The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-28
AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.
Albert Psul sells Household Furniture. etc .t I,
NJ, at 81 Magnolia street.
COMHERCIAL MATTERS.

Middleton DEL man is building an i'm.
mense refrigerator, in which he is going tc
stow away 100000 baskets of peaches, ex.
pectlng to keep them fresh until next winter,
Inc discovery has been made of an incom.
Dustloie paper, of which may be made all
State and law documents of Importance and
last, not least, the bills Of the Bank of France.
Inc Importance of this discovery may be
easily appreciated.
The Danville (Va.) Ne,ns says: Information
from many localities in Virginia and North
Carolina reports great damage to the growing
crop OF tobacco from long continued and
heavy rains and storms. The indications as
TO the quality of the crop now are that it will
De inferior to that Of 1874
The San Francisco Chronicle says the bay
promises shortly to be the scene of some
what novel contestant is, contest of power,
not of speed. The owners of the tugs .Nep-
tune" and lookout" propose TO lash them
fast to each other, stern to stern, and then,
headed in opposite directions, with full steam
on, decide which shall get away with the
other. The match is for $500 side.
With regard to fishing nets, the Boston
Commercial Bulletin states that of late wears the
American manufacture has been gaining
ground and gradually working the English
out of the market. Every year the country
Is becoming more self-reliant
German chicory has lately much improved
in quality, and is used in this country to q
con ,iderable extent to mix with ground Rio
coffees In Europe the consumption is chief
ly confined to roll chicory, that is, it is put ID
in rolls of about five to the pound and 700
rolls in keg, and sells in New York in q
wholesale way at 10a@102c currency per
pound. These paper rolls contain the pure
cbicory IN pulverized state, and are stored
In cellars for length of time, where it alb
serbs moisture and becomes compact mass.
Prime German granulated is now selling in
wholesale way, at 5s@5sc gold and English
graduated at SIC gold per pound.
There is something encouraging to honest
people in the fact that in South Carolina the
State has recovered seventy five thousand
dollars in the courts from public official
who robbed the treasury of that amount. 1t
has taken only year to reach that result,
but in other States, suits of much older date
against public offenders have not yet resulted
in the recovery of the spoils. The case in
South Carolina holds out the hope that it is
possible to lay the strong hand of the law
upon official thieves throughout the country
and to make them disgorge.
One of the remarkable facts in connection
with this seasons remarkable weather is that
along the Ohio River, from Cincinnati to
Cairo, it has been raining every day for the
past theee weeks. Yesterday was the twenty
seventh consecutive rainy day at Cincinnati,
and about the same at Cairo. Thus far the
farmers in the Ohio River valley have been
unable to make their hay.-Erchange, oath
inst.
Three hundred hogsheads of unmanufac-
tured tobacco, part Of the cargo of British
vessel, were seized at Richmond en- the 23d
inst. for violation OF the inspection laws.
L. = ILL
pound, to be paid by the owners Of the to-
bacco, and twenty dollars per one hundred
pounds, to be paid by the master or owner of
the vessel. The tobacco is valued at $40, 600.
Activity In the Grocery Market-Advance in
Prizes.
IN. Y. Bulletin, oath inst
The lower part of Wall street was yesterday
the scene of considerable activity in the mar
kets for sugar-both raw and refned-and
also in that for Rio coffee, at higher prices.
Coffee advanced to and sugar sc, which is
quite important as regards the latter. The
transactions in raw embraced over 1000 hogs
heads, besides considerable in other packages,
and late in the day the market owing to the
briskness Of the demand, which was strictly
legitimate and from refners replenishing
their supplies, advanced to 8@84c for fair to
good Cuba muscavado, with considerable
sales on this basis; also of centrifugal at $40
9fc, and of molasses sugar at 7}97s.
A very fair business in raw sugar has been
done thus far this month, and the sales since
the LIST inst, previous to those Of yesterday,
as above stated. have been 80, $50 hhds., 1919
boxes and 49, 400 bags The sales have more
than kept pace with the receipts, and the
stock has been reduced since the beginning Of
the month. The following will show the
stock, as stated yesterday morning. in COM
parison with that held at the dates mentioned
in previous years: