The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1877-12-22
General News.

iofe congress.
The House, after some discus
sion, has passed the deficiency ap-
preparation bill.
st. Louis is making determined
efforts to clear the city of gam
blers. Arrests are made almost
nightly. a1
Sixty-five families from PennsyI-
yania and New Jersey have just
settled apon 1000 acres of agricul-
tnral lands in Navarro county,
! Texas.
The Fruit Growers Association
met in New Orleans on the l4th
inst. After considering few mat
tiers of little general Importance,
they adjourned to meet the first
Thursday in May.
The culture of coffee in Califor-
MIA is becoming profitable. The
plant grows as vigorously as in the
coffee countries of South America,
and yields beanof strong aromat-
&c flavor. Central and Southern
California are the regions peculiar
ly favorable.
1t is proposed to redeem from
sterility the great desert in TIE wes-
tern part Of Kansas and Nebraska,
by damming the Arkansas and
Platte rives, and turning the waters
into the desert, forming lake, from
which water could be drawn for ir-
rlgating purposes.
The market commissioner of
Reading, Pa, while going through
the market weighing butter, found
a quantity belonging to farmer,
each lump of which weighed a
pound and a half which the dealer
was selling for one pound. The
thing generally works the other
way. si frn.- Il -r a,if B,
The amount of national bank
notes retired and surrendered from
Jan. IA, 1915, to Dec. l, 1877, is
$40, $3.50, 49L The additional nation
al bank notes issued between same
dates amount to $38, 1874, $40. There
was a decrease of $32,64l,S 5l. The
national bank notes outstanding on
Dec. 1 will be $3l9,2l9, 500. The
greenbacks retired from Jan. IL,
1875. to- Dec. L, will amount to
$30,650.7l2, and the greenbacks
outstanding at that date $751;, 340,-
208. r1 .v,ls 4s ago
! The G hinese question was lead
ing topic of attention, on the l4th
inst, at full Cabinet meeting.
Therecent reports to the President
from San Francisco, in addition to
several papers on the subject
brought to his attention at various
times, were laid before the council
and made a matter of very earnest |
consideration. The Cabinet also |
gave attention to our Mexican rela-
tons, though there was nothing
particularly with regard thereto for |
consideration. .s9c Y1n
The committee on the state of |
the country appointed by the Afri-
can Methodist Conference recently
in session at Salisbury, N. c., has
made report congratulating North
Carolina and the South upon the
peace and harmony that now pre-
vail. "Not. since 1860" says the
report, "has there been such tran
quality in this State and in the
South generally, as within the past
gear. Never have the colored peo-
pie of this State been SO greatly
encouraged to purchase lands and
build themselves comfortable man
sions and be happy in this country
as to-day" This does not sound
like the rattle of the outrage mill.
1t may be asserted with absolute
that there is no founda-
ton for the reports which are now
in circulation as to an approaching
recognition of Gen. Diaz as the
lawful chief magistrate of Mexico.
No such action has been seriously
contemplated by the administra-
ton. Great efforts are making to
induce the administration to con-
slider the claims of Gen. Diaz; but
it is well understood by whom those
efforts are inspired, and what their
real object is. The news from Mex
leo indicates that the Diaz govern
ment is losing and not gaining
and after holding our re-
lations SO long in allegiance with it,
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