Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-23
fnement. The magistrate took the came
view and discharged her.

1t is announced that the Republican can
didate for governor of Kansas has just
finished harvesting 130 acres of as fine
wheat as there is in Kansas The Repub-
lican candidate for lieutenant governor has
forty acres of oats, which he will harvest
the latter part of this month, and 100 acres
of corn planted by himself, which is said
to be the best field in Butler county. The
Republican nominee for secretary of state
harvested 200 acres of wheat and has in as
many more acres of corn.
Demagcgio legislation is apt to make
trouble. The eight-hour law passed by
congress is already creating considerable
confusion in the contracts for the erection
of public buildings. The reduction of the
hours of labor necessitates more workmen
and more workmen means larger expendi-
lures. 1t is estimated that the law requires
an addition of So, 900, 600 to the usual an
nual outlay for public buildings. The
Washington Star says that there will be
difference of $3.50, 900 in the cost of the
new postofice in that city, as a result of
the eight-hour law. Congress will have to
provide the deficit or contractors will have
to slight their work in order to keep with
in appropriations.
ak years ago a colony of Iowa farmers
mig sted to Louisiana in search of
warmer climate, and soon began the
cultivation of rice. They drained their
fields, while the natives were putting in
the same crop knee deep in mud. The
men from Iowa introduced the most i'm
proved methods of culture and the most
improved methods of harvesting the crop,
with result in yield that simply
"astonished the natives" But 1t did not
take the natives long to catch on to these
new and improved ideas, with result
that the area devoted to rice in one
section of Louisiana alone has increased in
two years from 1900 acres to 179 900
acres. The yield this year in the entire
State is estimated at almost three hundred
million pounds, as against 81, 10000 only
a year ago, 80 rapid has been the increase.
An enormously increased revenue has thus
been afforded southern planters at a time
when cotton is proving somewhat disap-
pointing.
Locusts have been doing great damage in
some of the districts of Cape Colony, and
the legislature has been considering how
to deal with the plesgue. Some of the
Cape farmers believe that nothing should
be done. The following is report of what
took place at meeting of village coun-
Gil. 1t is from a Cape newspaper. "Mr.
s. Grobler said he had heard about the
making of q locust law, and spoke in
solemn terms of the godlessness of such a
plan. Mr.. I. Greeff said that if they would
make a law to destroy locusts they must
take into account which king is their ruler.
Mr. c. Sheepers spoke in the same spirit,
whereupon the following motion was pro
posed by G. Sheepers and seconded by 1.
Greeff Seeing locusts are plague which
carnot be looked upon otherwise than as
q punishment sent US from above, this
meeting most strongly condemns the proc
lamation of a law for the eradication of the
said plague This was carried"
The latest bulletin issued from the GEN.
sus Office contains some interesting aud
timely information concerning the voting
population of this country, and, although
the figures are two years behind time, they
may be accepted as approximately accurate
after allowing for the annual increase in
the number of voters. The number of
males of voting age in the country two
years ago is given as 16. $40, ,311. OF these
4, ,34S, ,459 are foreign born, of whom 60
per cent. have been nsturalizsd, which
would make the number of legal voters
about 15, 100000 Adding half a million
to this total, on account of the increase in
the voting population since 1890 aud we
have Is, 700, 600 males qualified to exercise
the right of suffrage this year. About
800, 900 of these must be excluded as being
residents of the territories or of the Dis
trict of Columbia. Eighty-fve per cent. Of
all the voters exercised the right of suf-
frage in 1888. and if the same percentage
is maintained this year, nearly Il, ZOO, 900
freemen will chose the next president.