The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-11
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Pupils Of the Partisan schools, who nave
obtained prizes In their respective classes, are
10 be sent ON d pleasant trip to the seaside at
Che public expense. They will go under the
direction Of mon who will lecture on the
places visited.
A tailora' congress nj Berlin has resolved
that foreign fashions ought to be discarded.
and O German fashion introduced. 1t nc
rordingly proposes TO give prizes to masters,
worlsmen and apprentices who display taste
and invention.
Two proposed amendments TO the consti-
tuition of Connecticut will be voted upon by
the people on the first Monday In October
One forbids extra compensation for public
officers of all kinds and the other prohibits
city or town aid 10 railroads. Both Will prob
ably be carried.
The Democrats of Holmes county, Mis-
sissippi have nominated q colored man. be-
longing TO their party, for the State Legisla-
aure. The county gave about fifteen hundred
majority for Mr. Tilden, so that seemingly the
selection OF colored candidate was not
prompted by any party necessity.
As there Ia thus far only one ticket In the
field In Virginia, the following suggestion
from the Petersburg Iader-Appedt appears in
explicable: 1.-The Petersburg Post and the
Richmond Dispatch of yesterday take strong
ground against unnecessary agitation and eS-
element Of the people in the pending guber-
material canvass. Their articles are sensible,
and we heartily indorse them"
There is as much suffering among the work
ing classes In Germany as in the United States.
Our minister at Berlin states that great des-
ttution prevails in that city now among the
better classes. During the month of July no
less than 476G men and S44 women received
relief and shelter in the public charitable in
situations, and T5i3 men and 1913 women re-
ceived relief in private institutions.
-- The Golden Club of London has an active
membership of COS, and an honorary member
ship of 1885, Sixty-three of its honorary men,
bers are American citizens, and only three OF
that number are of foreign birth, namely:
Carl Schurz, Hamilton A. Hill and William
Downie. Among the others are Chas. Fran
els Adams, Henry w. Longfellow, William
Cullen Bryant, Gen. Garfield Ralph Waldo
Emerson, w. L. Dodge, Henry Ward Beecher,
Cyrus Field and Edward Atkinson.
A call has been issued for Congress Of
Illinois women In Chicago, October 4 and g..
are: Home Protection, the Business Woman,
the Town Caterer, Womens Clubs, Women as
Conversers, Household and Decorative Art,
How to Simplify Housekeeping, the Availa-
bile Means of Improvement to Women in Rural
Neighborhoods, the Domestic Problem, How
to Secure Sensible Social Entertainments,
Women on School Boards and on Boards of
Charity, and Industrial Schools for Girls.
Two Seventh-Day Baptists have recently
been prosecuted in a town in Central Penn
sylvania for working on Sunday. They de-
Tended themselves by pleading that their re-
ligion taught them to observe the seventh
day, and that the use of the first day of the
week is an unrighteous innovation, never
sanctioned by Scripture. They also claimed
that the law of 1884 is unconstitutional, AND
that it is opposed to any Sabbath at all, since
it abolishes the Sabbath Of Scripture and or
dams new one, which is really no Sabbath
at all. The two Seventh-Day Baptists were
found guilty and fined 81 each which they
refused to pay. On account Of this refusal
they were sent to Jail for four days.