The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-04
COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Etc.


Over PIP, 600 head of cattle have been ship
ned or driven from Texas the present wear.
For interesting reading, commend US to 8
recipe-book recently issued from Philadelphi.
Its article on butter. making says, by way O,
preface: "a conscientious dairyman will see
that his cows are MIXED clean, and that his
milk-boys do not spit tobacco Juice in the
milk-pans, and that lizards and snails do not
creep into the standing milk and get drowned
in it"
There is great distress in the iron trade in
England, and the large iron producers,
Blockow, Vaughan & Co., who employ nearly
ten thousand men in their collieries. mines
and works, have notified their employees that
their engagements must terminate on Novem
Der H. The depression in the trade oblees
these large producers to close up their works.
They can make more money by remaining
idle than by continuing their business at the
present time.
The following story is told of an old St.
Louisian abroad:
The old gentleman (Fagin) went to the
Oriental Bank (English) to purchase ex.
change, and offered to give check or draft
on the First National Bank of St. Louis in
payment. est Louis st. Louis!" replied
the manager; Where is st. LOUISE" Fapin
looked at the manager in dumb amazement
for minute or two, and then, raising himself
to his full height and with clenched fists
looking the very picture of Tom Benton in
palmy replied: est Louis, sir is
great city on the Mississippi Rivera stream.
sir, which, if turned on to the islands of Great
Britain would wash them all into the sea in
twenty-four hours?" Fagin got his ex
change, but not until the bank had tele-
graphed, at Fagins expense, for information.
Lard and Cotton Corners in New York.
Especial Dispatch to the Chi"ago Trlbune.l
New YORK, Oct. 31.-Corners in cotton.
pork and lard on Saturday engrossed the at
tentlon OF operators on the Cotton and Pro-
duce exchanges. The effect of the corner in
cotton was impaired on Saturday by the in.
clemency OF the weather, the rule of the Ex-
change providing that, upon certificate
signed by those members of the Exchange
not interested in deliveries that day, that the
weather Is unsuitable for deliveries the same
may be suspended until the weather has i'm
proved. The bears in cotton, whose contracts
matured on Saturday, availed themselves of
this provision, and thus secured two DAYS
Saturday and Sunday They have teie-
graphed for cotton, and will probably receive
enough to morrow, Or, a. all events, suffice Mt
to modify their losses.
The corners in pork and lard in the Pro.
duce Exchange have created considerable i'll
feeling, the bears accusing the bulls of sharp
practice. The pork corner appears to have
ended for the present, large sales having ceen
made at declining prices. The corner in lard
is still maintained, but it is thou sht the bulls
will not be SO brilliantly successful, as great
quantities of that commodity have been
shipped here in view of the high prices Upon
ths elimination Of the corner. they will prob
ably find themselves "long" of large guam
IF I'd fol
who have been tightly squeezed, threaten an |
appeal to the Board of Managers, for the pur-
pose of Furnishing the bulls, whom they charge |
with influencing the market by fictitious |
transactions.
Aging Whisky.
Several plans Of agitating spirits in ware
house by which improvement in quality is |
obtained, and particularly an aging process
recently invented for that purpose, are under
consideration in the Internal Revenue office,
the principal question being whether any pro-
cess by which liquor is purified and improved
in quality other than the natural methods can
be used without legally constituting the par
ties using them as a rectifer, and therefore
requiring them to take out rectifier's license
Several artificial plans of aging liquor have
been presented to the Office, and all cases of
that class will now be considered and decided.
Great interest is manifested in the result, and
several arguments have been made before the
Commissioner in the interest of the parties
Washington Dispatch.
Imports of Staple Groceries.
In the fiscal year just ended it is a remark.
able fact considering the state of trade, that
the imports of tea, coffee and sugar into the
United States were in excess of the imports
Of any former year. The imports of tea were
579,972 cwts; coffee, 2S74, $40 cwts, and
IL |
me shows that, as compared With 1910, the
average consumption of tea and coffee has in
creased about 33l per cent, and that Of for
sign sugar nearly 400 per cent.
The French Wheat Crop.
A detailed Paris statement of the French
wheat crop for 1875 arrives at the estimate
hat the yield is so, 300 001 hectolitres, which
Is thought to be II 200, 900 hectolitres below
IN average. The hectolitre is equal to 283
English bushels.
West India Marine Disasters.
It is stated by owners of vessels engaged in
West India trade that the losses to shipping
will probably be greater during the present
season than for many years past. Severe
torms, especially during the last two months,
lave been unusually frequent. number of
raft which left West 1udia ports about the
middle of September. have not yet been
heard from, and, it is feared. they never will
%. The loss to shippers, as well as owners,
has been immense, but the actual amount can {
lot yet be stated.
Falling off in French Trade.
The French trade returns for the first nine +
months of the present year, show falling off
n the imports, as compared with the cor I
responding period last year, of "a millions of
rancs the principal decrease being in alimen-
airy products. Of manufactured goods the
IMPORTS, however, show an increase this year
'ver last, to same date, amounting to 81
Millions of francs. Of exports there has
been an increase of 140 millions of francs. =
What is Grape Made ofs
This is question of frequent interrogation .
owing, no doubt to the general discussion
consequent upon the recent fraudulent impor-
ations-but as often it is indefinitely ans g
gered. SO thoroughly is the original material a
by the treatment it under
,oes before this curious fabric is ready for the
market, the transformation at times being so