Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-21

company sued the bank to recover e2 12s. 6d., the ordinary charge for transporting
 @, 900, on the ground that bullion did not
 come within the meaning of personal lug gage, which the company agrees to carry free with each passenger. The preliminary de- cision was in favor of the railroad company. The Democrats class New Hampshire among the doubtful States because at the last State election the Republican ticket was
 elected by a majority of less than four hun dred, but there is no good reason why they should do so At the last election there was 0 Greenback ticket in the field which received more votes than such ticket ever will get again in New Hampshire. Many who voted the Greenback ticket will return to the Re publican party this year, and these, added to the thousand or more reserve votes that the Republicans have the benefit of in Presiden- tial elections will give handsome majority for Garfield and Arthur, elect the Republi- can State ticket, and probably carry both houses of the Legislature against the De- mocracy.
 1UhG WdS queer OuuudJ 6S41OO1 AASOSAA5 in Baton Rouge, La., on Sunday last. The superintendent saw Charles Behrens ap- preaching the church, and at the same time noticed that Morris Behrens was present. Be tween the two cousins there had been quar- rel. The snperintendentleft the sacred desk, met Charles and begged him to be reconciled with Morris. While the two were talking Morris opened fire, bringing down the su- perintendent at the first shot. Charles re- turned fire and succeeded in wounding the father of Morris and tive other persons un- connected with the trouble before he fell Morris Behrens was not hit, but besides killing the superintendent of the Sunday school and his cousin Charles, he wounded a lady teacher The Baton Rouge Advocate says: ':All the parties engaged were highly respected citizens of the parish, and the af- fair is seriously regretted"
 A Virginia paper tells some things which are not generally known about the Dismal Swamp. It is not vast bog sunk low in the ground, into which the drainage of the sur rounding country flows. On the contrary, it is above the level ground some fifteen or twenty feet, as was demonstrated by actual surveys. Instead of being receptacle into which rivers and streams enter it is in reality an immense reservoir that in its vast sponge like bulk, gathers the waters that fall from the heavens and pours them into five differ ent rivers which flow onward to the sea. Any one would imagine that the swamp was yer itable charnel-house that spreads it's miasma throughout the country. On the contrary, it is said to be the healthiest place on the Amer ican continent There is absolutely no de- composed wood. The two principal trees that grow in the place are the juniper and cypress, which never rot. They fall prone to the ground like other trees, but instead of the wood decomposing it turns into peat, and lies indissoluble by air or water, perfectly sound. There is nothing in the swamp to create mias- ma; no rising of the tides and decomposition of decayed vegetables no marshes exposedto the burning rays of the sun. All is fresh and sweet, and the air is laden with as sweet odors as the woods in May, when the fragrance of the flowers mingle with the pungent scent of the pine and dogwood. In the ante-bellum days all planters were anxious to hire their slaves to shingle-makers in the swamp on ac- count of its healthfulness. Mir. Reddick, well known contractor, says he worked gang of fifty hands for fifteen years in the swamp, getting shingles, ,and in all that time there not single case of ague and fever. The water, tinged to faint wine hue by the juni- per, is as potent a medicinal drink as is to be found at the famous watering places of the Virginia mountain spas. It is often used by vessels going on foreign cruise on account of it's healthful properties, and also because it keeps fresh and clear for years. It is a strong and invigorating tonic, with pleasant taste