Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-16

ress. In 1880 the South contained onlJ 687. .754 spinales out of the total of 10, e53. 4s5 in the country-little more than pe' cent.-while the spindles In the South il
 1890 numbered 1,722, ,O30 out of 6 total O 14, ,9ss, ,103, or more than 12 per cent. IT
 the ten years the capital in the southern cotton manufacturing industry increased
 from $21, ,976, 713 to $61, ,124, ,026; the handi
 employed from 20, ,s27 to Al, ,4S1; the wage
 paid from $3.517,115 to $8.951, 514, ant
 the value of the products from $11 ,03S, 71s
 to $48, ,971, ,503. The number of looms in
 creased from 14, 323 to 39, ,231. The Soutt
 produces % per cent. of all the shestingt
 made in the United States, 36 per cent. oi the ginghams and Al per cent. of the yarn
 Some of the recent improvements made in the manufacture of wire glass leave nc doubt as to the practical value of ths' novel article. The form of apparatus by means of which the most satisfactory re suits are being produced is found to be ( glass rolling table, having three-rolle, carriage moving over 1t, running on the side lodges, and upon this table the glass ii rolled out, the lodges regulating its thick ness; two of the rellers are smooth, ths central roller has series of grooves ran. ming around it, and between the leading and the corrugated roller e slide is placed for the reception of e sheet of wire gauge Now, @ proper quantity of melted glass being poured out upon the table, the ho, sheet of wire gauge Is placed in its carrier, and the roller carrier started; the latter having progressed little, the wire Is drop. ped; the first roller has rolled out the glass; the wire gauAe strikes the partly fluid glass, and Is drawn under the corrugated roller; the latter seizes it, and, by its COT, rugstions, forces 1t into the pasty glass to the required depth. At this stage the com pound mass goes under the third roller, where it is rolled to the smoothest possible condition, and the operation is completed. The sheet Is subsequently annealed in the usual way, and is ready for use.
 A decision by the British Court of Alp. peals, in question of sanitary authority, is of general interest. Smallpox has been increasing in Manchester of late, and the Corporation decided in consequence to erect temporary hospital upon piece of ground which 1t owned within the district of the local Board of Health of Withing- ton, a town of 26,O00 inhabitants adjacent to Manchester. The Wilmington folk were intensely indignant at the proposal and applied to the courts to block it, arguing that the Public Health act prevented any corporation from erecting hospitals out side its own limits. MT. Justio Chittey, bsfore whom the case was tried originally, decided in favor of the Manchester author ities. He pointed out that "the powers of local authorities are strictly de. fined and limited. If private per son chose to buy land and erect @ hospital within any particular dis trict. the local authority of that dis trict would have no power to stop him. He would, of course, have to conform ts its by laws, but beyond that the local au- thority would have no power to interfere, even though the hospital were intended and used for the reception of patients suf- fering from infectious disease." The law, he insisted, ought to be interpreted in the light of common sense, and he said that s'to restrict the power of carrying on e hospital to the district of the local author ity using it would lead to several absurd consequences. For example, no local su- thority could, in such case, send any patients to the seaside without the consent of the coast authority. Again, since a local authority can contract for the use of @ hospital or part of it, or can enter into an agreement with any one possessing a hospital, without limitation of place, 1t can scarcely be forbidden to own the hos pital itself, whether within or without its own dietrictn