Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-10

It will be interesting to observe the pr og- ress made with the law of compulsory insur- anoe for fishermen adopted by the Nswfound land legislature, and now under advisement by the general government at Ottawa. The scheme includes compensation for widows.
 The young emperor of China has some ideas of his own. He has a strong dislike to missionaries, and it is expected that he will make it unpleasant for them. He says it is very cheeky for Americans and Englishmen to claim to have the only true religion, and he believes they are lying about it.
 Mr. Gladstone says that his reasons for writing about Robert Elsmere" was to show that the arguments brought forward against Christianity in it are fallacious. Mrs. Glad stone is quoted as saying that her husband considers it one of his most sacred duties to do his utmost to check the flood of in6delity that is sweeping over England.
 Pay your money and take your choice. One Washington correspondent announces that Mr. Blaine is now almost certain to be the secretary of state, and scarcely anybody in Washington now doubts 1t. Another says that one of Mr. Blaine's most intimate friends admits that he has received no offer of & place in the cabinet, and he, the friend, does not believe that the fer will be made. The correspondent adds that, "for some reason not understood, the confidence of MT. Blaines friends has suddenly and decidedly dimin- ished."
 Xk,o A5ax- Vor1r Independent ex-President Hayes says he is for single presidential term of six years. Historian Bancroft is for letting the Consti- tien alone; eff any change is needed" he says, Git is in ourselves, that we may more | and more respect that body of primal law" MT. Justice Bradley azd MT. Justice Gray I concur in this view and feeling. ''I am so l old-fashioned," writes the latter, Gas to think l that the Consultation, administered accord. | ing to it's letter and spirit, is well enough as 1t is." MT. Justice Blatchford thinks that Constitution-tinkers are "in 8 poor busi- ness."
 1 General Longstreet calls himself "a very old rebel" and he gave some good advice te | the people of the South when he said ths | OLn6F Qay. l CuAG 06u6Idl 0dIIAsOA will meet with no factious opposition from the South, for our people owe him more thar l we can now discern, 80 close are we to thu smoke of the battle of the 9th of November
 The approval of MT. Cleveland's policy would
 heve been a calamity, notably to our section
 for it would have retarded our industria growth and arrested the development of ou
 material resources. Although General liar
 rison will not get single electoral vote from
 the South, yet history will record that tn
 southern people received greater benefit
 from his election than those States that vot
 ed for him. Let our boys in gray meet Gen
 eral Harrison on the halfway ground ant
 take the outstretched hand of the patriot an,
 statesman and cooperate with him in his of
 forts for the upbuilding and glory of ou
 common country. Help him, and hold u
 his hands, that he may be the stronger t
 help you.
 Contract prison labor was abolished in tn
 Minnesota penitentiary at Saltwater on tn
 first of last September. The idleness of tn
 convicts made go much trouble that the prii
 on inspectors made 6 tour of the easter ] States to see what they could find that woul
 throw light on the problem. As result c their investigation they have recommended