Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-29

1 Jay Gould says he IS friend to organized | labor. That's what his telegraph operators
 thought when they struck.
 l There will be unique reunion in Yer
 mont next month, when all the ex-members l of the legislature will come together. It is l estimated that there are at least three thou ! sand of them and ''high old time" is ex- pected.
 The worthlessness of the murdered man
 was the only plea made by a Wyoming law yer in defence of his client, who had delibe-
 rately shot barroom bully for merely an moving him. The judge said that the argu-
 ment was unsound in law, but the jury let it 1 justify, to their mind., verdict of acquit- tal
 Tobacco is a filthy we ed, but it has done something for Durham, North Carolina, which is 8 tobacco manufacturing town. Twenty years ago it was 8 small hamlet, with but ninety inhabitants, and the total valua-
 tion of property was only ten thousand dol
 lars. A recently completed census shows a
 population of 6,370, and the assessed valua-
 tion of the property is given at three million
 dollars.
 There is one place where prohibition seems
 to come pretty near prohibiting. This is
 Monroe county, where it is claimed that the
 prohibitory law is really enforced, with a
 large attendant reduction in petty prosecu- tions and crime generally. The cost to the county for criminal prosecutions is fifty per cent. less than it was formerly, and the sher ifs fees for subpenaing witnesses for an en-
 tire term were only $6.75.
 This world seems very much crowded to those who have to work for living, and yet it is not Edwerd Atkinson has been fgur- ing and he finds that the. 400, ,OO0, ,O00 per sons supposed to be on the globe could all find easy standing room within the limits of field ten miles square, and by the aid of a telephone could be addressed at one time by a single speaker. In field twenty miles square they could all be comfortably seated. A mighty work to supply the deficiency of
 rainfall is now well under wsy in the San
 Joaquin valley, California. It is great ir- l rigation ditch, or rather river, thirty-fve l miles in length. The first ten miles of the
 portion now completed is sixty feet wide at the bottom and ten feet deep. The ploughs
 used in the work are three huge implements, each weighing 600 pounds and drawn by ten or fifteen mules. A small army of men and | animals is employed, and the cost to date has been seven hundred thousand dollars. The license question bids fair to be settled
 in Wisconsin in very practical way. The l last legislature empowered cities and villages l to fix the license for selling liquor at $2O0, l s35O, or $500, as the people might elect, pro l vided a petition of ten taxpayers was pre- sented to the city clerk asking that the ques- | tion be submitted to the people. It is pro- | vided that in case the $500 license does not | carry all the votes cast for that figure shall
 be counted as for $35O, and in this way it will be possible for any community having 8 strong high license sentiment to make the
 tariff pretty high. Many towns are now pre- pairing to vote on the issue, Milwaukee among l them.
 l The Caroline islands, over the possession of which Germany and Spain are at issue, are remarkable group of coral formations in the northern Pacific, and were discovered l by Spanish nayigators over three hundred l years ago. Their land surface is rather more than three hundred square miles and