Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-05-26
Facts and Fancfes.

The Herald and Presbyter, of Cincinnati,
says: In Chicago, with population of
SOC, 900, there are seats in the Protestant
churches for only 100, 900 people, and only
two thirds of these are filed on the Sab
bath. Less than quarter of the people Of
Chicago are church goers. In the whole
country more than half of the people are
habitually absent from the house of God
Does not this constitute danger signal?"
Reports from the farmers in all the south
ern states from North Carolina to Texas
show considerable increase in the aver
age of cotton planted this year over last,
and in Georgia the gain is from 20 to rs
per cent. The weather has been unusually
favorable for the past fortnight. and the
young plants give promise of remarkably
! fine crops.
A correspondent of the Cambridge MASS. }
| Tribune rushes to the defense of Harvard
students and says: 81 have met these stu
| dents at midnight as we'll as at MONDAY,
and never saw one of them intoxicated,
never heard them swear or use obscene
words, and never saw them act immorally."
| The game of whist is made the subject
of an editorial article in the Boston Post,
which says, referring to people who object
to whist on ethical grounds: They would
be puzzled to give an analysis of the evil
that attaches to the game; but they are all
the more sure that it exists, because they
cannot tell in what it consists. Whist
stimulates no unworthy ambitions and
brings into action no qualities of the mind,
that ought to be repressed.
There has been great volunteer review
at Brighton, in England, at which rs, OOG
troops were present, and took part in a
sham engagement, which seems to have
deserved that name in every sense. The
duke of Connaught commanded division,
and anumber of the royal family and vast
crowds were present, One railway alone
took csc, 900 persons to the spot.
| A woman, on her death bed, in Crisfeld
| Md, made the terrible confession that she
and her son murdered well-known mer-
chant of that place eighteen years ago, fol-
which crime two innocent colored men
were hanged at the time, on very fimsy
circumstantial evidence.
The first rough calculations of the popu-
lation of the various provinces of the Brit
ish Indian empire, founded on the recent
census, are being published. According to
these the number for the Northwest Pro-
vinces are $780, 900, and for Dude H.
100000. The increase since 1872 has been
about per cent. but varies much in differ
emit districts. The grand total for the Pun
jab is %, GAO, 436, of whom nearly 10 ,000, 0oO
are British subjects, and the remainde,
subjects Of the native states. The increase
since 1868 is about 3-4 per cent.
The little old "gold wagon" in New York
that carried gold from the customhouse to
the sub treasury has been put aside.
Sometimes it made as many as a dozen
trips daily, carrying as much as $50, 900 in
glittering gold coin each time. The money
is usually put up in bags Of $4,000 each,
which are placed in heavy oaken boxes with
massive rod-iron handles. These boxes
are then put into the wagon-box, and lid
with clamps of iron is locked down over it.
The wagon is pushed like hand cart by
two customhouse porters, accompanied by
an armed Waterman, whose duty it is to see
| that the load of treasure is not interfered
with by thieves. The little used up Wagon
has carried in its time probably not lest
than $500,000, 900, or about 1880 toni
weight in gold"
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