Show EX ALTGELD says banca is a debaucher debauc ber of a nation altgeld is outspoken when he gets after a corruption bat THE freeze in florida which occurred three years ago was aa disastrous to that state as the act of tiza tion was to nevada before the heavy frost annual orange crop was boxes the estimate for this season is boxes UTAH IDAHO and washington three states with Silve rites in control of their legislature may be represented by only one senator each in the special session of congress to be called in march A deadlock is threatened in the legislature of each state strenuous efforts should be made to avoid such a possibility THE meeting last night was well attended and when it is considered that the meeting was called on twelve hours notice it must be considered a great success it is rumored an anti thatcher meeting will he called for tuesday night if eo and the honea ie equally wel packed and the meeting us successful as the one last night then which meeting will have the best right to instruct the weber delegation DAKOTA DIVORCES count for little in new york state justice russell ot the supreme burt of new york has lately rendered the following decision place Is at the hone of her husband and child and she cannot acqulia a foreign residence for the express purpose of herself from the charge of violation of duty and exempting herself from its nor if she has bained a residence in the state of north dakota would her butt there haye been euest lve to sever the ties by judicial force the courts mut gain jurisdiction by personal bervice of the process upon the defendant or by his voluntary appearance A fictitious residence in north dakota ol 01 ahree months duration will not be recognized aa entitling the courts of south dakota to jurisdiction and many divorces obtained under such conditions will be void in other states CZAR abed lie is well named uia latest exhibition of autocracy is the killing of the free homestead bill that passed the senate de refuses to allow the measure to be called up giving aa a pretext that members who worked for the measure in the last congress have been left at home the bill provides for the throwing open to settlement all public from the indiana free ot any payment except office tees and covers a domain of acres the bill had it become a law would bare given of poor families bomea free of mortgages As it Is those who have the money can purchase and who have not can become tenants on the one band giving additional advantages to those who have means and on the ether condit lone conducive to THE new york times has been mab ing an investigation of the inflicted upon countries by the introduction of foreign infects plants and parasites it bays the gypsy moth cost the state of massachusetts in vain attempts te exterminate it the rabbit plague of australia the infliction of the thistle in our west and the choking up of the waterways of florida and louisiana by the central american water hyacinth all show the disastrous results of introducing foreign plants and and animals into a new region where they are free to increase uncontrolled by the ravages of their natural enemies who prey upon them in their native habitats the says the balance of batore my be disturbed by the destruction of native animals as well as by the introduction of foreign vermin and noxious vegetation the conquest ot our potato patches by aa the colorado beetle waa probably the result of the extinction of the birds who preyed upon that destructive insect in its original western home but all of untoward consequences of a derangement ran gement of the fine equilibrium maintained by nature in her economy were due to accident or inadvertence the gypsy moths of massachusetts were propagated from a few captive specimens which unfortunately escaped irom a boston entomologist the water hyacinth was imported for abo purpose of beautifying our ponds and aquariums and its did not dream that the really pretty plant would develop such unexampled fecundity as to become an obstruction to navigable streams UON EDWARD J of vermont does not think well of the arbitration treaty it is obvious that in no case whatever can arbitration be successfully cess fully proposed where popular feeling upon the one side or the other has reached fighting heat and has passed beyond the control of representative government A casual review of the wars that have occurred in modern times between countries so governed and of the conditions that preceded them will shew how utterly futile in such emergencies would have been or would be hereafter the attempt at the gingerine lin gerine and uncertain process of submitting to the decision of foreign jurists the quarrel that bad sec mens minds r tire he further remarked that it will probably be apparent therefore to those who will reflect upon these suggestions gest ions that it is a mistake to suppose that international arbitration can ever become as has been fondly hoped a substitute for war on no such critic ial I 1 and cumbrous contrivance can peace on earth and good will among men be made to depend nations are in many respects like individuals when passion gets the best of individuals reason is dethroned and the law is taken into their own hands two nations may and amicably arbitrate questions of fact but when national p ide is touched and the acclaim of the angry multitude is beard the findings of an arbitration committee are without influence deseret news a letter published in the philadelphia record from the secretary of the lord provost 0 glasgow to refute the statement which has appeared in these columns that the city of glasgow 0 vine to the attending municipal ownership of public otili ties was free from taxation while it would appear from the letter that the property holders of glasgow are not entirely free from municipal tax the secretary bays municipal control has been eminently successful and leads the reader to inter that taxes have been thereby greatly reduced the news says it probably did not occur to those papera which accepted as true the assertion about municipal administration in certain enterprises reaching the result claimed that to raise the revenue necessary those must be made burdensome themselves it would not necessary tollow that the enterprises would have to be made burdensome den some in a city of the population of sufficient revenue could be raised under proficient and economical management to defray the expenses of the city government and if the a for the public eer vicea were not greater than in other cities of the eize in which corporations bad control of the water works etc the enter irises could not justly be termed burden since the city ot glasgow control of the street railways he fires have been reduced more than ne halt and if nothing more had been accomplished the change to municipal could be classed as a great luccese luc cess |