The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-29
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.
Three thousand and seventy five persons
committed suicide in Prussia during last year
2537 were men, 54S women. Stranguiatlon
and drowning preferred, Others not quoted.
The wines of France are the bes. IN the
world, and the most profitable. The wine
crop of the republic yield on an average four
hundred millions of dollars year. In the
single department of Herault vine is sold to
the tune of one hundred and twenty-six mil
lions of dollars-and not rag, but gold ones.
Five Worlds Fairs have been held in
Europe. In 1851, at London, opened during
14l days, visited by 6,039 lS5 PERSONS; Ia
1856, at Paris, 200 days, 8, 1872 $50 visitors; in
1862, at London, III days, 6,2l1, 1O3 visitors;
in 1867, at Paris, 267 days. s, $50, 1853 visitors;
in 1873 at Vienna, 1876 days, 6,74O, 500 visitors.
Total 49, OI9, 0S7 visitors, yielding S7,940 S21.
Turkey thinks of taking the benefit of the
bankrupt laws Her fnsnciers say her debts
have accumulated to such an extent that it is
not worth their while to think about ever
paying them. Herzegovina, and Egypt, and
Greece and the Cretons (who were big liars
according to st. Paul. and the ladies' of the
grand seraglio have brought Musselman
things to this pass.
The Treasury documents show that the
government makes not uncomfortable item
in the loss and destruction of its printed
money, particularly the small notes and irac-
tional currency. Up to 1869, when the issue
of fve-csnt notes ceased, there had been is
sued of them and three-cent notes, 1902, 600 OF
the latter, and S. zoe, 600 of the former; and
although the government has been calling
these little notes in for tho last SIX years, there
is 81 > 1862, 600 of them still outstanding These
are probably lost or destroyed, and will, there
fore, never be returned. Tne government Is
the gamer by their destruction, and the loss
falls on those in whose hands they were last
held.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Tennessee Manufacturing Company, at Nash
vile, on the 18th, TIE report OF the president
was read. 1t states that the company, which
is engaged in manufac .uripg cotton cloth,
had lost during the year S12, 957, but that il
the mill had beeu out Of debt and furnished
with a full working capital, its profit would
have been $4,000. 1t was operated 234 days
In the year, made $4,000 yards of sheeting
and drills, employed a maximum of 397
hands, paid out s74, 1876 in wages and SS6O8
for fuel. The cost per yard of manufacturing
was 9.13 cents.
Hog Products-A Chicago View.
The Chicago Drouers' Journal says: We
are now near the time when the next regular
packing easJn is to open, and, as is usual, all
parties interested are looking anxiously at all
the surroundings, anxious to determine if
possible what is to be the probable supply,
how it is 10 come mo the market, early in
the season or late, and what are to be the gen.
eral governing prices during the season. At
the present time hogs are bringing high
prices, and every day there are quite num-
Der at the present time being bought for the
purpose of being packed ALI the houses
that have been engaged during the past sum-
mer in the packing of hogs are still engaged
in the business except, perhaps, the Allerton
Packing Company.
Botsford Il 20. commenced operations q
few days ago, and have been cutting 500 or
600 hogs daily. This is one Of the regular
winter houses, and it is merely inaugurating
its winter business in a slow way, but all are
paying the high prices now current, and are
packing considerable number of hogs every
week, at 81 25 to IS per 100. Will these
prices, by insensible degrees, be made per-
manent for the first half of the season? is
now the interesting question. From the best
information we have been able to get we
think the hog crop for the coming packing
season is about 10 to Is per cent short of the
last seasons supply, taking the whole country
over, and there are strong reasons for beiev-
ing that the great bulk of the hogs will be
held back at least a month latter than last
season.
This will operate to make heavier and bet
ter hogs than we had last season, and we
think it altogether probable that the hog crop
of the coming season will weigh as many
pounds as the last seasons crop did. As the
supply is likely to be moderate during the
first half of the coming seoson, we are in
clined to think that strong prices must pre-
vail until the holidays at least, though we ex.
pect to see considerable decline from the
range within the coming thirty days al
though it is claimed that the stock of old
pork on hand is very light.
The New Grain Grading RsIe.
The Committee on Grain OF the New Pro-
duce Exchange, of which Franklin Edison is
chairman, have established the following
grades of corn. under the new grading rules:
1st. White corn. 4th. Low mixed corn.
o. Yellow corn. 5th. steamer corn.
4d. Mixed corn. 9Th. No grade corn.
"Wkite corn" shall be sound, dry, plump
and well cleaned An occasional colored
grain shall not deprive it of this grade.
"Yellow corn" shall be sound, drs, plump
and well cleaned. An occasional white or red
grain shall not depriue it OF this grade.
MIXED corn" shall sound dry and reasona-
bly, cleaned.
"Low mixed corn" shall be sound, dry,
reasonably clean, but in color unsuitable to
grade "mixed corn"
"Steamer corn" shall include corn of The
above named grades in quality. In condition
it may be slightly soft or damp, but must be
cool.
"No grade corn all soft, damp corn,
warm or inferior to quality described as
steamer corn" shall be called "no grade.
In the grades of oats, as recently estab-
lished, the committee has decided to change
the term "high mixed" to Light mixed"
and to make this grade consist of "three-
quarters white" instead of 1.-TWO thirds
white"
Standard samples (as far as practicable) of
all grades of grain will be made up when the
various grades are decided upon.
The Decline in Gold
is due almost entirely to the fact that the No