Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-06

Mayor Hew1tts boom IS boom worth having.
 Flour is rising as fast as the speculative yeast can make it. Perhaps we shall all have to eat corn bread by and by.
 The Liverpool Mercury predicts halt in the prosperity of Great Britain. It remarks: There was imported of raw material for textile manufactures nearly eo50, 900 worth less in the August just passed than in the August of last year. This naturally means growing decrease presently in textile exports. The decrease is alarming in amount. It is not far from 20 per cent. on the month. The trade, in other words, bids fair to shrink three-quarters of it's dimensions last year.
 Among the recent decrees made in France is one relating to the inspection of butter for the repression of fraudulent dealing By this special persons are authorized to take samples of butter in any place, whether the butter is exposed for sale, stored in ware- house or in transit by land or water. Each sample taken is to be subject to a special ex- animation. Pure butter, mixed butter, margarine, oleomargarine and grease intend ed for consumption, in transit, must be con- tained in closed packages, and the origin and nature of the merchandise must be con- spicuously specified thereon.
 Sikkim, the province of British India which the English have recently occupied, consists of about twenty-five hundred square miles in the Himalaya mountains. During the Nepaul war of 1914 the Rajah co-operated with the British and was rewarded by an increase of territory. In 1886 the Rajah eeded Darjeeling to the English for an annual payment of $3,- GOO. In 1861 Sikkim was opened to British trade, and in 1873 the Rajah's allowance was increased to $e,000 The British will now proceed to civilize the country by deposing the Rajah and selling the timber and copper for which Sikkim is famous.
 The Memphis Avalanche, after cautioning the Democrats of that county to be on their guard against over, confidence in their suc- cess in next months election, adds this mys- terious paragraph: When election day rolls around the negroes will be found as thor l oughly organized as of old and as solid ir support of whatever ticket their white mas ters may order them to vote for. It will be fortunate if they do not attempt to go to the
 extremes to which they are being secretly counssled. That is to say, it will be fortu
 nate for them. This country is safely
 Democratic, and any attempt at repetition of the old methods will entail 8 consequenct 1 which cannot be pleasant to either side.
 The report of the United States consul al
 Madagascar shows what can be done by Amer
 joan exporters. Although France exercises quasi protectorate over the government oi
 that island, and although the English mer-
 chants have for many years past endeavored to build up trade there, and have theil
 colony of Mauritius as convenient depot ed supplies, the American trade with Madagas
 car is larger than that of all other foreigr
 nations combined. The natives import largt
 quantities of American cotton goods in spit'
 of the efforts of the English traders to under sell us by spurious limitations of American
 trade marks. Having become by expeyieac