Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The steamer Ariel, reported sunk in the James River with a crowd of colored excursionists, arrived safely at Petersburg, Va. It was delayed by the storm. Judge Nathan Goff, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, at Martiusburg, W. Va., decided that the law of the State of West Virginia, imposing a tax of $500 a year on every dealer selling cigarettes, contravened the interstate commerce law when the Cigarettes were imported from another State into West Virginia, and was, therefore, inoperative. This decision will affect similar laws in other States unless reversed by the higher court. A private letter to a New Orleans gentleman from Managua, Nicaragua, contains the following, which is given with every degree of authority: “The concession granted several years ago to the Maritime Canal Company by the Nicaraguan Government for the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal is for the second time in great danger of being cancelled, and if annulled will be otherwise disposed of. This second trouble is caused by the promise to build a canal at a point called Tipitapa, which would connect Lake Nicaragua with Lake Managua. When the concession was granted it was agreed that in return for the concession a canal would be built at this point within three years after the beginning of the work on the main line of the Nicaraguan Canal. The time limit placed upon the completion of this waterway expired in October, 1892. As the company has made no steps toward carrying out its contract the Nicaraguan Government threatens to annul the concession, and the threats come in the form of a resolution on the part of the President nnd his Cabinet, which to all appearance is final.”