The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-10

The following gentlemen have been MP
pointed by the Merchants Exchange Of st.
Louis, to represent TINT city Mt tho st. Paul
convention.
Hon. John Hogan, Hon. J. A. Darcus. Capt.
u. A. Shsble, Jas l.. Iluae. NJ Hudson, W. +.
Davidson, Capt. Geo, II. Rem. Capt Joe Brown,
Capt Jas. Ward. Cbas. Gibson, W. II. II. Rus
sol.
The English people have certainly shown
n wonderful degree of liberality In their COM
tributions 10 the relief of fnmiHe-strichen In
dia- fund alone, IN London, already ex-
ceeding three-duarters of n million Of dollars.
A. A. Humphreys, ch Of engineer of the
army, estimates the cost of improving the
Mississippi river from st. Paul 10 the head Of
the Dea Monos rapids to be SGi7, 1903, 80 aa to
give depth of four and one-half feet ut low
water.
Large sums Of money are being silently
withdrawn from the Partisan banks by many
of tho French families of distinction, who nre
IN dread OF another revolution or coup deiai
before the winter sets in. The money Is for
the most part being sent to England.
During the month Of September, tho letter
carriers connected with the New York Post
office delivered a,ll2,2o2 mail letters, i24, aa
mail postal cards, 1,7oi,o62 local letters,
b5a,ss8 local postal cnrds, and 7sO,s71 newspa-
pers, and collected b.35s2s letters, TIC o33
postal cards, and 5bs, 656 newspapers, and the
Total postage reeelVcu on local matter was
97,664 II.
II Ia thought by many that the city of New
Orleans pays altogether too large d proper
ton of the State tax. We hope tho I.egsla-
ture, ut its next session, will have this matter
inquired into Last week the New York State
ton Of State tax on New York city to i51a per
cent, us against 4s $40 per cent Of the whole
State tax last year, md made the tax to be
paid 1854 900 less than for this year.
Railroad wages in England are reported by
the Rait,cag Service Gazette to be on an aver
age about twenty-five shillings $50 0S) per
week for ..pontsmen," SO 80 for "shunters, F"
81 30 to 80 81 for passenger guards" ICON
duetors), 81 70 to So 2S for goods guards"
freight conductorsl, and $40 81 for "cngine
These amounts are probably In some cases
added to by over time, while In many 9TH
ers they are not reached, owing to loss Of time
through illness or temporary disablement
from accident"
From Havre comes the tidings that there
need be no more sea-sickncss. A number Of
persons, It Is said, have repeatedly been taken
on board the steamtug PAvant-port, and have
put out to sea just where they were most
likely to meet with severe tests. and It has
been found that those who were provided
with certain electromagnetic grdle were
entirely exempted from sea-sickness, while
those who became sea-sick without the appli-
ance were almost instantaneously cured by
its application. The girdle, 1t is explained,
tends to check the arrangement of the dia-
phragm.
No less than four of the savings banks OF
tie State Of Massachusetts have brought their
depositors to grief within the past few days
A savings bank panic has set in at Cape Cod
The Cape Cod Five Cent Savings Bank stopped
payment on Monday of last week, because of
the run upon IT.; the Cape Cod Wellneet Saw
1ngs Bank, which has nearly half a million of
deposits belonging to 1868 depositors. did the
thinCr In "Wednesday ha
reason; and hence came the proposition to
close all the savings banks in that saving re-
gion till confidence Is restored. From Penn
sylVania we learn of the suspension Of the
Alleghany Savings Bank an old and heavy
institution.
Inc cartridge mandatory at BRIDGEPORT,
Ct, is supplying material for both the Rus
sian and Turkish armies, and American bull
lets are hurled promiscuously from both
sides. The Bridgeport company manufac-
features from six to seven hundred Thousand
cartridges per day. They have supplied forty
millions TO Russia, seventy millions to Tur-
key, and have just received an order of eighty
millions from the Italian government. Two
tons of powder are used each day, and other
materials in like proportion. An inspecting
officer for Russia and Turkey were recently
alike engaged side by side in experimenting
the production of the cartridges for their re-
speetive governments
A popularity of the defalcation of Elijah
Alliger, of the firm of Allger Brothers. is.
according to the Sun, that none of the insur-
ance men of New York, or the officers of the
Commercial Union Assurance Company of
London, the company he defrauded charge
him with the guilt of intentional dishonesty.
The cause of all his trouble is said to have
been his credulous good nature his utter ina
bility to say no. If friend urged him to in
vest in patent, he could not resist; if another
was in trouble and needed loan he was sure
to get it; and so, without gain to himself the
dollars slipped away until he suddenly turned
out a defaulter to the amount OF about
$4,000. The officers of the English company
IN that city refuse to say anything about him
or his acts or to make charges against him
until his return from Europe; and he Is ex-
pected there next week
iPr0perty and Income.
The custom we have In the Republic of
reckoning mans means by bis property, in