The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-30

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 Senator Palmer Of Illinois is seventy nine years old, but he says he shall re- turn to the practice of law after March with renewed vigor and energy"
 The taxable wealth of the negro pop nlation of the United States is over s20o, 900, 900. There are 23.462 negro church bodies, with church property valued at over $26, ,OO0 900. There are over 1000 college trained colored min listers.
 The Ohio Supreme court holds the State collateral inheritance tax to pc constitutional. It places tax of five per cent. on property descending by ln- heritance to others than lineal de- scendant The dispatch containing the news adds: "It has proved a tsli- nre as a revenue getter, and little in- terest was taken in the case.'
 Complaint is made in Paris that rich foreigners are conspicuous by their ab- sence this year from the Rue de Ia Paix, the street with the richest bait Tar on,1lent customers. The trouble seems to be that these rich travellers pass through the capital to the Riviera and other winter resorts without tarry- Ing to squander their cash as before.
 There are some new women Who are all right. For instance, woman Ill Dahlonega, Georgia, whose huspano died a-year ago, leaving her with nine children to support, is running herNfa at a profit, and is putting money in the
 
 hank. She thinks that many other farmers could do the same if they work ed intelligently and spent less money for liquor and tobacco.
 A letter from Vienna says that near 1y twenty-five thousand children at tending the Vienna elementary schools are in actual want of food. Thousands of them are sent hungry to school, barefooted and in rags as well, and hundreds faint away in their class rooms from exhaustion. The more for tunate feed at noon at the soup-kitch- ems for the children of the poor, which are supported by charitable associa- tions
 There Is one southerner who hasn't surrendered even yet, and of course il is a. woman. She lives In Augusta Georgia, and proudly asserts that she has never been from under the Con- federate flag since it became "her flag. Whether walking, eating or sleeping there is always Confederate flag ovel her head. While walking on the street: there is always a flag in her hat, and no matter how many hats or bonner' she has. there Is always to be found flag pinned on the inside of the crown ,,, the headpost of her bed is securely fastened a. large flag of the Confeder ate States. The flag is as necessary TO har as three meals d day. She say she has never surrendered and neve will.
 During one of the sittings of the In ternational Sanitary Board in Constan tinople the Austro-Hungarlan delegate Dr. Hazel, directed attention to the i'm minent danger of the importation int the country of the plague by the Meccs pilgrims from India. He urged tha the pilgrimages from India to Mecc' should be entirely prohibited this year The foreign delegates on ,the boar' unanimously seconded his proposals but they were energetically opposed b. the Turkish delegates, who declared that the pilgrimages, being reiigiou observance, must not be subjected t. any restrictions. This attitude of tn Turkish authorities is causing uneasi ness in Constantinople, as, should tn pilgrims from India be admitted, the, are expected to bring the plague witt them, and the danger of its spreading to the holy places of Islam would b considerable. An apparently inspire' paragraph in the Politische Correspon denz suggests that it is the duty of tn English government to forbid the pill grimages, and that other Europeal States whose Mohammedan subject are accustomed to take part in the ex cursions to Mecca should adopt tn same course.
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