The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-10-23


Of railroad: the annual consumption
for ties orsleepsrs alone IS 10000, OOO,
or thirty years growth OF Tb,WoI
acres. TO fence these roads would
require at leaat 1870, 000miles OF fence,
We have 70, 900 miles of wire, which
requires in its putting up SoO,oOO
trees, whileithe annual repairs must
take 500 700 more. The little insig-I
nificant lucifer match consumes an,
nually in its manufacture SO0OOO,
cubic feet of the finest pine, The
bricks that are annually baked re-
ouire 100000 cords Of wood, which
would sweep the timber clean from
$4,000 acres, Shoe pegs are quite as
important an article as matches or
bricks and to make the required an
nual supply consumes 100000 cords
.of fine timber, while the inanufact-
ure Of lasts and boot trees takes 500,-
900 cords of maple, beech and birch,
and about the same amount IS re-
quired for plane stocks and the hand
les of tools. The packing boxes made
in the United States in 1874 amount
cd to s12,OO0,0O0, while the timber
manufactured into agricultural i'm
plements, wagons, ETC., is more than
S100,0O0,0O0. The farm and rural
fences OF the country consume an I'M
mense amount of lumber and timber
annually, but as we grow older as a
nation this consumption may, and
probably will be reduced by the more
general use of live fences or hedges.
Our consumption of timber is not
only daily on the increase, but our
expectation of timberis also rapid
ly increasing. Our slaves go by the
million to France annually; walnut,
oak, maple and pine to England, and
spars and docking timber to China
and Japan. "-Erchange'
Twelve columns of the New York
Herald of last Saturday, were filled
with the murder record, and it in.
cluded crimes of unusual atrocity.-
1t is not possible to determine accu-
ratelv whether the crime of murder
is on the increase, without the study
of statistics from year to year. But
this display in the Herald and ac-
counts in papers at almost every
Innnrter'in the land. which the Jour
nalists sees daily, indicate that muir.
der has spread with fearful rapidity,
and to an enormous extent. From
these surface indications one would
be warranted in saying that it has
doubled or tripled in recent years.
Be this as itmay, murder is the prev.
alent crime; murder is the sin Of the
day. What causes it opens u wide
field of speculation, and yet there is
one cause floating on the surface
In some States it is directly charged,
BILE to the laxity of public sentiment,
and the leniency of public officials,
and this latter is set down as the
trouble in Indiana. On this subject
the remarks of the Herald herewith
given should be pondered by every
citizen:
Immunity for murderers is one
cause, an entire loss Of religious con.
victious in a great part of the social
mass is another cause, and third
is the failure of society to discrimi-
Stas against gasbs amSSf RESHs to sqks
their neighbors, Under our system
of Jurisprudence Justice is so enor-
mously handicapped in a conflict
with a murderer, that she has no
chance, and a murderer who secs his
way clear to cheat the gallows will
laugh at the terrors of the world to
come; so that he can be restrained
by no considerations of discomforts
in another world nor danger in this.
Our philanthropy, our tenderness for
the lives of cut.throats, the favors OF
the law toward them, all these de,
prive society of an advantage it had
under harsher system, and which
was perhaps of great Importance
when everybody was hanged who
had unjustifably killed another
and hanged without regard to insani-
lty-the "natural selection" of the
times was against the numbering
classes, Now it isagainst the classes
that supply victims, and we are so
far cultiyating race of men prone
to murder.
The Outlook in Pennsylvania.