Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-03

 that city out of business, and that nor than 1000 of them are ready to 90 out 6
 soon ss somebody will buy their chattsls
 The Democratic party owes the countr.
 a little something Between September
 1893. and March, 1894, the idle wsge-esrn CTS of the country lost in wages $s35, ,616,
 400, sum as great as France paid to Ger
 many as indemnity, and nearly half a
 much as the total war debt at the close O
 the rebellion.
 The Standard OH company may yet b compelled to buy England. The discover. of petroleum ct Ashwick, Bomersetshire some weeks ago, has led to general pros pecting of the region, and oil has beer struck in fifteen places within five or si, miles of the original strike. They are al in the same geological formation.
 Hudson, @ small town in Michigan, ha aH sgnostic in religion in the person O Lawyer Levi R. Pierson. He has recent, had erected In the cemetery in Hudson monument to mark his future resting place It bears the following inscription: "Fel low.Piigrim: Help in trouble, If you geti comes from nature, humanity, knowledge here on this earth, nowhere else; think O 1t. L. R Pierson, attorney at law. N charges" On the reverse of the stone Ii the following: "Lsvi R. Pierson. Harrie A., his wife. They lived and died happy and knew just as much about the future al any human being"
 Phere is now but one colored officer ir the United States army. Lieutenant Alex snder of the Ninth cavalry, the next te the last one who ever received c commis sion, died at Wilbsrforce Military univer sity last week. The second lieutenant oi the same Ninth cavalry is the one remain ing officer of his race. Lieutenant Alex ander graduated in 1887, and his fellow oi the game regiment in 1889. Only three colored youths have ever been able to grad nate at West Point. Lieutenant Flipper the first one, was compelled to leave the army shortly after graduation. Twenty colored boys have been appointed to tha, institution, but only twelve have succeeded in passing the preliminary examinations, and nine of those have been dropped dur. ing the course.
 In a letter to the Harvard clubs throughout the country Lieutenant Gov ernor Roger Wolcott says: In the great development of university instruction President Eliot has played the leading part. In his mind 1t was initiated, and to his courage and ability Is chiefly due Its successful realization. It has, therefore, seemed proper to members of President Eliot's class, and to others of the alumni, that the distinguished service thus rem dered to American education should be Httipgly commsmorats1, and to this end informal meetings have been held, at the last of which the following votes were adopted: That gold medal be struck to the twenty fifth anniversary of his accession to the presidency, to be presented at the dinner of the alumni on next Commencement day. That commit tee of fifty or more be appointed, with full power, to execute this purpose, and also to consider and, if expedient, act upon some plan to make the commemora- ton of lasting benefit to the university, by rsisipg fund to establish fellowt hips, or for other desirable objects.
 ut.ko kc fr tern territories in the recent building of great storage reservoirs for the turning of the desert into arabic land through irrigs. tion. These things were done in the same region in days before Columbus, by 6 race of Aztec kinship, now surviving only in a few scattered villages Traces of their old canals and ditches are still visi- bls in tracts now being again developed by town and irrigation companies. The town of Eddy, in Lincoln county, New Mexico, and the productive country about 1t is one of the best examples of the results of this modern apple ation of old modes of sgri culture. The construction of dams with proper escape ways for the carrying away of floods and silt has passed the sxperi- mental stage and has been reduced to a practical and profitable science applied on a vast scale. The cost of the dam recently built at Eddy, which is to form distribu- ting reservoir, was $125, ,000- Above this a great dam costing $200. 900. built for re- serve storage of the river's How, expands in lake larger than Lake Chsutsuqus. The reservoirs are indispensable to the agriculture of that region st all seasons, for already the farmers and the fruit grow CTS are preparing to irrigate their wheat, alfalfa and orchards.