Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-20

SerVlco Gno pAsLOr recommended one ana all of the advertisers to his parishioners as reliable men with whom to deal. It is said
 that this advertisement cost the merchants only $5 each. The money is to be put into the building fund of the church.
 In various parts of China there is belief that the souls of very atrocious criminals who have either been executed or died in prison are sent back from Hades by Yenlo, the judge there, to undergo further term of imprisonment, one death not being enough to expiate their crimes. Vixen the second term of imprisonment is judged to have ex- pired, the district magistrate beseeehes the tutelary diety of the city to accompany him to the prison in order to acquaint the ghost with his release. The order is supposed to reach the imprisoned by burning it, a cere- mony which is solemnly carried out in the jail. On August 19 last the district magis- trate of the city of Soochow had p1acards posted up inviting subscriptions of imitation money for the ghosts then in the city jail. This was all duly burned, and thus converted into currency, which would be useful to the ghosts on the long journey before them.
 The New York Court of Appeals has just decided very interesting case. The Bank of the Metropolis held certain stock as col- lateral for note. Through mistake the stock was sold without the authority or knowledge of the owner. The owner had been holding it as an investment and sued the bank for it's value. The principle laid down by the trial court was that the jury
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 the stock reached between the time of the wrongful sale and the trial of the case, pros vided the action had been brought within 8 reasonable time and prosecuted with due dil-
 igence. The Court of Appeals says that this rule is neither just nor legal. It holds that
 what the plaintiff is entitled to recover is the highest price reached by the stock within 8 reasonable time after he learned of it's con-
 version. Judge Peckham says: It is the
 natural and proximate loss which the plain tiff is to beaindemnifed for, and that cannot
 be said to extend to the highest price before the trial, but only to the highest price reached within reasonable time after the plaintiff has learned of the conversion of the stock, within which he could go into the market and repurchase it.
 The Good Templars of Maine are going to have the laws against the sale of liquor en- forced if they can. A committee of the grand lodge has obtained through Congress
 man Dingley certified list of all the men in | the State who have paid the United States \ internal revenue taxes imposed by section | 3,244 of the Revised Statutes on wholesale | and retail dealers in foreign or domestic dis l titled spirits or wines, or in malt liquors. A 1 State law of recent date makes the payment I of such tax prima facie evidence that the man paying it is liquor seller and amenable | as such to the pains and penalties prescribed | by the statutes of the commonwealth for that
 offense. The Good Templars advertise their | readiness to furnish certified copies of the
 list to county sheriffs, county attorneys, pri- | vate detectives, etc., and also to furnish a witness to go into court anywhere in the | State at any time and swear to it's correctness. They are going to investigate 8 report that Collector Page has been allowing dealers to | take out their tax receipts under bogus names. ''It is the wish and purpose of the grand
 lodge," writes Skowhegan correspondent s'to have every person whose name appears | on that list as the payer of United States
 tax to sell liquor prosecuted and punished in l accordance with the spirit of the Maine