Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-22

We call the attention of our readers and advertisers to the statement concerning our disagreement with the Typographical Union which is printed on the second page. Not less than 6fty-five thousand men are now ''out on strike'' in this country. When
 the number of strikers becomes greater than
 can be conveniently supported by those at work there will be trouble.
 One of the things demanded by the en- ployes of the Boston horse railroad is that no passenger be allowed to complain of an em- ploye unless he deposits sum of money sufficient to pay the wages of the employe during the examination in case he is found innocent of the charge.
 The Produce Exchange Bulletin is perhaps the only publication in this country that at tempts on business, scientific and sanitary
 grounds defense of the oleomargarine trade. The Bulletin claims for the counterfeit arti-
 cle that it has the advantages of being dairy product, and that the opposition to it proceeds solely from selfish financial mo- | tives.
 Here is what Miss Cleveland, "the first lady in the land, I" thinks about evening dress: I approve of evening dress which shows the
 neck and arms. do not approve any dress which shows the bust. Between the neck and bust there is 8 line always to be drawn, and it is as clear to the most frivolous society
 woman as to the anatomist. This line need
 never be passed. and fashionable woman's low-neck evening dress need never be im- modest. If it is so it is because she prefers to be so.
 A bill now before the Kentucky legislature
 gives offence to the trade unions. It provides
 that any Epersons conspiring together to in jure or obstruct or impede any person. firm or company in the lawful transaction of its business shall be liable to fine of from $200 to $500 and imprisonment of from three
 months to year, and that if 8 person, firm | or company meets with direct injury or pc cuniary loss from such conspiracy, the con- spirators shall be imprisoned from one to
 three years in the penitentiary.
 A correspondent of the English Mechanic gives the following recipe for cementing iron, | which he claims he has tried with such effect | as to resist the blows of the sledge hammer:
 Take equal parts of sulphur and white lead. 1 with about sixth of borax; incorporate the
 three thoroughly. When about to apply it 1 wet it with strong su1phuric acid, and place l thin layer of it between the two pieces of
 iron and press them together. In five days it will be dry, all traces of the cement hay ing vanished, and the iron will have the ap-
 pearance of having been welded together. Before the war slave living in Norfolk.
 Virginia, purchased his freedom from his
 owner, agreeing to give $1 ,S00 for the chatte l
 property. When President Lincoln's eman-
 cipation proclamation was issued the former
 slave had paid $500 of his indebtedness, and
 since that time, by his daily labor, he has
 a accumulated, dollar by dollar, and paid over
 to his former owner the remaining $500, and now is free man indeed. The sense Of
 honor was stronger in his mind than the law of the United States by which he was manu-
 mitted, and he set an example followed by few His name, which deserves to be record ed everywhere, is John Billups.
 Some of the farmers of South Carolina, | like some of the farmers of Connecticut, think
 that they have net had enough to do with legislation. They have recently issued
 manifesto calling for State convention of
 their industry to meet in April, and setting
 forth as reason, among other considera
 tions, this: "We constitute the State and yet we do not govern it, nor are the laws admin
 istered in our interests and few are passed
 for our benefit" The Charleston News an6
 Courier has been looking into the statistics
 pertinent to this complaint and finds tha
 since 1878, when the Republican government was overthrown, from two to five of tn