The St. Johns herald., 1888-12-20

they roain It IS aDsolutely lmpossl- ble to maintain any check over } them.-New York Sun.
 The Silver City (N. M.) Enter
 prise states that while digging in
 the foundation of the old mill of Lyons & Campbell, a Mexican by
 the name of Felipe Lerma on last
 Tuesday, found a silver brick weigh
 ing about 15O pounds. The tore
 man of the works rewarded Lerma
 and gave him $10. It is supposed
 that the bullion had been stolen
 from Bremen.
 The hippopotamus seems to be
 as surely on the road to extermina-
 tion by hunters as the American
 buffalo is. Von Francois, the Con-
 go explorer, says the huge but in-
 nocent pachyderms are already
 scarce in the waters that once teem-
 ed with them, and laments that
 they have been shot down by hun
 dreds in mere wanton sport, their
 valuable hides being rarely removed A telegram from Middleton, New
 York, states that pleuro-pneumonia
 among cattle in that neigborhood
 has assumed alarming proportions. A large number of animals have died of the disease, and Govern ment inspector is engaged examin-
 ing and condemning cattle. When the disease is found in a herd all | the cattle are killed. The Govern ment pays $15 a head for each ami nal affected, and full value for oth- CTS of the herd.
 A Mir. Clark, of Leicester, near Perry, New York, has skunk farm with stock of 300 young skunks, which he is raising for their hides and oil. The business is said to be very profitable one, and others are talking of embarking in the trade. Mir. Clark kills off all but the black color, as the buyers pay handsome prices for pure black. The skunks breed like rabbits, eight to eleven at a litter. The farm is daily visit ed by numbers of people to watch the animals play. They are tame as kittens,
 The most noticeable feature of the industrial development that has been going on in the South during the past few years is unquestiona- bly, the increase in the manufacture of cotton goods. This is the more interesting and important, as cotton is the principal product of the Southern States; hence, it seems the most natural thing in the world that the cotton-mill should flourish in near proximity to the cotton plant. At recent public meeting in Boston the statement was made that the manufacture of cotton was increasing much faster at the South than in New England. More mills | have been built in Georgia alone since the war than are in operation in New Hampshire. In 1879 the ' of cotton factories in the \ South were 154; in 1887 the num- Der had increased to 219, while now there are 235 mills in operation, IT new ones are almost ready to begin work, and 40 more building.-New Orleans Picayune. c
 An Arizona exchange says that it " is a fact surprising to man, that the council and assembly of the Terri tory of New Mexico debate and pass laws in Spanish. Courts are open ed and closed in that tongue. No . American he Ids an office under the u Territorial government with the ex- . ,eption of one or two counties, ex- '' eept by the favor of the Mexicans. U Voting is carried on in Spanish. nn n They vote the "boleto Republican," or ''boleto Democrat" The vote is Il recorded in the poll books in Span !" sh not for delegate to Congress, but - Or "delegado to congresso :D and {,