Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-04


 negro if the latter demands it. Probably few will demand it.
 Ex-Mayor Vaux, of Philadelphia, is 8 quaint figure. He is an old-fashioned Quaker City lawyer. He wears a swallow tail coat, broad -brimmed hat and carries a green -baizs bag. His hair is long, gray and luxuriant. He never wears an overcoat nor carries umbrella. In his business life he is as uncompronising he is in dress. As the only living American who ever danced with Queen Victoria, he is frequently point ed out to strangers, but he is oblivious to the sensation he often creates.
 A correspondent of the Hartford Courant calls upon the legislature to abolish capital punishment, or else pass the following act, entitled "An Act to Relieve Murderers:" Any person arrested and held for, trial for the crime of murder, pleading not guilty by req son of his being under the influence of intox- icating drink, and thereby being incapable of deliberately committing murder, shall have the right to pass over all the courts now provided by law and appeal for trial to the judiciary committee of the legislature. The blunders of legislatures are too mum. erous to mention. Clerical mistakes and constitutional defects have been discovered in three of the most important bills passed by the Indiana legislature during it's recent session which will render them of no effect One of the acts provides for better protsc- ! tion to mechanics by giving them liens with out filing notice of their claims, another re- latss to the exemption of school-teachert | from examination after having taught for $ | certain number of years; and third is sr act increasing the saloon license to $250 1T cities and to s150 in towns.
 There is trouble in the jelly business. 4 year ago forty-three firms formed trust un' der which all their establishments excep | fifteen were closed down, and prices. it wal expected, would be put up. Two large frmi I in Camden, however, refused to go in, an6 ! have been making things interesting for ths trust. Recently the trust cut prices on jelly | to IA and 1-2 cents pound, and guar ! anteed purchasers against any lower prices from outside firms. The two Camden frmi promptly put jelly down to one cent pound \ of the trust ground to demand a rebate O the difference between trust prices and Gam | den prices.
 The Canadian department of inland reve nue recently caused to be made an analysi of one hundred and nine samples of lard pro l cured from merchants of the Dominion, ant as Q result of the examination has recon mended that the duty on lard imported iron the United States be increased. Of the sam ples inspected thirty-eight were of domesti manufacture and sixty had been importet from this country. It is said that of tn American samples only one was found to b pure, the other 6fty-nins being adulterated chiefly with cottonseed oil. The. firm whio
 made the pure lard has failed since the in quiry was made, which perhaps indicates th
 danger of trying to do an honest business
 The Paper Makers Circular says that tn
 new epoch on which we are entering wi
 surely be known as s'the age of pulp" B.
 yond esparto grass, straw, and wood, fe'
 fbrous substances have as yet praoticall
 taken the place once occupied exclusively b
 rags; but if we should ever exhaust th sources from which we now obtain our sul , plies, there will assuredly be no lack of sut
 stitutez. East India ramie, pineapple fibre
 bamboo, bagasse fthe refuse matter frol sugar-canes), peat, bracken or common fer flags, rushes, seaweed, tan, and hop-sta
 have all been proved capable of yieldir pulp. In Scotland, hollyhock stems ha'
 bsen made into paper; in Ireland the mallo,