Morning journal and courier., 1894-03-08


 the Sea Islands that fringe the shore line of South Carolina and Georgia, has many shooting lodges and club houses belonging to wealthy northerners. The land In Its | usually wild state, save where it Is suitable for cotton growing. fetches very low prices and great domain may be had at trifing outlay. The chief expense Is for buildings and maintenance. It is said that northern sportsmen have invested $i .000. 900 in Currituok county, North Carolina, alone, and there are many thousands of dollars in such investments from that point north ward to Cape Henlopsn-
 The recent death of Henry Clay winton at Eimirs, New York, recalls sad and sl- most forgotten story. A womsn's hckle- ness changed the whole course of Winton's life over forty years ago, and abandoning the promising medical career upon which he had started he became 6 hermit who lived in fquslor all his days, and finally died alone and unattended In his misera- ble room. Along about 1854 the Foung woman whom Winton WAS engaged to marry eloped and married another, and on her wedding journey she WAS killed in a railroad accident. Wintol at first refused to believe In her per6dy, but when he could no longer doubt that she wss false he shut hims elf out from the world com pletely.
 James O'Neil of Rutland, Vermont, had a liquor store in PlAttsburg, New York, from which the stuff was carried in jugs across the lake and sold to the thirsty Yer monters. In 1882 he was convicted at Rut- land of 457 violations of the law Justice Wayne Bailey imposed sentences ssgregat- ing over ssventy-nine years in the House of Correction. He appealed to the county court, which reduced the sentence to sixty years. He took the case to the Vermont supreme court. which affirmed the judg- msnt of the court below. Then he 3D. pealed to the supreme court of the United States, raising the question of the consti- tutionslity of the Vermont law, but the justices decided that they had no iurisdic- ton in the premises. Then he went back to the Vermont supreme court, and that tribunal has reduced his punishment to a fine of SC, 160 and two months impri,on- ment.
 With the Bank of England the destruc- tion of Its notes takes place about oncs a week and at 7p. m. It used to be done in the daytime, but made such a smell that the neigh5oripg stock brokers petitioned the governors to do 1t in the evening. The notes are previously cancelled by punching a hole through the amount and tearing of the signature of the chief cashier. The notes are burned in closed furnace and the only agency employed is shavings and bundles of wood. They used to be burned in @ cage, the result of which was that ones 8 week the city was darkened with burning fragments of notes. For future purposes of reference, the notes are left for five years before being burned. The number of notes coming into the Bank of England every day is about 0.000. and | 35O, 900 are destroyed every week, or something like IS. .0o0, 900 every year. The | stock of paid notes for five years Is about | 77, 745. 900 in number, and they fill 18. 400 boxes, which If placed side by eide would reach two and one third miles. If the notes were placed in a pile they would | reach to height of five and tvo-third | miles, or If joined end to end would form | a ribbon 12, ,455 miles long.