Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-28

Senator Hawley is reported saying that he does not think there is any prospect for the sL spension of silver coinage this winter, as silver has too many friends in Congress. A professedly exhaustive canvass of the House of Representatives by the Washing ton Republican shows that 195 members will oppose the suspension, including 52 Republi- cans, and that 130, including 91. Republi- cans, will favor it.
 It is said that a large part of the popcorn used in the world comes from Bloomington, Illinois, where the farmers wives and chil- dren used to consider it their perquisite. In 1884 the crop was so large that the price fell to two cents pound, and then experiments were made to use it as food rather than a confection. A farmer who fed his COWS with popcorn says they gave more milk than ever before. Others made 'mush" of it. and found it more palatable and nourishing than the ordinary article. Then the chemists an- alyzed it and declared it to contain more al buminoids than most of the other cereals; so popcorn bids fair to become a recognized diet
 Washington territory, which is ready to come into the Union as State, is said by Governor Squire to have a population of 175, 900. A census taken last spring, how ever, gave a result considerably smaller. The immigration this year has been large, and the present population is probably not far from 150,0 900. Its valuation of taxable property somewhat exceeds fifty millions. Financially
 
 the territory is in admirable condition. It has had no debt since 1879; it's rate of taxa tion is two and half mills on the dollar, or twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars, and there is cash balance of one hundred thou sand dollars in the treasury. The public school endowment consists of more than two million acres of land, much of it already valuable, and the total expenditure for school purposes the past year has been $287,- 900.
 Many of the leading ladies of St. Paul and Minneapolis are said to have organized so- ciety for the defense of their husbands, sons and brothers from the wiles of bad women. During the past year scandals have been so numerous and so much hardship has resulted to the innocena through the machinations of the t6mDterS GQaG Cn0 laO1eS nave cOulo to tue conclusion that systematic movement, hay ing for it's object the social ostracism of wo- men not above suspicion and tho punishment of such of them as may be brought within the law, is an absolute necessity. To this end the association has elected officers, adopt ed a constitution and by laws and employed an attorney. This is queer performance, and indicates for ore thing that the men of Minneapolis and St. Paul are very weak crea lures.
 John W. Rice is very persistent man. Three years ago he was ejected from train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti- more road. In Wilmington he had bought 8 coupon ticket to Philadelphia and return On the way to Philadelphia the conductor punched the wrong coupon, but attempted to correct the error by writing few words upon the coupon When Rice attempted to use his ticket upon the return trip the con- ductor would not accept it. In this case the company was very plainly at fault because of the blunder of it's agent, but it has stubborn lv contended against Rice in the courts The case has heen tried three times, and the