Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-04

dren as the whites and yet gain upon them in
the census figures.

The South is making real progress. An
indication of this recently cropped out when
Judge Cothran of the South Carolina Court
of Sessions, having to charge a grand jury at
Spartanburg, took occasion to say few
weighty words about the pistol. He remind
ed the jurors that they could not make hoe
helve with the pistol, or mend plough stock
with it, or shoot game with it, or put it to
any other innocent and beneficial use. "You
know for what it is carried, )" he said to them;
''you know very well the uses to which it
has been put; you know that this country
has flowed with blood for the past ten years,
and you know how much of it is due to the
fact that the pistol, the ready, convenient
pistol, was at hand" Commenting upon his
honors charge, the leading newspaper of the
State, the News and Courier of Charleston,
expressed hope that he would inf1ict upon
the ''three young white men of good family
who had come into his court at Spartanburg
and pleaded guilty to the charge of carrying
concealed weapons penalty the severity Of
which should be somewhat proportioned to
the rarity of its application in these parts u
All the bright rogues are not dead yet.
The other day itinerant musician, who
carried under his arm weather-stained vio-
lin, entered a provision shop in the Rue des
Martyrs, Paris, and bought a pound or two
of cooked ham. Suddenly discovering that
he was moneyless, he left his violin with the
shopman and ran home to get the trifing
sum of which he was in need. During his
absence carriage drew up at the door, and
a distinguished looking stranger having
alighted from it, entered the shop and or
dered large quantity of goods to be sent to
''Lord RUSSELL at the Grand Hotel. While
thus engaged he caught sight of the violin,
picked it up with the air of virtuoso ex-
amined it very carefully, and finally offered
to buy it for 1 200 francs The shopman ex-
planned that the instrument was not his, but
promised to see what could be done. The
stranger then withdrew, and the ragged mu-
sician, who soon afterward returned with his
money, gladly accepted 800 francs for his
violin. The jubilant shopnan thereupon put
on his best clothes, and taking his purchase
went to the Grand Hotel But, alasi no
''Lord Russell' was known at that hostelry,
and the unfortunate provision dealer slowly
worthless violin for $160.
King Frederick William w., of Prussia
died on the I'd of January, 1861. But be-
fore his death number of thaler pieces,
bearing his efigy and the date 1861, had
been issued from the Berlin mint On the
occasion of King Williams death new thalers
were coined and put in circulation, and the
others were gradually called in. By the end
of last year all the Frederick William thalers
of 1861, save about fifty, had been returned
and defaced; and the remaining specimens
are now consequently very scarce. Making
due allowance for losses and deliberate des-
struction, it is considered probable that not
more than a score of these curioslties at
the present moment in existence. No other
coins of Frederick William ". bear the date
1861. There are not many parallel instances,
for of course it does not often happen that
sovereign dies SO early in the year. A some
what analogous occurred, however,
eleven years ago in connection with the post
age stamps of the Philippine Islands. In
the autumn of 1874 supply of Republican
stamps, bearing the date 1875, was sent
from Spain to the far East, and on the 30th
of December Alphonso XII. was proclaimed
King at Madrid Stamps bearing the pro-
file of the young monarch were not obtaina-
meanwhile the loyal inhabitants had to do
lip-service to the dead Republic whenever
they stamped letter.