Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-30

portant reduction in prices of travel to ani
from the Worlds fair. Since the Railway
Age suggested that the managers of the
railroads meet and discuss the reduction Of
hotel rates during the fair the hotel people
have apparently lost ell interest In the
matter of lower railroad fares.
Some people will do good deal in order
to uphold their side of an argument. Two
young men got into dispute over their
respective abilities to use revolver
handily, ont in Garrison, Iowa, and finally
one wagered the other that he could not
kill him with 2.caliber weapon at thirty
PAGES. The bet was taken, their sister
held the stakes and the shot was fired.
The bullet ploughed along the temple of
the chap who stood as target and though
he had won his bet and saved his life he
hammered his brother into insensibility
because of the pain inflicted by the bullet
when 1t hit him. -----------
The legislature of South Carolina has
passed, and the governor will probably
sign, bill regulating the sale of liquor in
the State and turning the profits over to
the State. The places where liquor is sold
are to be known as dispensaries. There
are to be ten of these institutions in Charles
ton county. After the agent who is licensed
to represent the government has paid his
own expenses the business will be con-
Quoted entirely for the profit of the State.
The State will purchase all liquors, thus
going into business in competition with
citizens. No sales are to be permitted out
side of the government dispensaries, and
in these the sales must be not less than a
pint nor more than five gallons.
The admirers of the goldenrod have
been feeling sure that 1t will soon be rec
ognized as the national flower, but they
are now little anxious over rumor that
the pansy people are trying to break the
goldenrod combine. The leader of the
pansy boom is Representative Butler of
Iowa, who recently introduced bill in
congress to make the pansy the national
flower or floral emblem. He goes even
further, and proposes to have the pansy,
''also called the garden violet, heartsease,
etc. ;" worked into the flag of the United
States, so that it will bear "the outline of
a white psnsy with true pansy center,
which shall represent the capital or central
government; that the white stars repre-
senting the States shall be set inside the
white outline of the pansy in manner to
produce the general effect, at distance,
of a white pansy in blue sky"
You don't have to go out west to find
mortgages. The latest census bulletin on
mortgages in Massachusetts, makes 1t ap-
pear that in two counties, Franklin and
Hampden, the conditions of industrial life
are not at all favorable to the prosperity
of those communities. because the taxable
property in them is very heavily mort
gagged. There is considerable difference
between the two counties in this respect,
but in both cases the real estate is weighted
down with immensely heavier conditions
than 1t was in 1880. 1t would seem from
this statement that these communities are
gradually wiping themselves out of exist
ence, or that existing property owners are
not keeping up with the conditions of life
imposed upon them, but when one gels
down to the real facts of the case, 1t is
ascertained that the mortgage Indebtedness
in Franklin and Hampden counties repre-
sents money borrowed for business pur-
poses and for the purchase of different
kinds of personal property, which show
that the mortgages are really being used in
order to increase the industrial life and
strength of the community, rather than to
diminish it.