Smyrna times., 1878-09-04


over, we hope to see an improvement in
the manners and morals of the press of
that city. They are simply dreadful
New YORK is worrying not little over
the mortgage for $30,OO0OOO authorized by
the Metropolitan railway. The Herald says
the road is not completed, the fare is not
reduced to five cents, and yet this vast and
ominous debt is created, four times the
highest estimate of the cost of the road.
There is evidently wheel within wheel
there.
THE Newport speech of Senator Bayard
is attracting general attention, and those
who differ with him on the finances, ac-
cord him honesty of purpose and states
man like ability in discussing this intricate
subject. The strong position he takes car
ries with it great weight, and if his voice
could be heard throughout the west there
would not be so many greenbackers.
ED1soN's last contrivance is blind writing
ink. The letters made in writing with this
ink swell out from the paper so as to be
readily distinguishable to the exquisitely
sensitive touch of the fingers of blind per-
sons. BY using this ink they are enabled
to communicate with one another, and, as
Mr.. Edison expresses it, "a great field of
happiness and mental improvement is
opened to them"
THE GREENBACK PAPERS have a very
ephemeral existence. A Chicago cores
pondent of New York paper says that
about forty papers have recently started
and died as greenback papers in Illinois,
Wisconsin and Michigan. These papers
attain sudden and largely gratuitous cir
culation and then collapse. This is; per-
haps, because the democratic papers, which
advocate greenbacks in accordance with so
many democratic State platforms, supply
the demand.
ONE of the noblest institutions in this
land is the Howard Association of New
Orleans. 1t is composed of heroic and
benevolent gentlemen, who have for years
been bound together by the grandest o.
human impulses. Wherever epidemic has
reared its head in the South the Howard
doctors and nurses have been found or
duty. The amount of human misery and
suffering which this association has allevia
ted is simply incalculable. Its manage
ment has been marked by fidelity anC
heroism. 1t never appeals for funds, ant
yet it must be in great need of money a
present.
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA continue to b.
the scene of disorders. At Kolaschia, tn
Mahometans have routed the Turkisl
troops, while at Nicsics the Bosnian prison
ers have revolted against the Montenegrin'
In Austria, Count Schouvalof is to becom
head of new Ministry of Police. Sewers
changes in the Russian diplomatic servic
will result from his removal from LondoI
Austria is disposed to take the Russia
view of the alleged outrages in the Rhodor
Mountains.
DESPITE the uncertainty which exists !
garding the Paris awards, it is at least ce
tain that our modest display has alread
been honored with six grand prizes an
sixten gold medals. Three of the form
have been won by telephones and silve
work. The grand medals have been &C
ried off in part by our ploughs, harvester
oils, scales, coal, hardware, shoes al
organs. Some of these products came in
direct competition with those of the fiji
manufacturers of Europe, and won only
sheer merit 1t is noteworthy that with
recent period the United States import
many of the articles which have receiv
awards.
In response to the solicitations of t
Charleston Ne,os, the eight circuit judges
South Carolina have expressed themselv
in regard to the condition of affairs in th
State. With one accord these judges un
to speak of the diminution of crime and
the improved treatment of the colored p
pie by their white neighbors. Judge T.
Mackey, former leading republican,
serts that the proportion of crime to
population for the past year has been
less than in any New England State,
even in Holland, the most orderly of Eu
pean nations. There is nothing to distu
the peace and quiet of the State unless
negroes attempt t0 vote.
The YELLOW FEVER SCoURGE in the Sou
ern States continues with increasing vi
ulenco Abort AS deaths from this disc
oec-r.. IN New Orleans and Memphis
Monday, the total number of deaths
ported to date in six Southern cities be
2,089. In Memphis the colored pee
made an attempt to get possession of
commissary stores and were fired uI
The suffering in Vicksburg, where all b
ness has ceased, is very great, and
petitions from all infected cities are
slant and pitiful. The Government
promised to assist the poor of New Orle
Subscriptions continue to pour in from
North.
The 2,0S9 deaths from yellow fevel
six infected cities are divided as follc
New Orleans, 1901; Memphis, 567; vi
burg, 223; Grenada, l49; Port Gibson,
Baton Rouge, IL.