The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-10-29

LIH1o Vi us eIlacGmeuI, Has dIIeduy D0COn
dead letter Out of the IL, 900 children
which were known in January to be tru
ants, only 800 have been compelled t.
attend school, and their attendance foI
six months has cost the city $4,000. L
1t takes time to learn, but sooner or IateI
people must learn that there are socia
wrongs which indirectly affect the state
.:..that laws alone cannot control.
GALIGNANI states that the soundings
for the submarine tunnel between Eng.
land and France are being carried on
actively. They are at this moment di-
. rected to the part of the straits near the
English coast, at few miles from shore.
Each evening the vessel which carries the
commission returns to Dover, Calais or
BOulogne, and work is recommended the
next day. The engineers charged with
that important labor, NM. Larousse and
Lavalle, are perfectly satisfied with the
=, results obtained and so far nothing has
occurred to destroy their provisions rela-
: tive to the depth.
: Or. FRANCIS WHARTON, in an article
: in Lippincott's Magazine, discusses. the
!, zerelations of .spiritualism and jurispru-
tlence. "What attitude" he asks, ''is
s Jurisprudence to assume toward a person
!: .ivhO, charged with an invasion of the
laws of the land, sets up defense that
he was acting under the constraint of
. superior spiritual power? What attitude
is jurisprudence to assume toward those
who exercise such power for an illegal
,end?" DR.. Wharton has no doubt that
mediums are responsible for acts done
while professedly entranced, and for the
ACTS of persons whom they may get I'M
der their control.
AN appeal is now before the New York
supreme court, involving the question of
the right to assess churches for street i'm
provements. Three churches of New
York city unite in endeavOring to escape
the payment of certain assessments for
paving streets. 1t was decided at special
term of the court that, under an act
tlirty-ive years old, which has been once
repealed-the repeating act being after
ward itself repealed-the churches were
exempt from assessment, as they were
free from city tax. The prominence
3 given to this case may stimulate the gen.
aeral discussion, which has not been in
; frequent of late years, concerning the
exemption of church property from tax
alton.
TURKEY is afraid that Russia will
take Constantinople and kick the
Crescent out of Europe. Russia is afraid
Prussia will take Finland and Poland.
Austria is afraid Germany will take Aus
tria. Germany is afraid France will
take Alsace-Lorraine, and France Is
afraid that Germany will take the
province of Champagne, as Won Moltke's
soldiers got such a frst-class taste of its
sparkling wine during the 1870 campaign.
England is afraid her scattered provinces
will take themselves and leave her only
= nutshell to crack in her own little isle.
)" Spain is afraid the United States will
take Cuba.
~ THE last on dit from Paris is that the
Empress Eugene lately requested Pres;
Ident MacMahOn to permit her to visit
/. Paris for twenty-four hours in the most
private manner, and that the result was
prompt refusal. The French Govern
ment permits the Bourbon Princes to
reside in Paris; has placed the Due
d. Aumale Zone of them) in command Of
II. enc of the eighteen grand divisions of
the French army; permits the Prince
Napoleon (Jerome) to reside in Paris .
but, in the most peremptory manner,
forbids the Prince Imperial, a penniless
young gentleman nineteen year old, and
his mother, a widow with narrow MEANS !
to set foot on French soil The only
plain reference for this is that President
MacMahon and hiss responsible advisors
have no fear of the Bourbon or the
Orleans pretensions and 'pretenders, bu
are infinitely afraid of young Napoleon
and his brother.
AT the recent meeting of the Social
Science association in Bristol, Professor
.JevOns returned to the subject of eX-
haustion of the coal-felds, and very fully
supported the views that have been re-
peatedly urged on that important topic.
He showed that the annual rate of in
crease of consumption, so far from having
been Overrated in his previous calcula-
lions, was not actually in excess of those
calculations; and that the actual increase
of consumption is at the rate of % per
cent per annum, not in arithmetical but
in geometrical progression. The total
produce of 1873 is estimated at 12S,6SO-
$50 tons, according to the report of the
g inspectors of mines. The quantity con
umed for domestic purposes was esti-
mated at one ton per head per annum of
the whole population, or between thirty
and forty millions of tons. The total
exports of coal are only from twelve to
fourteen millions of tons per annum.
Thus some eighty millions of tons repre-
Sent the motive and manufacturing power
/. of the country. The waste in consump-
si.tion, whether for manufacturing or do
ymestic purposes, is, no doubt, enormous
1T was lamented by the president in his