Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-10-14

that the duty on the drug was to be raised
from So to $40 pound the California deal
ers brought in several million dollars worth,
and as the supply exceeded the demand it
had to be stored away in various banks and
warehouses. Recently that which came in
under the old rate was nearly exhausted, and
the first shipment under the new, consisting
OF 131 cases, netted the government in the
way of duties $50, 200.
Some of the English rectors are not verv
meek and lowly Christians One of them
has just sent the following note to the school
master of his village, an intelligent man of
excellent character:
All the villagers desirous of coming to nv
house approach it in becoming and respect
full manner. e., through the baekway and
the Kitchen door. There is not a farmer in
the place who ever has had, or would have,
the impertinence to do otherwise I desire
that in the future you will do the like.
r. w. L. ToLLEMACHE-T ToLLEMAcHE
The Rev. R. w. L. ToIlemache- -TolIema-
che evidently needs to be taken down a peg
or two.
The Hartford Courant well states the re-
cord of the Democratic party of Connecticut
as follows:
l. Support of the absolute free trade de-
clarations of the national platforms in 1856
90; of ''tariff for revenue only" in 186S-76-
80; and tariff for revenue exclusively in
1884.
II. Support of the Morrison bill, in fur
therance of the "revenue only idea in 1884.
Ill. Rebuke of the Republican senators
from Connecticut for not supporting a free
trade treaty, and an attack upon the tobacco
growers of the State for engaging in an in
dustry which demands protection
/ ". Refusal of all but two State senators
to vote for an amendment declaring unequivo-
cally for the protection of Connecticut in
dustries generally.
The largest exploring party now in Africa
| is that of Major Carvalho,. who was finely
equipped by the Portugal government last
June, and despatched from Angola with a
force of four hundred native carriers to visit
the dominions of the Muata Yanyo, about
five hundred miles south of the Congo He
is the bearer of splendid presents to that
/ Central African potentate, and hopes to open
up his country, which is said to be as large
as Germany, to travellers and traders. Only
two educated Europeans, Drs Pogge and
Buchner, have succeeded in reaching HAVEN
de, the capital of the Muata Yanvo, who
would not permit them to pass through his
country but compelled them to retrace their
steps. Three hundred chiefs owe him ale
glance. In territorial extent his empire is
the largest in Central Africa, but it is not so
densely populated Mtesa's Uganda, and is
supposed to have only 1900, 900 inhabitants.
The question as to long or short rails has
been much discussed. 1t is stated that the
first railroad line in France, viz, from St
Etienne to Andrezieux, had rails only three
feet eleven inches long and weighing forty
five pounds. This was in 1928; but in 1882,
on the road from st. Etienne to Lyons, the
rail had increased in length to about fourteen
feet eight inches, and to 1872 pounds weight
Various increases continued thus to be made
in France, until the length reached nineteen
feet six inches. England adopted a rail
measuring from twenty-one to twenty-four
feet, with weight of 110 pounds per thirty
nine running inches. The great objection
urged against the increase of length is that
the iron rail exfollates and is damaged at any
point instead of only at the ends. The case is
different, however, with cast steel rails, these
being now turned out in Belgium and France
some eighty-fve feet in length. Considering
the dilation due to changes of temperature,
the minimum length of French rail will
probably be fixed at about forty-nine feet
three inches.