The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-16
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

The y Glted States having cOSt %, ooo,oOo,ooo'
Their annual repair, depreciation, and inter
est on first cost is put at $500, 0O0 600. In
Pennsylvania they cost an average OF Sll 4O
Der acre: in Rhode Island $40 80. They also
sometimes prove very expensive to politicians
who bestride them.
There are enrolled in the public schools of
the United States $780, 900 children In the
last fiscal year the average daily attendance
was A, 500, 900. Thirty -seven States and eleven
Territories report an increase In the public
school income of 81. 2S2 600 and in attendance
OF children 164, COO The total sum raised
during the year by taxation was SS2 ZOO, 900,
and the cost of public education was about
STA, 900.
A London telegram Of December 6 gives
more hopeful outlook for our breadstuffS in
the European markets. The last Russian
wheat crop was from Is to 30 per cent below
the average yield, and the present winter set
in with such severity as to stop field labor
and partially close the Baltic at an unusually
early date. In many sections the crop has
not been suf1i ,ient to supply the home de-
mand during the winter. Cows have been
sold as low as two dollars per head, and
horses at three dollars to save the fodder1ng.
Added to this there is financial panic IN
the monetary centres which only government
aid can prevent from prostrating the com
meice of the whole Empire. This condition
of affairs can not fail to affect the grain mar
kets Of Europe favorabiy for our American
surplus, but of the supply in granary there Is
sufficient to defer any material advance In
prices until spring. The markets WILL IN the
meantime however, be unusually susceptible
to outside Influences; and, as the telegram to
which we have alluded states, "should any
thing untoward happen, an advance OF 10
shillings would easily occur"
he Cf
French process, is said to be complete sue
cess. The worn files are first cleaned with
potash and no. water, after which they are
left five minutes in q solution composed OF
one part of sulphuric acid and seven parts of
water; a quantity of nitric acid equal to the
suIphuric is then added to the solution, aud
as much water Also and the files are lett In
the solution for about forty minutes longer.
They are now ready for use, but, II to be
stored they must be brushed over with a
little oil or grease to prevent rusting. The
files are not allowed to touch each other IN
the solution, bsing supported by their tangs
only In order to obtain the most complete
results possible, the proportions OF acid are
varied according to the size OF the files; tor
example, for large files, one-si1th acid; for
bastard files, one-eighth, one-nlnth, to one
eleventh; and for the finest, one-twelfth to
one-thirteenth. The cost of the operation Is
small, and as a file sh4rpened in this manner
is, it is said, quite as efficient as one tina. has
been re-cut, the saving is large.
Coffee Market.
New York Grocer, 18th inst.1
The situation of coffee is q very peculiar
one. The high standard OF value which II
maintains is not warranted by statistical facts
or rather by the laws of supply and demand.
Nevertheless, during the last four years, it has
4lx,n hat w
believing in and acting on similar theories,
have been disappointed in their calculations.
that even now, although the phantom of a
coffee famine has long since disappeared, it
requires almost as much faith to abstain from
buying, in the expectation of lower prices, as
to decline selling in the hope Of doing better
The opinion prevailed amongst merchants in
Rio, and with many in Europe, that the Bra
I'll planters had grown SO rich and independ-
ent as that on the appearance OF break in
Europe and America, they would withhold
their coffee from market.
When great depression in the European
and our coffee market set in about the begin
ming of October. and the Rio market also be-
came very dull, the receipts continued
steadily for some time at the rate OF III, OOO to
II 900 bags per day. which caused the belief
to grow here that the downfall OF high prices
had come at last But after the middle Of
last month receipts dropped to about 7O0(
bags per day; large purchases were made II
Rio, prices advanced there and here, which
would tend to show that the faith in perma
nent break was not strong.
The former large receipts in Rio have beer
explained as the facility afforded planters BY
fine weather to pick their coffee rapidly. The
final out-turn of that crop remains to be seen
Reports from Rio continue TO assert that /
will be small.
AS to mild coffee, the Java and Ceylon crop
of 1875 and '76 are no doubt small; tn
former will show large deficiency. This
will show itself more particularly IN tn
spring.
Hog Packing.
The number of hogs packed in Chicago
st. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapo
lis and Milwaukee from November to De
cember 8, 1875, was 100000 head agains
$4,000 to December 2, 1875. The proportion
of hogs packed to last season on the 9th inst
was So per cent against 65 per cent on the
ID inst.
The Chicago Commercial Bulletin, of thu
11th inst, says:
About one-third of the regular packing
season has passed away, and the aggregate
slaughter of hogs so far In the West exhibit
a material falling off-so much SO as t.
attract considerable attention from operator
the pTOVlSlOU tauc, duu tuO SOhuhoi I'LL
now to be considered is: Will this de6cienc.
be made up before the close Of the packin'
season? OF course, opinions vary as to tn
final result. The impression prevails to
considerable extent among operators that tn
number of hogs in the country does not var
much from that in former seasons, but cor
is cheap in most hog-raising districts, an
farmers are disposed to hold their hogs bac
and place them in excellent condition, evel
if they have to accept reduced prices. as the
can dispose of their corn to better advantag
in that way.
Packers at all points-the large ones no
being an exception this year-are 6ackwar
in their operations and distrustful OF tn
future-in fact, they are not willing TO- pa
present prices for hogs, pack the product
and carry it forward during the spring an
summer months. At this time last year tn
aggregate slaughter of hogs in the Yves
reached about 100000 hogs-this year t
date it probably does not exceed 10000
hogs. or a decrease in number of about 900