Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-11

Rev. MT. Brown of Pittsburg, who
 stumped North Carolina for the Prohibition
 ists, states that thousands of colored men
 voted and worked against prohibition. MT.
 Brown also says: ssThe chairman of one of
 the State executive committees told me that
 at $1 per day, with three drinks of liquor
 per diem thrown in, and his next door neigh
 bor was to advertise also, offering $1.5o per
 day, but no liquor, the former would get all
 the laborers, and the latter would have no
 applicants at all" In the whole State the
 eolored race constitute about one-third of the
 population, but in the penitentiary more
 than two-thirds of the convicts are colored,
 and Mir. Brown states that about 80 per cent. of these were made consiets by whiskey. As
 to the moral status of the race, he says there
 is room for vast improvement.
 The census report on the fuel of the
 country states that four-fifths of the fuel is
 wood and one-ffth coal, with small quanti-
 ties of hay, corn-stalks and corn used in some
 regions. Since 1842 the production of coal
 has risen from 2,OOO, 900 tons to 70,00O,00O
 tons, and from producing then one-twenty
 fifth of the entire quantity mined in the
 world, the United States now turns out nearly
 one-fourth. Of the coal mined, PC, 400, 900
 tons are anthracite and 19, 900, 900 tons are
 bituminous. The chief consumption of coal lies in the large cities, in the coal regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio and in northern Ken lucky and southern Illinois and Indiana. In the rest of the country the use of wood pre- ponderates. In New England, wood is found to be almost entirely used in northern Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Coal is in use on the coast of Maine, and in Connecti- cut the use of the two fuels is about equally divided.
 handbook giving general account of the Jews, just issued by Dr. R. Andrea estj- mates their total number throughout the world at about 6, 1O0 900. Only 18O.OO0 of the race are to be found in Asia, 400, 900 in Africa, 300,00O in America, and 10000 in Australia. The great majority of the race, more than 5000, ,0OO, live in Europe. Rou- mania contains a far larger number of Jevs in proportion to it's population than any ON-SN cent, while Norway contains only 34 indi- viduals of the race. The local distributio of the Jewish population in the different countries is traced out with great pains by Dr. Andree. Thus, in some of the govern ment districts of Russian Poland the Jewish inhabitants constitute from 13 to IS per cent. { of the population. Although for the whole ! of Germany the Jewish element is only II per cent. of the population, in the city of l Berlin it has increased to nearly per cent
 Some of the fine old Virginia gentlemen | are probably .smad'' 1n these days, and if | they are they have some reason to be. | When they assembled recently in their anti Malone convention the Richmond Whig de- | voted two columns to the delegates, whom it ] as elegant and rotund specimens of the solid man, of whom we have heard | SO much, and who want everything 'solid' | about them, from solid paunch to 8 solid South.'" They are all bourbons, says the | W6ig, ''too fat -witted to be anything else and the sloth itself, the most conservative of animals, does not emit more doleful cries than they do when progress demands that they shall move on." t"They are all Brum- magem aristocrats," it continues, "mush room nobility, with airs that would make the English peerage feel mean. The living pres snt and the unborn future are to be commit ted to these Falstaffian monuments of woe to these stuffed efigies, whose eyes stand out with the fatness accumulated by weeping over past they cannot resuscitate." Their mission twas concluded when slavery ceased among us aod their roles as heavy gentle mem have no room where all are free and euual n