The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-11
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
There are 10000 boats employed in tn
'sardine fisheries of Brittany, which countr.
alone exports annually 10000, 600 boxes 0
'sardines, though many of these little hsh At
really young smelt and behring's
cable dispatch was received az the zen
tennial rooms. from the British Commission
to the Centennial, asking for double tn
amount of space to the Exhibition building
allotted to Great Britain.
The issues of postage stamps of all kind
by the Post.Ofice Department during tn
month of April amounted to a little in excess
of SO, 600, 600, This is an increase Of abou
twenty per cent on the issues for the CORE
spending month last year and Is by far thu
largest amount ever issued in any one montl
by the department.
It is stated that the present production o
the mills of Lowell, Mass, compared will
that before the strike, shows decrease of %
to 40 per cent The decrease in mule spin
ming is about so per cent
Tobacco Plant.
Messrs J. w. Booth & Sons inform us thai
the accounts they are receiving from the
country with reference to the injury done to
the plant beds by the freezing weather in oul
State on the night of the LIST inst. are numer.
GUS, but SO very conflicting generally that they
are unable as yet to arrive at any definite con.
clusion as to the facts. Parties from some Sec
tions, they say, advise them that the plants have
been pretty generally destroyed, while from ad-
joining localities the injury sustained is report
ed slight; but that most generally their advices
are that the plants have not yet come up,
although the seed has been in the ground
from four to six weeks, which gives rise to
the apprehension that the terminating power
Of the seed may have been destroyed by the
severe freezing weather experienced through
out the West the middle Of last month. It
would appear from this, under any circum-
stances now, that the planting Of the crop
must necessarily be very late. and that the
prospects Of very large crop being planted
in our State, as was anticipated, are not very
encouraging, which we regret to know.-H.
Louis Democrat, 9Th inst
Sale or Goods on Credit.
The vendor of goods on credit has the
right, in case of the insolvency of his vendee,
to stop the goods at any time until the goods
have actually come into the possession Of the
vendee Ordinarily delivery to o carrier is
q delivery to the vendee as far as throwing the
fisk Of the carriage upon the purchaser, but
still it is not such delivery as to cover the
entire title. Consequently the creditors of
tke vendee can not attach the property as the
vendee's property if it has not actually come
into his possession. A matter establishing
this latter propositionwas decided in the case of
q shipment of goods by some st. Louis mer-
chants to parties in Greenville, Miss. The
goods were shipped by steamboat and con-
signed to the vendee at Greenville, and in
course eff transportation were delivered on
the wharf.boat at Greenville. The vendee
having become insolvent, refused to receive
the same and notified the shippers Of his re-
fnsal and inability to pay. The goods were
then attached by creditor of the vendee and
sold by the sheriff. The vendors then inter-
posed their claim for the proceeds, and the
court ruled their right Of stoppage in transit
still existed, and that the claim for the pro-
ceeds was proper and in time.-Sk Louis
Trade Journal 7h.
Hotel Keepers and Travellers.
A French provincial judge has decided that |
a hotel keeper is bound to wake q traveller in |
Ghe event Of his wishing to leave by a certain |
night train. The judge held that it was not |
only the duty Of the hotel keeper to do so but /
that he was liable in damages if he refused |
or neglected; at the same time the Judge COM
mented in strong terms on the practice Of
some hotel keepers of wilfully delaying the |
departure of travellers, and thereby making |
them pay for an extra days accommodation. |
In the case before the court the hotel keeper
"
bis first offense Of the kind. Similar reason
ing would allow recoupment in damages for
sufferers in case of delaying meals until the
whistle of the coming train is heard.
ssuthern Ship Building.
1t is something new for vessel anything
arger than the craft required in the coastwise
trede to be built as far down as South Carroll
IA; but q ship of 400 tons capacity has never
.heless been constructed ct Bucksville, in thatk
State The South has always furnished
arge amount of timber to the North for ship
building, but has not engaged in this branch
# industry to any large extent, the building
# coasters and small craft and repairing Of
I'D vessels being the limit Of operations.
The ship referred to was built as an expert
nent, to ascertain whether vessel could not
20 constructed in o port nearer the pine tim
'er supply cheaper than at the Northern
ards. It was done by Penobscot builder
Turing the past winter, when the Maine yards
vere necessarily closed. This builder took
lis own men from tPenobscot, as the number
f skilled werkmen in that section of the !
outh isvery limited
The experiment % regards costs has de-
eloped the fact, according to the ideas Of
hipping men here, that while q vessel can be
osts $65 per ton to build vessel entirely of
itch pine South, which, though having an
immense supply Of timber, lacks the lother
materials necessary. Further, it is regarded
s fact that, though ship mechanics go to
outhern yards during the winter rather than
% idle, they will not stay there when work
resumed in the Eastern yards.-N 7. Bul-
tin, It'll inst.
The Removal Of Commissioner Douglass.
There are various conjectures in our ex-
hanges with regard to the causes which led
D the enforced resignation of Commissioners
douglass, but it is sufficiently clear that the
'riters are generally wrong IN their suEmises.
he Commissioner Of Internal Revenue is
rought into contact with important interests