Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-08

progr ess. In the letter of a New York busi- ness man the word g. sirqular" " was found.
 Facts are facts. Sir Robert Hall in a re v cent lecture said that careful calculations showed that the moon could not have been shining on the night when Sir John Moore was buried, and therefore that there is no scientific accuracy in the line of the poem, s'The Burial of Sir John Moore" "By the struggling moonbeam's misty light"
 The month of January was particularly disastrous as far as the fire loss was con- cerned. Up to the year 1887 it appears that the average loss in that month was about SIC, ,00O, GOO. Last year, in January, it reached the sum of S11, ,550, 900; but in the month which has just passed it amounted to the enormous total of $16, ,040 ,000, an increase over the preceding January of about 35 per cent. This is melancholy and the worst of it is that much of such loss is preventible. Whats in namel Among the men who 1 draw government salaries as policemen and mechanics on the Indian agencies of theWest are those who bear the following famous
  land, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, U. S. Grant and Matthew Arnold. Benjamin F. Butler draws $8 a month for his services as policeman on the Nevada reservation. Washington Irving is paid $S50 for working @ government farm in Washington territory, while Schuyler Colfax obtains $6O year as | a carpenter in the same locality.
 The Democrats are laying their plans to l capture Oregon in June, as preliminary to l the national campaign. The State is first on | the voting list this year, holding it's election | of the legislature June 5. At the same | time a representative to Congress will be elected and strong efforts will be made to re- place Republican Congressman Hermann 1 with Democrat. The legislature chosen in June will elecE United States senator in
 place of Senator Dolph. Oregon was Re-
 publican in 1884 by 3,e00 majority, but in l 1886 Democratic governor was elected by 4.000 majority on the anti-Chinese issue.
 Fl. H. Warner, president of the chamber of commerce of Rochester, New York, makes
 a notable suggestion to the business men of | ssAANA
 real estate owners would generally invest I 1 or per cent. of their capital in assisting
 manufacturers to locate in the city, even If one in five should prove failure and the
 loss of 30 per cent. of such investments were
 made, which is not probable, the growth of
 the city would be marvellous, and within five years the value of real estate would increase
 ten times the amount of the investment, even if the investment itself became an entire
 loss.
 | Free traders are not as plenty in the South
 as they once were. The Atlantic Constitu-
 tion, one of the best representatives of south.
 ern sentiment, remarks: We know very well
 under what policy the North and East have
 prospered, and we know very well that under
 this policy the South would prosper in even z
 greater degree. We know that any legisla'
 ton which even squints at free trade vii
 carry the South back to the hopeless agricul
 tural period. This means not only stagna
 tion, but retrogression. All that the Consti
 tuition has said in favor of protection tt
 American industries has been in behalf O
 southern progress and development.
 Dakota has blizzards, but there have beel
 worse places than Dakota to live in this win
 ter. Hungary, for instance. A Hungarian
 county court judge returning home iron
 Grosswardein in sleigh recently was bese
 by ravenous pack of wolves, which terri