Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-16

quietly instituted, and it has been found that Hancock. There is some difference between four and lover fifty"
 Ohio is great State. It has 1O4 pig iror furnaces and any quantity of pigs. Of black and white voters she has over 726,0 Al the end of the year 1878 there were more than $2, ,250, 900 invested in watches; over $4, ,OOO,00O in pianos and organs, and over $14, ,00O,O 900 in carriages The valuation o1 the dog property in the State makes that in terest represent $373, ,624, while the sheer foot up over $9, GOO, 900 in the general aver. age. Wheat, corn, butter and cheese, hay tobacco and potatoes have also their records but no account of Ohio's greatest and most interesting crop-politicians and ofice-hold- Gs-is given.
 According to present estimates, under the new census the Southern States will lose thirteen Representatives in Congress- and may possibly gain three-two in Texas and one in Missouri The Northern States will probably lose eight members and gain eight een-the gains going to Wisconsin, Minneso- ta, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and California. Eleven Democratic States will probably lose thirteen Representatives, and two Democratic States gain three Represen- tatives; four Republican States lose five Rep resentatives, and seven Republican States gain eighteen, while three doubtful States lose four Representatives.
 The Rochester Union says the first ballot in the caucus of New York delegates at Gin cinnati resulted as follows: Payne, 39; Til den, II James E. English II Bayard, 6 !, Hancock, 3 Randall, 1. On the second bal lot Randall had 39 and Hancock %. The Troy Times adds to this revelation of the Union the following:
 The second ballot of the New York delega- tion resulted in the choice of Hancock by a small majority. Several of the delegates from the city of Brooklyn and others from districts contiguous to Rensselaer, voted for the general. Before the announcement of the result of the vote a member of the dele gation made strong individual appeal to his personal friends from Brooklyn and from the districts referred to, asking them to change from Hancock to Randall on the ground that the former was the officer who COululdnO6u dG bu6 0A0CuG1Ou O1 ME5 OuTTdsL
 The appeal was effective; enough delegates went over from Hancock to Randall to secure the support of the New York delegation in the convention the following day for the lat ter candidate The above facts constitute one of the secrets in the unwritten history of the Cincinnati convention. The New York delegation refused to vote for General Han cock because he hung Mrs Surratt.
 The city of Szegedin in Hungary, which from time immemorial has been greatly troubled with gipsies, and which has i'm
 prisoned, f1ogged and threatened them with the wheel and the gibbet, but all in vain, has lately revived an old device which it seems did once before effectually drive them away. Expelled one day they would return the next and steal everything they could lay their hands on, until the heads of the city authorities came near bursting in the effort to devise some means of securing immunity from the thieving hands of the ''Pharaohs," " as they are called by the Hungarians. At last the authorities caught a caravan of gipsies aud shaved them clean leaving not a particle of hair on their heads or faces. Thus sacrehgiously handled, the Pharaohs long gave the town wide berth. The memory of this treatment hay ing grown dim with the lapse of years the gpsies settled down again upon Szege- din So Szegedin has revived the old tactics, and in spite of the wanderers curses and threats of dire vengeance has once more
 shaved them all, without regard to sex or age, and they have shaken the dust of the city from their feet, much to the relief of those whom they plundered.
 An enterprising lady of New Orleans has done wonders in experimental silk culture. She procured year ago more than 2,000 eggs of the silk worm, and in small room at her dwelling house succeeded in hatching out a number of worms But the greatest obsta- cle she had to contend with was the difficulty of obtaining food for the worms, as she had no mulberry trees on her grounds. She finally heard of place which contained many fine trees, the owner of which kindly per mitted her to take many leaves as she de- sired. The lady hired some boys to pick the leaves, and thus procured a proficiency of food for her pets. She persevered and sue ceeded in harvesting over 2,0Oo fine cocoons. This season she intends to make the expert ment on a larger scale, as she has obtained more than 8O,O0O eggs, and will look for a convenient place to hatch them and attend to the worms. She has sent specimens of the cocoons to France, to Italy and to the New Jersey silk manufacturers, and has been re- warded for her industry and perseverance by the high opinion those who have seen these specimens entertain of the Louisiana cocoon. Now that the proper method of matching the eggs, caring for and attending to the worms is known, it will be strange if more ladies do not take an interest in this valuable industry
 In trial going on at Buffalo in which the Bufselo Grape Sugar Company is defendant, some interesting testimony concerning glucose and the profit there has been and is in it's
 Hams testified that the manufacture of grape sugar from corn was begun originally by himself and his partner. He invented some of the machinery by which the process was brought to perfection. Their firm name was A. w. Fox $ Go. They commenced with two or three hundred bushels day and in- creased this amount gradually to two thou sand. Improvements have since been made in the machinery by which better article of sugar is made and with greater facility. They first produced crude sugar-used in the man ufacture of ale and lager beer-principally ale The sugar was used in place of malt At later date they refined the sugar. Grape sugar was also used in 1874 by tobacconists.
 As it's quality was improved it was used in other branches of business. A large quantity is now used in making syrups for table use.