Connecticut western news., 1879-07-30
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The intensity of the panic excited in the Southwest by the outbreak of yellow fever in Memphis may be judged from an article in the Falcon of Somerville, Miss, which advocates |" the posting up of flaming placards on all the roads notifying all travellers, that they come into Somerville at their peril, and If they do venture in and cannot give satisfactory account of themselves and prove that they have not been near any infected point, they will be fined heavily, and if they cannot pay said fine will be publicly whipped" The Fatco's adds: "Let it be known abroad that such an ordinance has been adopted and will be enforced, and refugees and stray travellers will steer clear of Somer- vile" which is very likely.
 California exports not far from O,OOO tons of wheat annually to Great Britain. It is essential to this exporta- ton that California shippers should be able to sell more cheaply at Liverpool than those of any other country; and in order to sell for lower prices, it is in- dlspensable that the grain should be produced at lower cost. Heretofore this has been possible, owing to the superiority of American machinery and to the cheapness and fertility of California land, much of which need only be stirred with blow to produce abundant harvests. But this state of things will not continue permanently, and even now, according to the San Francisco Bulletin, there must be large crops If there is to be any profit. "The greater part of the wheat farming of California, it says, (which falls below production of twelve bushels an acre, brings little or no profit. Now the average production, we apprehend, is not much above fifteen bushels an acre, and the profits of wheat growing are confined, in great measure, to the large land-holders whose harvest fields measure from one thousand to ten thousand acres. If it were not for the new land which is every year brought under cultivation, there would be 8 more rapid decline in the aggregate productions of the grain lands of Cali fornia." A large part of California is now devoted to wheat growing. When that ceases to be profitable, it is not at all clear what will take it's place; but, whatever it is, there can be no doubt that the farmers of the State will, sooner or later, have to abandon reckless and wasteful methods of cultivation that savor of Pacific coast ways of business and modes of life. The sooner they come to see this the better will it be for them. And here, probably, the German, Swedish, and other European land cultivators who have settled in Cali fornia. being accustomed to the economi- cal farming necessary where land is divided up into small tracts, will have the advantage of them.
 The Blantyre colliery explosion a few weeks ago was caused by criminal carelessness. In the hand of one of the miners killed by the explosion was found tobacco pipe. Pipes were also found beside two more of the dead. The lamp of another miner who was killed was unlocked, and secreted in his clothes was a forged key for unlocking the Davy lamp. A tobacco-box in the pocket of the fireman contained three lamp keys. In one of the mems jackets was found pipe, six lucifer matches, and two brattice nails tied ingeniously together so as to form key for unlock: ing a safety-lamp, together with key for the same purpose made out of an or dinary door-key. Other forged keys, pipes and lucifer matches were found, showing that the rules laid down for the safety of the miners were systematically evaded.
 -Thirty-two American horses arrived at Havre for the French cavalry. They were inspected by French officers detail ed for the purpose, and were all accepted at prices ranging from 1, 1OOf. to l, 35Of. ($220 to $27O, which are the top prices for French remounts. The horses were in splendid condition after their voyage, no accidents whatever having occurred on board ship. The success of the ex- pertinent is complete. Soon as trans portation can be had as cheaply from New York to Havre as to Liverpool large shipments of American horses for the French army will be assured. The diff ference in the price of transportation is now $3O against Havre, but efforts are making to have this discrimination les- sened, if not abolished. This shipment was made from Richmond, Ind, through the patriotic exertion of Consul Bridg- land. It is the entering wedge of an- other element of export from the United States.
 In St. Petersburg more than six hundred persons of the noble or privi- legged classes are under arrest to be de- ported to Siberia without trial. In one of the temporary Governor-G -Generalships in the south of the empire (Odessa) six ty privileged persons have been already sent to Siberia without trial, and two hundred persons of this class are under arrest to be judged. So great is the number of persons of this category to be exiled, that practical difficulty is said to have arisen in connection with their deportation. A noble or privileged person, who has not been iudicially santanca1 when sent Ho !SibnYio bx, +bo