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Jncmmstl Ctltpplj & Jtostnger. FRIDAY, AUGUST 0,1SS0. Good Advice—Let Us Have Peace The Newnan Herald speaking of the proceedings of the Democratic primary meeting held in that city on Tuesday, the 20th inst., says: All seemed to be impressed with the importance of being united and permitting no preference as to men to divide the Democratic party of Coweta. With the same spirit and desire prevailing among the Democracy throughout the State a3 we saw manifested at the meet ing in this city on Tuesday, we have no fears as to the result, whether Colquitt is nominated for governor or Joe Brown, or some other capable, honorable gentleman, is returned to the United States Senate by the next Georgia Legislature. Let the Democracy in other counties adopt the same programme as that proposed and re ferred to in another article, and harmony will at once be restored to the ranks. The spirit of independentism will be nipped in the bud and the nominees of the party ev erywhere and for every office elected by old fashioned majorities., The plan above alluded to is as fol lows: “As there is a difference of opinion be tween Democrats as to the appointment and election of Hon. Joseph E. Brown to the United States Senate, (and some talk of running an anti-Brown ticket), in order to bring about a reconciliation it is pro posed to nominate a Democratic ticket to be supported by the party as heretofore at all previous elections—with this differ ence, however, that all Brown Democrats endorse on their tickets “Brown,” and all opposed to him endorse on their ballots “anti-Brown”—and in this way ascertain, beyond a doubt, the sentiments of the Democrats of the county as to the election of Governor Brown to the Senate. Then whichever way the majority decide let our representatives vote for or against Brown, { irovided he is a candidate before the next egislature for election to the United States Senate.” This is an excellent suggestion, and perfectly feasible. It is now a conceded fact, that the elections for the next gene ral assembly will binge largely upon the senatorial succession. The appointment of Governor Brown to fill the seat vacated by General.Gordon has been made a sharp issue in the canvass for governor, and will be relegated to the people again in their choice of members to the legislature. In lieu of running two sets of candidates, one Brown and the other anti-Brown, how much better simply for each voter to write “Brown,” or “Against Brown,” upon the back of his ticket, and let the result deter mine whether or not the member elect shall consider himself instructed for or against the honorable Senator, should he present himself for re-election. This method has the merit, at least, of keeping down personal antagonisms and splits in the party, which, with a vigilant enemy in the field, might endanger its success. The Two-Thirds Rule.—A private note from Mr. Fielder, accompanying a communication elsewhere upon the two- thirds rule, says: “If you agree with me, print it; if not, throw it aside.” As the policy of the two-thirds rule is a matter of honest question, it should be discussed pro and con, net for pending, but for fu ture conventions. As to conventions al ready called, we consider the point set tled. They have hein called with the general understanding that the two-thirds rule will be adopted. When these con ventions have been held the question will lose its interest and probably not be raised again till more conventions become ne- nessary, and then the question of a two- thirds or a majority rule cannot well be discussed, because it will be understood to hate some personal bearing on candi dates. So it is, that this important point cannot well be brought up at the right time. It is of little interest when conventions are not pending—it is generally inopportune and ill-advised when they are at hand. We raise the question now in its applicability to future conventions, that it might excite thought and discussion while the general policy of the rule is naturally a matter of question. Hon. H. G. Turner Nominated in the Second Congkessional District. —As will be seen by the special, printed in another column, from Dawson to this paper, the gifted and eloquent Turner, after eerenty-fite ineffectual efforts to make a nomination, was unanimously chosen the standard bearer of the second congressional district. Mr. Turner's rec ord in the legislature has been not only able, but brilliant. Indeed, he possesses one of the best balanced minds in the State, and will at once take rank as the peer of any of his associates in Congress. And now let the friends of the vetvran Smith, the accomplished Wooten, and the popular Mitchell, all rally to the sup port of the gallant Turner. That they will do so, r/> one who knows them can doubt f&ra moment; and their potent voices on the hustings will do much to swell the majority of the youthful candidate. Three Cheers for the choice of the sec ond district, Hon. H.G. Turner, of Brooks county- . MR. G. C. Bennett, editor of the Bur lington (Vermont) Herald (Republican), was present on the battle field when Gen. Hancock was wounded, and helped care for him. In a recent issue of his paper, before the nominations were made at Cin cinnati, was the following strong indorse ment of him: “If General Hancock is nominated, the Republican party will find a fight on its hands that it never knew before. The old Union guns and drums and flags of the Republican camp would be effectually nullified'and our vast bat tery effectually spiked with a great mass of voters that ordinarily seek our camp. General Hancock’s blood, spilt by a rebel bullet, once stained our fingers, but this is the oply way in which we should wish to have his blood on our hands. We should bate tremendously to vote or fight against him. His loyalty, gallantry a nd honesty were never questioned, and a candidate more dangerous to Republican success could not be set up by the Democrats.” As to the Campaign het Herald says the Democrats are going to inaugu rate it in Maine, where the election takes place in September. That paper says: Gen. Duiftan S. Walker, assistant sec retary of the national executive commit- _ iee, received a large number of letters and UAvareceived the honor of{telegrams containing the most encour- to dinner from the Princess a S in S news from various parts of the The Power of the “Weed.”—Millions in It | The Lynchburg (Ya.) News says: —The Empress Eugenie remained alone all night at the scene of her son’s •death. —The twenty victims of the Hudson River tunnel disaster are still buried be neath mud and water. The Russian government has again prohibited the press from publishing in formation in regard to its armaments against China, —The affairs of the bank of Havana are in such a suspicious condition that it takes $240 of their paper to equal $1 in gold, a decline of thirty cents since Feb ruary, —The late Dr. Bethune asked a mo rose and miserly man how he was getting along. The man replied: “What bust ness is that of yours?” Said the doctor: «Ob, sir, I am one of those who take an interest even in the meanest of God’s creatures, —At a council of Spanish ministers, held at La Granja under the presidency of King Alfonso, it was resolved to send en gineers and architects to the Phillipine Islands for the purpose of rebuilding the edifices destroyed by the recent earth quakes. —A committee to revise the church government and book of discipline of the Presbyterian Church of the United States is to meet at the Ocean Hotel August 6, The committee was appointed at the last General Assembly, and comprises many of the most eminent divines in the coun try. The session will continue at least a week. —General U. S. Grant, who signs him self “Commander-in-Chief of the ‘Boys- in Blue,’” has issued “General Order No. 1,” directing the member for each State of the national committee of the Union Veterafis’ Union to proceed at once to organize the “Boys in Blue” in the re spective States to promote the election of Garfield and Arthur. General Grant, in issuing the order, says in his opinion “the best interests of the whole country, North and South,” demand the success of the Republican ticket. —“The next morning the judge of the police court sent for me. I went down and he received me cordially. He said: ‘I have heard of the wonderful things you have accomplished by knocking down five persons and assaulting six others, and I am proud of you.’ Then he. offered a toast, ‘Guilty or not guilty?’ to which I re sponded in a brief but elegant speech, setting forth the importance of the occa sion that had brought us together. After the usual ceremonies I was requested to lend the city ten dollars.” Dormant Nihilism.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the London Daily News says: “It must not be supposed that the revolutionary spirit is exorcised. A large proportion "of the Nihilist leaders have been captured or driven abroad, and the intelligent classes are more hopeful and contented under General MelikolTs wise and liberal rule; but the roots of the so cial malady are deep seated, and that the Nihilists havejnot lost eitlierjiope or ener gy is shown by the appearance of a new number of the Narodnia Volia, covering six pages of close double columns octavo.’, —In 1782 there was wrecked on the Na tal side of St. John’s River, South Africa, a great West Indiaman, the Grosvenor. Two gentlemen have lately been endeav oring to recover property from this wreck and have found a great number of coins, gold, silver, and copper. There is a tra dition that the daughters of a Colonel Campbell were saved, and became the wives of natives, and it is certain that near the Umgazi River is a small tribe of very light-colored Kaffire, descended, it is supposed, from those ladies. Norfolk Our Second Cotton Port. A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Ga zette says that Norfolk is now the second in importance as a cotton port. The re ceipts of cotton at the principal ports since September 1st, place Norfolk sec ond on the list with 727,754 bales, New Orleans leading with 1,474,387, and Sa vannah following with 725,554; Charles ton, 470,347; Galveston, 470,229, and Mo bile 352,110 bales. Of Norfolk’s receipts 251,185 bales were exported direct to Eu rope, the rest having gone coastwise on local transactions or orders from manu facturers. —The commission appointed by the grand jury to in«estigate the burning of the steamboat Seawanliaka have made the important discovery that the disaster was caused by an explosion of one of the boil ers. The portion of the ruptured boiler and steam-pipes have been cut out and submitted to experts. The plate iron had become oxidized and granulated to such an extent that a blow from a hammer was sufficient to bleak it. It had corroded away to one-eighth of an inch in thick ness. The boilers were fourteen years old, but had been o&citlly inspected by the government inspector^ The commis sioners are of the opinio^ that the hy draulic system of testing balers is defec tive, and does not give a true test of the strength of boilers. —Dr. Tanner's shrinkage In height is thus explained: At the cutset careful measurement showed that lie was five feet five and a half inches tall; to-day (22nd) equally careful measurement showed that he is barely five feet three and a half inches in height. The doctor’s explana tion of this curious fact is as follows: There are twenty-four b»nes m the spinal column, and between these bonc3 are twenty-three layers of cartillage. There are no blood vessels in this cartillage. It derives its substance from absorption. Consequently when the supply of food is cut off these layers of cartillage are the first portions of the body to suffer. These are capable of a shrinkage of one-quarter of an inch in thickness, so tl»t a man might lose as much as three indies in height from this cause. Putting a Note in tfe Wrong En velope.—The X — xruu ‘ «*vs that a The Two-Thirds Rule. Cuthbekt, July 27,1SS0. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: It may not be amiss for one having no per- an invl*- of Teck, for a day when she was p-gaged to dine with an old friend. Shi wrote two letters—one to the Princess in her sweetest manner, acknowledging the honor, &c., &c_; another to her friend, be ginning, “Such a bore, dear! Fat Mary has invited me to dinner on our day, and of course I must go.” To her horror, she learned by the next post that her friend had got the Utter for the Princess in her envelope. The mischief was done, and the went prepared to throw herself at file feet of her royal hostess, when the Prin cess met her with open hands and smiling face as she said: “Fat Mary is very pleased to see you, and hopes you won’t find her a boie.” country. A number ot Republicans have written to the national committee stating that they will warmly support General Hancock, because they believe him to be a better man than the Republican nomi nee. The committee has decided to begin the campaign at once in the State of Maine. The election in that State takes place in September and a vigorous cam paign will be inaugurated immediately. JonN Sherman declares, says the Rome Tribune, that he is piling up silver dollars because the people will not have them. His last statement shows that, while he has $44,000,000 silver dollars, he has over $50,000,000 of paper, piled up, and $126,000,000 in gold. According to his statement and actions nobody wants either. “Lynchburg ships tobacco everywhere. sona i interest in any pending contest for Leaf goes in hogsheads to Germany and Democratic nominations, to present a brief Turkey, sheep wash to Australia, fancy . resume of the two-thirds rule in our ua- hrands to London and Paris and Hong tipnal and State conventions. The bad Kong, and the demand always exceeds the temper manifested by good men excites fears of strife and division in the ap proaching State convention, which would be deeply deplored by all disinterested patriots who love harmony and desire the the success of our party and principles in the State and national elections; and, in calmer moments, would become of bitter regret to the persons themselves who are driving the party upon breakers, and to ruin. The original plan of both parties was by congressional caucuses. In these the party in the State, not having members of Congress, had no voice. For this and other causes tending to evil, the plan was abandoned by both parties, and that now in use adopted in lieu of it, with this dif ference as to the Whigs: In their conven tion a majority rale prevailed. The State organizations of eacli adopted and usually acted upon the respective rale of their na tional bodies. In the national Democratic conventions of 1836 and 1S40, the rule prevailed. It was intended to strengthen, and not to de feat the majority. And when the parties were so closely matched, it was regarded as unsafe to put up a man against the op position, to whom there was such strong objection that he could not, after getting a majority, reach a vote of two-thirds of his own party. It became a vital and practical question, first in 1844 at Baltimore. A majority of the delegates had been instructed for the renomination of Mr. Van Buren, who had been twice nominated under the rale; and had, at the last election, been defeated by Gen. Harrison, the Whig candidate. Vau Buren was opposed to the immediate an nexation of Texas. The discussion of that question between the appointment of delegates and the assembling of the con vention had developed strong opposition •to him. The rule was adopted by the opposition to Van Buren. with the aid of delegates instructed to vote, and who did vote for, and give him a majority. There was an effort to declare him nominated upon the majority vote. The excitement was high and the debate strong. The rule was adhered to, and, by this test, set tled as the rule of the national conven tions. The nominee, Mr. Polk, was for Texas; and under bis lead the party re gained national power. Since the union of old Democrats and Whigs in this State, it has generally pre vailed in the congressional and legislative conventions. And the party in the June convention of this year declared in its favor in the then approaching presiden tial nomination. It has not, however, been of uniform use in the gubernatorial Conventions. Gov. Colquitt’s opponents all withdrew before the convention as sembled, in 1870, and he was chosen by acclamation, as was Gov. Smith renomi nated in 1872. In 1871, when the party was suddenly called together in convention, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Gov. Bullock, Gen. Wolford, Col. Smith, Col. Niclioll and myself were candidates. I was supported by’about thirty couutics, of whose delegates Col. Smith was second choice—lie already, as was well ascertained, having a large plurality vote. My intention to withdraw being known to many of my friends, they de termined to unite on Colonel Smith. Many of them voted with his friends for a preliminary resolution establishing the majority rule, which the convention adopted. My withdrawal was followed by that of General Wofford and Colonel Niclioll, and without a ballot Colonel Smith was, on motion, nominated by ac clamation. I have never known the Democratic party to ballot for candidates in a nominating convention under any other than the two-thirds rule. I am content to have given this brief history of it, without presuming to pro nounce upon its intrinsic merit and jus tice, or the safety of ar. attempt Jo change it pending a heated contest for a nomina tion. Respectfully, Herbert Fielder. supply, though there are factories here and elsewhere that turn out 10,000 pounds daily. Working the weed is the one trade known and appreciated. And it is said very few persons have dealt in the Vir ginia product who have failed to amass money—numbers a princely fortune. To bacco has been the source of all great for tunes here. In every gorge — and there aro ravines and gorges over the entire city—on every, hiil-top, and there are hills everywhere—stand the immense factories or the little less pala tial residences of the tobacconists. A single famous brand frequently makes a fortune for its fortunate owner.” Pity that the tobacco growers were not as fortunate. Bat between heavy taxes, worms and unpropitious seasons, they seldom earn even a fair return for their labors. We wot of one planter there who has never by his tobacco farm been able to pay out of debt. It is the happy man ufacturer and “middleman” who makes his “Jack” in handling the soothing nar cotic. The tiller of the soil is the hewer of wood and drawer of water for both. In the Harvest Field. Governor Brown, on his way to Canton a few days ago, says the Constitution, remarked to some men who were near Canton, “That is the field gentlemen, that I was tying wheat in the day I was first nominated as governor of Georgia,” point ing out a field lying along Town creek. “I was then judge of the Blue Ridge cir cuit, he continued, and I came home one day, and after dinner I went to this field to see how my hands were getting along with their work. I had four men cutting wheat with common cradles, and the binders were very much behind, and I pulled oil'my coat and pitched in abont half after two o’clock, p. m., on the 15th of Jane, 1S57. “The weather was very warm, but I or- dored my binders to keep Hp with me, and I tell you it made me sweat, hut I pushed my binders all the evening. About sundown I went home, and was shaving myself and preparing to wash myself for supper, when Colonel Samuel Weil, now an attorney in Atlauta, then living in Canton, rode up rapidly to my house. He came in and said to me excitedly: “Judge, guess who is nominated for governor at Milledgeville ?” I had no idea that I was the man, but I thought from what I had heard that John E. Ward was the most prominent man, and I guessed him. “No,” said Colonel Weil, “it is JosephE. Brown, of Cherokee.” Colonel Weil was in Ma rietta when the telegram came announc ing my nomination. I subsequently as certained that the nomination had been made about three o’clock that day, and at the very time I was tying wheat in tills field. They say in Canton that two or three men have been trying to buy this field latterly. They want to sow it in wheat year after next.” - « - — » Steam Husbandry. The following interesting description of a new invention for breaking up our fields and prairies preparatory to the sowing of small grain without the use of man or horse power, we extract from the New York Bulletin: Necessity is the mother of invention. The urgent need of some means to enable the British farmer to maintain his position in the grain market against American competition has been stimulating !lie in ventive genius of that country to provide him with such artificial aids as will secure the laigest returns from the soil at the lowest possible cost. The result is what may be termed a supplement to the steam plough, in the shape of a “steam digger,” which, with eight-horse power, nominal, working at a pressnre of seventy pounds, will dig at the rate of ten acres per day land that ordinarily requires three horses to plough one acre per day at the same depth. The economical advantages of the in vention are thus apparent, and if we are to accept the statements of scientists and agriculturists who recently witnessed a series of practical experiments with it, the assertion of the London Times (which de votes two columns to a report of its per formances) that “it opens up a new era in the history ol cultivation,” would seem to be none too strong. The weight of the whole machine is but twelve tons. Its working principle as explained by; the in ventor, Mr. Darby, of Chelmsford, is as follows: Applying the motive power at the point where the work is, involving the employment of an engine traveling upon the land with the tilling apparatus follow ing; effecting the cultivation by di recting tines or blades instead of by the wedge-and-twist action of the ploughshare and mouldboard; utilizing the thrust of the tools in a backward di rection to aid the propulsion of the en gine forward; and taking a great breadth »£ once with a slow rate" of advance, in order to transport the engine over the ground as seldom as possible in propor tion to the area of work done. The en gine rests upon four wheels, set trans versely under the boiler, so that the di rection of progress is broadside, the equilibrium of the machine being main tained by a frame projecting in the rear and running upon a number of catting discs, which, as they roll, subdivide the pieces of soil delivered from Lhe digging SpTks. Three huge forks suspended from a crank-shaft mounted behind the boiler operate upon a breadth of 20 feet at once, these forks measuring over 6J feet a piece in width, and successively striking the ground after the manner of a three-throw pump. Each fork rises and falls 1 foot, and is canted backward a distance of 2 feet, the sod or slice dug off from the whole ground being deposited at the back of an open trench or furrow and turned over, so that the face of stubble or sward rests against the back ol the preceding slice. ' - The Times comments very favorably upon the operation of this steam cultiva tor, and is confident it will prove a suc cess. It is suggested that there is no rea son why a machine of half of the weight of the one under review, could not be constructed which would cultivate a smal ler area daily equally as well, even at much less expense. The Times’ editorial hits this blow at the agriculture of our British cousins: “England, with all its boasted exam ples of fine management, is not half fanned; the extent of foul land, even in forward districts, is matter for astonish ment until we make allowance for the an tiquated knowledge and impoverished means of the bulk of the cultivators. The costly plowing, cross-plowings, drag gings, clod-crushings, rakings and pick ings observable in fallow times and in other seasons are absolutely unnecessary for the mechanical preparation of seed beds for crops, but arc obligatory in the perpetual warfare against root-weeds which need not exist. There are farms in abundance in almost every part of the country on which a good income for the occupier could be saved out of the cost of tillage, if the cheaper, quicker and more effectual processes of steam culture were adopted; and yet such economical tillage remains forbidden in thousands of situa tions because the landlord’s primeval hedgerows and choking timber bar the way.” A Pleasant Summer.—We are about entering the last month of summer with a pleasant record. The weather has been temperate. Veiy few day3 have been op pressive. The town and country are healthful. Physicians report that the demands upon them were never lighter. The food crops, although far lighter than all hoped for, will yet be better than most feared. The cotton crop is promising, bnt the crucial season is just at hand. It must now ran the gauntlet of insect foes, rust and early frost. Old Simon Gossips. Old Simon Cameron, according to the New York Herald, got into a gossiping frame of mind the other day, and talked freely about matters and things in general. Here are some things he is reported to have said: “The mistake of the Democracy in 1S76,” resumed General Cameron, “was in hiding the true issue. As a matter of party policy they should have asserted Tilden’s election and never for an instant tolerated the electoral commission. Til- don’s friends relinquished their case when they admitted of a dispute. You know how it was in Jackson’s case. He never for a moment permitted his friends to ex press any doubts as to his choice. True, he didn’t get it then, but how was it the next time ? The apparent or real sinceri ty of the man carried such conviction that the next time everybody was for him. Here was where Tilden stopped short of greatness. This is what 'put that man llayes into the White House. “Tilden was badly managed by hio friends. Hayes’ advisers are, too, a queer lot. I can’t see much in them. Evarts’ foreign policy ? The feature of it has been to protect Seward, that consul in China, although the most conclusive proof of his crookedness is alleged to exist. Now he is trying to rain Colonel Mosby because Mosby finds the office rotten. I have no doubt, personally, of the bad flavor of that Shanghai, but Erart3 has held up one side of the coop while Seward crawled out. Hayes surrounded himself with the men who went over to Greeley. I always pitied Greeley. He was a baby out of the editorial room. A man of intolerable egotism. • “I was glad to see my son’s letter. He would have been very foolish to have taken the chairmanslisp of the national commit tee. Had he done so I should have been sorely vexed. His health, which is of some valne to him, will not permit him to manage a campaign. Then, too, why should he? It’s not only a tiresome but an expensive business. Money is wanted at all sorts of times, and I tell you tho chairman of that committee has to go down into his owe pocket and his friends’ very often. Tho campaign of’70 cost my son a pile of money. Every dollar Chandler got credit for. spending, personally, came from Donald. Chandler was a close map, very close man. But that is not all, for after the legitimate campaign expenses were provided against my son handed Hayes $5,000 in cash lor his personal fluid. Hayes came to him; was absolutely impe- ennious, and my son gave it to him out of his own wallet. There wasn’t a dollar in the campaign, and Hayes was whining lor pocket money. I know that Hayes got this .money. If I didn’t I wouldn’t mention it.” Garfield on Civil Reform—Mr. Garfield made a little remark on the sub ject of civil service reform in a speech he delivered in tho House April 19,1872, which is worth quoting. He said: “I wish to pass to another point. Gen tlemen who advocate the purity of our civil service say that it is now doing well and needs no reform. I ask these gente- memen wbat they think of the system of political assessments. I ask them what they think of the collector of a great port or chief ot any great branch, of the service Issuing a circular calling for one, two or three per cent, of the salaries of all the employes under his control, to be used for party purposes,with the distinct understanding that unless they pay that per cent, upon their sala ries others will be found to fill their places who will pay the assessment. I call the attention of gentlemen around me to the shainefnl fact that ^prevails all through onr service, and which has prevailed tor the last twenty years.” That system under Mr. Jewell’s ener getic management, is vigorously practiced at the present time, yet Mr. G. has not lifted up his voice against it, or protested in any way or shape whatever. The as sessments are levied to help Garfield to the White House. What does Mr. G. I i think of the two-per-cent thumb-screw ? 1 ’ A BIG EXPERIMENT. Sfr.fepaalding’s l'lnn to Light the At* niosphere Over the City or Holy oke. The Paper World, published in Holy- oke, announces that that city is to he the ! scene of an extensive experiment in the ‘ use of the electric light. H. C. Spaulding, of Boston, who was at first going to put his plans into effect in thi3 city, has gone to Holyoke on account of cheap power, and has made arrangements with the water-power company to put a wheel into their new pit near Cabot street, expressly for liis use. To make the experiment which he will attempt will require 150 horse-powers, or over two mill-powers, or enough to run a paper mill. A tower about seventy-five feet high will be bnilt, and surmounted by an im mense lantern of such power as to put all former electric lights completely in the shade. Spaulding will put up his tower and apparatus at his own expense, but he hopes to succeed so well that the city will adopt the system. He is extremely en thusiastic, and sanguine as to the results of the experiment, and his expectations go far beyond the achievements of any previous electrician. He says that with seven such towers as he intends to build lie can make the entire city as light-as day, both indoor and oat.' His idea is that by filling the atmosphere above the city with light he will get the same effect that we do from the sun and its re flected light, and that the shadows will bo no darker than those made by the sun. His idea is to fill the stratum of atmos phere just above the city so completely with light that it will permeate spaces which no direct rays reach, just as the sun’s light does immediately after the sun has set. The light which he expects to throw out from one lantern will be equal to 300,000 candles, while the largest elec trie light yet attempted by any one else lias been of but 10,000 candle power. The apparatus will cost S15,000, irrespective of investment for power,but after tho system is in operation the cost of running it, aside from the power, will be small. The ex pense of lighting Holyoke at present, pub lic and private, is estimated at $100,000 a year, and for about that amount the seven towers which are proposed could be set up and the lights put in operation. Mr. Spaulding came to Holyoke on account of tlic public spirit of its principal citizens and its cheap power, and because it will be a good place from which to advertise the system.—Boston Herald. Weevil in Corn. The Florida Dispatch some weeks ago invited its readers to give the result of any experiments which had been made-for the purpose of discovering a mode of prevent ing the ravages of the weevil in corn, and received from Col. F. L. Dancey, of Fed' eral Point, Fla., the following: Some thirty years ago I usually raised an abundance of corn for home consump tion and some tor market, and found the -weevil the chief enemy against keeping it over till late in the summer. On one oc casion, during tho corn gathering season, I had some two hundred barrels stripped and thrown- on the ground ready to haul to the crib; it rained incessantly for sev eral days. I had one and a half miles to haul it to the crib; the water dripped from the wagon body the whole distance. The com was what is called slip-shucked (simply the outer shuck slipped off). In this condition it was thrown in balk into the crib, and for the first time in years. I was not troubled with the weevil. Nei ther dii I find my corn in the least in jured by dampness, which I apprehend ed would be the case. In housing com in this climate in dry weather, if each load as thrown into the crib is well watered with a watering pot, or other contrivance, I am satisfied there would be less complaint of this pest by farmers, if it were not entirely eradicated. It is undoubtedly owing to the degree of heat generated in the bulk of corn, which is sufficient to destroy the egg of the wee vil without injury to the grain, and at the same time beneficial to the shuck for long forage. Let some one of your numerous readers of the Dispatch try it, and not be afi aid of wetting it too much. I am sure they will not neglect it in the future. The Dispatch in a recent issue says: The remedy published in the Florida Dispatch has been endorsed by such good authority that we feel warranted- in call ing attention to it again, and earnestly re quest it be thoroughly tested this season. It is simply to wet the com when stored in the crib in the shuck. This could he accomplished by gathering it when damp from rain. If not so, dampen it as it is stored in tho crib. The theory is, that this moisture generates sufficient heat to destroy the egg of the weevil, but does not injure the com. Anything that will accomplish such a good result is of special interest to this section of country. Sufficient com can be made for home use, but the trouble has been that it could not be preserved from one season to another, on account of the damage done by weevil. If such a simple, inexpensive remedy should prove effectual, your com crib is no longer West, but at home. Mr. A. H. Crowder, of this county, gives to the Patriot the following remedy against the weevil: Betore housing your com heat water as' hot as possible and scald your bam thor oughly, so as to kill out all the hugs hid den in the cracks, and then to each thirty bushels of com thrown in, sprinkle over it the ordinary water-bucketful ol water, into which one quart of common salt has been dissolved. The salt water has no injurious effects on the corn, and stock will cat the shucks very readily. Mr. Crowder says he has tried this remedy for five years in succession with perfect suc cess, and then failed to apply it one year, and had his corn completely destroyed by weevils. The remedy is a simple one, and to give it a trial would cost but little. Tho Country Gentleman, of July 8, contains the following: Messrs. Editors: Say to TV. H. H., of Tallahassee, Florida, that one of the old est friends of the Country Gentleman has known of many experiments being made to destroy the corn weevil, and none pre-, vailed, except patting up after a rain, or if in dry weather sprinkling each load as hauled into the corn-house. It is simply to moisten the shucks, so as to cause a slight heat and thus destroy the eggs. TYe all have seen, corn badly injured in the field by the weevil, but never stop to inquire or to investigate. The pea weevil deposits her eggs in the young and tender pea; there it remains until hatched the ensuing spring. I have taken an car of flint com, wrapped it up tight, leaving one end open, annd then sifted sulphur in and shook it down until it was certainly all over the grain; then putting on another and another close wrap per, I tied all tight and put it in my desk. At planting time tho weevil had destroyed every grain. This proved that the weevil had deposited the egg in the grain when soft. In my experience tlic weevil is worse on flint com than on gourdsced, because the shuck is softer and there is less of it. About forty years ago I was telling a neighbor of mine about my trials, and about my wetting com in dry weather. He said his com in one house was free of weevil, the other was badly injured. In referring to his note book he found the first was housed when too wet to pick cotton. In my young days‘I was sent to the country, being a sickly boy. I remember the old farmers had their corn cribs built of poles, say 10x16 feet square and cov ered with four foot boards (split out as shingles), which were kept in place by weight-poles. The house was uncovered when housing, and was kept so wfipn full until after a good rain; then it was cov eted. This first suggested to me to wet my corn as hauled in. I am certain it will always succeed. I have given this before, and am not “immortalized.” Oxford, Miss. ' P. I Crump, in a hotel in this city last March. FOREIGN. } England, within the next fortnight 10,000 I Gorlew ran into the court room, followed ) —— j troops of all arms. The admiralty has by three of the mob, when he was shot Farther Particulars of the British signified to the war department its readi- again. He then escaped to the street and I Beteat in AiKhantstun.—The Lost- ■ ness to provide transportation for 20,000 . fell, but quickly regaining his feet ho re- rn * ue “ **' . . , men within three weeks. The India troop ceived another shot. | London, July 29.—A Dublin dispatch ships Crocodile and Serapis are undergo- ! He then ran through a dry goods store, ’ to the Times says: - The news of the dis-1 jng repaiis, and are therefore not availa- closely followed by his assailants; then aster in Afghanistan has caused the deep- [fie for service this season. ! out into an allev, and again into the cst sorrow and consternation here. So - profound an impression has not been pro- Judge Lynch in the Court House. St. Louis, July 20.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from Moberly, Mo., says an armed mob of one hundred men from adjoining counties came into the town this forenoon and opened fire on J. C. I Corlew whom Sheriff Mattock was taking !- into the court house to be tried for com- ' mining a rape .on the person of Mrs. {street, finally making his way into a room over a saloon. Here his pursuers 1 cornered him, and the husband of the ' outraged woman ended the pursuit by fir ing five more shots into Corlew’s body and one into his forehead. Corlew died in ten minutes. The most intense ex citement ptevailed while these proceed ings were in progress, and the officers of the law made no effort to stay them. Famine, Violence and Death. A Protestant pastor in the city ol Mosul Asiatic Turkey, writes as follows con cerning the famine there: “People eat cotton seed, blood and even the carcasses of pack animals. All busi ness is at a stand-still; there is no profit, no employment; there is theft and rob bery by night and by day; all manner of iniquity abounds, not even the fearof God is left. On every hand there is violence, oppression, wickedness, drunkeness, ruin. The poor in the streets cry out till the middle of the night, ‘We are starving; .O merciful ones, we are starving!’ The daily deaths from starvation are from five to ten. “In the villages around Mosul they eat a kind of earth, also blood, carcasses, cotton and hempseed. They die from fifty to one hundred per day. The number of deaths of people, beasts of burden, and cattle is beyond computation. In Mo sul itself we see many offering their chil dren for sale, and none buy; hut in El Kash the Kurds have sold hundreds of girls at from £i 10s. to £2 each, and with the price of a soul they buy a few meas ures of wheat. From Dairiki, a day’s journey west ofMardin, news comc3 that the stores of grain are exhausted. Men did go on a day’s journey for bread, hut the roads were so unsafe now that they dare not stir. Women go out and gather grass, which they eat like the beasts ol the field.” Thin or Thick Planting. Mr. James M. Crawford, a practical and progressive farmer in our vicinity, makes the following replies to our suggestions touching experiments os to thin or thick sowing or planting: Editor Register: I can endorse tho statement of Mr. C. Howard Shipley as to the sowing ot wheat, Last year I weighed 60 pounds of wheat and meas ured one acre of good land, which I di vided into two plats, a half-acre in each. One half-acre was laid off, 90 rows one foot apart; this was drilled with 15 pounds (one peck.) The other half was sown broadcast with three pecks (45 pounds). The one peck yielded 945 pounds (15 bushels); the three pecks sown broadcast yielded 765 younds (12J bush els). It was weighed after tho toll was taken out. The wheat sown in drills was plowed twice and hoed three times. I in tended to have 100 rows on the half-acre drilled, but left a two foot path between the two patches which made an equal di vision. As you requested, I will give you a statement of some experiments made on my own account and some made as sug gested by others: In 18601 planted one field of five acres. The rows were laid off three feet, seventy rows to the acre. I picked from these five acres 13,050 pounds of seed cotton. When scaled,it weighed 4,200 pounds—ten bales, each weighing 420 pounds. In 18701 tried three and a half feet, sixty rows to the acre. From thi3 was picked 2,000 pounds. When ginned and packed it weighed 650 pounds. The next experiment was the plan sug- ;ested by Jordan & Lockett, of Georgia, ly which they made five oGO-pound bales to the-acre. I bought a bushel of their seed, planted and worked by their directions; had fifty rows, four feet apart. When the cotton was chopped out I had 10,000 stalks. The plants stood a fraction less than a foot apart; the headland made the difference of the fraction. Off this acre was picked 3,125 pouLds of seed cot ton, making two bales 530 pounds each— a little over one-half made by Jordan & Lockett. The next experiment was with the Cheatham seed, for which a premiutp of $500 was offered by Mr. Cheatham for the largest yield on one acre planted with his seed. I gave him forty dollars for one peck, with.whicli I planted the acre. Af ter the ground was thoroughly prepared, I laid off my rows four feet apart, then with a three foot compass laid off for the seed; this was followed with a lioe, mak ing a hole as marked by a compass, in which four seed were dropped. I thinned out and left two stalks in the bill. This gave me 140 stalks to the row and 7,000 stalks to the acre. The seed cotton from this acre weighed 3,640 pounds. When ginned and baled it weighed 1,218 pounds, t'lree bales, 406 pounds each. This is the .largest yield reported in this State. Cotton sold from one acre, . . $ Cotton seed sold Cheatham, . . . Premium for Cheatham, .... Premium on best bale of cotton from Agricultural and Mechani cal Society 156 360 500 20 $1,036 We have only to add to such planters who do not have the benefit of Mr. Craw ford’s acquaintance that these statements can he ituplicitly relied on.—Columbia Register. A Washington Clerkship. For a set of people who take life easily at all times, but especially in hot weather, commend me to the clerks in the depart ments here. The hours of duty at the longest are only from 9 o’clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, and Mondays they are let off at 3. Out of these scant 9ix hours—formany clerks are not veiy prompt in getting around in the morning—4hey are allowed time enough for lunch at noon, and you seldom see one who looks as though he had to work very hard any of the time. With some exceptions the rooms in these buildings with their massive walls, are about as cool places as one can- find on a hot day. Then, too, a clerk is granted a month’s vacation every year on full pay, which he can take when and as he pleases. Alto gether there certainly does seem a good deal that is agreeable about a place iu one of the departments, especially a good paying place. If there were a fixed te nure of office and a regular system of pro motions, so that a faithful worker might expect to rise steadily, there would not be a more comfortable way of making a liv ing for a man who had no especial ambi tion. As it is, there is another and a sadder side of the history. There is no assurance *of perma- nance. A man may work faithful ly for years; he may bring his family here and set up his home; he may come to regard himself as a fixture, and then all of a sudden some morning he may find himself turned adrift. I heard a very sad case of just this sort only the other day,-where a man was discharged after twenty years’ faithful service, simply be- cause there was nothing mere for him tor do. He is a man in middle life, too old to start in any business and unfitted for any other occupation by a score of years in a clerkship, and one does not wonder that he declares he will solemnly warn every young man whom lie can hope to influence against ever taking a position in one of the departments.—Charleston News. A letter from Shanghai narrates an incident of Chinese fatalism. A man fell overboard from a boat and was carried away by the current and was drowned, but neither his three companions nor the occupants of numerous other boats in the vicinity made the least effort to save him. His comrades screamed and tore their hair as if in great distiess, and when asked why they made no exertions]to rescue their companion, replied that a man who saved another from drowning was responsible for his debts. Also that the drowned man could not have been saved by any possi bility, as he must have offended Typhoon Joss (the god of water), and as a natural consequence, when Joss says a man must drown that is the end of it. duced on the public mind since the first battle of the Crimea. The news has caused great excitement in the House of Commons. The Maiquis of Harrington, secretary of state for India, is expected to make a further statement to-day. The Standard this morning seys one distinct and fixed point i3 that qur su premacy must be signally and effectively vindicated, and ’this crushing disaster avenged in the sight of Afghanistan and India. It is not known whether General Burrows himself is saved. The Queen was immediately telegraphed to on re ceipt of the news aud all the ministry had an informal conference. The date of the attack is not given, but the military au thorities believe it took place Saturday or Sunday last. The Times, in its financial article this morning, says: “The disaster has de pressed the eastern exchanges and weak ened Indian securities, besides causing a gloomy feeling generally, as these fre quently recurring troubles in the country itself, or’on one orthe other of its frontiers, tend to shake the people’s confidence iu that dependency ever settling down into a state that will not - cause anxiety to the home government.” A correspondent of the. Standard at Bombay, says: The news firem Candahar has caused immense excitement and con sternation throughout India. It had been regarded as so certain that Gen. Burrows’ force was perfectly capable of opposing Ayoob Khan’s irregulars, that no shadow of anxiety wa3 felt for his safety. The Viceroy summoned his council in haste the instant the news of the disaster ar rived, and although some hope was ex pressed that the report of the losses had beeD exaggerated, there is nothing in the latest news to encourage the hope that any considerable body of infantry at least has escaped. The chief anxiety at present is for the safety of Candahar. The loss of this city would be a terrible blow to ns and a frightful misfortune to the inhabit ants, as tbe city would certainly be looted by Ayoob Khan’s troops. From Cabul we learn that complications are already aris ing at Ghuznee, and there can be no doubt that the defeat will exercise an immense effect on the situation at Cabul. It is considered certain that Ayoob Khan’s atti tude will modify the resolution to leave Abdurrahman Khan to establish himself, aided only by money, and thatevacuatiou must be delayed. Opinion is unanimous a3 to the absolute necessity of a complete revindication of our army. London, July 29.—The troops now un der orders for Bombay are the Thirty- eighth regiment, first battalion of the Twenty-third regiment, aud the King’s Dragoon Guards from the Cape of Good Hope. The Indian troop ship Euphrates was to leave -for Bombay in August, the Malabar and Jumna were to leave in Sep tember, and the Serapis and Crocodile in Oetober. Two of these vessels can he ready in a week. London, July 29.—The following dis patch has been received from the gover nor of Bombay: “Gen. Fliayre, replying to a telegram asking all tbe particulars of the disaster, telegraphs from Quettah to-day as fol lows : ‘The following are notes of a con versation held yesterday morning with Gen. Primrose, before the wires were cut. Gen. Primrose said: “I am anxious to see yon’coming in with as large a force a3 possible. Small parries of Gen. Burrows’ force are constantly arriving. It would appear that they were only pursued three or four miles. I have not yet ascertained the losses, but fear they are severe, have sent out men to assist stragglers. The enemy are veiy strong in artillery; they have thirty-five guns, which they work well. Gen. Burrows and the Wali (Shere Afi) are all right. The latter has reached Candahar. Dr. Harvey says only two of our guns were lost; others are coming in. (Here follows a list of eight British officers killed and five wounded.) Niue officers have arrived saiely at Can- dahar. This is all we know.” London, July 29.—A Bombay dispatch to the Standard says the news of the dis aster was brought to Candahar by thirty Indian horsemen, who had ridden for their fives. Great anxiety is felt con cerning the garrison of Uhiati Gilzai, con sisting of four guns, the Third Scinde horse, two companies of the Sixty-sixth regiment, the Forty-eighth regiment of Bombay native infantry and one company of the Twenty-sixth regiment of Bombay native infantry. London, July 29.—The St. James' Gazette this evening says the news to-day from Afghanistan shows that yesterday’s telegrams are exaggerated as to General Burrows’ defeat< Candahar ought to be perfectly safe. It was' defended in the old Afghanistan war by a force inferior to General Primrose’s against a night attack of 30,000 Afghanistan. London, July 29.—The Patl-Mcdl Ga zette, in a leadingeditorial, says: The dis aster at Candahar would be half com pensated if it awakes the country to a de termination to come out of Afghanistan, hag and baggage, to have nothing to do with ^Candahar and as little as possible with Cabul; to abandon that imposture called a “scientific frontier,” and place our selves at tbe earliest possible moment in a position from which we can look hack upon the monstrous Afghan blunder of tour day as we look back upon the mon strous Afghan blunder of a generation ago. London, July 29.—In the House of Commons this evening Sir Charles Dilke, under foreign secretary, confirmed the ac curacy of the published accounts of the Porte’s reply to the collective note of the powers. The Marquis of Harrington, sec retary for India, said the government had decided to dispatch reinforcements to In dia immediately. The Khan, of Klielat, he said, had offered guns and other assist ance. ' London, July 29 Earl Granville, for eign secretary, stated in the House of Lords to-day, that Gen. Phayre is at Cha- man Choki. Communication is cut be tween him and Gen. Primrose. Phayre says Primrose’s only fear Is a scarcity ol water. A Reuter’s dispatch from Simla says Primrose’s last message stated that the re port of the disaster was exaggerated, but that the loss was severe. Reinforcements were already on their way when the de feat occurred. Generals'Sandeman and l’hayre are already marching on Canda- har, and two or more regiments should have reached Candahar by this time. Two strong brigades with artillery and cavalry wifi be sent from India. In tiie House of Lords this evening, Earl Granville, foreign secretary, replying to an inquiry, said a communication had passed between Queen Victoria and the Sultan of Turkey, with the knowledge and consent of the government. It was .un usual to present such communications to Parliament, but the queen had authorized him to state that she had, in very cordial terms, expressed hopes that the Sultan would, even at some sacrifice, accede to the wishes of Europe. London, July 80.—A Bombay dispatch says the native mind is greatly excited by tho-Candahar disaster. The bazaars are full of rumors. The natives think the Russians assisted Ayoob Khan and led his troops. The last telegram from Can dahar stated that afi discipline in Bur rows’ command had disappeared and a disorderly crowd of officers and soldiers was pouring into Candahar. A Paris dispatch announces that M. Roderer, head of the great champagne house, died at Rheims yesterday. A Berlin dispatch says it appears that France has resolved to withdraw her iron clads if the naval demonstration should develop into real action. Until now it ha.’, been hoped that the good understand ing between the powers during the draw ing up of the collective note would con tinue; but the attitude of France during the last few daysmiakes it likely that many new difficulties may arise. It is stated that arrangements have been made for the dispatch of four or five thou sand tr< a to Afghanistan from England within iaiHBfti and that the military ailtkorftil sred to supply, from London, July 30.—Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley came to London yesterday, from the Isle of Wight, after hearing the news of the disaster at Candahar.' A telegram was received at the India office from the viceroy of India last night, dated the 29th instant, which refers to the dispatch of reinforcements from various parts in India. It says a battery of horse artillery at Kurrachee has been ordered up, one other battery is en route, the First Madras cavalry is en route and the Elev enth foot at the Bolan pass, and the Fif teenth foot at Kurrachee, have been or dered up. Gen. Phayre will receive a battery and a European regiment from the Punjaub. His field column will mus ter three batteries, nine squadrons and three British and four native battalions. He expects to be ready in fifteen (lavs. Candahar is provisioned to the end of Oc tober. In the House of Commons this evening, Sir Charles Dilke, under-foreign secretary, said the government had. no information of mutiny iu Cypress, and does not believe the report. In the House of Commons this evening, the Marquis of Harrington, secretary of state for India, read a telegram from the Viceroy of India, of to-day’s date, which says: “General Sandeman has sent men to obtain information concerning the Can dahar affair; but the country from Khajka to Candahar is disturbed, and the mes sengers will be ten days in returning. Forces from the Rahman and Dubrai posts are retiring towards Chaman Chaki, along the fine of communication. They have been attacked by native tribes, but are holding their own. Assistance is go ing to them from Chaman Chaki. Native reports say that General Bur rows’ fight was severe, both sides losing heavily. Several tribes are reported to be collecting along the Bolan route, but the forces af Quietah and Pisheeu are strong enough to check them. General Phayre lias not yet been able to advance and will await sufficient reinforcements to . prevent the possibility of a further reverse. Smyrna, July 30.—An earthquake which occurred here yesterday demolished four or five houses and damaged many others. Two persons were killed and five or six injured. Much damage was done in the adjacent country. At'Buranbuda eleven houses, several cafes and two m in- arets were demolished; two persons killed and ten injured. Slight tremblings con tinue. London; July 31.—A dispatch from Simla to Reuter’s Telegram Company gives the following: “Quettah, July 23.—There is no news direct from Candahar. Native accounts do not describe General Burrows’ defeat as crushing. Tliay state that the British cavalry and artillery were lured by the ‘ enemy’s cavalry feigning retreat into an : ambuscade, where Ayoob Khan’s army attacked them, inflicting severe losses. Burrows’ whole force then retreated. These particulars require confirmation. The force retreating from the Kahman • and Dubri posts have been relieved from Chaman Ktfcki.” The Rome Osservatore Romano pub lishes a circular letter of Cardinal Nina, Papal secretary of state, to various Papal, nuncios, in reply to the circular of M. Frere Orban, Belgian minister of foreign affairs, concerning the publication of the documents which passed between Bel gium and the Vatican. Cardinal Nina ac cuses M. Frere Orban of premeditated- ly breaking off relations with the Vatican. He adduces numerous facts refuting the charge of double-dealing against the Vat ican, made by the Belgian minister, and accuses M. Frere Orban of having party aims. London, July 31.—A dispatch from Cape Town says Parliament has been pro rogued. Governor Sir Bartle Frere, in his speech, attributed the failure of the con federation policy to the unsatisfactory set tlement of Zululand and the annexation of Transvaal. Paris, July 31.—A violent thunder and bail storm occurred here yesterday. Tor rents of rain fell, and great damage to crops is feared. The hurricane damaged Wagner’s theatre at Bayreuth. London, July 31.—A Bombay dispatch says that the effect of the first shock of the Candahar disaster is over, and tbe situa tion is regarded much more favorably. It is now admitted that the garrison of Candahar ought to be able to hold its ground with ease. A private letter from Candahar, dated the lSth instant, des cribes the effect of the news of Ayoob Khan’s advance across the Helmond as already very considerable. The mer chants and well-to-do people were bury ing their property and preparing to leave the city. London, July 31.—Premier Gladstone has promised to answer Sir Wilfred Law son’s question concerning the recall of Sir Bartle Frere from the Cape of Good Hope on Monday next. It is believed, if the answer is in any way conclusive, it will announce Sir- Bartle Frere’s speedy recall; and if not, Sir Wilfred Lawson will move for his recall. St. Petersburg, July 31.—General Skobeloff telegraphs .that he started on the 13th inst. on a reconnoisance from Bami, against the Tekke-Turcomans, with a light column, consisting of three com panies of infantry, three battalions of Cossacks, three light and two mountain guns, four mitrailleuses and one rocket battery. He says they succeeded in de stroying much grain and provision stores between Bami and Geok Teppe. After several bayonet encounters Skobeloff, on the I7tb,'occupied Isigan and Batyrkola Tepe. The Russians established a point d'appui, and General Skobeloff marched on the 18th with the greater portion of his column to reconnoitre Denseil Tepe. Large masses of the enemy’s horse men were encountered. The Russians advanced, fighting, to within a thousand paces of the outworks, beneath the shel ter of which they reconnaitered. The Russians -retired at one o’clock in the morning and despite frequent and determ ined onslaughts regained Isigan and Ba- tyrkola the same evening^ almost without loss. They re-entered Bami on the 22d. The Russian casualties for nine days were three privates killed and eight wounded. TheTekkes at Geok Tepe number 10,000. London, July 31.—A Paris dispatch says that M. Leon Say; president of the French Senate, in an address delivered yesterday at an agricultural show at Eprunnes, expressed a hope for betterhar- vests, and attributed the present crisis partly to the lack of facilities of commu nication with America. He advocated a revision of the land tax, the remission of taxation in certain cases, and improved transportation facilities. London, August 1—The Economist of this week says: There is less talk this week of gold going to America. The un settled weather has not yet materially af fected the harvest prospects, but fine ri pening days are now ueeded. The r$te of discount for bank bills at, sixty days to three montlis is 1| per cent, and for trade bills at sixty days to three montlis is 2 to 2| per cent. The appearance on the stock exchange was favorable. Candahar news on Wednesday caused an immedi ate relapse, even iu many securities in trinsically unaffected by that disaster. On Thursday morning tbe depression contin ued, but in the afternoon Indiau news be- iug more reassuring caused a decided re covery. The revival has toutinued, though the prevalence of stormy weather exercises some restraining influence. Al together the European government’ secur ities arc lower. Iu most of tbe other di rections the result of the week’s changes is favorable. Increasing excitement in Tur key and surrounding states baa caused a general weakness on tbe continental bourses. On tbe other hand, many of the New World securities have improved. United States government securities are in request for” exportation. American 1 railway stocks continua strong. Rome, August 1.—The Diretto has rea son to believe that tho question of the cession of Bulcignoto Montenegro has been satisfactorily settled, in which case the Greek frontier question may be in definitely postponed. Rome, July 31.—Cardinal Francisco Appuzzo, archbishop of Capua, lsde^