Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-07

want to be such fool, but don't you vote to cut down mins," said one working man to another few days ago. 'sGo to the office and you can get your wages put as low az you like, but don't vote for free trade and low wages for all of us."'
 A bill in equity has been filed in the Mas sachusetts Supreme court by certain tax payers of Boston to restrain ths city treasur- CT from paying bills amounting to several hundred dollars for hack hire for members of the city government at two recent public celebrations. It is declared that the vote authorizing the expenditure was illegal. Z
 The increase in the value of real eststesin assessors at about $50, 900 ,oOo oter lass gear, or in the aeighborhood of per cent Of the valuation of the city, and this notwi ithstand~. ing the complaint of the real eatate dealers there that the past year has been particular Iy dull. Over $S2, ,Ooo, GOO, or mere than two thirds of this increase, is found to come from property above Fortieth street, which has derived it's increased value from the elevated railroad system of the city.
 Five years ago the telegraph operators de- elared7 that unless their wages were advanced or at least maintained at g moderately high rate, the quality of the service would be greatly lowered, to the ultimate loss of the community. The statement was not be- lieYed, the rates Of pay were reduced, and the prediction of injury has, probably, been forgotten But we find reported last year three hundred and nine railroad accidents caused by mistakes in teiegraphic train orders, against one hundred and twenty seven the year previous and one hundred and twenty the year before that. Many of these blunAers were made by young and in experienced operators, employed from mis- taken notions of economy.
 Under the heading Respondent Already the Hartford Courant thus describes the situ- ation of the Democratic party: Leading Dem- ocrats differ only from young Vance in say- ing more than he says. It is his declaration that, owing to the tariff agitation, it is going to be very hard to carry Connecticut for Cleveland They own right up that it can't l be done. That means, too, that they are beaten: Half of them have swallowed Cleve- lands free trade message, and it m akes them sick: the other half can't swallow it, and it equally distresses them. They are enlisted | against the public sentiment, against home l interests, and against American principles ! and traditions. Their appeal to the farmer l to destroy his own market, to the skilled 1 workman to reduce his own wages and to the laborer to stop the activities that give him work is bound to fail. They realize it al ready.
 The British Medical Journal sets down thu following interesting facts concerning some royal invalids: The sad case of the late Elm peror Frederick III is without parallel 1T
 modern history The partial invalidism o1 several European monarchs has influenced politics in marked manner. William III of England suffered from bronchitis and
 emphysema, and the condition ot his healti was factor in the calculations of politician
 for years before his death, which, after all
 was caused by accident. Louis XIII wa phthisical, and his ill health to 8 great ex
 tent brought about the absolute rule of Rich
 elieu; but the King, though he succumbed t
 tubercular ufeeration of the large intestinef
 lived over his fortY-seeond birthday. Put
 ing aside aged Popes; Sultans, always unde
 tntelage whether healthy or sickly; nomins
 monarehs like Louis XVII and Napoleon Il
 and two Czars, said, on not sufficien
 ground, to have been insane when murdered
 there remains the great historical case O
 Charles II of Spain. He appears to hay