The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-18

 iion. hut as n etIarantce of good faith.
 The largest shipments of oranges ever known in Florida are now coming ur this way. All sweet! Ten cents doz' en.
 The new president of the Erie road Is uuoted as saying that pooling Is not going to prove a cure for all the ills of the railroad business. What they need besides. in his opinion, is "honest commercial integrity and steadily more of it." True enough.
 Barring Brothers & Co. will soon be ready for business again. The great liquidation is ended, a syndicate hay ing taken the last block of securities, amounting to s7,5O0,OO0, held by the Bank of England. It Is thought that about s3,OOO,OO0 will be left over from the settlement for the Barring family to divide.
 Serum for the treatment of diph- theria has been obtained SO far in France from old hack horses. The French government now proposes to give the Pasteu- Institute the first choice in the selection of horses con- demned as no longer fit for the French cavalry service. It takes from six to eighteen months to prepare a horse to furnish the serum used in the latest cure for diphteria.
 The library of the Palais Bourbon, the French senate house, contains 15O,- GOO volumes. but 1t has been discovered that only the novels in the collection are called for by the French legislators. They keep up steady demand for light literature, especially for Flaubert, Zola, Daudet and Bourget In conneo- tion with this, 1t is said. that the jus tices of the Supreme court at Wash ington are great consumers of French novels.
 The talk about the factory laws of Massachusetts driving cotton mills down South is pronounced by the Bos- ton Commercial Bulletin to be unwar- ranted. It says the fact is that labor is cheaper and raw cotton costs less there than here, and the mills go there to make their coarser goods of which raw material cost forms larger proportion of the total cost than in the fine goods, which require labor of higher skill than is to be found as yet in the South in any abundance.
 Robert Buchanan who failed for s75, 900 not long ago, has just been dis charged by the bankruptcy court on condition that he pay half of all he earns above 4,5o0 year toward satis- flying his creditors, till they shall thve recovered 37 cents on the dollar His lawyer tried to free him from the obli- gation, but the judge held that an author who had earned $7,5O0 year by his writings might be expected tc continue to do so. and should do some thing for his creditors.
 The Wenatchee Indians, of Wash. ington, are very properly protesting against an act of vandalism and sacri. iege committed by the Great Northern Railroad company. The workmen o1 the company lately blasted out some big rocks near the Indian settlements which were covered with hieroglyphics The rocks were the sacred record of the Wenatchee tribe, and the inscriptions told of their chiefs and battles and thu whole history of the people. The In dians are naturally intensely indig nant, but it is 8 frequent occurrenct for hunters and tourists in the north west to rob the graves of Indians of al sorts of articles, and even to disintea and rob bodies of ornaments, and nc sadroSs ic nhto in ahle
 The Metropolitan club, the exclusive organiza tion of New York millionaires is not travelling a road of prosperity The trouble lies in the fact that, where as there was no difficulty in getting 65( millionaires to put their names down or the list of membership, these same millionaires have shown decided aver sion to making use of the club house and supporting it by their presence rhe elaborate smoking and other rooms are seldom, if ever. used. No ladies grace the annex with their presence Chefs, attendants, walters, and servants stand around with time hanging heav. lily on their hands. Above all, the mag.