Show IN come quarters great stress is laid upon the fact that in the states where high license prevails there has been n large in the revenue from license fees for example it is pointed out that in minnesota where hiu license has been in force for a year alic revenue from the saloons liap been increased in the same time from to alie number of saloons in the meantime has been reduced from 2803 to 1597 the statement as to the reduction in the number cf saloons is encouraging but the statistics most satisfactory to us would le choso showing that high license has actually reduced the evils of intemperance the crime and misery incident to the drink traffic if any figures can be had on this point we would like to sec them it is atio salvation of men that vre are interested in and not the raising of great revenues THE statistics of crime in england and walea as published in a recent bluebook are decidedly against us when compared with the record of crime and criminals made by our awn stat ician in england tho figures show a decrease all around in all form of criminal activity in the report for the year it is shown that the numbers of the known criminal classes have decreased within ten years from to notwithstanding the steady growth of r population whilst a corresponding correspond ng ise has taken place in the number ol 01 ile and female criminals tho nr nr statistics show an alarming increase in the case of children aged one year and under but a steady if very gradual de creaco is to be observed in the number of persons murdered above that age INDIANA is safe to go for cleveland and thurman colonel matson is making a splendid race for governor nod will be elected most readers will remember lieutenant governor robertson alio presided over the indiana senate during the troublous times when turpie was elected senator he went to the extreme in his effort to control the senate majority for the republicans and so elect liar risen to the senate but alie scheme did not succeed harrison and his friends pretended to or did become suspicious of and accordingly beat him fot the gubernatorial nomination he is correspondingly soured and his friends are openly both the state arl 01 buckets larequi estimate ol 01 men heretofore reliable put the democratic majority at IT would be easy enough to moralize at length upon the recent wheat panic whereby a certain speculator in chicago enriched himself tr th extent of thred or four millions of dollars but the story 13 an old one and will continue to be repeated we as long as greed ind selfishness are among the principles that rule in the business world it is of course a matter of no importance to those engaged in making corners and working up panics in the markets such redound in every instance to the injury of tho poor aal the consuming classes A e live in hopes that tho time will come when bogli law and public sentiment will combine in declaring that these things shall not be judge Thur roan remarked in new york that democracy would nourish when the dust of acca covered its enemies ho was not aware that nature had undertaken to fulfill the prophecy it is published as gospel truth in tecumseh johnston county that most of the newborn new born boys come 0 democratic parents girls are alie rule in republican households the peculiar political condition deserves general commendation and proves eliat democracy is getting there with both feet the girls are all right the boys will take care of them JL DISPATCH from san francisco cal says last saturday in the sacramento police court mrs C J elliott was held to answer to alie superior court on a charge of seduction in attempting to induce laura whipple a 15 year old airl whom she enticed from san francisco to coli abit with indians and chinese her bail was fixed at 1000 her punishment if she be found guilty should be at least imprisonment for life january ast 1st butte M T has consumed barrels or gallons of beer this makes an average to each man woman and child in the town of schooners ners during the time arc 2503 campaign orators speaking every day but sunday in indiana tho republicans have 1200 orators democrats the same number and the people are having a lively time in indiana anc republican party first sprang into existence as a national party in 1856 when fremont was in candidate for the preal dency ita death is fixed for no jtb and its funeral in march hag written a long letter from germany which was pub iu tho new york evening post coming out in bayor of president cleveland A electrician claims that he will soon ba able to produce a thunder storm wherever and whenever it is de aired ans S antes supreme coart beeter day sustained aba constitutionality of the prohibition lafelt pi iowa ax educational experiment is being tried in california which wil ba watched with a considerable degree of interest in other states the state lias undertaken to publish all alie textbooks text books for use in the public schools eight books been alius far issued and in a few it is expected that books published by private concerns will be in use one result achieved by the new plan ia a great reduction in the price of textbooks the state grammar is sold fur fifty cents a reduction of twenty five cents on the grammars formerly in use the price odthe general history is eighty cents instead of under alie old system the other books are proportionally tio nally reduced A small per cent of the money received for these books is invested in a fund and it is estimated that in twelve years the publication department will have paid for its plant and will hen be self supporting another feature of the pan is that i ensures uniformity and ii measurable decirce of permanence in the character charac tei of the test books used in the schools the complaint is made in many states and we think justly that schoolbooks school books are too dear in price and too frequently changed the california plan will do jwan with these abuses JUDGE SAWYERS decision in the united states circuit court at san francico cico in the two ases under the chinese exclusion act is an important one the court holds that the net is constitutional and that its provisions apply to chinese now in port on shipboard to those on the way from china and to those still in china it 13 estimated that this decision will affect about thirty three thousand chinese as there are thirty thousand return certificates still outstanding ins and ic is believed that there are now about three thousand in the country who had lived here before the restriction act was passed and who before HIP passage of the exclusion bill would have been entitled to reenter re enter aliis country ander the claim of being prior residents about six hundred chinese have arrived at san francisco since the approval of the exclusion act and about seven hundred others are now on their way from china the counsel for the Cli inese gave notice that they would appeal the cases to the united states supreme court AN improved method of distributing oil ou the waters lias been patented in germany it consists ofa which is attached a cylinder filled with oil it is said that alie rocket can be fired accuracy from a ship and that when it explodes the fihs scattered just where it is wanted several interesting experiments have recently been made between bremen and new york in one the rocket was fired to a distance of 1500 feet and less distances by the in of five rockets nt a distance of from 1200 to 1500 feet from the ship a space of 1500 to 2000 square feet of water was covered with oil and alie waves were at once smoothed the rocket was fired feet against a gale the importance nf the invention to deepwater deep water sailors c waists in alio certainty of explosions of hi rocket at a sufficient distance to leave alie vessel in calm water during a rale the invention is said to have b ea purchased by the north german lloyd reported report pd atiat alie vie royna can fm china lias sent a memorial to the emperor of eliat country praying for an adit against the and use ol 01 kerosene oil it is declared by the vic eoy e oy that the deadly oil lias devoured a steamer with eight hundred souls that four hundred houses in have dauen a prey to its rapacity lapa city and eliat on thousand families and ten million dollars worth of property in canton alone have served as a pastime for alie destroying conater mo nater the viceroy set forth also that petroleum has destroyed the native industry in colza bean and peanut oils it is not stated in the memorial whether alie american custom prevails in china of starting fires by the use of kero esno oil from HIP extent of the ravaged attributed to kero it might be suspected that this is the case few have ever become citizens of the united states out of the thousands eliat have come here only sixteen over naturalized if aliis be true and no change occula in our naturalization laws the public do jiin will not be absorbed to any great extent by unless sixteen prove unusually prolific in offspring alie wyoming eastern Ra railway ilnay company which is believed to b r backed by the 1 lias alle a finst tt the I 1 rut ru t for i to thi of mile fur alie con of a stan durd territory alit road 13 to commence at alie batern ter of the salt lake valley E it i t ern railway on alie utah boundary line and pass ea through alie countie of units sweetwater freimont Frein ont carbon albany converse and La hi wyoming territory the road is to le a rival of ho union pacific through wyoming haB boen by con press for alic of ibe penitentiary tent iary marshal dyer thou Klit would be needed to fairy out the julac if |