Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A New York dentist is advertising that he charges the largest fees in his profession. He is smart man.
 It is asserted that not less than Il ,00o, 900 free trade documents were circulated in the United States last year by the English free traders. But protection is still alive and protecting.
 The Wheeling Intslligencer gives among its reasons whylimmigration should flow into West Virginia that "West Virginia is well supplied with free schools and churches" 1" and "Distilleries and saloons abound every where and are hourishing." Pay your money and take your choice.
 Governor Buckner of Kentucky doesn't hesitate to veto anything he wants to. He has vetoed bill allowing the mayors of Lou isville to succeed themselves. The city char ter fixes the term of mayor at three years and makes him ineligible during the three years following. There doesn't seem to be anything very dangerous about the bill
 Rascality is often ingenious. Some French rascals have been flooding Paris with eoun- terfsits of old French plate, and it has just been discovered that the bogus goods are or dinary modern plate when made in Germany, and, after being imported as such, have the old Paris mark put on them and are fixed up to look like the old goods. Five men in this business have been fined from $200 to $500 each.
 AL writes from Botetourt county, Virginia, that the Mormon missionaries have grown so bold "that they have warned the people that any steps taken to force them from the county will be met by armed force, and have sworn war on all opposition, both by fire and sword. Persons living in the section infested are greatly alarmed, and an outbreak is ex- pected." It is the wrong time for Mormon missionaries to be belligerent.
 Some of the thirsty people of Wichita, Kan sas, have concocted neat scheme for evad- ing the prohibitory law. An organization, known as the Oklahoma band, with power to do business in Wichita, has been chartered. Officers were duly elected, and stock issued at $1 a share. In one corner of the certi6. cate are twenty stars. The holder has the entree to the club rooms of the band, which are known as reading rooms. Here he pre- sents his certificate, calls for what drinks he requires, and has the charge punched out or the stars in his certificate.
 An old negro of Atlanta applied to the police the other day for protection against sr old woman who was trying to conjure him I He said he found nailed over his door red l flannel bag. tied with white strings, and that he knew it was 'conjure bag" and that hi I life was in danger. The officer opened tht little red bag, and it contained a bit of horse shoe, few grains of gunpowder and som' snake root. 'T knowed it, I knowed it," thu l old colored man exclaimed as he looked a the bag, his eyes stretching until they al most popped out of their sockets, moving backward from the bag ss he said: 'sDat ol' woman has conjured me, and I'll die shoor. He then fell over on the floor in dead faint and did not recover until the officers hat called the patrol wagon and started to sent l him home. He excited himself into fever l and physician had to be called.
 The laws delay is we'll illustrated in cas- now pending in New York which was begul in 1914. It's purpose is to wind up the affair of the Columbian Insurance company, whiol came to grief through it's insurance of vessel seized by French cruisers in the early part o this century. John Jacob Astor, first of tha name in New York, was one of the origina assignees of ths company, and some of tn early orders in the case were made by Chan cellor Kent, The venerable suit has outlive' several generations of lawyers and judges The entire judicial system of the State an' the forms of pleading and practice have beel remodeled during it's progress. One set o trustees after another has been discharged b. death, and for many years after the death Q the only surviving trustee in 1859 the sui slumbered. But it was revived with all 1t original vigor in 1885, when g new truste was appointed, who is now prosecuting tn claims of the company under the French spc
 iation claims act
 The recently. invented process, says Iron by which wood is made to take on som of the special characteristics of metal, hs l been turned to practical account in Germany