Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-27
= HAVEN, TUESDAY MORNING.

| armOred cOrvetteS, she carries q larger arlna
ment She is ram ship, and, with her two
| compound engines of 5000 horse power, is
expected to show great speed. The great
strength of the Oldenburg consists in being
able to maintain heavy fire from her broad
| sides, and also from her stern and bow, the
six in the classmates, while the four on the
poop are 5.S5 inch. Beside these are three
revolver guns, two boat and landing guns,
and four torpedo guns, which fire below the
water line
An English paper published in Germany
thus notices new invention in cartridges:
The manufactory has succeeded ia putting
an brass pin into the cartridges, which leads
the Stichhamme of the percussion cap into
the above powdermass direct under the stop
per, which there star-like in it sprinkled,
there through will explode momently all the
powder inside the cartridge which affectuate
such an sharp shot, that if skilled in hunt
ing the animal falls like killed by thunder
struck; all the chasing of the half death
wild by the dog, or beating to death by the
driver is not necessary by using this new
patent cartridge; then the public will have a
more delicate looking game, because the
knokles won't be burs all through the flesh:
and the unnecessary cruelty to the animal
will fall quite away.
Some of the British peers are very wealthy,
as, for instance, the new Duke of Bucchuch
The entailed estates in Scotland to which he
has just succeeded extend to upward of 49,
600 acres, and include the magnificent seats
of Bowhill, Drumlanrig Castle, and Dalkeith
Palace. The present annual rental is about
e170, 900, which is at least 20 per cent. less
than the return of ten years ago. The Duke
also comes into the Boughton estates, in
Northants, near Kettering, and he gets a
property in Warwickshire, near Rugby, the
two being now worth about e2S 900 a year
The Dukes piers at Granton bring in e10,-
600 year, his minerals and quarries are
worth nearly much, and he owns valuable
urban property in Midlothian. The Duke
will receive about $500, 900 from his fathers
personal estate. His income, therefore, will
be about 9270, 900, on which pittance even a
Duke can live handsomely.
Those of our readers who own Union
Pacific stock will be interested in the asser-
ton made by the reliable Washington cor
respondent of the Boston Advertiser that
very soon the Senate committee will report
favorably the bill drawn by Mr.. Garland,
and since perfected at several meetings of
the Judiciary committee, to extend the gov
ernment Indebtedness of the Union and
Central Pacific roads It has now been prac-
tically decided upon and there only remain
some minor points to be settled before it will
go into the Senate. The correspondent says
further: 1t is understood that the report will
be unanimous and will settle and define
the manner and time for paying this debt in
semi-annual installments, which will be of ad-
vantage both to the government as a credi-
tor, and to the road The full scope of the
report will not be known until it is presented
in the Senate. 1t will, however, recommend
that the companies be obliged to make
steadily decreasing alnual payment to the
government, and as long as that is done the
roads will be allowed to use their surplus for
dividends without question, as at present
they are prohibited from doing under the
basis of the agreement between Charles
Francis Adams, jr., and Mr.. Edmunds. In
case no legislation is accomplished by Con-
gress before final adjournment, this restric-
tion upon the payment of dividends will be
removed, as it was made by the Judiciary
committee, and this report will be held to
abrogate it. Then Mr. Garland is expected
to be Attorney General, and as this bill en-
bodies his views he will be in position to
deal with the road, in the absence of positive
legislation on the general basis to be indica-
ted in the forthcoming reDort