The enquirer southerner., 1874-07-10
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

rest on Narragansett Pier. Fishing
Or sleeping it Off"
OF 1872 boys in Connecticut school
181 are officially reported as liars
Old Connecticut is hard to beat.
Large numbers OF male and female
clerks have been discharged from the
various departments.
The next national convention OF
the Young Mems Christian Associa~
ton will be held in Richmond next
June.
Roman Catholics in Wisconsin are
leaving the oranges, the Bishop OF
Milwaukee having issued pastoral |
against them.
The New York Herald sends a
special train to Saratoga with its
paper every Sunday morning during
the summer season.
The St. Louis bridge, the celebra-
ton of the completion of which oc~
Cured on the 4th July, cost some
SO, 100000.
The Baltimore Gazette in inclined
to the impression that Gov. Kemper,
of Virginia, writes too much, or at
least, that he writes "not wisely, but
too we'll"
How we have improved upon those
dreadful Puritan days when none
was of sufficient Importance personally
to have discipline and the moral law
suspended and set aside to save the
feelings of delinquents !
The Project of Improving the
Mississippi River, so that the great
Father of Waters shall be open to
vessels of the largest size, is of the
same importance to the country as the
problem of an interoceanic canal.
The official organ of the German
| Government expresses great regret at
the departure of Minister Bancroft
The Emperor has presented his por-
trait to Mr.. Bancroft and exhibited
great regret at his departure.
A Suggestion is made in a con-
temporary that the Vice President of
the United States should also be
Governor of the District Of Columbia.
This would give the Vice President
some employment.
There has been o general stampede
of Government officials from Wash
ington for the summer resorts. AS a
result, Washington is more honest at
this time than at any other season of
the year.
The Virginia papers agree that
Gov. Kemper has fully vindicated
himself from the charges recently
brought against him of cooperating
with Mosby in selling out the Con-
servative party of Virginia.
General Beauregard is reported as
having received and accepted an offer
from the Argentine Republic to
become its chief engineer-at a salary
of 10000 o year-to direct the con
struction of defensive works.
The Civil Rights measure has
proven a most serious bomb-shell in
the ranks Of the Republicans
of the State. No white man
can swallow it, and yet he can
not act with the Republican party
without endorsing it.
1t will be rather sad announcement
to tourists Bostonwards that the
Supreme Judicial Court of Massacu-
setts has decided that the Prohibitory
Liquor law is not unconstitutional
and that beer is an unlawful bever-
age.
| The Chicago Tribune thus puts it
in reference to the glorious Fourth ::
"The day we do not celebrate. The
American eagle is not particularly
strong in his fight or very gritty in
his scream to-day-he will fly low and
sing small"
Swarms of grasshoppers; those
pests Of the Western former, have
committed such fearful ravages upon
the growing crops in Southwestern
Minnesota that the people are al
ready in q condition of destitution.
Governor Davis has appealed to the
Oranges to do what they can to re-
lieve their fellow farmers in distress.
The new ship-channel from Balti-
more to deep water though the Pa
tapsco river, was formally opened on
Thursday last, giving to Baltimore
an easy access at mean low tide to
vessels carrying twenty-four feet OF
water. The opening up of this chan
mel is considered of great Importance
to the commercial interests of Balti-
more, and the Gazette devotes nearly
its whole paper to a description OF
the occasion.
| The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
crop report to June 3Oth, says Of
North Carolina "Forty-one coun-
ties report the weather less favorable,
an average decrease of nineteen Der