Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-31

There is stringent prehibitory law in
Kansas, and yet there are more than one
hundred liquor saloons in Leavenworth.
By omitting the word mot" the intelligent
compositor and the lynx-eyed proof reader
made US say yesterday that Satan has left the
country. Would that he had.
The Audubon society is said to be growing
rapidly. The members pledge themselves
not to kill or capture any wild bird not used
for food, not to disturb or destroy the nest or
eggs of any wild bird, and not to make use
of the feathers of any wild bird as ornaments
OF dress or furniture.
The crop of wool this season is ten per
cent. less than last and the prices tend up
ward. While there has been a falling off in
the number of sheep kept in New England
of over 115, 900 since 1880, there has been a
gain of 100000 in other parts of the
country, SO that the total number in 1885
was 80, $3.50, 243 against 35, 1872 900 in 1880. Of
the New England States, Rhode Island
alone has increased her fiocks 3,238, while
Connecticut has reduced hers 1884.
The passage of the Suez canal, which until
recently occupied from thirty-six to forty
eight hours, may now be accomplished in
from sixteen to eighteen hours by steamers
which take on board an electric light appara-
tus and projectors prescribed by the canal
company. This saving of time is an impor-
tant item. The Peninsular & Oriental com
pany has complete electrical apparatus, or
several of them, arranged in a compact form
to be taken on board its vessels on arrival at
the canal and discharged when the passage is
completed, both operations being accom-
plished without delay.
The New York Tribune is quite right in
saying: If the cigarmakers in the two hum
dred and twenty shops in New York city had
always, or even often, acted fairly toward
their employers, public sympathy would be
much more earnestly enlisted in their behalf
in the present struggle with the Knights of
Labor who are striving to break up the Pro-
gressive union. But they have frequently
struck without reason, and SO injured the
business of the employers that the latter
naturally sympathize with the Knights who
have consented to arbitrate many differ
ences.
The prosecutors of the Chicago anarchists
have made out a strong case. A ruling which
Judge Gary made early in the trial is of in
terest now He said: If there was a com bina-
ton among great number of individuals to
kill policemen if they came in conflict with
workingmen or strikers, or were attempting
to enforce law and order, and preparations
were made to kill policemen upon some such
occasion, the decision as to when the proper
occasion had come being left to the parties
who were to do the work, and some of these
parties did such an act, then all engaged in
| the general conspiracy are equally liable.
A very unfavorable account of the sanitary
| condition of the Isthmus of Panama is given
by French physician, DR.. A. Nicolas, who
| was sent out from Paris to study the climate
which prevails along the route of the inter
oceanic canal. There are many hotter parts
of the world, but few, if any, which are more
unhealthy. The atmosphere is saturated
with moisture, particularly in the day time