The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-08-12

they persist in thcir folly.
TIfE FEVER in Memphis is increasing
and the physicians have no hope of
its disappearance before frost. Thirty
thousand persons have left the city,
almost all white, twelve thousand Of
whom arc in camp, six or eight miles
out of the city. But for this exodus
the fever would doubtless be raging as
vrdlcntly as it did last year. The
fever has been declared epidemic.
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AN IMPORTANT discovery of coal has
been made near the town of Tacoma.
III Washington Territory. Professor
LcContc, who visited il, says the vein
is fifteen or twenty feet thick, and ap-
parcntlv ineNhaustiblc, while the coal
is much better than any heretofore
found on the Pacific Const. The want.
ofgood coal has been Il great draw
back to commerce on the Western
Slope, and this new discovery is most
fortunate.
NEWSPAPERS are already beginning
to talk about Il six million bales cot
ton crop this year; and thus pavin"
the way for the New York cotton
spectators to put the price down to
seven or eight cents II pound. This
IS all wrong. There is no guarantee
1or q large crop yet. Though the
prospect is favorable, few weeks of
bad weather would ruin everything.
Let us wait until the cotton's made
before boas:ing about it.
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JOHN BRIGHT, the great Englishman,
says the decline of thc British inter-
csts is due entirely to the land mo-
nopoly i'll the United Kingdom. A
few thousand persons own half the
land in England, Scotland and Wales,
and the tenants are paupcrizcd. lie
thinks that competition with the pro-
uucc of free lands in America will
work a revolution in England at no
distant day, and he speaks quite de-
fiantly to the landed gentry and coun-
try squircs about the matter. When
the law OF entail is abolished, the
British government will suffer u great
convulsion. Yet the crisis does not
seem far distant.
TflE FATE Of the four claimants of
an%sthcsia has been tragical. Long
is dead, died suddenly; Wells, tlisap-
pointed in not establishing his claim,
became insane, and committed suicide
in 1878; Morton, disappointed from
the same cause, chaicd himself into
cerebral congestion and died, half
derangcd, ut St. 1hrhcs Hospital; !;
jackson has been for some time in an
asylum, hopelessly insane. There is
no doubt that three of them were de-
stroyed by their connection with
fe&S{fhkGadbjfc Tilt What has saved So
1hhch pain to others should have caus-
cd so much pain to the claimants of
Inc discovery of one Of the greatest
medical boons to mankind.
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THE BOSTON Jo"'wal Wcp. } is weary
ofpolitical snarling, and speaks out IN
meeting thus: "Alassachusetts has
more at stake to-day in the prosperity
o1 tic South and in the cultivation of
lratcfnal relations than any other
State. The drift of business west
ward of us is tending to insulatc New
England. Our commerce has fallen
OIL and we must necessarily rely on
our trade and manufactures to main
tam our former condition and PRESTIGE.
We must retain our hold on the Soutb.
crn markets, and ought to have new
ones. 1t is the height Of folly to think
these possible unless there is rctormo-
tlon among our dominant politicians.
This is not to be looked for. The
great need of our day and condition
IS to place men III positions Of power
ana influence who understand fully
our business relations, and who will
make them n specially for study and
improvement. The sooner this is
learned the better. But it ought not
TO DC q dormant sentiment"
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PRESIDENT HAYES and his cabinet
are said to be much opposed to the
DeLcsseps scheme Of tho Panama
Canal. In the first place the Nicaragua
route is said to be much better, and in
: INC second a serious question arises
whether the control by Europeans of
canal across the isthmus is not in
'contlavcntion ofthe Monroe doctrine
and dangerous to the privileges and
power OF The United States. The State
OF Nicaragua is also fighting the
Panama scheme; and determined
c1iorts arc making to raise such q
ciamor that DcLesscps. will fail to
secure the necessary contributions OF
money to put his plan in operation,
Wherever the canal may DO It should
manitostly be under tho control of the
United States. England controls
travel by way of Suez. Neither she
nor France should be allowed tc