Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

l South America is attracting emigrants
 from Europe. Last year more than one hun ! dred thousand went to the Argentine repub- 1 lie, most of them from Italy.
 Dr. Felton, the energetic reformer of Geor- gia, has begun vigorous warfare against
 the t'family wine rooms" of Atlanta. He
 wants to get $10,O00 license fee imposed upon them.
 Judge Brady of New York has sentenced a private detective who had been convicted of blackmailing in divorce case to three years' Imprisonment in State prison. This is a needed lesson.
 The Augusta Chronicle expects that in deciding the election case of Robert Smalls against William Elliott some Democratic
 members of the house will ''vote as they be-
 lieve fairness, and not party, requires" :" 'tSome" is the right word.
 The two hundred and sixty-two thousand Indian men, women and children in the United States hold one hundred and thirty four million acres of land. The men who want this land think that there should be no ownership in land for Indians.
 It is becoming more and more dangerous to go to war. Recent experiments with Krupp guns made for the Italian government resulted in firing projeetile weighing 2,SS0
 pounds 711s miles with sufficient velocity to penetrate three feet of solid iron at dis tance of half mile from the gun. Free trade doesn't keep the iron trade brisk in England. The London Statist, an eminent authority on business and economic matters, in the course of long article re- viewing the condition of the iron trade in England says 'tthere is no shutting our eyes to the fact that the home industries in which iron is largely used are about as slack as they could be, but there is perhaps the more hope on this account that they may shortly improve"
 Lovely Woman did effective work at the city election in Springfield, Massachusetts, last week. The Women's Christian Temper ance Union sent delegations eff it's members to the polls, who there distributed "no"
 ballots, coffee and sandwiches to the voters. It is not doubted that they had considerable influence, persuading or compelling some persons to vote "no" who would, if left free to act on their own judgment and preference, have voted ives" The no-license people in Springfield call this process intimidation and say that if only fair means had been used they would have carried the city. The Springfield Republican excuses the conduct of the women, saying it was no worse than that usually practiced by men; admitting, however, that s.the practice is all wrong and should be abated."
 Railroad section bosses are provided with blanks, op which they are required to report all caseso of animals killed by trains. The blanks have spaces for telling where, when and how the animal is killed, and what dis position is made of the carcass whether it is buried or sold. The other day a COW was
 killed on the Chicago and Iowa road, and q
 section boss who had been recently promoted | went out to make the report. He told in the proper spaces what train killed the animal l and under what conditions it was done.
 Then he came to the line: Disposition"
 Well, said he, scratching his head, '.Tll be hanged if I'm sure about that, but, be- ing's she was COW, think can guess at | it." So he filled out the line, which, when it
 reached the general office, read: "Disposi- tion, kind ard gentle
 There is at least one place in the world