Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-18


 York has done several good things since his appointment, but none better than his order that all arrests shall be immediately inves- tigated. The abuse of locking innocent people up over night has been long com plained of The present crop of cotton is fixed at G. $50, ,265 bales by the last report of the Ma tional Cotton Exchange. While this is de- crease of three quarters of million sales from the earliest estimates made, it is still the largest crop with two exceptions, 1SS0-91 and 1S92-S5, ever produced, and is more than half a million bales greater than the average of the last six years.
 South America has already nearly com pleted a transcontinental railroad. It ex- tends from the waters of the Atlantic at Ro- sario (north of Buenos Ayres) westward about five hundred miles to Mendoza, and within one hundred and forty miles or the railroad now in operation from the Pacific coast at Valparaiso to the foot of the Andes. A line has been surveyed across the mountains, and it is thought that the link will be supplied within year or two.
 In the Liverpool County court the other day there was action affecting dressmak- CTS. A fashionably dressed young woman had given a dressnaker some silk to be con- verted into a bodice, which, however, had to be altered several times and considerably padded, and the customer now refused to pay for the making up and claimed twenty four shillings damages. It was suggested the
 ] L ! the parties retired into the library. On their return plaintiff did not seem to be comfort able in the new bodice, and his honor re- marked that it appeared to him to be short, but if she wore good dress improver it might raise the skirt and so remedy the evil of too short bodice. Judgment for plain tiff, with costs, for five pence three farth- ings, the bodice to be kept by her at her own valuation of fifteen shillings.
 It seems that the want of entire success | with steel sleepers on some of the English | railroads has led to the substitution of an ar l ticle which, it is thought, will meet the de- l fciencies hitherto experienced. According to l the new system, the metallic sleeper is rolled 1 to the requisite trough-like section. Under 
 there. The chair cs formed of two jaws made of steel plate, stamped into form and ribbed centrally so as to give strength to re- sist the pressure of the wedges The jaws, | sole plats and sleeper are united by rivets passing through the three thicknesses. The | iron sleepers that these are intended to take the place of were sufficiently elastic and did not rust sensibly, but, being seriously weak ened by the large holes necessitated by the character of the fastenings, and these holes | being situated on either side of the rail just where the strain on the sleepers was greatest, | the latter were continually breaking there, thus rendering it obvious that the acknowl- l edged advantages of metal sleepers must be realized under an improved system,
 Some experiments lately made in an Eng fish mine, relating to temperature and moist ure at different seasons, show some interest ing facts The hydrometer was placed az nearly as possible equidistant from roof, sides and floor, and the highest and lowest temperature observed were, in summer, S8e es, and in winter s4hs0 6a. The greates, and smallest amount of moisture in cubic foot of air from the first working place to the return air was, in summer, Ill grains 315, and in winter 9.5s grains 316. The observations showed showed how quickly and readily the air as sumed the temperature of the surrounding