The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-08

AFAINAA fNlAAa wv 'HN~~H w.
Minis.ey Haldeman's faithful enforce
me4t Of treaty obligations, has present.
Ell to the American Government buhd-
iugs ana grounds at Bangkok, all com
pic;e, tor the United States Legation.
The Prime Meridian Conference,
which was held IN Wash ngton in Dc.
{ Der. included forty memAers, repre-
seutiug twenty four governments. a
resolution was passed recommending
al! governments to adopt the meridian
Of Greenwich, twenty-one governments
vutiHg ia favor. san Domingo was
against it, ana France and Brazil not
voting. Tie Conference also resolved
that longitude continues 20 be counted
IN two directions upto $50 degrees, in
stead of ohe direction up TO 800 de
gees, as recommended by the II man
Conference. The Greenwich meri liam
has becn the staudaCy If tuur-fifths If
the wlrl IS nayigators and geograph-
ers, but its Adoption by all will be Il
benefit.
In putting down = sewer in the city
Of schenectady, n. y, the workmen
in digging the trenches, which in
places are sixteen feet deep, struck the
old corduroy roal which was laid in
1850 and led to the fort at the time Of
the massacre by the Indians. On an
other street the followed out logs
which We're laid in 1906 and served fol
pipes for the citizens water supply
were found in an excellent state OF
preservation. some Of them bearing
traces of incipieIIt p~etretaction. y
large,key which is supposed to be the
key yf the old Jail, xaa also found.
The President has appointed ex-
Secretary Hugh McCulloch TO be Sec
Rotary and Secretary W. q. Gresham
to be Judge Of the Seventh circuit, to
succeed 1hos. Dru4pmOnd, resigned.
Hugh McCull2ch is about "a years
Of age, but is still Il man Of active bab-
its and vigorous health. In 1868 Pres
ident Lincoln appointed him Comp
trOller of the Currency. He was next
appointed Secretary of the Treasury
by President Lincoln on the It'll OF
March, 1865, and held That Office
throughout President Johison's adj
mipi5Jration until succeeded by Secre-
tary Boutwell,, under President GraDt,
March II, 1869. Mr.. MeCulloch then
established il London the banking
house Of Jay Cooke, MeCulloch q Co.,
With which lie continued Until the sus-
pension of the American firm of Jay
Cooke Il Co. in 1873, when the Lon
don house reorganized under the lame
Of McCulloch 81 Go. A year afterward
he returned to the United States, and
since then, although participating III
several large financial enterprises, lie
has not been engaged i'll active bust
ness. His winters have been spent i n
Washington. and during the rest OF
the year he has lived OH his farm,
about six miles nonth OF Washington
city, in Maryland
The Supreme. Cougt Of Ohio has de-
clared the Scott Law from which such
great blessings were to flow to the
cause of temperance, unconstitutional.
The constitution of Ohio contains 3
clause prohibiting the granting OF
i. license. 1t is said that the tax on the
five thousand rum shops and ten thou
sand beeI saloons in Ohio last year
amounted to $4,000, 0Ge, the most OF
which WAS collected, and that thai
sum will now hope to be refunded to
the rum-sellers.
1t is reported that the State has pur
chased from the Seagirt Land Com
pany. through j. G. Lucas, tina Presi-
dent, a tract Of land, which will I've
used permanently for the annual en-
campment and target practice. 1t com
prises 10 acres, and the price paid is
said to be $4,000. Permanent build
ings are to be erected.
Adrunken man raised q panic in a
theatre at Glasgow, Scotland. Many
persons were sutlicated and tramped to
death in attempting to get out.
From tlle SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN we
gather some interesting points on the
marvellous growth of the telephone sys-
TEN N this country. Only seven years
have elapsed since the first telephone
exchange was established in Boston
with five subscribers, the managers,
with commendable folethought, max
ing tie switchboard long enough TO
accommodate five more. 1t is hardly
necessary to, say that the original
switchboard was never filled up, but
was soon supplemented by a more COM
prehensiye arrangement. On April list,
this year there were 1856 telephones
IN Boston and more than 200 cities and
villages in New England may be reach
ed by telephone from that city An
experimental telephone line to New
York, nearly 300 miles long,is also re-
ported to be working well aid will soon
be opened for public use.
The commission appointed at the last