Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-01

chrE1erS anu the persons TO WhOm they de-
liver mail may agree on the compensation TO
be paid but if no bargain is made, the car
riers can claim a sum not exceeding one cent
for each letter or package delivered. Such
money shall constitute the carriers full
wages and they shall have no claim upon the
Postoffice department for further wages
The bill provides that no mail matter shall
be given to q carrier for delivery to a person
who Las lodged in the Office request that
his mail be held until called for.
jeff Davis has again appeared IN print to
deny story about General William Raymond
Lee of Boston, carrying in his pocketbook
little strip of paper bearing the word
''death," as drawn by him when prisoner
of war in Richmond, Va. Davis says
'During the war persistent effort was
made to misrepresent our canse and its de-
tenders by the use of inappropriate terms.
Our privateers were called 'pirates,' our
cruisers were called 'privateers,' and Admiral
Semmes. though regularly commissioned, was
sometimes called "a pirate by Northern Of
fcials and writer's. I find this word even
now, when time and reflection should have
graph copied into your paper. I know moth
ing Of the person referred to, but the story
of ballot having been drawn with prema-
ture sentence of death is refuted by the
statement of the course pursued by the Con-
federate government on the question of re-
taliation in the event of the threat to execute
some of our privateersmen who had been
captured when cruising, with letters of
marque, in 1861"
It takes great many strawberries to sup
ply the city of Paris, and considerable pro-
portion of the Strawberries sent into the
Paris market come from Brittany. The lar
gest market gardens are in the neighborhood
of Brest, the commune of Plougastel having
upward of fl We hundred uores devoted to the
growth of Strawberries 1t is estimated that
$3.50 tons of strawberries grown at
P!ougastel in an average year, and of this
quantity two thirds are sent to Paris, the re-
mainder being consumed in the various towns
of Brittany. The crop is, in fairly good
year, about six tons to the acre; and this Is
equivalent to an income of about $3.50 per
acre. The picking of the Strawberries be-
gins about the Goth of May, and lasts
throughout the month of June, when the
variety of straw berry known as the Chilli
plant-imported from South America in
1715-comes in, and lasts until the end of
July The Plougastel strawberry beds are
upon the cliffs overhanging the sea- and in
very few cases do they extend more than
half mile inland. The beds are about fifty
yards square, and they are enclosed by small
fences or stone walls, which protect the plant'
from the wind and attract the solar heat.
The liquor saloon census, as published by
the United States internal revenue depart
ment, which makes up its record from the
federal licenses issued, contains some inter
esting facts. In proportion to population
the territories of Arizona and Montana have
the largest number of retail saloons, each
having one for every 81 Inhabitants. Then
follows Nevada, with one for every 65 lnhab
Harfts; Colorado and Idaho, with one for
every rs; Wyoming Territory, with one for
every so; New Mexico, with one for
every o. and California, with one
for every SO. From this point there
ia Jump to New York, New Jersey and
| Oregon, each of which has saloon to a
few less than 200 inhabitants. The least
number of saloons are found in South Caro-
lima, where there is one to every 9l0 inhabl-
tants Kansas, with one to 697 West Fir-
ginia, with one to St7 Vermont with one to
s12; Maine, with one to 791; North Caro-
lima, with one to 7O3 Virginia, with one to
693 Mississippi, with one to 654; Georgia,
with one to 612, and Alabama, with one to
sos New Hampshire has one to every $40
inhabitants, Massachusetts, one to 245'
Rhode Island one to 296, and Connecticut
one to 235. Kentucky has one saloon to
| every 43S inhabitants.