The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-07
MISCELLANEOUS.


The secretary of the interior has ap-
pointed Joseph Long, of Indiana, to look
after the timber land depredations in the
west.
Steam seems destined TO supersede
horses on the street railways, Brooklyn has
just adopted the dummy engine on one OF
her street car lines, and it seems to give
abundant satisfaction.
Greece is waiting for somebody to
knock the chip off her shoulder. She has
received $4,000 0 from her last loan, has
raised her army to 100000 men, who are well
armed and equipped, and she has $4,000
stand Of arms besides.
Ten car loads of ammunition, one hun
bred and four tons in all, have been loaded
upon the steamer John Bramhall at the
Winchester rifle works, New Haven. The
destination is Turkey, and this would tend
to show that America leads the world in the
manufacture Of firearms.
The committee inspecting the custom
house at Boston recommend a decrease of
the force, and increased compensation for
those remaining, so that the net saving, if
their recommendations are adopted, will be
a little over $4,000.
Harvest expectations in Minnesota
have been more than realized in the yield,
as ascertained since thrashing began. The
wheat crop of this wonderful grain-pfoducing
state is set down at the enormous total OF
100000 bushels, leaving a surplus for ex,
port OF from 26,000,0 600 to 2S,000,00 bushels
The average yield throughout the state is
now estimated at twenty bushels to the acre.
The workingmen of Philadelphia have
indorsed the eight-hour labor law, equaliza-
ton of taxes, compulsory education and a
liberal application of funds for the purpose,
and condemned the employment of prison
labor by private persons, manual labor in
factories by children under fourteen, and all
laws making it conspiracy for laboring men
to combine for their own protection.
The authorities of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton railroad have issued
a circular to their employees, declaring that
on and after September list ninety miles
run shall constitute a days work. Hereto.
fore sixty miles has been counted as a full
day. This ruling covers the line from Gin
cinnati to Toledo, and from Hamilton to
Indianapolis. Much dissatisfaction is ex-
pressed by the employees, as no increase of
pay accompanies the increased labor.
The Chicago Times says of the change
for the better in business in that city: at
is barely a month ago that the country lay
struggling in the throes of what was little
short of civil war, and it seemed for a time
that chaos and utter ruin would be the Dor.
ton of the whole community. For four
years things had been going to pot, piece by
piece, and at last came the enguling climax.
All this was but a month ago, yet to-day the
very face of nature seems transformed, and
the look of despair has, as il magic, changed
into a broad smile of prosperity. 1t is as if
the entire west, all of a sudden, was revi.
talized."
Two spans of the Union Pacific rail-
road bridge over the Missouri river at Omaha,
were blown down during a terrific storm
early Saturday morning. The piers are left
standing, and the other nine pan but it
will probably take two or three months to
the bridge. The loss is estimated at
about $350,000. The storm was from the
north, aud struck the e~asterly end of the
structure with such force as to
five hundred feet of it from its con.
1ections, and topple it into the river, twisting
he large wrought-iron stringers and columns
nto a variety of shapes. About one.half of
he debris is out of sight under the water,
md the remainder lies on the side and at
he foot of the high embankment on the
EASTERN approach.
New England has increased in popu-
alton only II per cent. in ten years. In
$50 the six states, Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, had a population of 3,135,323;
n 1870 their aggregate population was 81
Isl, 924. In Maine and New Hampshire
here was a decrease. Now, IN New York,
Jew Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania,
here was an aggregate population in 1860
1871 ,201, and in 1870, S,935,S2l. In Ohio,
indiana and Michigan there was in 1860 a
population of 4,439, 062, and in 1870, 5.529,-
Sc. In Illinois, low and Wisconsin the
population in 1860 was 1892, 745; in 1870,
1887, 581. In Minnesota, Nebraska and
Kansas, in 1860, the population was 30S,070;
n 1870 it had increased to 927,l11. In Colo
New Mexico and Texas, in 1860, the
opulation was $4,000; in 1870 it was
81 ,422. The greatest increase OF population
in the west and southwest. Texas, which
1860 had 604,215, has now, in 1877. a popu.
of 1000, 900, and in 1880, when the
national census will be taken, the pop
lation of Texas will be equal to that of all
he New England states. Westward the star
T empire! etc. !
The national board of trade commenced J
S ninth annual session at Milwaukee, Oh ;
2lst. Delegates were present from nearly {
the boards throughout the country. I
fayor Butler, of Milwaukee, made the well r
oming speech, in which he alluded to ali !
ne leadlng topics OF the DAY connected with |;
ne commercial interests of the country, In l.
is response, Frederick Fraley, of Philadel- v
hia, president of the national board, spoke s
{ the labor question as follows: He hoped b
nat each man, considering it in relation to c
imself, and thus comparing il to its great z
with the great interests of the =
will see that as labor is the creator "
all wealth it should be protected by sound q
nd wise laws, and that, for the settlement Il
questions involving principles of labor g
nd capital, the best intelligence of the D
,uutry should be invited and invoked, and 4
lat out Of such invitation may come con- \
derations that will lead to the enactment :,
laws referring the questions of labor and .
Ipital, where they come in contact, to
of arbitration, that may ascertain
the question involved, as between
e laborer and the capitalist, and suggest
medal measures for their settlement by il
mpromise adapted to equitable considera- d