Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-29

| 1I IS HOW reported ClaU UQo OOClduSLS Wut
 are Knights of Labor are plotting to oust
 Grand Master Workman Powderly. He ii
 not violent enough for them.
 1 John Swinton has lost all he has saved
 from his salary for years on the Sun on his l labor paper. No wonder he feels like scold l ing the workingmen who do not act as he 1 wants to have them.
 A man who lives in St. Joseph, Missouri, is going to bring suit against the proprietor of an opera house to recover damages for the ridiculous use of his name in a performance given by minstrel company. Those who have suffered in this way will wish the plain tiff success.
 After fifty years of legislation the city of New Orleans has just appointed committee of it's council to see what, if any, compro- mise can be made with the heirs of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines There is now a judgment against the city for $1, 900, ,O00, from which an appeal has been taken to the United States Supreme court. The city has spent in court and attorneys' fees in this case far more than it could have been compromised for many years ago.
 Judge Cole, of Morehead, Rowan county, Kentucky, is a man of nerve. In conducting the sessions of the grand jury he has kept a detachment of militia before the court house and a Gatling gun at his back. In charging the jury he told them that they must indict the men who go about the streets with thirty eight or forty-fve caliber pistols in their ba de He went on to say that the majo rity of offenses in that country were caused by the habit of carrying concealed weapons and drinking whisky, and that he proposed to stop it if he had to line the road with men wearing the ball and chain. If necessary he would turn the Gatling gun on them and if he hadn't soldiers enough he would get more. He was prepared to adjourn all courts in his district and sit there twelve months to carry out his programme. This is bold stand for Kentucky judge to take.
 A newspaper reporter of St. Petersburg paid visit recently to Leon Tolstoi, the greatest of Russian writers, who has re- nounced the ways of the world the better to carry out the precepts of the Gospel. Tol- stoi lives in a common country house, con- sisting of one immense room, and filled with all sorts of necessary articles, including libraries of useful books and manual tools. The children work in turn at the bench or at the desk. When the one quits his manual labor the other leaves his intellectual tasks and takes the others place. The wife occu- pies her time in making clothes for the poor. Tolstoi, says his visitor, discoursed with an infinite clearness of mind, grandeur of ex- pression and biblical solemnity of senti. ment that ordinary minds could not under stand. He spoke of his literary works, now read all over the world, with deep melan- choly, and added: "How vain is all that When I think that there are millions of agonized beings awaiting the word of truth, impatient for the light, and that have only this poor trash to give theml Ohl there IS something else to be done, believe me; but l seek, study"
 The people of England are waking up to the fact that the men who are managing the
 war department are not as efficient as 1t IS
 desirable they should be. The Times talks it right out" as follows; The department