Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-08

< The Times-Democrat of New Orleans pub
 fishes interviews with governors of many southern States concerning the prosperity
 and advancement of their respective com
 naonwealths, from which it appears that Ala
 barna's cotton mills paid 15 per cent. dlvi-
 dends last year, her iron mills are woAder-
 fully productive, and her tax rate has been
 reduced; that Georgia Is adding 15O, 900
 spindles to it's cotton mills each year; that
 Mississippi is rapidly adding to it's mileage of railroads; that Tennessee is making great
 strides since the State debt settlement; that
 Florida is retaining vast tracts of wild lands
 and filling up with settlers; that Louisiana's crops last year were the biggest ever gathered there; and that Texas has g, 900, 900 acres of
 land to convert into a school fund, 50 that black, can be educated without cost to the
 people. This decidedly is chaefing.
 The workngmen in Germany and Austria are dissatisfied and strikes are frequent. In Chemnitz the cabinet-makers have been on strike during the past month. in Berlin and Apolda the operatives in knitting factories, in Wurtemberg the corset makers, and in Thuringia the button makers. The demands made by some of these strikers show that they have been reduced to 8 condition that
 is on the verge of the unendurable. In Hun gary there was strike of journeymen bakers some weeks ago to obtain 8 reduction of the time labor to fourteen hours daily. This re- duction was obtained aft ST struggle, but the employers retain the right to distribute A.. suit their convenience. The cabinet-makers of Chemnitz receive from to 15 marks (about $2 to $3.5O) a-wsek for sixty-six hoursof work. They have been on 8 strike to get about $4 week, and to be required to work from in the morning to in the even- ing, with an hour at noon for dinner and half hour in the morning for breakfast. They also ask that they be paid Friday in- stead of Saturday evening.
 The electric musket is the latest. Mr. Clair, of Belgium, is the inventor and the musket which he has made will be exhibited at the expedition at Amsterdam. The arm is an ordinary breech-loading musket without | lock or hammer, and the cartridge is a me- | tallic one. Instead of primer in the base ! of the cartridge copper wire runs through | the powder and connects by short piece of platinum wire to copper eye in 8 paste board wad against the base of the bullet. The current which is stored in an electric &C., ! cumulator placed in the butt of the musket, or may be carried on the person, passes,
 when the trigger is gently pressed with the finger, through small striker. The copper wire and the platina wire are made red hot and explode the powder at the front end of the cartridge. The arm is readi- Iy converted into magazine gun by
 the use of 8 cartridge containing five or six charges, enc over the other, and fired in quick succession. For this purpose the pla- tina wire in the first wad is little finer, for example, than hair. The second is little coaxser and so on, the others proportionslly
 e0srseEs- sFaaenE~ tao<zsmsrenAE &nwa aatahliahad the first wire, which is the finest, is the first to get red hot and fires the charge; a new contact, and the second charge Is fired and so on, the others in succession. The electric f accumulator is about the size of large watch and may be carried in the fob. It is charged before starting and remains charged all day.