Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-09

po clcaneQ thIce times. Inc BUFerumcnt has stepped in and seized the plant of the three factories, on the ground that the renovated cards should pay the usual excise tax imposed upon new cards. The card cleaners are resolved to fight the case in the courts, a, the business was very profitable.
 The postofice department at Washington has ruled that the writer has 6 right to re- gain possession of letter providing he can prove to the satisfaction of the post master at the office from which 1t was sent that he was the writer of 1t. Even if the letter has arrived at its destination and before 1t has been delivered to the person to whom 1t was addressed, 1t may be re- called by the writer byatelegram through the mailing office. The reason assigned Is that the United States is only the agent of the writer while the letter is In tranait. This decision Is important to business men and to private individuals.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad company and the people of Oakland, California, are having a high old time. The railroad claims to own the entire water front of the oity, and has been putting up fences across the streets leading to the wharves, which have been open for many years. Some time ago the mayor and other city officers removed the fence across Broadway, and were sued therefor by the railroad com pany. Pending the decision of this suit the city government has neglected to act in the streets, but the people have not been idle. On the sounding of 8 steam whistle crowds have gathered, and in as orderly 8 manner as possible torn down fence after fence, thus reopening the streets to the whsrves. Feeling runs high, and rioting may at any time take place.
 The late Abner Kirby, of Milwaukee, was man of many eccentrioities of character. AS landlord he puzzled his guests by naming the rooms of his hotel instead of numbering them, and new conner was frequently startled at the order given the bell boy to ''show the gentleman up tO oSachuh. Aho0Au AOAu OA spirits he swore in 1878 that he would not take smother drink until Tilden was elected, and did not. During the sixties he lost $500, 900 in wheat and later made $150, 900 in thirty days in the same kind of speculation. One afternoon soon after this he tossed $50, GOO in bills into his wife's lap as she sat in the hotel psrlor, and said: "Here, mammy. go and pay of the mort gage" His clothing was invariably made of imported Scotch goods, and as he always wore his clothes until they had become thrsadbsre they were in strange contrast with the big diamond In his necktie.
 Not having much room In their own country the English have managed to spread themselves over good part of the world. The eyes of some of them are now on Labrador. Labrador is to be opened to settlement by syndicate of British cspi- tslists, who wish to materially reduce the time of passage between England and America, and also to connect that dissant and little known section of this continent with the railroad systems of Canada and the United States. With this end in view they sent corps of engineers to make an examination of the territory to ascertain If their scheme was practicable. The latter have reported in favor of Port Mannheim, forty miles north of the Straits of Belle Isle, as an uuequaled terminus for ocean commerce on one hand and for railroad traffic on the other, and that the surround ing country is rich in natural advantages which would contribute to the traffic of 6 steamship line. They found that Southern Labrador was practically level country, and as admirably adapted to cheap railroad construction as are the rolling prairies of the west The entire route Is well tim bered and minerals of the Laurentisn for nation are abundant.