Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-28

women assaulted.
 The project to authorize railroad compa- nies in New York to erect hotels will, it is expected, meet with lively opposition from the Hotel Keepers association. In England hotel keeping at important railroad stations is recognized branch of the business of transportation companies.
 The Charleston News and Courier, being somewhat alarmed by the reports of the in- tended emigration of colored people to South America, tries to frighten them from their purpose by the information that slaves are worth three hundred dollars each in Brazil, and the colored people from the United States who go there arc likely to be sold into slavery.
 England is apparently not much better off than this country in the matter of coast de- lenses. The forts are, in large degree, supplied with guns of an antiquated type and would have little defensive power in checking the fleets of an enemy. But it has been asserted, and not denied, that if twenty years ago the English government had spent hundreds of millions of dollars in providing itself with what was then considered an ade- quate coast defense the outlay would now be practically lost.
 They do some things better in England than in this country. A retired army sur geon in London poisoned his wife. Two weeks later he married his mistress. Three days later still he was arrested on an indict- ment. In ten days more he was convicted and within two weeks afterward he was hanged. Only six weeks elapsed between the commission and discovery of his crime and only four weeks between its discovery and iss expiation on the gallows. In this country he would have been unlucky if he had been hung in three years.
 It appears that it is possible to get 'sun- struck" by electricity. At the Creuzot foundry in France an electric furnace is used, in which the light equals that of 100,- 900 candles, and the heat is such that steel melts like butter ih few seconds. People standing about at distance of few yards feel no heat, thermometer five yards away does not indicate much increase of tempera- ture. Yet subtle influence is at work, and 8 spectator whe remains for an hour or two is said to experience "a burning sensation with more or less pain in the neck, face and forehead, the skin at the same time assum- ing coppery red tint. Later symp toms are headache and sleeplessness. After- wards the skin of the face gradually peels off in flakes, while the complexion is left of fine brick color" The symptoms are those of continued exposure to hot, bright sun light. In extreme cases they are those of sunstroke, though the only apparent agent has been intense light.
 One of the signs of the times was seen at the recent reception to the Rev. Or. Shaw, of Rochester, on the occasion of his retirement from active work as a Presbyterian clergy man. Prominent among those who were present were a Jewish rabbi and the Roman Catholic bishop, Dr. McQuaid. The latter made good speech, in which he said: It is better for us Christians not to be fighting. If I can do my share toward maintaining public order and holding this government in respect, why should anyone attack my mode of workings Dr. Shaw has never done this, and the same thing is characteristic of the clergy of Rochester. With Gods blessing upon this city, we have reason to think that our city will have a bright future. You have your hospital and we have ours. You have your homes of industry we have ours.