Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-10
EDITORIAL NOTES,

In the opinion of the Archbishop of Can- terbury the greatest evil by which the Eng fish working classes are afflicted lis the cus- tom of early marriage"
 Can any body tell what the fisheries treaty really is? In this country it is believed that Secretary Bsyard basely surrendered to the Englishman, and the Pall Mall Gazette charges Joseph Chamberlain with having basely surrendered to the United States
 Willie Campbell, of New York, ran so fast to school for fear of getting tardy mark that he did not watch his steps, fell on a pile of bricks and fatally hurt himself. It is cheering to think that the record of vital statistics will show few deaths of boys in 8 hurry to get to school.
 The French Transatlantic Steamship com pany think it will pay to furnish it's large fleet with complete apparatus for dropping oil on the waves" during bad weather. The company states that it only adopted the use of oil after repeated trials in bad weather, in variably followed by success.
 During the year 1887 there came to this country 172 actors. Italy sent 89, England 43, Germany 12, Roumania 8, Japan 6, France 4, Russia 8, the Netherlands 8, Aus tria 2. Spain 1 and Scotland 1. The balance of trade in actors is heavily against us. It is pity that we cannot export more of the bad ones.
 The New York Supreme court has reversed the decision of lower tribunal to the effect that if man while intoxicated is injured through imperfections in the streets he can- not collect damages from the oity. The high CT court holds that he can. Intoxicstion, it says, is not necessarily evidence of contribu- tory negligence.
 A bill is before the Massachusetts 1egis1a- ture authorizing women to vote in town and city elections on the question of granting liquor licenses. It has already passed the house by considerable majority, uniting in it's support most of those known as temper ance republicans and all the women suffra- gists. It seems clear enough that much larger number of women would vote on this question than have ever been disposed to vote in the election of members of the school committee.
 The bill for the relief of the eirs of J. F. Shorter, which has been reported favorably by the military committee of the house of representatives, is an interesting one. Shorter enlisted as 8 soldier in the Fifty-ffth Massa- chusetts volunteers, was promoted to be first sergeant, and in March, 1864, was comnis- stoned as second lieutenant by Governor Andrew, but was never mustered as such, the mastering officer refusing because the lieu tenant was of African blood. He was, how | ever, assigned to duty according to his rank | by commission and served as @ lieutenant until he was severely wounded in battle in | November of the same year. There were two other cases of 8 like kind in which muster was refused to J. M. Trotter and W. H. Du- l pree, the former of whom is now register oi deeds fer the District of Columbia. Both were members of the Fifty-ffth Massachu. sstts and were commissioned by Governor l Andrew. The forty-frst congress gave then the pay of their rank as commissioned.
 The dispute between MT. Edward Atkin' soR and some English economists as to th' ability of the United States producers to de liver wheat in the Liverpool markets at th' low prices which are likely to prevail is { matter of considerable importance to us ir view of the fact that sooner or later we shsl
 be forced into rivalry with India as |
 wheat-producing country. MT. Atkinseni original contention was that the American farmer could make as much profit to-day o1
 wheat as 34s. per quarter in Liverpool as h
 could when it was at sos. per quarter il
 1873. Naturally enough several Englisl
 critics denied this assertion. But Mir. At
 kinson now brings forward figures to shov
 that by the cheapened cost of production ant
 transportation American wheat can be pu
 down in the Liverpool market even as low a
 2ss. per quarter and still be as profitable
 the farmer as it was when the price was 50s
 The figures, derived from recognized author
 ities, certainly seem to be unimpeachable.