Morning journal and courier., 1886-11-10

States Is S,OOO, UUU per annum. ADont u
000,O0 of these are, it is supposed, lost.
All the people in Charleston are not scared
The residence of one of her prominent citi-
zens on the East Battery, for which SIG, 900
was offered before the earthquake, he's been
sold at auction for SIG, 120, despite the fact
that the purchaser knew it would cost sc, 900
to repair the damages caused by the quake.
There is a curious custom among the ne
gross at Washington of having burial socie-
ties, organizations for the exclusive purpose
of making display at the funerals of those
who belong to them. They are incorporated
under suchfine sounding titles as "The Sons
and Daughters of Gethsemane," "The An
cient and Honorable Order of the Galilean
Fishermen" ''The Most Devoted Brethren
and Sisters of the Star of Bethlehem" and
others of similar sort.
There is room for Temperance reform
in Belgium. According to NJ. E. Laveleye,
the consumption of ardent spirits in Bel
GUM has nearly doubled in fourteen years,
and is now surpassed only by that of Dem
mark and Russia Everything is done to en-
courage it, as if DR. mixing alcohol was a good
thing and one needing to be fostered by the
State The duty is only about so francs per
litre, while even in France it is 200 and in
England nearly 500. There is place for
the sale of drink to every forty-four inhabi-
tants, or one to every ten families.
Perhaps the entrance Of the labor organi-
zations into politics will have good effect
in diminishing political corruption. Probably
fewer men sold their votes in New York last
Tuesday than usual. The Brooklyn Union
says concerning this matter: While the rise
of labor party will afford its lieutenants an
opportunity to trade that they are not all
sure to resist, SO long as the rank and file
maintain their earnestness, the party will
have tendency to improve the political
morals of large class in all municipal com
munities; and to improve them in a logical
vay, not by a mechanical effort to suppress
the sale of votes, but by removing the indif-
ference which makes men count their suf-
frages of SO little value as to offer them for
sale.
Durham, North Carolina, is lively enough
for western town. In 1870 its population
was only $50; now 1t has q population of
$500, with two or three thousand just out
side of the corporate limits. The property
assessed for taxation in 1870 amounted to
$4,000; it is now 90, 500, ,0OO The amount
assessed in manufactures in 1870 was $685.
900; now $2,250,000. The retail trade of
merchants in 1885 was $3.50, 900; wholesale,
5000, 900; cotton and fertilizers, $250, ZOO.
There are two banks with resources of $780,
OOO. There are twenty odd tobacco factories
in successful operation, with an annual value
of products amounting to more than $3, ,00O,-
900. In addition there is q large cotton fac
tory Of 5000 spindles and wooden mill
turning out thousands of shuttles, bobbins
and other necessary articles. There are en-
ployed in the above factories alone about
/, 100 whites and 500 blacks. A contract
has been awarded for waterworks, and there
are electric lights On all the principal streets.
Some remarks of Roswell r Flower, who