Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-08

General Sherman is in a fair way to lind
 out that the pen is mightier than the sword. John Swinton says that King Alcohol got ] his deadliest blow when the Knights of Labor
 decided to excluded rumsellers from their or ganization.
 The treasurer of the Chicago Civil Service Reform league reports that out of 275 mem- bers only 51 have paid their dues. This is a sad indication of the lack of real interest in great reform.
 The new election law of Illinois provides
 that no elerk or judge appointed under it shall be an office of the general or local gov ernment. A lawyer is teachnically an office acted as election officers A suit has been brought to test the matter, and when the case is tried there will probably be much splitting of hairs.
 The Rev. Thomas K. Bsecher, the defeated Republican candidate for mayor of Elmira, New York, does not endure his defeat we'll. He has published card making charges of corruption at the polls and closing with the words: "Alas for Elmira because of offsnses! It must needs be that offenses come But woe to the men by whom the offensss coneth! There is but one safe rule for kings and people: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' MT. Beecher has had not little to do with politics, and he should know better than to whine.
 A peculiar feature in one of the latest elec- trical stoves invented in France is that aper- lures are formed in plates of refractory clay and plumbago through which the wires are led; these plates are not enclosed, but are left exposed so that the air can circulate very freely through and through tho apertures, where it comes in contact with the red-hot wires; wire bobbins are inserted in the aper- lures, each bobbin forms a part of the elec- tric circuit and all are connected for ..quanti- ty, these bobbins being, of course, heated by the passage of the current, and serving to heat the air as it passes to and fro over them.
 One danger which threatens the success of the powerful labor movement now in opera tion is thus stated by the New York Times: Already capital is becoming alarmed and the effect is seen in the failure of that revival of prosperity which the general condition of the country favors. The uncertainty pro- duced by the methods of the labor organiza- tions and the fear of trouble which will be destructive of profit in business will deter capital from venturing upon legitimate en- terprises. That which is already in will be driven out CT forced to take measures to de- fond itself. The result will be the loss of profitable employment and increasing distress among laborers.
 There are some people in California who want the Chinese, at least for a little while longer. Fruit growers in vacaville have held meeting and adopted resolutions pro- testing against the forcible expulsion of the Chinese, and especially against the threats of violence and boycotting against the em- ployers of Chinese labor They say that it is impossible to carry on the business of fruit culture at that place without the employ ment of Chinese, and that the loss of this labor would in the ruin of their crops and the depreciation of their property cost them more than a million of dollars They admit the evils ot Chinese immigration, and would prefer white laborers if they could find them,