Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-08-20

1.-The Brown scholarships IN B0Wdoln col
lege OF $50 each, have been awarded this yeai
to F. A. Fogg, O. +. Gilman and O. Il. Clark
all Of Portland. After 1875 the scholarships
will be worth SIS annually.
THE Connecticut legislature has appro-
priated $1,000 for the soldiers monument to
be placed in the Evergreen Cemetery at New
Haven, in honor of the one hundred and elk
stranger soldiers buried there.
The Swiss have at last begun to make
practical use of the glaciers. Near MaTtigny
small cubes of crystal elearness are cut from
the ice, packed in boxes, and sent off by fast
trains to the large cities of France, where
they arrive with trifiing waste.
Both bituminous and anthracite coal
have been found in the Rocky Mount ins,
on the line of the Pacific Railroad, close to
the track. The best coal field is near Ben
ton, in the vicinity OF the crossing OF the
North Platte.
Grapes are bought by the California wine
maker delivered at his press, clean, for sew
enty cents per hundred pounds; and it is
stated that in one thousand pounds scarcely
one pound of unripe or rotted berries has to
be cut out from the lunches. 'N-
-Hippophagy has failed in Paris. The
government was willing, the sdUdns urged
the people to eat and set the example, the
.storekeepers added horse-hesh to their stock,
but customers we're lacking, and there are
indications that the movement will be aban-
doned.
There are more Methodists in Ohio than
in any other state, more Baptists Ill Georgia,
more Presbyterians III Pennsylvania, more
Congregationalists in Massachusetts,, more
Protestant Episcopalians in New York, and
ten times more Uniiarians in Massachusetts,,
than in any other state.
The Waverly Magazine, the Boston
weekly that made Moses A. Dow so rich, is
one OF the worst and trashiest productions
ever published in the country. 1t ii made
up of unpaid-for articles of young people in
clined to cheap sentiment and bad English.
The stalk of the hop vine, after the hops
are gathered, makes an excellent fibre for
coarse cloth and cordage. 1t requires to be
stepped in water till there is sign Of loose
ming; then dried and beaten till the woody
centre separates from the centre fibre, which
comes off easily in long threads.
The California fruit crop was never finer in
quality, or larger in quantity and variety than
it is this summer. Many large growers in
tend to pay more attention to, drying and
packing for export this year. Ruling prices
are more reasonable TO consumers, yet suf-
ficiently profitable to producers, and the me-
thods Of forwarding to market show some
improvement. 'It
Two more beautiful frescoes have been
discovered at POmpeii, in the vestibule OF a
house in the Via Stabiana, in all excellent
state OF preservation. They are supposed TO
be portraits of the master and mistress of
the house. The woman is seated and eyi-
IDENTIFY preparing to write. The frescoes have
been removed to the museum at Naples
+All Northern Europe is languishing un-
der the unexampled heat of the present sum
mer. During the discussion in the French
Chamber ON July 20, the heat was such that
the floor had to be sprinkled with vinegar,
and. in spite OF this precaution, General
Meshn, so years Of age, who was decorated
.on the field of Waterloo, tainted, and was car
ried away.
Captain Plumacher, Of Switzerland, has
purchased forty thousand acres of land in the
vicinity Of Tullahoma and McMinnyille, in
Tennessee. The first instalment of immi-
grants designing to establish themselves up
ON the tract, passed through Lynchburg, on
Friday, on their way to their new homes.
They are men q means, and will make excel
lent citizens. They will engage in the plant
ing of vineyards, and in stock raising on an
extensive scale.
The Japanese have discovered that a few
seconds previous to an earthquake the mag
net temporarily loses its power. They have
ingeniously constructed light frame, sup
porting horse shoe magnet, beneath which
is cup of bell metal; to the armature is at
tached weight, SO that upon the magnet
becoming paralyzed the weight drops, and,
striking the cup, gives the alarm. Every
one in the house then seeks the open air for
safety. f..J t .tt
The Sicilian Railway Company not long
since bought in Catania, for the purposes OF
its business, q house two stories high, for
merly belonging to the Jesuits. The work
men in demolishing part Of the building, dis
covered cavity Of nearly two metres in
length by three-quarters Of a metre in
breadth. Within this space lay three human
skeletons, still covered with some fragments
Of cloth too much decayed to show whether
they had formed part Of apriest's cassock OF
some other garment. rWtN N'N