The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-01
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India is said to be third in the list OF the
wheat-producing nations of the globe
Counterfeit anthony, lead and tin hall
dollars, circulate In Eureka, New.
The temperance fever is raging in Yer
mont as well as elsewhere, and old laws
against the traffic are to be enforced.
North Carolinans are getting up petitions
to the President to amnesty all persons in
The State who are under arrest Or indictment
for violations of the revenue laws. They ask
for it as part of a conciliatory policy.
AS it is impossible to make a shortened
leg longer, Boston surgeon has determined
10 obviate the apparent deformity by making
n long leg shorter. His apparatus was ex-
hibited last week at the City Hospital Boston,
but has not yet been applied.
"A sad accident, the result of criminal
economy, has just occurred ON the Naples
railway. A box of dynamite, forwarded from
Turin and described as hardware, to avoid
extra charges, exploded in transit blowing
wagon to pieces and killing two guards. For
tunatey, it was only a luggage train
Gen. Loring Pasha formerly lieutenant
general in the Confederate army, bat now in
the service of the Khedive, has been deco
rated with the orders of the Medjide and
Osmanlie the latter is only conferred on
commanders of an army in the field. The
decorations of the Midiidie are a star of bril-
lants surrounded by crescents for the necke,
and similar one for the breast.
At noon on May 10, the English pilgrims
numbering about 200 laymen, and 80 eccles-
astics-wcre received by Pope Plus TX. An
illuminated address sent by the Roman
Catholics of England was presented to him,
as well as an offering of $4,000, and q num-
Der of vestments and church ornaments The
Pope, who was attended by the new English
Cardinal, Howard, and eleven other cardinals,
replied to the address, standing in front of
The throne. He thanked God for the progress
of the faith in England and the many CONVEX
sions already made. After the Pope had i'm
parted the apostolic bencdicton the more
distinguished pilgrims were presented indi-
vidually to him.
Speaking of the Kemper county murders,
the Meridian Miss Mercury says: "April %,
I'm De Kalb, never ought to be investigated,
and if wisdom and craftsmanship prevail,
never will be. On that day the higher law,
which antedates common law and all other
law, ousted them and all their ministers of
jurisdiction, and for a brief period of time,
sufficient to its purposes, held sway. It's
judgments were final
One of the great annual festivals of the
Hindoos was lately celebrated upon the banks
of the Sarju. small tributary of the Ganges.
The brahmins and astrologers announced
that happy conjunction of the planets ut
The time would render the occasion especially
favorable for all who desired publication of
their sins by jumping into the river. Myri-
ads Of Hindoos rushed to the spot. deter
mined to battle without delay, but so great
was the crowd that number of persons were
crushed to death. Their bodies were immedi- |
ately thrown into the water with the idea that
they would float direct to heaven.
In the future no woman in the State of
New York convicted of felony is to be sent to
the State prison. Tho recently passedslaw
consigns the guilty fair sex to Incarceration
in the nearest county pentcntiarv. The rea-
son of this change is that strenuous efforts |
are on foot to make these institutions self |
supporting The. labor of men i'll prison
being more valuable to the State than that of
women, the latter's quarters will be soon va
Gated in all the State prisons and filled by
men.
-hielllcIy experiments were lttucly IeSuiiieu
at Shoeburyness, near London, with the so
ton cannon. It was loaded with a charge of
a25 pounds; the proiectile, a Palliser ball,
weighed 100 pounds, and quilted the mouth
of the gun at the rate of 1900 feet in second. |
The target was at distance Of 100 yards, |
and was composed of a sheet of iron two feet |
thick, travorsed by oaken beams of fifteen |
inches. 1t costs about 100000. The projectile |
buried itself seventeen inches in the iron, |
which was not thought satisfactory, but |
owing to the heavy expense Of each shot
second trial was not made