The Morning herald., 1877-04-12
Here and There.

Here and There.
Lehigh county, Pa, possesses 81 distill
cries in which whisky il made from apples
A number Of miners from Luseren'
county are about sailing for Australia.
Germany has concluded Commercial
treaties with Peru, Nicaragua and Gaute
mala. r S's. n
The manufacture of wollen hats Is ons
of the leading industries Of Berks county
Pa. It employs large number Of hands
and considerable capital. -sa ,.,al
Norfolk, Va , claims that in five, years il
has become the second cotton port in tht
South. sta as2s 5 sia' as "A
Water obtained by artesian wells on the
Colorado desert is found 10 be too salt fol
domestic use. w. e.
Paris proposes to hold in the winter ol
1877. or during the period Of the Exposi-
ton, a grand book fair, modelled after The
famous ones at LEIPZIG. --
Rural meteorology is progressing rapid
" in France, where 500 parishes receive
daily weather warnings by telegraph and
the number is increasing.
Upon the banks Of the Thames, near
Somerset House, London, is shortly to be
erected statute TO Sir 1sambard Brunei,
designer Of the Thames tunnel.
By q resolution of the City Council Of
Mobile, all cotton factories erected within
the corporate limits will be relieved from
+ taxation for ten years. e~ s
"Montpelier," the homestead of Presi-
dent Madison, near Lexington, We, has
been sold to land company, and is to be
occupied by Germans.
Three hundred girls were recently re-
ported to have been sold as slaves in Cairo,
and the British Government has requested
| its representative in Egypt to make in
ouiries with view to remonstrance.
The Faculty of Dartmouth College have
decided that hereafter no student shall
have the benefit Of "a scholarship who will
not pledge himself to spend no money for
LIQUORS, tobacco, billiards and dancing.
A Russian eneineer named Peretjatko
has invented q sort of land monitor, in
which artillerists cit in tower and drive
about in battle, shooting as they 90. The
contriyance is driven by steam, and is
about to be tested BY the government.
AT the request Of the Austrian Ambassa-
dor. and on the recommendation Of the
Duke de Decazes, President MacMahon
has conferred the Cross of the Legion Of
Honor upon Johann Strauss, the composer
and orchestra leader. .f.Y., .-1
An amendment to the School law Of Ma
vada provides that salsries Of teachers
shall be determined by the character Of
service required, and that in no district
shall there be discrimination in the matter
OF salary as against female teachers.
it's expected that the Indian prisoners
now confined at st. Augustine. Fla. will
soon be pardoned. Many of the younger
ones have expressed desire to remain in
civilized ranks and attend school, instead
Of remaining wild on the plains.
A Swedish officer, who has arrived at
suez states that the Abyssinian army mum.
bering $4,000 men, divided into three
bodies, armed with good rifles but badly
drilled. Col. Mitchell Of the Egyptian
staff is at Adowa, chained to . native soil
dier and suffering severely. Il
The difference between the cost of pro-
duction of cotton fabrics, North and South,
is from two to four cents on the pound Of
raw material in favor of the South. In |
consequence, the manufactures of Georgia !!
all prospered last year and declared divi-
dends. while large number at the North
and East lost money.
Madame Andre, widow of the banker,
Ernest Andre of Gard, France, died lately |
in Paris leaving 10,00e,00 francs, about
100000, to the future wife of her step
son, an old bachelor without Thought of
marriage, One million francs of the for.
tune is in jewels. Madame Andres father,
the Comte de Gudin, was General Of the
first Napoleon, and was killed at Moscow