Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-08

them.
 Some of the Washington correspondents ought to go to school a while longer. One of them thus writes: 'Mrs. Harrison goes and comes as unostentatiously ss if in Indi- annapolis. This afternoon she returned from a shopping tour just as string of carriages had driven away from the front door. She stepped out of her coupe and walked into the White House, carrying a brown paper of dry goods under her arms with unaffected simplicity" When Mrs. Harrison has occa- sion to elevate her nose with affected artif- ciality we shall hear all about it.
 The Mormon missionaries in the South are not yet discouraged. There are two hun dred of them scattered about Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, and squads of con- verts are continually emigrsting to Utah, Arizona and Idaho. Over five hundred have been sent from four counties in Ala bama, and two hundred more will go in a few months. There is no question but that the Mormons in the South preach polygamy, whatever their professions as to abandoning it may be in Utah. Hundreds of families have been broken up by the conversion of silly women to the Mormon heresy. The law affords no relief, and in desperate cases violence has been resorted to.
 Two different systems have mainly been resorted to on the elevated railroads in Ger 1 many for diminishing the noise Of trains on their viaducts, and with fair success. One ! of these consists of bolting to the bridge structure long troughs of sheet iron about sixteen inches wide, so set or arranged that ! . rail will come in the center of each; the l troughs are then filled with gravel, in the | the middle of which is buried 8 longitudinal { timber carrying the rail, and the space be- I tween the troughs is filled with iron plate. on which is spread thin layer of gravel The second method, which has been adopted as possessing greater degree of efficiency 1 than the other, consists of placing a continu. ous series of shallow iron troughs about five feet square along the line of the tracks These are filled with gravel on which the ties | and rails are laid.
 The coast defense plan of MT. Theodore R. | Timby of Washington finds much favor. Mir Timby's revolving fort consists of two towers ! one included within the other, but not con- | centric, each of which may be revolved in. dependently by steam or other power. The | armament may consist of ten or even more | heavy guns, each of which, when in action, ! may be fired automatically as it's port in the | wall on the inner tower comes in line with
 the port in the outer tower, ,and thus delivers
 a succession of shots, aimed alike, following
 each other 80 rapidly that several may be 1T l the air at the same time. The fort itsel
 would present but small mark for th'
 enemys fire, it's height above the ground
 being not more than 8 few feet; its armol
 may be as thick and heavy as desired, ant
 the cost of a fort so armed need not exceed
 that of single ship of war.
 Justice in South Carolina sometimes seem
 to be not only blind, but generally in6rm
 The official report of the pardons granted
 during 1888 by the governor of that Stat
 shows that of the 394 conviets in South Car
 olins all but ffty-one are colored. Sevent
 negroes were pardoned last year, of whom
 twenty-five were serving life sentences
 These twenty-five are not very bIood-thirst
 wretches, hardened in crime and put ava
 in the penitentiary because society can d
 nothing for their reformation elsewhere
 Two of the persons sentenced to imprison
 ment for life and pardoned by the governo were children, aged nine and ten years re
 spectively, who pleaded guilty to burglar
 \ and larceny of articles not worth over te