Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-01

visable.to pass a law to oblige freedmen to 1 work; and as to whether, in view of the abuses in valuations for liberation by the emancipation fund, it will not be better to
 have fixed valuations by class and age; wheth-
 CT to allow the owners of slaves to fix their
 value, under a legal maximum, checking over-valuation by levying the taxes on the
 owners valuation, and whether, after fixing
 the value, it should not undergo gradual de-
 crease until the slave is emancipated.
 M. Pasteur entirely dissents from Dr.
 Koch's startling advice to discontinue the
 practice of watering the streets during the
 prevalence of the cholera epidemic. He ad-
 mits that the dust may be full of mi
 crobes at such time, and that water is their
 native element. But, argues M. Pasteur, if
 they are so dry as to have lost their vitality
 water will not bring them to life again If,
 on the other hand, they possess sufficient hu-
 midity to be susceptible of resuscitation and
 of doing mischief the water process, if the
 supply of the fluid is adequate, will have the
 effect of sweeping them into the limbo of the
 sewers, where they will be powerless for fur
 ther evil. If they are left in the streets to be
 blown about by every wind they are as likely to be blown in contact with the mucus mem
 brane of passing pedestrians as with anything else, and that offers an ideal field for the re-
 covery and development of those of them
 whose vitality is not absolutely extinct NJ. Pasteur's reasoning has been accepted by the
 French faculty.
 The kingdom of Cambodia, China, which
 has just been annexed by the French, is
 about as large sixth part of France. It
 is a fertile and productive region, yielding
 plentiful minerals, game and fsh-indeed,
 the fisheries of the Great Lake are the
 chief resource of the country, the exports
 bringing in some s400, yearly. The Me kong waters the country, and the most pro ductive districts borders the river, villages being clustered thickly along the banks, where the inhabitants cultivate cotton, to- bacco, indigo and the mulberry tree. Be yond this zone is a region of swamps and lakes, where the fishing is carried on, and further back is another watery district, oc- cupied by rice and melon culture. Then comes the zone of the higher plains, with valuable forest trees, producing oil, lacquer, etc.; and lastly, the mountains, yielding harvest of india-rubber, vanilla, etc Ele- phants and rhinoceroses inhabit the forests, but tigers and leopards scarce.
 Ex-Governor Cheney, of New Hampshire, reports a conversation which he recently had with @ manufacturer in Scotland. The Scotchman at first assumed as a sufficient req son for lower wages in Great Britain that dol lar would go further there in the purchase of the necessaries of life than in this country Forced from this position by comparison of actual prices the Scotch manufacturer ex- require so much and are not accustomed to living so well yours do." 'tNow," replied Governor Cheney, ''your answer is complete and satisfactory: This is just the case. Our workmen are part of our great Republic, ] so closely interwoven with it's interests that it is hard to draw the dividing line between them and the manufacturer. They fill places of responsibility in our churches our schools, our benevolent institutions, our hospitals, all \ of our secret societies, as well all of our | political organizations. They are always | in our municipal government and in our State Legislatures, and the em oloyed are as much respected as the employer tested by actual merit"
 The cholera appeared at Albano, near | 2ome on July 13, 1866, under very singular I It was the occasion of 1 ome religious ceremony that attracted 8 treat number of visitors from the Eternal Jity, who were gathered together in the rounds of the Papal Gaudolfo. It was after he ceremony, and the crowd were walking trough the grounds, admiring the beautiful 1 ountains and listening to the music of mil tary band All at once some of them per ! eived in the sky, coming from the direction f the African coast, great black cloud di- 1 ided down the middle to resemble the wo wings of an enormous bat. A feeling of { ntense cold overpowered the spectators. In / ess than an hour hundred and four per Ons had been stricken down by the disease. he cloud seemed to be charged with cholera I | 8 other clouds with electricity. Scientific 1 ; len explained this curious phenomenon by | i sserting that the cloud had formed over | s reat stagnant pools in the neighborhood of ! ' unis that are filled with the excrement of I : ountless hosts of locusts and grasshoppers. T he disease did not spread beyond the gates Albano