Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-04

Ona- Ma -Dul.Ha-Na, Majave Indian med
icine man, was dubbed to death, beheaded
and cremated recently for allowing too many
Of his patients to die. There will probably
not be a very lively competition for his
place.
For the first six months of 1886 the build
ing operations of twelve cities, according to
against 800, 900, 900 in 1882, 1888 and 1884.
Strikes and boycotts are not good for build
ing operations. They are destructive in their
nature.
There are women in Spain who know what
they want. One of them is Miss Dolores
Lleonart-y Casanovas, N. D., who has just
taken her doctors degree at Barcelona. She
began her university studies at the age of
eight, when thirteen she became B. A, and
now, at the ripe age of nineteen, after COM
ing out first in all her examinations an d tax
ing numerous prizes, she is fully qualified
physician and surgeon.
To the charge that he owes money in New
Orleans and other southern cities Sam Small
replies in this fashions: I owe many hun
dreds of dollars yet in Texas, Georgia. New
York and elsewhere. In my days of drunk
enness and recklessness had an unfortu-
nate habit and facility for contracting debts.
1 deserve it and bear it all, I hope, with be-
coming patience. God helping my honest
resolutions and efforts 1 will soon be free
from these burdens and these taunts. Then,
l trust, those who thus pursue me, seeking to
destroy my usefulness and drive me from my
duty to my master, will be able to lay aside
their ill-will and regret the cruel wounds
they are now SO numerically indicting upon
me.
Chestnut, pea and buckwheat Goals, for
merly allowed to go to waste in the huge
piles of 'eulm" which accumulate near every
mine, have within the last fifteen years been
successfully separated from the worthless
material by processes that have been invent
ed to meet the need. The ne plus ultra
seems to have been reached in an air-blast,
which not only transports the waste from
the breaker to the refuse heap at one-sixth
the cost of the old method by mule carts, but
before depositing it in its final resting place,
by means of graded series of screens, takes
from it and sorts out into the different sizes
all the good fuel The 'fbuokwheat" is found
to be just the stuff for making steam on the
Hudson river boats. The cost of carrying
| the culm from the breaker to the dumps has
heretofore been, at low estimate, $50, ,O00
| per day in the anthracite region of Pennsyl-
vania.
H. 1,o1 ,,,.,4;nr, of fba No1, Vorlv Gan
| trat Labor union there were scattered about
| the hall copies of the platform" of "the
| National Cooperative Labor party" 1t is
the object of the new party to establish and
maintain rational cooperative labor sys-
| tenn in place of the present "cspital-ruled,
| competitive wage" system. It proposes that
| the land, the instruments of production and
distribution, machines, factories, railroads,
etc., and the products of labor become the
common property of the whole people
| Among the economic demands made are, the
| government control of the railroads, canals
telegraphs, telephones ferries, gas, electric
| and steam works; the right of the govern
ment to appropriate running patents and al
| inventions to be free, the inventors to be re
| warded by the government, and that the
rent of building shall not exceed certain
percentage of the value of the building al
taxed by the municipality. Among the pol
itical demands are these: "The President
Vice President and the Senate of the United
States shall be abolished; an executive board
to be established, whose members are to b'
elected and may at any time be recalled BY
the House of Representatives, the Legislative