The Morning herald., 1878-05-18
wIIllinaTON,Del. May IS, 1878
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The latest cold wave. visited fifteen
States, andgwas1 accom- panied in Canada
New Y orb, Illinois, and u OPennsylsania
with frost bail and snow, but from al ac-
counts there was not much damagedone,to
growing crops. From all sections Of the
country comes the welcome information
that the1prospeets for these crops all point
10 an unusually bountiful harvest # these
hopes are fulfilled, the hard times must
certainly soon give way to plenty. ,gisa7
Or The thousands Of pounds Of dynamite
that are doubtless transported, over our
most populous railroads without intermis-
sion week after week, it is wonder that
the whole trains are not blown to atoms
and passengers violently hurled out Of
reach and out of all possibility of recogni-
ton. The certainty that such explosives
are daily conveyed in railroad cars cannot
admit of a doubt. and yet no one is prose-
cuted. The only case that has come to
public notice is related as having hap
pened in Bradford, Pennsylvania, where a
person was fined the sum Of five hundred
dollars for transporting one thousand
pounds of dynamite over four railroads. a
AMONG the evils incident to war may
be mentioned the prevalence of malignant
diseases. Around Constantinople the ma.
liguant typhus fever and small pox are
staying thousands of victims. 1t has be-
come 80 violent that strict quarantine
has been established to prevent its spread
1t does appear as if all. these lives was a
great sacrifice for that myth glory. Ifauy
advantage was to be gained by fighting IL
would be one thing, but it appears as an
unllitigated evil, generally caused by jeaI-
ousy and carried on through excitement.
In a humi.arian point Of view it costs
more than it comes to. Then bslligerants
should remember that one party has to BE-
whipped, and this is more severe humil-
iation than declining to fight even at
sacrifice of honor.
A LARGE number of Pittsburgh's heav
lest firms, says the Reading Times an.
Dispatch, have telegraphed Wallace and
Cameron to try and secure the immediate
repeal Of the bankrupt law, to take effect
at once. They say they do not know who
to trust; that the trouble and difficulty #
doing business with the time extended is
and will be immense; that the trade of the
country is being disorganized and that if
Congress does rot act quickly another
panic will ensue. They earnestly beg there
may NOT be, one days extension. The
same petitions come from other centres
and another instance is added VI the man
ner in which hasty and bupgling legisla-
ton tends 10 cripple and paralyze bust
n.ss.
ALHEADY attention 10 fireworks in ad.
vance of the annual occasion which is con-
sidered an excuse for them in many parts
OF the country. From a record of the
losses by fire and casualties caused by
fireworks and FIRE crackers during the
month of July, 1877, we find that out Of
1880 towns and cities making returns to
the committee appointed to investigate the
subject 179 reported losses more or less
serious. Of fatal casuliaties traced direct
ly to fireworks or firecrackers there were
81. Of serious casualties endangering
life LOG, and of slight personal injuries
30l.r The damage done to property burr-
ed by fireworks and frecrackers during
the month Of July, 1877 amounted in the
aggregate TO $261 AIT.