Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-11
oFFEE IN NLIBERIA.-Minister Turner sends

COFFEE IN NLIBERIA.-Minister Turner sends
to the State department very interesting aud
valuable paper on the cultivation of coffee I'm
Liberia. The native plant, CgGed LIberica
possesses very superior qualities. It hOarisheS
in the tract between the SherbOo and San Pc
dro rivers. When transplanted to the West
Indies or to other portions of Africa, it fails TO
!hrlVe; put IL grows well in CeylOn. Its aroma
is the most delicious known. The destructive
coffee fungus, HenliIcjd VOStdtrir does not
attack it, even when grown in CeyIon and Bra
I'll. Large quantities OF the seed and cuttings
are sent from MOnroyia to Rio de Janeiro An
American bark took full cargo thither in
March last Considerable shipments have also
been made TO Java via England. Mr. Turner
attributes the rapidly increasing reputation of
the Liberian coffee TO the high standing 1t at
tanned at the Centennial exhibition. The eplant
grows equally well on hillsides, in valleys,
along the clayey banks of streams, in swamps.
on the sea shore, or in sun or shade Notwith-
standing governmental acts TO encourage cof-
lee planting, there are not more than ZOO
acres under cultivation in all Liberia, bearing
less than million trees, and these the prop.
erty OF 500 different planters: Mr.: Turner sug-
aHord remunerative return for Americas
capital.
THE GREAT PACIFIC COAST EARTHouIKr
AND TIDAL WAVE OF lS77.-The United States
minister in Chill, Mr.. Osborn, sends to the De.
nartment OF State an interesting dispatch ON
the earthquake and tidal wave of Nav 1877
ROUNDED on observations made during a per
ovhei Nlslt 10 lDe scene oil the disaster. The
SnOck and subsequent wave were experienced
along the Whole coast from Callao TO Valpa-
falSo. Ihe center OF the greatest disturbance
was near the southern border of Peru, not far
from the guano islands. At africa and Iquique
the signs OF damage done were conspicuous
1t is said that the hull OF the ". :. war steamer
"Wateree" which was washed inland nearly
mile at africa by the great wave of 1865, was
reached and floated a considerable distance
further north and nearly 10. the waters edge
again by last years wave. at PabellOn de
Plea. near the guano beds, the shock was ter
rible, the lamps We e overturned, the town set
on fire, and a few moments later it was swept
bodily into the sea by the tidal wave. Two
hundred persons peTiShed there. The wave
ebbed and flowed five times during the night.
and ali the shipping in the harbor was de,
strOyed. Beyond this point southwark the
shock decreased greatly i'm intensity, and at
Valparaiso was scarcely felt.
THE ANNUAL REGATTA of the PHILADELPHIA
Yacht club was held at Philadelphia yester-
day, the course being from kensington TO
Delanco, n. j., and return, a distance of 26
miles. The prizes were awarded TO the George
Hoh and Mahlon III. Thomas, of the first class
Charles w. Mecke and Joseph ii. Leary, of
the second class, and the David III. SCHUYLER
and chlis Faunce, OF the third class.
rF FKhediv, not Khediye, is the correct vay
OF spelling lsmail Pasha's tide. Authority
Capt: Burton, the traveller, who is Intimate
with his Highness.
ks-Congress has become morgue for dead
Teputallohs. and investigating committees
are only coroner's 1uries.-tN. y. Herald,