Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

1 The Philadelphia Committee of One Hun | dred has paid it's debts and gone out of busi- l ness. It did much good at first, but wasted ! it's influence on small matters and lost the confidence of the people.
 The sole organ of Superintendent Dutton, after three or four days of rumination, being I unable to discover any new argument, reiter- ates it's charge of spite. It sage1y asks: If the motive of the JOURNAL AND COURIER is not spite thnn toll rhat it is. As the
 editor of the sole organ seems to be suffering
 from certain mental and moral limitations
 which prevent him from discovering what
 our motive is, we will kindly tell him that
 our motive is nothing but the public good.
 A singular action has just been tried in
 Brooklyn. Some time ago the city authori-
 tics, in order to increase the water supply,
 constructed some driven wells near Spring
 creek. The wells consist of two-inch iron
 to sixty-fve feet The one nearest to the
 creek is 225 feet away. A miller on :he
 creek sued the city for $50, 900, claiming that the wells drew off water from the stream and so materially damaged his mill property. The jury gave him $7,350. An appeal is to be taken.
 It appears from a paper read before the Pharmaceutical society that one of the sons for the low price of quinine lies in the fact that the cinchona trees are no longer de- stroyed in the harvesting. The old plan was to cut them down and strip off the bark when they were ten years old. Then the idea was adopted of tearing off long strips and filling the bare places with moss. The present method is to scrape off the outer layer of the bark, the portion richest in qui- nine, and this does not interfere with the growth of the tree. The bark is scraped half round at one operation, the other half being scraped six months afterward. The process may be repeated year after year.
 For some months past many negro labor CTS have been pushing westward from the Carolinas to the Mississippi valley. The re- zion which they find most attractive is south 1 era Arkansas, where the soil is rich, the eli l mate warm and the products such the ne gro is familiar with in his old home. There 1 is yet much good land in southern Arkansas | open for settlement and the only drawback is | that the low lands near the river are subject l to frequent overfows. Carolina negroes are | also going to California in considerable num- bers. This is a new movement and it is sug gested that these are sought for to take the places of Chinese laborers whom farm CTS and other employers cannot keep in their service without offense to the prevailing public opinion there.
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 The prohibitionists of Georgia claim that prohibition has done great things for that State. In Athens crime has decreased so largely since prohibition was the law that he city council has reduced the police force oy one-third. Other evidence comes from he Gainesville Courant. That paper says hat during cold weather in past years the had their hands full in attending 0 cases of destitution, but in the severe period just closed no application for relief vas made. The Courant adds: The truth g, prohibition has been blessing to the l.