Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-15

Now that Paddy Ryan has been Hknocked
ont" we suppose that business can go on.
The Register makes a moving appeal for
Democratic harmony in this city. It is
needed.
The great strike in Chicago has completely
''fizzled out" Few more foolish and un-
necessary strikes than this have occurred this
year.
Sumac gathering is becoming a recognized
industry in parts of Virginia. This year the
quantity gathered is unusually large, some
gatherers having made $500 each by collect
ing the leaves and branches of the shrub,
which they call sshoomalze.''
The farmers and others who hewled for the
taxation of oleomargarine didn't see just how
their scheme would work. far larger rev.
enue is likely to be received from the oleo-
margarine law than was anticipated. It will
probably amount to between 81 ,000, 900 and
81, 500, 900 for the year. And the consump-
ton of the manufactured stuff threatens to
show great increase.
The Salvation army in Chicago is very live
ly and vociferous. One of it's songs in which
the joys of salvation are pictured contains
the following impressive lines:
never shall forget the day,
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Happy as a whale.
1 know my sins are all forgiven,
Happy as a whale. (Repeated)
Aqd am on my way to heaven,
Happy as whale!
1t seems to be hard work to accumulate
personal property in poverty stricken New
York. In 1870 the assessed valuations were:
Real estate $742, 103, ,075, and personal estate
$305, 1885, ,374. For the present year, 1885,
the total assessed valuations are: Real estate
81 ,203, ,941 ,065 and personal estate $217 ,027,
221. Thus the increase in the assessment of
real estate since 1870 has been $461 1887, 900,
while the decrease in the assessment of per-
sonal estate has been $ss, ,25s, ,153.
It has just been discovered that Royal E.
House, the inventor of the House printing
telegraph, in common use thirty or more
years ago, invented and patented telephone
SO long ago as 1868. The Scientific Ameri-
can says he did, and gives a description of
his instrument and cut of his model placed
in the patent Office, but since destroyed by
the fire in that Office some years ago. Mr..
House designated his invention an "electro-
phonetic receiver" but the Scientific Ameri-
can says it is ga perfect telephone, immeas-
urably superior to anything shown in the Bell
patents of 1876 or 1877" and predicts that
the Bell telephone patent is now probably
broken. Not yet.
A new "Anti-Patriotio league" has been
formed in Paris. This society will not inter
fere with the purposes of the patriotic
league" but aims at the establishment of an
international republic. At its first meeting
the committee charged with the elaboration
of manifesto was furnished with the follow
ing leading articles of creed: "No fatherland!
No political boundariesl universal repub-
lici" The manifesto is to be distributed
among the revolutionary parties of France,
Germany, Russia, Italy and Spain, and it is
hoped that the Anti-Patriotic league will as
semble in congress on the occasion of the
Paris exhibition in 1889.
The Supreme court of Massachusetts, has
affirmed the sentence of conviction against
the barber Dextra, on the ground that "keep-
ing open a shop or workhouse on the Lords
day for the purpose of doing business with
the public indiscriminately is an offense in
itself. The legislature intended by this stat
ute to keep the ordinary places of traffic,
business and work closed on this day, SO that
persons who desired to relax from labor and
buaipaaa tn aftand fo pYi % vata and nyhlic yror.