Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-22
EDITORIAL NUTES.

Our consuls report that the proposed movement in this country to restrict immi- grafton is regarded with unconcealed concern and dismay in political and economic circles in Europe. This is sad.
 After all, Rhode Island will not be the ! first New England State to put secret ball. I lot law in practice. The Australian bill was reported to take effect in April but the house | has amended it, changing the time to Jan- I uary 1, 1890, and the senate is sure to follow this example. Massachusetts will still have ! the distinction of establishing this reform in New England.
 Prohibition does not prohibit in Rhode Isl I and. Says the Providence Journal: The pro- 1 hibitory law in Rhode Island is failure. I whose evil effects are great and multiplying. The officers simply represent the people in | their failure to execute it. It is founded on
 wrong principle of legislation. It ought to | be repealed in the interest of temperance and ! morality. The general assembly should take | the first steps toward doing it as soon as pos | sible
 One of the electric light wires strung along | the elevated railroad on the Bowery, New
 York, was jostled from it's fastenings the | other day and fell to the sidewalk, touching ! 8 young man on the neck in the fall. The man was knocked senseless, his left arm was | broken and he received other serious injuries ! from which he is now slowly recovering in I the hospital. A policeman guarded the fallen 1 wire, keeping people from it, till employe of the electric lighting company came along I and handling the deadly thing with rubber | gloves, replaced it in is proper position. This | incident illustrates one of the new dangers of | advancing civilization.
 l Bishop Whitaker of Philadelphia, who has | returned from visit to Cuba, declarea that the Cubans would be very glad to enter the Union. He says: Tue sugar interests are de- l pressed with the prospect of the increased | growth of the sugar beet in the United States. Indeed, the mercantile and agricul-
 tural communities generally exhibited very | gloomy aspect. The trade with the United States is immense, while at Matanzss no less than twenty-three vessels were loading with sugar and molasses bound for the United
 States, and gentlemen from Philadelphia and New York were to be seen in both cities, es- pecially in Havana, eagerly grasping for the growing trade. The resources of Cuba are great and capable of very much larger de-
 yelopment, the soil being unusually produe-
 tive.
 The indictment of Governor Larrabee of Iowa has made some stir. The libel consists of statement, quoted from @ newspaper, in
 pamphlet published by the governor that a
 certain woman has two husbands. This wo-
 man is the mother of a young man who was
 some time ago sentenced to the penitentiary for seventeen years for theft. She has been
 making great efforts to obtain pardon for l her son and has abused the governor without
 measure for refusing it. In his own defense
 Governor Larrabse published the pamphlet containing the unfortunate quotation, which turns out to be false. The grand jury oi
 Polk county found an indictment against the governor, and thus the matter stands for the
 present It is not libelous to say that Gov. ernor Larrabee is evidently not 8 very wise man.
 Dr. Albert Zabriskie Gray, rector of Ra. cine college, who died a few days ago, in f tended to spend the rest of the winter il
 North Carolina, and then go to Europe, pos 3 sibly to the Levant, to prosecute Biblical ant { historical studies. My son counted great
 ly," says his father, "upon these two jour
 neys. He needed rest and desired opportu
 nifty for further mental improvement. H
 was in his prime-but forty-eight years c
 age-and he anticipated with pleasurabl
 emotions the benefits that would accrue t
 him from travel and the opportunities whic
 lwould be afforded him in the Old World fc