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would easily have reached 5000. :--
 TmMGs of fearful result from efforts to forestan the law come to us from Birming-
 ham, Alabama, where jailed man, suspected
 of having murdered his own wife and daugh-
 ter, was demanded by an infuriated mob.
 The sheriff in charge of the jail proved to be 8 man who knew that his sworn duty was to uphold law, and after fair warning, repeated again and again, the mob charging upon the jail was fired upon, ten persons being killed and 30 wounded. Some of the killed were in the mob only as pacifcators, and vainly try ing to bring it to reason. The sheriff did his duty. Somewhere it was necessary to make a stand against mob violence, which has be- try. The disgraceful part of the story is that the sheriff is now under arrest as murderer,
 and the mob leaders are at large. This state
 of things cannot continue long if sober sense
 comes to the people of Birmingham. Nc place is safe to live in, certainly not desira-
 ble, where the worst elements rule, and a mob is always ruled by the worst element of its make up. It invariably acts in unison, and its most bloodthirsty members naturally be come its leaders. The anarchial element of a town or city finds its natural scope in a mob. and as naturally takes the lead in overthrow ing law. Race prejudice as naturally finds place in the work. The administration of justice is the natural work of cool heads and judicial minds, articles that mobs have no use for. The Alabama sheriff, who regarded murderous mob as rebels against the law, was correct in that view, and took the only course proper for him to take. P. S.--The sheriff is released, and the governor of the state backs him up as having done his duty, and being
 entitled to thanks rather than punishment. Good for the governor of Alabama.
 THE Springfield Republican last week is- sued an S-page supplement, giving it's own history, illustrated with large engraving of the handsome new building it has just com- pleted for itself, and portraits of those prom inently connected with the paper in the past and present. Sundays edition supplemented this with sort of history of the part the pa- per has taken in literary work, and good record it is. No provincial daily, perhaps no metropolitan daily, has been so prominent m the field of literature. Many remember when the little 4-page daily, with it's 24 col umns, then comparing we'll with other dailies of larger cities in the matter of size and sur passing many of them in array of compact and well edited news, astonished it's readers with it's stupendous enterprise in making it's Saturday issue a double sheet, and so in course of years after also made it's Wednesday issue a double one, and still later all it's issues. within the past year further adding column to each of it's eight pages. That Saturday is- sue in the days when books and magazines were not so plenty as now was to many fam fly newspaper, magazine, and everything. Its literary contents were prized as highly by the women and children as were it's news columns and staunch republican editorials by the sturdy yeomanry of New England. Many books yet counted as staples in the book stores were made of papers which appeared in the Springfield Republican when Dr. Holland was on it's editorial corps. The literary char acter has never deteriorated, and is to day less noticeable only because other papers have adopted like features. No one thinks of pass ing without glance the pages of the Repub- hcan devoted to literature. Any person, al- most, who has read the Republican for many years can recall the names of scores of writers, now eminent, whose first writings appeared in it's columns. Its acceptance of the offer ngs of young poet is to him or her cer- ifcate of ability. Among those whom the Republican deems worthy of chasing among it's best contributors are:
 "EIla M. Baker, whose early death was so great 8 loss, wrote first for The Republican, and continued to send it her beautiful poems 70 long as she lived her volume ttClover Leaves" was largely made up from it's col 1mns."
 ''Mrs. Annie A. Preston has written so much md with such popular favor for The Repub- ican that we need not recall the number of years she has been our contributor
 OFFICIAL LIST OF PATENTS ISSUED TO CITT- LENS OF CONNECTICUT from the U. s. patent ,fice for the week ending December 4, 1888, 8 reported from the office of Simonds & Bur- lett, solicitors of patents, No. Central Row, Hartford Conn.
 Alexander V. Ambercrombie, Bridgeport, ibrary- y-check system.
 Thomas B. DeForrest, Birmingham, pencil | ase.
 Ebenezer Hill, South Norwalk, valve for ir compressors
 Lorens Lassed, Manchester, reamer.
 William D. Parker, Worcester, Mass, as- ignor to Eolian Organ and Music Company, feriden, pneumatic action for musical in truments.
 William D. Parker, Worcester, Mass, as- gnor to Eo1ian Organ and Music Company, Leriden, pneumatic wind musical instrument.
 Charles Prentice, Putnam, button.