Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-23

Mud thIowA at General Aerw1n will not stick
 It is estimated that the shrinkage in values in this country following the news of the Democratic victory in Ohio amounted to over $40, 900, ,OOO. This indicates the opinion of Democracy which prevails in business circles.
 Reports from the regions visited by the re- cent storm and cyclone show that vessels and cargoes of the aggregate value of about $5.O0O, ,OOo were saved from going to sea by observing the weather bureaus storm sig nals.
 There IS Temperance reform" move- ment in Russia, and the Royal Commission which was appointed to discover the best way to abate drunkenness recommends l. Liberty to communes to close all drinking shops. 2. Permission to commune to estab- fish communal monopoliss for the sale of drink. 3. No public houses to be established above 25 per cent. in excess of per l, ,Ooo of the population. f. Tea and food to be sold wherever drink is consumed on the premises 5. Rigorous supervision of public houses.
 Geological examination of the delta of the Mississippi now shows that for distance of about 300 miles there are buried forests of large trees, one over the other, with inter- spaces of sand. Ten distinct forest growths of this description have been observed, which it is believed must have succeeded each other Of these trees. known as the bald cypress, some have been found over twenty-five foot in diameter, and one contained 5, 700 rings in some instances, too, huge trees have grown over the stumps of others equally arge. From these facts, geologists have sumed the antiquity of each forest growth at 10, 900 years. 100, 900 for all.
 The aduiteration of wine and brandy ap- pears to be very extensive in France The municipal laboratory of Paris has analysed more than three thousand samples of wine in the last ten months. Only between three and four hundred were found to be of good quality. The rest were passable or bad. For the most part, however, the samples con- tained poisonous ingredient. Some three or four hundred showed the presence of nox- ious substances, such as sugar of lead and sulphurio acid. Ono half the brandy tested , was reckoned bad, as being made from in
 
 some substitute for grape.
 MT. James Caird estimates that England will need one hundred and twenty four mil lion bushels of foreign wheat. France Is supposed to have harvested nearly three hun dred and twenty million bushels of wheat, which would be nearly sufficient were it all secured in good condition. This is not the case, and the deficiency must be covered by imports, which may reach, up to the next harvest, some twenty or thirty million bush- els. Germany will require at least from fifty to seventy million bushels of foreign wheat, rye and other breadstuffs. Tho de. l fcenoy in Spain is great, but not precisely known; nor is the precise surplus of Russia known.
 ! Dr. G. H. Wilson. of Meridan, a member of the State Board of Health, read an inter. esting paper on malaria at the semi annual meeting of the ConnecticutsH Homeopathic so 1 oiety. Dr. Wilson has been studying malaria 1 for number of years and has collected 6 large number of facts. He says that the dis ease in it's manifestation in this State since l the year 1860 has been epidemic and not to 1 any extent endemic; that it has not been | confined to warm weather; that it has not been cut of by frosts or wintry weather :; l that it has not found it's habitat in the neighborhood of stagnant waters that the remedies best adapted to it's cure are not those most efficAcious in paludal ague. Dr. l Wilson finds that malarial disease invaded this State in 1860, in the town of Southport in the southwestern part of the State from which time it has made a steady progress from the southwest to the northeast, or more exactly, north northeast, crossing the State in wave scarcely more than twenty miles wide, spreading laterally from this line oi progress only after reaching the northern