The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-06-30

FACTS AND COMMENTS.
The extensive cultivation Of flowers
for perfumery purpo es is about to lie
started in California. In Europe il is
very remunerative, good crop OF laven-
der yielding $1,000.
The United States commissioner of
pensions says that there are 100000
cases on file in his office waiting pre-
liminary information as to service from
the war department, and that the num-
Der is increasing at the rate Of 100
day.
An extreme drought is the cause of
great anxiety among the population of
thedistrict of Orenburg, in Russia. The
crops have failed for three successive
years, and the danger that is now i'm
pending seems to stiAe all hope. The
people form professions, with images
of the saints, and march about the
fields. A dry west wind is blowing
without intermission, and not cloud
appears in the sky. This is accom-
panied by an unusual high temperature.
As if this was not bad enough, the en-
bryo of locust that last year caused
wide devastation in some places has
been found in large numbers about the
fields.
They seem to have very summary
way of vindicating an authors rights in
China. According to DR.. J. NJ. Mcgowan
there is no special provision in the
penal code on the subject of literary
property, which is placed on the same
footing as any other possession. A per-
son printing and selling the works of
an author, without his permission, is
liable to punishment of 100 blows and
three years depJr alton. II he has
stopped short at printing, and has not
begun to sell, the penalty is fifty blows,
together with the forfeiture of the books
and blocks from which hey are printed.
The rights of an author descend in per-
petuity to his heirs and assigns.
In Kansas the prohibitory law forbids
the sale Of intoxicating liquors, and
provides that call liquors or mixtures
thereof by whatever name called that
will produce intoxication shall be con-
sidered and held to be intoxicating
liquors within the meaning OF this act. y
A druggist was indicted under the law
for selling bay rum, tincture of gentiar
compound end other mixtures. The
court decided that these articles were
within the act so far that a special per.
nit was necessary to authorize theil
sale. But the act vests the power tc
grant such permits in the Judge of the
probate court; and Judge Crozier hold:
that such an extension of the jurisdic
tion of that court is unconstitutional.
The crop reports of the department
of agriculture are discouraging. Will
the best possible weather from now tC
harvest time the wheat yield will fal
considerably short of that of last year
The acreage sown to spring wheat fel
off to eighty-six per cent. of that o
1880, by reason, no doubt, of the lov
prices of last fall and winter, and tn,
winter wheat yield is likely to be seri
ously reduced by weevil in the Wes
and cold weather in California. An in
crease of one per cent. in the area cul
tivated to cotton is reported, but thi
is likely to be more than counterbal
anced by the poor condition of tn
crop. The New York Tribune says tina
spectators who are calculating on
prolongation of the conditions whic
made the past year one of such grea
tho, 1c
in one respect. for our export trade j
grain and cotton will show marke
decline.
Speaking of the coming cotton expC
sition at Atlanta, the Detroit Free Pre-,
says, editorially: There is interestin
evidence of the advancement which til
South is making in the determinatio
to hold an International Cotton Expo
sition" at Atlanta, Georgia, beginnin
on the fifth of October and remainin
open until the end of December. A
though the exposition, being the fir
worlds fair ever held in the Soutl
naturally derives it's title from the stap
which forms the nucleus of the wide
range of Southern industry, the pro
to be limited to cotton or to the indu
tries connected Herewith. The sche,
ule of articles whereof exhibition is i
vited, covers a wide range, classified
six departments, forty-one groups ar
two hundred and twenty-five classe
The buildings now in process of ere
tion are on an ample scale, the princip
one being q model cotton mill III
South cannot fail to profit largely by
enterprise which will show so niu,
more satisfactorily and conclusively thu
mere statement what she is really cap
BILE of and actually doing.
Referring to the large number
cases of deaths by lightning this seas o
the New York Hr0ld says: "Tl
scientists will probably find son
plausihle explanation of the violence
these electric disturbances They W
talk leainedly of possible troubles wit
in the earth's own crust, of sun spo
aud meddlesome comets but none
these things can quiet the apprehe
sions that have been reused in neryo
minds by electricity's many recent '
garies. The best way to abate SUI
fears is to note that most of the casus
ties, fatal and otherwise, befell peor
who were transgressing the ordina
precautions to be observed duril
severe thunder-storms. Two boz
who were killed, had taken refu
under q solitary tree. Some of the m
who were injured were under an iso
L. Il, e r.