Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-26


 York city. A cab driver has been arrested there for extortion.
 John Swinton, the Socialist editor, says hs is ''tired of denouncing the authority of this country" Sensible people who have heard or read his dsnunciations are also tired. That ruined peach crop is all right, as l usual New Jersey will send 1,500,000 bas kets to market. The product froM Delaware and Maryland is estimated to be over 2,500, 900 baskets.
 In the experience of the English Society ot Friends annuitants live long. The insurance company which insures only Quakers and those directly connected with them has just privately issued it's report for the past year, and it is shown that the average age of the annuitants who died was more than seventy eight.
 The dynamite gun cruiser which is to be added to the United States navy will be 6 formidable affair. This peculiar vessel Is to have engines of 2, 300 horse power, to attain a speed of twenty knots, and to be equipped witedynamite guns of ten and half inches 
 ing two hundred pounds of dynamite or oth- CT high explosive at least one mile. The guns can be loaded and discharged once in two minutes, and the cost of the whole outfit, ship and armament is not to exceed three hundred thousand dollars.
 In lecture at the Royal Institution, Lon don, Professor Oliver Lodge has endeavored to show that electricity might be employed to clear the upper atmosphere of great cities of the overhangng clouds of dust and smoke. He exhibited bell jars filled with dense smoke, and rendered them clear in an instant by an electrical discharge from a fric- ton machine. A similar discharge of electricity on large scale into the dust and smoke laden air over London would, he thinks, produce like effect, and he is desir- ous of making like experiments of sufficient magnitude to test the correctness of this view.
 Go west, young woman. Travellers through the weste1 States and Territories report fre- quent meetings with eastern women who have gone there and settled either upon gov ernment lands which they have taken up and converted into cattle or sheep ranches, or in towns and villages where they are making money out of their knowledge of music or art. A highly educated woman from Boston went to the Pacific coast few years ago with no more money in her purse than her rail road fare and few weeks board, and from the first supported herself handsomely with a brush. Others have been equally successful in other ways, and there is scarcely 8 case known where an energetic woman has not succeeded.
 The preposterous methods which have lately been employed by those who profess to be working for the benefit of labor are we'll illustrat ed in the case of the Bridgewater Iron company, one of the oldest corporations in Massachusetts. The company has not been prosperous of late, and it's employees chose this time to demand an increase of wages. The officers of the company explained that their profits were small and all the pro- eeeds of the business were imperatively needed to meet maturing obligations. They could not pay more in wages and also pay their debts as they became due The men struck and work stopped. The company could not fill it's orders, and of course it's re- ceipts stopped. Its notes went to protest and the company has failed. It may have | enough to pay it's debts, but there will be little or nothing left as a capital to resume business upon. M. Perrat de Ia Rosemontoise, jealous Catholic and Legitimist, has published a