The enquirer southerner., 1874-06-05
EDITORIAL BREV1TIES.

EDITORIAL Bk6V4IA6o. ,
On the 18th of May Pope Pho was
80 years old.
Tom Scott has been elected Presl-
dent of the Pennsylvania Central.
It is said that in the Chickasaw
and Choctaw nations freedmen are
still held as slaves.
The latest advices from Washing
ton are to the affart that the Civil |
Rights bill will not pass the House
this session.
The Tichborne claimant has lost
four stone in weight since his impris-
enment, and he now weighs but
eighteen stone.
Among the candidates for admission
to West Point is one named Sauer-
milch, from Pennsylvania. He has
studied the milky whey with great
success.
The dust of Alexander Hamilton,
distinguished officer in the army of
the Revolution, a member of Wash
ington's staff and afterwards holding
high rank, lies in Trinity churchyard
New York.
In the u. s. Senate last week the
question of woman suffrage was con-
sidered, upon a motion to confer the
right to the women of the new ter
ritory of Pembrina, the motion re-
ceiving 19 votes for to p against.
The Chicago Tribune estimates that
getting born costs the people of the
United States s::2O, ,095, 900 annually;
getting married, $3.50, 100000; get
ting buried, $73, ,839,450; total,
$543,9 ,45O.
Intelligence has been received in
Utica, New York, that, Hon. Charles
81. Doolittle, judge Of the Supreme
Court of that district, was lost over
board from the Abyssinia on the 2lst
instant, while en- route from New
York to Europe.
The Senate has passed the Centen-
NAL bill, with a proviso that the
United States shall not be liable for
any expenses attending the Exposi-
ton. Mr.. Edmunds said the bill
was equivalent to an invitation to
dinner, with the reservation that each
person should pay his own footing.
The New York Evening Post says:
Given the partisan press, which had
swallowed everything labelled 'Ad.
ministration,' as easily as the young
man in Paris swallowed a fork,
feared for its digestion when it con-
templated the figure cut by Mr.. Rich
ardson in the Sanborn business"
A heavy drain is now being made
/ on this country by the Bank o.
France, the latter having decided to
resume specie payment. For several
. months this Bank has been drawing
gold from London, and to fill the
vacuum thus occasioned the Bank O.
.. England is now drawing gold from
3 New York at the rate of two or thret
million dollars per week.
: In a recent article the London
, Economist calls attention to the start
: ling fact that the reimmigration 0:
!, British subjects back from Americs
. into England, increased from 1852
) in the decade 1S51.'61, to 252, ,006 il
: the decade 1861-71. It attribute,
this return wave to the disturbed
condition of our currency, and the
mischiefs bred by our protective
system.
D The average death-rate reported il
twenty-one cities Of Great Britain fo
4 the week ending April 25th was equa
to "A per 1000 yearly. In Glasgow
it was 81, IN Dublin %, in Edinburgl
25, in Liverpool %, in London 20
and in Paris 26. In Munich for tn
;, week previous, on account of tn
u presence of cholera-which, however
}, had very much abated, compared t
Il the four previous weeks-the rat
It was "a.
v The British Secretary Of STATE 70
k Foreign Affairs has, within the las
few weeks, made a formal deman
upon the Spanish government for a
IS acknowledgment of the wrong don
7. in the case of the Virginius, askin
= for compensation to the relatives {
l. the victims who were subjects {
j. Great British. He adds that he ha
le not heretofore pressed the matter, i
,s view of the grave toubles in whic
,r Spain was involved, but ne trus
that now there will be no further d.
lay on the part of that governmen
y It seems that the reconstructed sta
- utes ofArkansas make treason again
lie the State capital offence. At lea
10 Baxter says SO, and expresses Il
Le opinion that Brooks and few othe
es will show prudence by emigratir
w while it is yet called to-day. If the
on should be arrested and convicte
presently he could do nothing fl
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