Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-01

very poor plays and some very poor players.

| very poor plays and some very poor players
The Hartford Telegram ''feels compelled
| to ask 'tour administration" at Washington,
'tWhy is A. B. Mygatt retained as national
bank examiner for Connecticut and Rhode
Island?" The Telegram calls this peril
nent question, but perhaps "our administra-
tion" will think it impertinent.
There is a decided increase in the amount
of illicit distilling in Georgia, attributed to
the extreme leniency of the courts and the
home market afforded by prohibition. The
moonshiners say they can stay in Jail six
months in the year, still three and loaf three
and make more money thereby than at any
other business. They get seventy-hve cents
to dollar gallon for their whisky, and
sell it as fast as they can make it. Very lit
tie is found when stills are seized.
Under the local option law passed by the
Mississippi legislature last spring elections
have been held in thirty-two of the seventy
four counties, sixteen of which were carried
for prohibition, while eight other counties
we're "dry'' to start with. In several cou1l-
ties which were lost on the popular vote
when the question was whether any saloons
should be allowed, the traffic is restricted to
one place, generally the court house town,
having been driven from the small towns
and crossroads, where it formerly fiourished.
The temperance organ Of the State estimates
that thirty-seven counties are practically dry,
while from ffty-three of the seventy four
court house towns the saloon is banished ,and
there are places in Mississippi from which
one would have to go fifty miles to find a
saloon.
Another school is about to be added to the
many practical and technical schools estab-
lished by the city of Paris. Next month
school will be opened the object of which is
to rear able and skillful workmen who will
maintain the artistic traditions of the furni-
ture industry of France. Instruction will
be given by professors in cabinet making,
sculpture, in wood turning, joinery and Ia
pestry There will also be classes of geome-
try, the history of art, technology, indus
trial design, modelling, etc. The period of
will be for four years. Sixty
pupils will be admitted every year, and they
will be selected by competitive examination
in French composition and ornamental de
sign, and must be between thirteen and six
teen years of age.
The industrial fair in Washington at which
only the handiwork of negroes is exhibited is
1t is the first Of the kind ever
held in this country. Some of the work ex-
hibited by the ladies would, it is declared,
bear comparison with some of the best re-
suits attained in decorative art school.
There are designs worked on plush and velvet
with the needle and the brush that are beau
tiful in effect, and where they have been up
on chairs and cushions fine artistic
furniture is the result. Perhaps step still
further in advance in the decorative arts is
seen in the plaster figures, which are well
and very creditable produc-
lions Specimens of painting in oil and water
colors are also exhibited, as well as sketches
in crayon. There is also great deal of fancy
work exhibited as we'll as fine needlework.
The men are also well represented in the ex-
hibits, which show their skill and knowledge
n the various trades.
The discussion of prohibition as party
issue which occurred at recent meeting of
the Ministerial Union of Baltimore was in
teresting. The Rev. DR.. S. K. Cox, who has
been a lifelong advocate of the temperance
cause, said: sI believe that nothing has oc-
Cured or could occur more damaging to the
temperance cause than the third party move
ment" The Rev. A. ]. Gill said: "The