Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

It Is said that the big Richmond and Dsnville railroad system is to become merely the Southern railroad in name. The change is for the better.
 There are 2, ,529 persons engaged iu the sugar refining industry in this country, and SIS, ,0s5 engaged in the lumber indus try, but the Democrats are going to tax sugar and make lumber free.
 Representative Hall of Minnesota has de- scribed the national currency with a good deal of accuracy ss follows: We have in circulation to day six diffsrsn, kinds O: pa- psr currency and two kinds of coin. One coin is only worth one-halt of the other In value Some of the paper currency is re- deemable in one coin, some in another, some in both; while the present condition Of the treasury warrants the suspicion that most of 1t does not know that its redtemer liveth.
 A visitor was shown the pay roll of one ot the Mount Carmel (Pa) collieriss the other day. He discovered that the super intendent was an American, the book Keeper Canadian, one of the sssistant oookkeepersa Frenchman, the outside fore man an Eogiishmsp, the breaker boss 6 D1tchman and the shipper 6 welshmsn. The miners were Irish, English, Dutch, Poiiah, Hungarian, Italian, French, Af- rican, Russisn, Swedish, Norwegian and Austrian.
 At the recent wedding of the Princess Victoria Aelits the custom of carrying & piece of myrtle from bush in the Osborne gardens was not forgotten. Near the asg tower at osbOrns snd bordering on the carriage entrance to the pAlscs is 6 charm irg garden, which contains & large myrtle tree grown from a sprig taken out of the wedding bouquet of the princess royal in 1858, and each royal bride has since car ried piece of this myrtle in her wedding bouquet.
 Professor Rosenthal, who has been for many years & Christian missionary in Ab- yssinia. Is now in this country, telling how the missionaries in that country are psrse- cnt.d. King Theodore was especially cruel to missionaries. They We're efrstoondemned to wear heavy bars of iron around their body, and were then tried. The trisl be- gan by reading the genealogy of the king, which claimed for him a blood relationshsp with Solomon and David, and the reading of which lasted four hours. During this reading the missionaries were compelled to stand unprotected in the burning sun.
 An intere sting lawsuit is in progress st Berlin. A "pfennig" Is one-qusrter of 8 cent. The customer of the restaurant keeper was pfennig short in settling his account He was taken roughly to tssk for 1t in the street and promised to send 1t. This he did by mail, and there wac 5 pfennigs postage due on 1t. The restaur- sntkeeper refused to receive the payment in this shape, and sued the other for the amount. Witnesses were heard and the costs amount at present to about $50. Appeals have been taken and the suit still goes on.
 General Henry B. Clsaves, who hss j1st been renominsted for the governorship of Maine by the Republicans, was born in that State, and Is now ffty-two years of age. He enlisted in the Twsnty-third Maine reg iment when he was twenty-two years of age and served with great bravery until he was honorably mustered out of service in 1885. On returning home be went 10 work h sash and blind factory, but soon began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in 1888 and soon went to Portland, where he has resided ever sincs. Es has had large practice and is looked upon ss one of the best lawyers in the State
 A decision made by Secretary Gresham while he was judge of the United States circuit court hss been reversed by the Supreme court. Two years ago certain officers of the Illinois Steel company were called before the interstate commerce com mission and ordered to produce the com psny's books. This they refused to do, and the commission appealing to the cir cult court, Judge G-eshsm denied ihe sp- plicstion, ruling that the section of the act creating the iuterstste commission, under which it had bsen made, was unconstitu- tionsl. The supreme court has now re- versed this decision, Justice Harlan, who delivered the opinion, saying "there can be no doubt of the power of congress to authorize the commission to summon per sons and papers relating 10 any matter which might be legally committed to that body for investigation"