Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-17

Another St. Patrlck's day finds 1rishmen all over the world more patriotic than ever,
 and more determined than ever to rescue
 Ireland from her ancient enemy. Good luck to them. Sam Jones seems to be able to keep up with Chicago. He said the other day to his audience: "Now we're going to work. We have had enough of the mountebank. You say, Jones, why do you play the mountebanka' Just adopting myself to Chicago audiences. If I hadn't started out that way, you wouldn't have come back again."
 It is to be hoped that the accident in Meadow street will have the effect of keep ing the public mind stirred up until some thing can be done. As we have repeatedly said, the danger which always exists there under the present arrangement can be avoid ed by making the Derby railroad trains enter and leave the city over the line of the Consolidated railroad
 John Swinton's paper says that owing to the widespread and overwhelming rush of recruits toward the order of the Knights of Labor it is thought necessary at headquar- ters to put stop, for thirty days, to the work of organizing new local assemblies This is a wise decision, for it is evident that some of the assemblies which have been organized have neither been we'll instructed nor well led
 The case of the Atlanta Constitution is of interest to newspaper publishers, printers and boycotters. Four years ago the com positors employed in the office of the Consti- tuition struck and went out. Non-union men were employed, as union men were not permitted by the union to work in the office. Six months ago the union demanded that the non-union men be dismissed and union men employed. The proprietors refused to dismiss their employees, who had been faithful and were satisfied with their situa- tions. The typographical union then order ed a"boycott" on the paper, and sent ousI word to that effect, even to Chicago. The matter was referred to the Knights of Labor, who appointed committee to inquire into the facts, and the committee reported that the boycott was not justifable.
 It is estimated by insurance companies that in the United States last year dwelling houses were burned at the rate of one every hour, with an average loss of $1 1896. Barns and stables fifty per week. Country stores, three per day, with loss of $11o,000 per week. Ten hotels burn weekly, with loss per year of s4, ,O00 900. Every other day 8 lumber yard goes up in smoke, each repre- senting $20,000 Forty-four cotton fac tories the loss in each case being $28, 8,000; forty-three woollen mills at $25, ,000 each, ,and forty-two chemical works at $27, 900 each, were destroyed by fire last year. Forty-two boot and shoe factories were consumed, the loss being ST, 1000. Theaters were lapped up by the flames at the rate of five per month, average loss $19,000. Only about half as many court houses were destroyed, the cost of each being about $20,000
 The Providence Journal speaks words of truth and soberness, as follows: The Know Nothing craze had it's full sway for awhile, died and is forgotten, only it is remember ed a folly and disgrace. That was political and religious boycott. The indus trial boycott, as now initiated and attempted to be carrisd out, in the very nature of things must be a failure Neither the com mon sense nor the common conscience of the. people will encourage or permit the punish ment of the innocent for the guilty or those alleged to be guilty. To compel thousands of men to suffer because one man of whom they never heard has been wronged by men with whom they have had nothing to do is neither just nor humane. At last reason and right will prevail as fully in this as in other worldly matters, but not through illegal and negotiable compulsion.
 There is great deal of red-tape in France, and very amusing example of it has re- gently been given in an Auvergnat town. An old man having died, his house was for mally sealed up till the heirs should take possession, in accordance with Gallic law. But the neighbors were soon disturbed by most frightful noises and meeawings, and found that the house cat had been sealed up inside with the rest of the dead mans prop erty, and, as the judge had done his work most conscientiously, not single exit re- mained for poor puss. The neighbors dared not break the seals to let puss out, so after | some days applied to the nearest magistrate; he was equally powerless, and 8 formal peti- ton had to be handed in to the president of | the civil tribunal for legal authorization to | open single crack in the building. Then ! the judge and his officials solemnly proceed ed to the house, and formally broke the
 seals, with the result of hberating a very l starved cat.