assump-
ton that he was professional brother, that
he had very dangerous wound, accidentally
inflicted by rusty nail, that they applied
setons to draw off purulent matter and that
when they removed the patient to an asylum
because his room was pestilential he was de-
lirious and offered no opposition. The four
doctors were acquitted, and the court award
ed 5000 francs damages to each against the
plaintiff for a malicious prosecution.
The reports prepared by the French gov
ernment of the imports and exports for the
last two years show decided decline in the
volume of trade in the year that has just
passed, when compared with its predecessor.
There has been falling off both in the ex-
port and the import trade-1nore particularly
in the latter. So far as the decline in the
importation of food supply is concerned, it
may be attributed to the improved agricul-
tural condition of the country; but a part of
this loss must also be laid to the diminution
in the ability of the population to purchase
supplies of this kind. There has also been
quite a falling off in the import of raw
materials, which must be attributed to con-
traction in the manufacturing business, since
articles of this kind are imported solely for
the use that can be made of them in the
home factories The decrease in this respect
is about balanced by the decline in the vol
ume of exported manufactures, showing that
the demand for French wares, even with the
reduction in the rates of wages that has of
late taken place, is decidedly less than it was
a year ago.
The police authorities of Boston declared
that ell gambling houses in the city were
closed, but impertinent reporter has un-
dertaken to show them and the public that
this is not the case. He had no difficulty in
finding eden" in Spring Lane, few doors
from Washington street, and not a quarter of
a mile from the City Hail. His first visit
was made early in the evening and the jan
itor, peering from the wicket of the
strongly-made door as guard against unde-
sired visitors, admitted him without ques-
ton. He found many boys and young men
playing roulette and other games of chance.
The next day he visited the same place by
daylight, and found the games going on
briskly and sixty-nine persons present. He
gives the name of the gambler who is under
stood to be the manager of the place, the
street number of the building and the name
of its owner as it appears on the assessors
books A person well acquainted with such
places told the reporter that this one is the
most mischievous in Boston, because,
being near their places of employment, it
attracts SO many yonng men, clerks, sales
men, telegraph operators and others, whose
morals are debauched by the vice of gambling
and the associations of the place, and they
are tempted to dishonesty to retrieve their
losses