Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

North Carolina will yet make Fair Haven tremble. She has in her sounds, bays, riv- CTS, creeks and estuaries more than six hun dred thousand acres of oyster bottom, landlocked and protected from depre- dations. In this six hundred thousand acres there is every variety of bottom adapted to oyster culture, differing in quality as much as high lands differ in their adaptation to diff ferent vegetables.
 record of the past nine months shows the total number of new roads in progress and proposed in the United States to be six hundred and twenty-six, with total mileage of A, 393. The southern States are awaken ing to new life and hopes, less than 17S lines, with 8 proposed aggregate of 5000 miles, being reported in the ten States east of the Mississippi, commonly included in ''the South" This is hopeful sign, for it in dicates a return of courage and confidence.
 The crsmatory of the United States Crema- tion company at Mount Olivet, near New York, is substantially completed, and the first body will probably be incinerated there this week or the week after. The precise day for the opening of the building has not yet been fixed, but will be determined at meeting of the directors to-day. There will be no formal ceremonies, though perhaps brief address may be delivered by Professor Felix Adler. Nearly fifty bodies are at pres ent awaiting cremation, so that the furnaces will be kept busy for some days. It may not be long before those in New Haven who believe in cremation will form a society. Continued experiments are reported as be- ing made by the French government with new and improved siege guns, one of the most recent among these being of prodigious power-the most effective, probably, of it's class yet constructed. It is described as l made of steel and thirty feet in length. The 1 tube is strengthened with ten coils of plated wire one millimetre, or 1.69 inch in diameter. The composition is said to be such that the l cannon, after few discharges, becomes elon- gated in the degree of three millimetres The weight of this gun is fifty tons and it ! projects shell weighing nearly 300 pounds, | capable of penetrating armor plates nearly ! six inches thick at range of seven and one | half miles.
 1 Parson Murray's smallpox specific may be worth notice, although it might not be safe l to trust entirely to it. It is said to come from noted Paris physician, and to have proved very successful in Texas. ''It is as unfailing as fate," says the ex-parson, land conquers in every instance. Here is the re- l cipe as have used it and cured my children of scarlet fever; here it is as I have used it to I cure smallpox; when learned physicians said the patient must die, it cured:
 One grain of sulphate of zinc;
 One grain foxgleve ldigtialis);
 1 Half teaspoonful Of sugar;
 l mix with two tablespoonfuls of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take spoonful every hour. Either disease l will disappear in twelve hours For child smaller doses, according to age.''
 The new civil service commission will probably be as satisfactory to the Democrats | as the old one has been. A member of the cabinet is reported as saying that the Presi dent does not intend to place an independent Republican in MT. Eaton's place as chairman. He thinks it due to his party and the spirit of the law that the chairman shall be Q Dem ] ocrat. Not to have it so would be an admis- sion that the Democratic party could not furnish proper official head for the commis sion An independent Republican will not be one of the members, save in the remote con- tingency of Professor Gregorys retention. So far no Democrat has applied for place, but the President intends to find 8 frst-class one to take MT. Eaton's desk and he thinks that he can. Democratic civil service reform is, according to this, making good prog ress.
 A few months ago q woman died in Berlin of trichinosis. The case has just been
 brought before the courts, and during the
 trial some interesting facts regarding the na
 ture and effects of this disease were brought
 to light. As usual the disease was caused by
 the reckless German custom of eating raw
 ham. The ham in this case was bought of {
 man who had previously sold several pigs
 afflicted with this disease, his farm being
 situated near place infested with rats
 which are known to be generally infected
 with trichinosis. Not only the woman who
 died, but all the members of her family show
 ed symptoms of the disease-vomiting, pair
 in the muscles, general exhaustion, swelling
 of the face, etc.; but they all recovered unde1
 careful treatment, while some other persons
 who partook of the ham escaped altogether
 The defendant urged that the woman's deatt
 was not caused by trichinosis, but by thu
 morphine which she was in the habit O
 using; and though it was proved that he death was directly caused by trichinosis lyet this fact was allowed as a mitigating