Morning journal and courier., 1885-07-18

N~N~N~~-N--~- morning. The unpleasant affair will do some good if it calls pablic attention to the way in which part of the law of this State can be used.
 The Iowa retail liquor dealers have won point in decision that the State courts have no jurisdiction over owners of buildings who are non n-residents of the State. There will now be lively call for buildings with non- residents owners in all the Iowa towns. Human nature has made an exhibition of itself at St. Paul, where, it is declared, shop girl has been discharged from her posi- tion in fashionable glove store because her hands were so small and delicate as to put to blush the lady patrons, thereby seriously af- fecting sales.
 A resident of Buffalo has given practical proof of his confidence in the future of that city, by purchase of two thousand acres of suburban land, which he has had platted in building lots and streets, and deeded the streets to the city. We do not suppose there is anybody in New Haven who would dare to initiate the Buffalo man here, but it would probably pay to do so.
 If what the Warrenton South Caro1ina) Gazette gays of many localities in the South is true there ought to be a good field for skilled workmen in that section. "There is, it says, "hardly a frst-class machinist, civil engineer, carpenter, draughtsman, blacksmith, tanner or other kind of skilled workman or artifcer in a radius of 8 hundred miles of where we are now writing. This ought not to be-" We should say not
 The consumption of morphia has reached such proportions that the British consul at Annoy, China is led to believe that "there is great future for this poison" He says that now shops are open for the traffic in all the large cities of the district, and the amount dispensed by them has been estimated at from 200 to 400 ounces month. The con- sumption of the narcotic is all the greater in that it is not, like opium, taxed, and so is comparatively cheap
 A Boston legal authority says that the young lady who has been tilted has the right to read the reereant's letters in her breach of promise suit but she must not weave them into a novel and copyright them. That priv ilege belongs to the gentleman. She may, however, demand the return of her own let ters as her property. This is not the popu- lar idea, but there have been many decisions George Washington kept copies of his let ters and bequeathed them to his nephew, who had them published. A compiler ofsR7 other biography of ayashingfen copied them.s There was lawsuit. The Judge said that Washingtoh did not part with the owaarship bf sending the letters to his correspondents, and he declared this doctrine applicable to all letters, whether of literary value or not.
 The illicit distilleries of Tennessee have, it appears, been much encouraged by the ad- vent of Democratic administration. Sevs- ra1 hundred stills are believed to have been set in operation in middle Tennessee within few months and the abundant corn crop is expected to increase the number to thou sand or more Their product has already re- duced the price of Whiskey in those regions and will probably reduce the revenue returns from that State by quarter or half a mil lion dollars. A deputy marshal named Mil Ter has lately disappeared from the neighbof- hood of Nashville and is believed to have been murdered by the moonshiners. The regular distillers who pay their taxes are anxious to know whether irregular competi- tors will be put down or allowed to ruin business by underselIing them in the local markets.