Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-21


 The Supreme court of Tennessee has de~ cided that it has no power to enjoin the gov ernor of that State from issuing a cetifcate of election to a candidate for congress who had the greater number of votes, though that candidate is 8 Republican. The decision adds two more to the Republican majority in the next House.
 A good deal of trouble is expected in Canada over the proposed award of s400, ,000 to the Jesuits for educational purposes by the government of Quebec. The award must be sanctioned by the Dominion parliament, which is opposed to it. The Protestant aud Catholic press are discussing the matter sayagely and fears are expressed that the matter may lead to civil war.
 The clean marble steps of Philadelphia are we'll guarded. The grand jury has found true bills against one John F. Berg for mali- cious mischief in splitting on the front door steps of several houses in the northern part of the city. The formal language of the indictments is that Berg "did then and there unlawfully, wilfully and maliciousIy expectorate, put and place certain saliva im- pregnated with tobacco upon the front door steps,"
 The Rev. Dr. Sunderland, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Washington, D. O., has deen much annoyed of late years by people who visited his church on Sunday simply to see Mrs. Cleveland. Last Sunday a party who visited his church, but learning that Mrs. Cleveland was not present they went away noisily. Advancing to the front of the platform Dr. Sunderland said: "It is impossible for me to state how grieved am at the exhibition of extreme rudeness just exhibited by few chance visitors to this church, who, being disappointed in their desires to look upon the face of one of our number, have left our midst for the more pleasurable though less hallowed enjoyment of their Sunday papers,"
 The editor of the Dexter (Maine) Gazette has waited as long as he could, and now he thus bursts out: We have heard of many mean men-there is the man who used the wart on his neck for collar button, and who pastured goat on his mothers grave, the man who stole coppers from dead mon- keys eyes, the man who got rich by giving his children each nickel te go to bed with out their suppers, and stealing the nickels after the children were asleep-but for down. right cussedness, the man who will take a paper for two years, mark it refused" and then send it back to the postofice, or move away without paying for it, leaving the post master to write notice to the publisher that he has gone, is entitled to the first premium. The actuary of the New England Mutual Life Insurance company has compiled some tables which show the decline in the rate of interest that has taken place in the last ten years. He finds, for example, that in 1877 the average rate of interest obtained by Massachusetts savings banks, was 6.8 pel cent, but that the rate fell, in a nearly | regular progression. to 4.8 per cent. in 1887. A very important question is, how long will | this fall continue? A limit must be reached sometime. The Providence Journal has thii
 to say concerning the matter: When inter- est rates get so low that capital can obtain practically no return for its use the move ment will correct itself by the diversion o
 capital to productive employment by th, owners or to the channels of free spending
 until the surplus volume of it is reduced
 There was time when the regular rat
 of interest in Holland was two per cent
 It could hardly fall lower than that il
 any case; and in these days of many use
 for money it is not likely to fall as low a