Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-28

The Chicago anarchists do not appear tC be discouraged. It is evident that attention l was attracted to them none too soon.
 Fitz John Porter has waited long time
 for his restoration, but it is now almost cer- tain that he is near the end of his long con- test. The believers in the justice of his
 cause have largely increased in number since General Grants generous declaration of his | revised opinion concerning it.
 The Pharmaceutical Record of New York declares that it is convinced, after careful investigation, that the supposed mistake oi
 the druggist, Am Ende, of Hoboken, New
 Jersey, by which two girls were alleged tc have lost their lives, was not mistake at all but that he put up the prescription correctly, and did not substitute morphine for quinine and that the death of the victims was caused by the atropine administered by the physi clans as an antidote to the supposed poison. The Record asserts that the symptoms did not indicate morphine, but were all those ot
 atropine poisoning. Am Ende, it will be re membered, was tried and acquitted of crimi nal carelessness.
 The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts was held at Boston the other day, and served to draw attention to the experiments that are making in it's field. The work of the so ciety is of an essentially practical nature, as may be best shown by some brief facts from the agents report. During the past year the whole number of convicts ad vised and assisted was 323 Of this number sixty three were furnished with clothing by the
 society, one hundred with board while seek
 ing employment, ninetythree with transpor tation to their homes, and twenty eight with tools to work at their several trades. So far as their subsequent careers can be traced, 8
 gratifyingly large number have become respec table law-abiding citizens, who would other
 wise quite probably have relapsed into their old ways. This is an encouraging showing. Not many years ago repeated warnings
 were given that the wanton slaughter of the
 buffaloes in the West would soon exterminate
 them. The warnings were not needed and
 they are almost gone. It is believed that
 there are now not more than from fifty to
 one hundred buffaloes in the whole of Mon
 "AN-N
 there are probably from two to three hun
 dren head. Hunters lie in wait outside the
 limits of the National park, waiting for the animals to cross the line, when they lose no time in dispatching them as soon as possible.
 A stampede may occur at any time, which
 may result in all the buffaloes now in the
 park leaving, and if such were the case. very few, if any, would escape. Skins of buffalo
 heads are now valued by taxidermists in
 Dakota at fifty dollars each, from which it
 may be assumed that they have given up all
 hope of procuring any more.
 The history of John Lannon of Alexan-
 dria, Virginia, who has just died, shows what
 can be done by seeing and taking advantage
 of an opportunity. He came from Ireland
 with his mother when child, and early had
 to work for living. He got place in the
 store of Joseph Broders, who, when the Fed eral troops occupied Alexandria in 1861, ran
 away, leaving young LannoR, then l6 years old, in charge. Broders hoped that the boy would sell the goods in stock and make an honest return of the proceeds; he was, there fore, surprised when he returned at the end of three years to find that John had increased the business, had on hand larger stock of
 goods than when Broders ran away, and had 1 made $6, ,000, which he had in bank. The
 merchant gave young Lannon half of the 1 money and took him into partnership, and before he died John had accumulated $1O0,- | 900, built the opera house at Alexandria and
 the largest wharf there, and was one Of the most respected citizens of the town.
 The statement just issued for the Society | of Friends in England shows that for the
 first time for many years there has been a
 decrease in the membership of the body in Great Britain. The number of members re-