Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-26

~~~SSA f~NSS 'S'~AS~A tive losses might be expected to result from it. One savant declared that by the influx of the sea an immense number of fresh
 water wells would be filled up and rendered
 useless, to the great detriment of the people
 the neighboring slopes who are now in
 the habit of resorting to them. Another
 maintained that when the was formed
 the breezes and spray from it would destroy
 the vegetation around, and prove specially
 hurtful to the date palm trees which are
 now great source of profit and give the
 most agreeable shade in those arid regions.
 The stamping of bank checks is an annoy
 ance to everybody who handles such checks, but few, If any, are more annoyed by this
 needless requirement. than wholesale dealers.
 Their customers give them checks, and in
 many cases omit to stamp them, either through carelessness, or because they think
 that the wholesale dealer will be perfectly
 willing to apply the requisite stamp. He
 would be for one or twice, or even more, but
 as regular thing it becomes monotonous,
 not to mention the expense. wholesale
 dealer of this city recently said to us that it cost him twenty thirty dollars year to stamp checks for his customers, and that he | should be glad when the troublesome tax was no longer levied. There has been no good excuse for it for many years, and it should not have been continued so long.
 Henry G. Vennor, the ''weather prophet, :
 is described as one of the busiest of business
 men and scientist of high rank. His
 weather predictions are based upon carefully | arranged and studied phenomena, and are elaborated only by great deal of hard work and patient study and the use of instruments unknown to anyone save the most expert
 meteorologists. They are in no sense of the word mere guesses. '' The work which is
 entailed upon him by the general interest of the public in the weather is enormous, and
 during the past two three years the core spondence forced upon him has been far be- yond his control His Monthly Bulletin, a
 private and rather personal publication, was l commenced last January safeguard to his predictions, and to, in 8 measure, tighten his correspondence. The first edition was a I modest 5000. In March 15, 900 copies failed to supply the demand; in June the edition was 28, 900, and in July 35, ,OOO. The paper now circulates from one extreme of the Do. noinion of Canada to another and throughout l nearly every State of the Union, from the l lakes and the St. Lawrence valley to the Gulf of Mexico.
 The case of Burnand vs. Rodocanachi, Sons & Co.,, which is somewhat famous in the Ala. l bama claims controversy, has just been final l Iy decided by the House of Lords. The Rodocanachis shipped cargo of tobacco | during the war. valued at G21, ,557. It was | insured with Mir. Burnand and others fo1 l el5, 900, which was paid upon the capture l and destruction of the vessel and cargo by ! the Alabama. Under the act of 1874 the shippers recovered the difference between l the insurance paid and the true value of the | cargo. Thereupon MT. Burnand sued the l Rodocanachis for the amount recovered upon the principle of subrogation, the pay
 ment of insurance having been made as for l a total loss ca the first trial Lord Chie1
 Justice Coleridge gave judgment for the un I derwriters but this was reversed by tho l court of appeals, in decision which has been much used in opposition to the claims | of insurance companies in the debates in l Congress- The underwriters appealed tt | the House of Lords, and the appeal has now
 been dismissed, but without touching upon the questions decided at the former trials l The Lords held that the valuation of the car go in the policy had reference merely to the l contract between the underwriters and the
 owners of the property insured and that the
 sum allowed by the United States govern l ment under the act of 1874 was gift, th' 1 sum not having been recoverable except un der special law, which expressly excluded
 the underwriters from all participation in its |