The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-07
The Board then adjourned.
The best talent, Friday, May 2.

A new propeller for steamers has lately
beea produced by DR.. Coils Brown, which
diff Is materially from the screw propeller
at present in use, resembling, when at rest,
the letter y, and claimed to possess many
advantages over its predecessors. These
are stated to be absence of vibration; reduc-
tion of wear and tear to machinery ready
| at.aptabiity to any screw steamship, and
facility of checking a ships way, with the
power of driving her full speed astern in a
few seconds on reversal, as we'll as giving
considerable increase of speed and affect
ing a great saving of coal. During trial
with the steam yacht Lapwing, under "A
pressure Of 80 pounds of steam, with con
sumption of 81 pounds of coal per hour the
propeller made 22l revolutions per minute
with the tide slack, and the furnace burn
ing hari steam coal.
In Franklin, Pennsylvania, the ladies are
making movement in favor OF temperance
and during discussion the other day of the
question, Mrs. F. II. Smith said "sle had
her own opinion OF lager beer, and would
rather see man decently intoxicated on
whisky than brutishly stupid with beer
Mrs. Smith is evdeatly a woman of fast, :
In some of his spasmodic writings, Victor
Hugo speaks of man getting drunk on
Cyprus wine. and acting as brutishly as if
he were drunk on beer. SO that according
to these high authorities the quality of the
liquor and the kind makes a good deal of
difference; and yet it generally comes to
the same sort of thing in the end.
Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, thinks that
the schism headed by DR.. Cummins will not
reach such proportions as seriously to affect
the stability of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. He says that no important reforma-
ton has ever been effected outside the
church. Luther and Calvin never left the
Roman Church until they were kicked ont.
and when DR.. Cum.nins severed his connec-
ton with the Epis copal Church. he took Il
fatal step. DR.. Cummins, it is said is back
again in his old home in Pewee Valley, KY,
shattered in health and a disappointed man.
ne MobllidNS are IUAUIlatlllG IN cheap
fish. Sunday morning last there arrived
from the Gulf four large smacDs loaded
with red snapper, gfGupcr, etc. The breaks
upon the New Orleans and Montgomery
railroads preventing their shipment to those
places, they were sold ont in Mobile for
what they would bring. Red snappers,
weighing from ten to twenty pounds, were
sold for ID to 20 cents apiece. The captain
of one of the smacks got mad because he
could not get anything like their value, and
threw some 800 or 400 overheard
Michael Norton, a we'll known politician
in the days of the old Tammany ring, has
returned to New York city and given bail
i'll $4,000 to stand his trial on six indictments
for conspiracy.
France, Notwithstanding the late war,
makes a financial exhibit risalng that of
England. Her revenue is the largest of
any nation, that of Great Britain standing
second of Russia third, and of the United
States fourth. The debt of Great Britain is
greater than that of France but her reve-
nues are SO well managed that her credit is
good, and she is now enabled almost every
year to make some small reduction in the
burthen of taxation.