Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-11


 Prohibition also does not prohibit in Iowa. The State has had five murder trials on her hands in the last two months, and in four of these the murderers were proved to have been drunk when the crime was committed
 Figures may not lie, but they sometimes tell queer stories. Agents of the Women's Christian Temperance union in Brooklyn on a recent Sunday kept watch of number of saloons supposed to be closed, to see how many persons visited them. Then allowing fer the average Brooklyn saloon one-half the number of visitors in those watched, it was estimated that "s74 200 persons visited the 3,10O saloons every Sunday" The estimat- ed population of Brooklyn. including men, women and children, is 794 ,006.
 The late Isaiah V. Williamson, tine wealthy and charitable Philadslphian, was. most eccentric man. He was reserved, silent, ab- stracted, careless in his dress and utterly in- different to conventionalities. The umbrella which he always carried was thirty years old at least. He was very charitable, but he never liked to be lauded for his good deeds. Sharp in business, he seemed to take no pleasure in the money he accumulated. It was generally understood among his inti- mate acsuaintances that he had had a dis appointment in love early in life, though nobody knew the details of tho affair.
 Residents of the west and northwest DOT tions of Texas are calling the attention of the legislature to the wholesale destruction of deer which is now in progress in these sections. The animals are killed simply foI their hides, and the slaughter is said to be somewhat unprecedented. The killing if fair enough, as it is all done with the rife It is the constancy with which it is done and purpose of which is objected to by those most affected. Ten years ago an entire sec. tion of country, which is now under fence literally swarmed with buffalo. They were exterminated, however, in three years time, and strictly by use of the rifle. The deer bids fair to go in the same way.
 The annual report of the New York State board of charities shows that while there has been during the last eight years very large increase of insanity in proportion to popula- tion, there has been decided decrease in the number of blind, deaf and dumb in the State institutions. The whole number of blind in the asylums last October was 339, and the whole number of deaf mutes was 1 ,294, against 1,317 in 1887, while the number of insane increased from IA, ,062 in 1887 to IA ,. 77s in 1888. The chief reason for the de. crease in the number of deaf mutes in ths asylums is that the present system of in' struction fits them for self-support, ane many of them secure positions requiring su perior ability.
 The election in New Hampshire tomorrow | is an important one. Seven amendments t the constitution are to be passed upon. Tn ! first changes the time of assembling the legis lature from June to January. The secon fixes the compensation of legislators at $2o per session, with an allowance of $3 @ da for special sessions, to be paid for fftee days only. This payment of fixed sum fondly expected in New Hampshire decidedl to shorten the sessions of :he legislature an