Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-16
Z MORNING, AUGUST Is, 1888.

Knights Of Labor in North Carolina, isn't
afraid of the whipping post. 1t even urges
Is adoption as "an instrument of mercy"
saying: "The whipping post in this State to
punish petty offenders would be an instru-
ment of mercy to many families, whose head
and support is oftentimes sent to the peni-
tentisry for a year for stealing pig or few
chickens. Besides that, J" the Messenger adds,
'the whipping post would be torturing, while
the penitentiary fs q haven of rest to q ma
ierity of its inmates"
1t is asserted that Governor Hill OF New
York has made an actual bargain with the
liquor dsalerso of the State for their help in
securing his nomination. It is further as
serted that, according to the terms of the
bargain, the liquor dealers are to send q del
egation to the Democratic convention with a
claim that they control $4,000 votes in the
State and with threat that these will be
State and national tickets of the party if Hill
IL not renominated. In return for this
threat Governor Hill has, 1t is said, given
promise that he will approve bill drafted
by the association rsmodeling the excise
laws in the interest Of the dealers if il can be
got through the legislature. This is inter-
esting, and it may be the political death of
the willy governor.
Milan, King of Servia, is not a very royal
man. Some years ago he pent to Vienna for
brief stay, and on the first night of his vis-
it he lost $120, 900 at the Mobiles club. The
money had to be paid within twenty-four
hours, and as the amount was not within his
reach he went to the palace and requested
loan from the Emperor, who gave him the
money on condition that he would play
again; and yet, the very>uext night, he was
found at the table, and did not rise until
$40, 900 more had gone. No application
could be made this time to the emperor, SO
Milan raised the amount on the security of
splendidedly-iswe scimitsr, his most VAL
uable hereditary possession, which had been
presented to the late Prince Milosch by the
Emperor Nicholas. The scimitar has never
been redeemed, and it is now in the posses
sion of Herr BleichrodeF7 the Berlin banker.
At a recent meeting of the Wellington
Philosophical society Mr.. J. w. Fortescue
spoke of the rapid increase of deer that have
been aeclimatized III the New Zealand noun
tains. Having had special facilities for OBJ
serving these creatures, he proceeded to state
some interesting facts as to their habits. At
the close of his address Sir James Hector
asked Mr.. Fortescue, as an expert on the sub
ject, whether the chief of the antlers was not
for fighting as for facilitating the progress of
the stag through dense woods. He had con-
siderable experience with the wapiti in North
America, and found that by throwing up the
head the animals were enabled to 60 forward
with great rapidity and follow the kinds. He
asked this, as 1t had been stated at previ-
ous meeting of the society that the antlers
tended to entangle the deer. Mr.. Fortesoue
said Sir James Hector was quite correct In
stating that the entlers assisted the stags in
penetrating dense forests. Mr.. Higginson
also bore out this statement from his expert
ence in India.