Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-25

| --1AASetlA SGrodInS the line, III case It proves
 success, to be extended considerable dis | tance
 It is said that MT. James G. Breen of the Pittsburg Sunday Globe was the first man to demand the nomination of Grover Cleveland by the Democratic national convention. Mr. Breen is now for Butler, and thinks he made great mistake in trying to help Cleveland The London Lancet finds new argument
 for hanging in the fact that the brain of man whose head has been cut off, in the guillotine, for instance, lives and retains consciousness for an appreciable time after death, greater less according to circum- stances and physical condition. The Lancet declares in favor of hanging as destroying consciousness more rapidly and preventing its return more effectively than any other method known that can be employed by justice
 The president of Cleveland horse railroad company is satisfied with the practical sue cess of the electric system in operation on & portion of his line. He estimates that with an expenditure of $150, for the plant engines, boilers, .dynamos. motors, and con- duits-a saving of over 5O,OO0 year can be effected over the present cost of opera tion by horses, besides securing to the com pany and the public the benefit of rapid transit The one car now in operation runs on schedule time, but it can be driven at the rate of ten miles an hour.
 It is very evident that the negro is fast 1aoroiT1cy hor tn fol1o of tunities. For instance, the little village of Lowell, in Kentucky, which is in rich blue grass country, fifteen years ago had but one colored man within three miles who owned any land. Now there are thirty colored families within that distance who own farms, varying in size from five to thirty acres, all of which have been bought with the proceeds of their own labor This is an exceptional case, perhaps, but there is no occasion for despair about race which is capable of
 such things.
 Women are gaining on it'' evenin Turkey.
 The former rigidity of seclusion for women
 is greatly relaxed in Constantinople. Since
 they have begun leaving their faces uncovered
 the most picturesque view is from behind
 They still wear the veil, but so loosely that
 the face can be seen. From the back, how
 ever, there is nothing but the white head
 dress and the graceful folds of the envelope
 to the knees, below which is usually bare
 ness. On the street the women are models
 of propriety. They never speak to a man on
 such occasions, though they will stare at
 foreigner with simple and childlike curiosi-
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 tain, but it is given not so much in coquetry
 as to worry the guardian eunuch.
 The largest cotton plantation in Alabama is said to be that of Messrs Roberts & Salter, near Union Springs. These two young men have in the last four years cleared over nine hundred acres of land and dug twenty-five miles of ditches. Work on the plantation is with military precision, and the '1hands' go and return from labor at the sound of a bell. The small army of laborers and their families the farm, numbering 800 souls, are comfortably housed and are apparently contented Each family has its garden apart and raises pigs, chickens, etc. Although cotton is the principal crop, large amount of corn is raised for food. Actual experiment shows that this crop can be raised at cost of 10 cents per bushel It is estimated that the yield this year will be 900 bales of cotton and 95, 900 bushels of corn, the former worth $40, 800 and the latter s21,- S61 ,75O. The cost of making these crops is put at $28,OOO, which leaves a net profit of $33, ,750. The numbef of regular laborers employed is 392, and there are 15O \ mules and horses and sixty-fve farm wagons