The interior journal., 1874-01-16
SINGLE Su1OTH.

At the end Of 1873 there were II ,564
miles Of railroad in the country, 4,f9o
miles having been constructed during
the year.
The magnificent bridge structure over
Mississippi River at ~. Louis has been
completed. The total cost closely ap'
proximates sl0,O00,O9O.
The strong-minded women are making
a desperate effort to induce Congress to
amend the civil rights bill so as to read,
race color, ser or previous condition,
&C."
That water will find it, level was re-
Gently shown at Marion. Ohio, where
on Christmas Day. Mr.. John c. Wa
ter was married to a Miss Caroline
Level
The large New York banking house
Of Henry Clcws d Co., resumed busi-
ness last week. Ii was one Of the first
to duck its head after the failure of j.
Cooke Il Co.
! Before the war, the cost of pubic
printing amounted to an average of
$3.50, 900 per year. Last year it cost a
triile over S2,000,000. And yet, they
want to levy $40, 900, 600 more taxes.
The cotton crop for the season Of
1884 is undoubtedly large one. The
New Orleans Cotton Exchange places it
at 3,js2, 900 bales, and the Agricultural
Bureau, at Washington, at 3,7OO0,0O0
bales.
! Large numbers of Grants Kingdom
of Radicalism in Louisianare reprcscn-
ted as starving. The President has or
dered that rations he supplied such
from the government stores. How beau
tiful it works.
The ladies march the streets in real
military style during this wretchedly
mudd weather When several take the
crossings the order is, "close up" and
when they get on the side walks the or
der is, "dress up.'-Giasgoro Times.
The Boston Adrertiscr says, with a
smile, that Baptist oyster fetival is to
take place in Norristown, Pa. That pa
per thinks that the idea Of a Baptist
oyster is absurd, bat il il not at all alb
surd if there is anything in immersion
The Seer tary of War deems the
proposed reduction of the rank and file
of the army unwise and contrary TO the
interests Of true economy. Retrench-
ment's the word, bu, Grant cannot spare
his troops! In time of profound peace,
is not this suspicious.
Mr.. Sumner made a proposition in
Congress to dispense with revenue ofii-
cials and collect all taxes by stamps,
which proposition was summarily dis
posed of. Retrenchmcnts the word,
but the administration will probably de-
wise some other means than by discharg-
ing its army Of "hangers-on."
Benjamin +. Evans, of Charleston,
South Carolina, who had charge of
printing the Confederate money, during
the war, has just died. His life, while
ut work for the rebels, was full of ad-
ventures. He was obliged to import his
machinery and skilled labor from Eng
land, via Mexico and the West.
A correspondent asks: "Why is it
that Congress grants such large pensions
to the young soldiers Of the late war and
such small ones TO the old soldiers of the
war of 1922" Well, to tell you the
truth, those old soldiers are confounded
hard to get to the polls. and when you
get them there they are so few in num-
Der they don't amount to much.-Com-
icr-Journai.
A resolution has passed the lower
House Of Congress authorizing the Sur
geon General Of the army to detail one
or more medical officers to visit all the
towns in which cholera prevailed in
1873, for the purpose of comforting with
the health authorities and resident ply
sicans, with view to reporting all nee
essary information connected with the
investigations, to the Surgeon General
before January, 1873.
Under a recent decision of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, not only
proprietary medicines and medicines
in which druggists claim a specialty are
liable to he stamped, but also all medi-
cines which are measured out in parcels,
ar ounce of laudinum, a quarter of Il
pound of soda, etc. Seidlitz powders
are excepted. Druggists are complain
ing OF the injustice of the regulations
and the inconsistency of the decision.
Seizures may be expected.
The "Union Furnishing Company" of
st. Louis, Missouri, which proposes, on
the reception of twenty-five cents for
each dollars worth of goods, to send by
"Express, G. o. d., with the privilege
of examination before paying a num-
her of articles in the dry goods and gro
cery line at about one-tenth the usual
retail prices, is denounced as base
swindle, and is perpetrated by a disrepu-
able fellow calling himself Williams.
There is also, "Union Furnishing
/ ('omnanNH in ('hiaoon that bas haen do