Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1889-11-02

DR.. McCoeh of Princeton college knows
where he stands politically. He says: 81 am
Republican because the Democratic party
is the party of the saloon"
Rev. Sam Jones has a great command of
language. In recent sermon he remarked:
"John the Baptist was the bravest type Of
Christian know of. He just jumped on
Herod and paved his feathers out"
One result of checking the influx of Chi
nese has been the arrival in this country of
Francisco, where three years ago there were
eight hundred Jsps, there are now $500,
aud during the last three months two hun
dred japanese have arrived there.
These are times of progress. An Ameri-
can company has just taken the contract to
light the city of Pekin with incandescent
electric lights. The number of lights called
for will run into the thousands. There is
already q soap factory in Shecheu, a tele-
phone pay station on the Acropolis, and .
railway to the pyramids.
A woman who has been teaching in one of
the public schools in New York for twenty
ave years and is now q principal; has been
the subject of much complaint of late, part
ly because she devotes much of her efforts
to curbing the inclination Of the girls under
her charge to "bang" their hair. She must
be very hopeful woman.
The Democratic State committee Of Mas
sachusstts has ordered fifty thousand sam
ple ballots for distribution by Democratic
workers. These sample ballots are to be
printed on similar paper and in similar type
with the names of the candidates in the same
order as on the official ballots. But cross
is to be printed opposite the name Of each
Democratic candidate, 80 that voter who
can't read or doesn't know what candidates
he wants to vote for can take one of these
samples into the booth with him, lay it be.
side the official ballet, and make crosses OF
the latter wherever they appear on the sam
pie.
An attempt is to be made in the next ses
sion Of congress to make IL less easy for th'
louisiana lottery to carry on its swindlini
operations through the postofdces and tn
national banks. Three bills have been pre-
pared for the consideration of congress, tn
first providing that no mail matter of an.
kind shall be delivered to any persons direct
ly or indirectly concerned with a lottery; tn
second amending the Interstate oommerc
law, forbidding the carrying of any package
whatever to lottery companies or their agents
and the third, amending the national bank
ing act, prohibiting national banks from bs
ing the agents of lotteries or doing bushes
with OF for them.
Senator Hoar says in the North America
Review: Giving our Democratic brethren a
due credit for individual excellence. the fat
remains that the men who do the work {
piety and charity in our churches, the me
who administer our school systems, the me
who own and till their own farms, the me
who perform skilled labor in the shops, Il
soldiers, the men who went to the war an
stayed all through, the men who paid Il
debt and kept the currency sound and rave
the nations honor, the men who saved Il
country in war, and have made ii worth Ii
ing In in peace, eomMonly, and es . 1ale,
the natural law of their being, find the
place in the Republican party, while the o
slave owner and slave driver, the salot
!; keeper, the ballot box stuffer, the kuklu
| the criminal class Of the great cities, the nj