Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-11

4SS1oeA ASA ~A@~ Democrats. They are very welcome to him.
 Those who lived through Thursday could enjoy Friday. It is seldom that even New England weather presents such contrast.
 Tennessee is doing we'll enough. The comptroller of the State estimates that the increase of valuation in taxable property over the entire State over 1887 will be between $75, GOO, 900 and s1Oe. 100000.
 There must have been a civil service re- form of long standing in France. Ninety seven years ago some person. now unknown by name, posted in Paris number of the Gazette Universeile, directing it to Monsieur K, in Morges, Switzerland, but the news paper did not arrive at It's destination until last month.
 The reports of the savings banks of Italy indicate that the Italians are more thrifty than might be thought from the specimens that come to us. The number of savings banks depositors in Italy is 3,01s, ,s65 and the amount of their deposits $370, ,s72, ,348. But their average deposits are not half as large as the average in the United States.
 This advertisement recently appeared in an Ithaca paper: "Base ball and bsptism-A. game of ball will be played at Cayuga Lake Park next Saturday afternoon between the Y. M. O. A. nine of Ithaca and the Mynderse academy nine of Seneca Falls. At the con- clusion of the game will occur the baptizing in the lake of converts of the colored camp meetinG.n
 Rev. Dr. Brooks, the third party candidate for the vice presidency, makes this fine point concerning the Prohibitionist and Republican propositions to abolish the whisky tax: "The one would repeal the tax the sooner to de- stroy the traffic. The other would overflow the country with free whisky rather than in- jure the already subsidized interests of the eountry.n How the traffic is going to be de- stroyed by the repeal of the tax is one of those things that nobody but Dr. Brooks could explain, and he would find it very hard to make anybody understand his expla- nation.
 General Hovey, whom the Indiana Repub- licans have nominated for governor, is ap- preaching three score and ten, though he is described as just as erect as he was when he served as lieutenant in the Mexican war. He wears warlike moustaohe, and, besides being soldier, he is said to be man of re- fnement and cultivation, who has read and travelled and written poems, as well as an entertaining book on Peru, where he served five years as minister. He commanded DO, 900 Hoosiers at different times during the war while he was rising from the grade of a colonel to that of brevet major general. This fact gives him strong hold on the voters of the State.
 The scheme to have government telegraph line doesn't receive much support from the figures showing the cost of the telegraph de partment of the British postofice. It appears
 that there is not only loss resulting from
 the excess of expenses over receipts, but thai
 this loss is fast growing greater. Five years
 ago the annual deficit was $580, ,000; now il
 is &, ,855, ,0o0. In the yearly expenses are in
 c1uded, it should be noted, the interest or
 the money invested in the purchase of tho
 lines, purchase that, as regards price, seemi to have been rather bad piece of business