Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-29

Jerusalem, according to British consular l reports, is growing town. The foreign He- I brew population has increased considerably ! of late years The community is now esti- \ mated at 15,000, including native Jews ! against 10000 in 1873. The desire to avoid compulsory military service now enforced in l most European countries, and the right of ! holding real property in Turkey, conceded to foreign subjects by the protocol of 1868, prob ably account for the increased immigration The German colony at Jerusalem now numbers nearly 400 persons that at Java about 300. There is 8 third German settlement at Caiffa of about equal number with the last men toned. The settlers are mechanics, artifcers, carriers and agriculturists, and are fairly prosperous. The chief industries remain what they were-the manufacture of oil soap and articles in olive wood and mother-of-
 pearl; the production of the latter articles
 has greatly increased, as the sale is no longer
 confined to visitors and pilgrims, large quan-
 titles being exported to Europe and America.
 A correspondent of the Washington Star
 who recently visited the San Francisco sand
 lots during workingmen's meeting found in
 front of the stand pictorial legend repre-
 senting some ferocious looking policemen
 using their clubs very freely, and bearing the
 inscription Democratic police clubbing us
 in 1878. Now they want us to join with them
 Not much ID Says the correspondent 1.-The
 gathering at the stand has some decent, re- spectable-looking men and women, but the majority seemed to be anything but working men. One heavy -jawed fellow, who led the applause against Chinese cheap labor, carried bull pup under his arm, and he looked as if a square days work was about the last thing he wanted. There were many more of the same type, and yet others who appeared not vicious but merely ignorant and stupid. In running over the sand-lotters 1t was easy to see how sadly they would be overmatehed in the struggle for existence by the neat t-handed, industrious and initiative Chinese" :"
 Thirty years ago the center of the wheat production of the United States passed through the eastern portion of Ohio Twenty years ago the centre was 8 little to the west of the eastern portion of Indiana. Ten years ago the wheat centre was about twenty-five miles
 
 near Madison, Wisconsin, and in few years it will be beyond the western bank of the Mis- sissippi. Since 1949 the production of wheat has increased in the Atlantic States as well as in the central and western States, but in the former the percentage has been comparatively small A table prepared by the Chicago Inter-Ocean shows that in 1s49 the Atlantic Coast States produced 51,- 657, ,O20 bushels of wheat, the Central Belt produced 43, 522 ,646 bushels, and the Trans Mississippi or Western States 5,3O6, ,278 bushels In 1877 the Atlantic States pro- duced GA, 344 500 bushels, the Central Bel produced 147, ,s69, 900 bushels, and the Transt States produced 153, S60, GOO bush l els The increase in volume between 1849 l and 1877 was but 24 per cent in the Atlantic 1 States, against 239 per cent in the Central l Belt. while in the States beyond the Missis- l sippI the gross production increased from 1 i, ,3O6, PTS bushels to the enormous quantity l of 153, ,S6O ,OOO bushels In a few years, as before stated, the center of production will | have extended to the States beyond the Mis- ] sissippi, where the capacity for wheat grow 1 ing seems to be boundless. Dakota is be- ! Iieyed to.contain 10000, 900 acres of rich | wheat land, Indian Territory contains nearly | IS great an area, and a good authority ex- l poets the time to come when Washington l Territory will produce three times as much | as California,
 A letter from Colonel William " Hutcb- l ngs of Boston to General R. s. Foster of | Indiana has been published in the western l papers, In this letter the Colonel says
 I want to ask you if yon remember cer- 5ain morning in July, 1864, when General Sheridan and General Hancock made their ,aid across the pontoon bridge that you de- 'ended in those days About o'clock, after hey had been fighting since daylight came town to see you and after while I asked You replied, '"They are not going to amount o anything I asked why and you ,aid, Hancock slept in my tent ast night, and before he went to sleep l le said he did not feel much interested in l what was going on tomorrow, because, if I here was any glory in the thing, Sheridan ] would reap the whole" To which you added 0 me- ''- him when he said that I knew 1 le was not going to fight" I expressed my orrow at such things, and we talked it over or some time. I afterward left you and vent up to the front and found General Birney ! lot know what had got into Hancock he was lot fighting at all. When I asked him if he wanted any provisions sent up he said 'tNo; ye will all be back soon." I then went over o see the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, 1 ound several officers and men wounded and filled, and General Osborne in great state # wrath, saying to me, II have always heard # the fighting quality of the Second corps, l ut they do not show it to-day. They go up nd fire two rounds, and if the enemy don't un, they don Of course the l omination of Hancock by the Demoerats ,rings up all these remembrances, and as l old this to some one the other day and the tatement was doubted I thought I would 7rite you and see if I was lying or not.
 General Fosters answer to this letter has ot been published, we believe, but in an in- erview with reporter he said
 Hancock slept in my tent the night before, nd we talked till midnight before going to Ieep. Hancock did say that he did not care auch which side whipped tomorrow, for meridian would reap whatever glory there WAS a the movement. All that day Hancoek's upport WAS very feeble, and there was gen ral comment on the subject. He (Haneock) xplained it by saying that he was waiting or information from his scouts.
 General Foster and Colonel Hutchings are 1en of character and responsibility and what hey say is entitled to belief The occur E ancas ra1atad do not show General Han S