Show EDITORIAL NOTES I 1 in the petroleum jetro leum district on the Z caspian sea gea there are wells chiefly under the superintendence of americans americana F fifteen million dollars are invested in refineries which last year produced barrels T dewitt talmage announces that he would rather be buried in china than in salt isake lake his sentiments on that ma ter are exactly our own concerning his place of deposit but we cant say how the mongolians Mongo 1 lians will feel about it governor wright VV right of the indian territory is a converted choctaw indian sometimes after presiding over ove r a political meeting of his people he calls them to order and preaches a sermon to them Is this a knien fucien of church and state slate the san francisco monitor catholic th olic makes some somo pungent criticism upon the disunion and antagonism existing in protestant sects and maintains this thia to be one of the chief causes of the prevailing infidelity erving berving fe to create a spirit of skepticism in the minds of many christians and to lead them away from the virtuous paths of piety into the broad road which leads to eternal ruin the gozos says that russia which usually exports bushels of grain will have to import some this year in consequence of the very general failure of the russian ru ss an crop rhe the prospects for future good harvests moreover are not encouraging an insect which has hag defied all efforts to exterminate it and which has proved the greatest enemy of the russian farmers has ha made the fields its abode we learn leam from an article in the november I 1 international that in 1842 1812 the western states were in debt 59 1 the southern states and the middle states in 1852 the first reliable report of the valuation of property the southern states exceeded in wealth the middle states by and the western states by 1 today to dayube day the debts of the two latter sections are 15 and respectively W while hile hiie the south before repudiation owed and today to day recognizes debt since the article below on the denver riot was written the good report has been telegraphed from trum denver that the riot which occurred there on sunday had no origin or countenance from either political party and that the leaders or those under arrest are strangers in the city hatred of the Chi chinese lipse was the main cause muse and this feeling seems seema to be shared by both republicans and democrats in the pacific states the affair is none the less disgraceful that it was not a part izan outbreak but that it was not is much more creditable to the colorado si i democrats i only ten days residence in indiana is necessary to enable a citizen to vote it will easily be seen what an opportunity this offers for colonization niza tion it is to be hoped that politicians will learn by the lessons of the c campaign m of 1880 the folly if not the evil of personal defamation principles should be the points of copt cout controversy 10 and policies the ob objects acts of attack in a political struggle struggle for preeminence the cause of reform spelling is growing and a number of periodicals per 10 i di are adopting some important changes in the orthography of the language A specimen copy of the phonographic monthly has haa reached us in in which many of the common words are spelled as pronounced the sensible gensib 0 substitution of if f for ph philone phi is sone one of the new features as well as iok ilk k for ioe ile c etc there are a good many inconsistencies these will no doubt disappear in time the annual report of or the bosc post office department for the nis fis nisai fiscal al year ended june 30 1880 ia is just published it shows that on that date the postal service w was as in in opeia oceia operation tion on 1118 railroad routes aggregating miles in length at an annual cost for transportation alone of rhe fhe cost of transportation on star service route router a aggregating vre miles for the year was this was in ex edess ess of the expenditure for the same branch of the service in the preceding year and was w greater than the estimate submitted by the department to congress in december 1880 our dispatches today taday to ta day announce the heaviest vote in all parts of the north and west that has ever been polled and also that the election proceeds quietly therease Ther there eare oare are reports of prated attempted bribery illegal registration and voting and from south carolina of polling places being closed where the republicans are strongest all these rumors have some foundation no doubt but they are merely election stories and receive little notice there will probably be some fraud and both parties will participate in it but se fa nar far everything promises an unusually peaceable and generally honest test of the strength of both parties we do not know of any work which is calculated to do more good among our young people than the faith series which is being published at the office of the juvenile instructor tor the second volume is poetically entitled A string of pearls nui ari ar 1 l consists of a number of sketches illustrating the power of faith and the manifestation of gods mercy in in answer to prayer informs it forms a mighty weapon in defense of tz true e faith in the midst of a skeptical generation every young man and woman should read it and older members of our church might peruse and ponder on its contents with p profit ronit it can be had for twenty cents A forcible writer in the christian register describes the pan pau presby eresby terian council as a body of men with a sad colored expression of countenance and cadence and a rigidity of feature corresponding with their creed he speaks thus of their sentiments there seemed to be no abatement on the whole in the utterances made of the old doctrinal demands of calvinism when one member in the course of a running discussion reiterated strongly the dear daar old doctrine of eternal damnation the applause was greater than I 1 had heard it before election and pre predestination destina were the postulates of all the speakers and total depravity their tacit assumption new york papers and philanthropists want utah regenerated and christianized Christiani zed after the Goth amito amite style yet paragraphs like therol the to I 1 lowing owing from the herald ame are of frequent appearance the society for the prevention of cruelty to ch children 1 has lia liz been rescuing some more juveniles from the misery caused by brutal parents hundreds and thousands of little lives could be saved from wretchedness if the alleged tenderhearted tender hearted public had real heart enough to inform the society of cases of cruelty coming comina under their notice new york is a christian city and yet so many thousands of its children summler suffer from gross parental brutality that a special society has to be kept in ope operation atlon ution to save some of them from misery and murder look at home christian regenerators and let the tile mormons cormons Mor mons alone the health laws revealed reve revo aled through moses to ancient israel have been tested for many generations and the proof prof that they are divine in their origin is seen even at the present day and in a df different ferent climate from that for which they were specially adapted dr S gibbon medical officer of health for the holborn district in his report for the past year states that whatever who tover ver ven may be the cause there is no doubt that a jews life in london is on the tiie average worth twice as many years as a christians Christi christl anis anas the tho hebrews of the metropolis are notoriously exempt from tubercular and scrofulous taint it is very rare that one meets with pulmonary consumption among them the medical officer of one of their large schools has remarked thai that their children do not dot die in anything like the same ratio as gentilo gentile children and in the district of the medical officer of health has reported that on the north side of high street occupied by the jews the average death rate is twenty per 1000 while on the south side occupied by english and irish it is to arty three per 1000 |