The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-11
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japan Ia to begin building interior lines Of
railway thia year.
Judge Davis says he should have resigned
his iudsesbip before the end Of this year. even
n he hadn'l been elected Senator.
Fish himself paid all the political ASSESS
,nents on the clerks In his department by y
cheek for 5000 Tn his private eank account,
Nine. Offsnbach teteHts music; Nine,
Verdi never goes TO The opera. Mime. Gountd
IL a deveut member OF the church. and thinks
her husband did very wrong 10 compose any
shing for the stage.
The F.,r,sts' Company have offered q
pr,zs OF the freedom of The company. gold
medal aud e90 for the bsst essay on the
treatment In health and disease of horses
employed for drawing vehicles IN London.
"A prieHt In the Tyrol IL In che habit Of
charging enigranss TO America twenty csnts
head for celebrating their funerals prior 10
embafkinu on shipboard. Both sides CON
slider this The safest life insurance. and cheap,
too.
Mr.. w. &. Gilbert has accepted ma effer
made by Mr.. Sothern, who is TO pay hin,
$4,000 for y Ave ACT play, the purchaser 10
have the exclu i've copyright for Eogland and
America. This Ia the largest sum drsmstis,
has ever received,
Wagner Eoids that the vacancy oausable
by The dc ath of Bismarck could be more easily
filled thpn that which bis own untimeIy de
mise would produoe-music being above
diplomacy and an iron viii In tho scales of n
higher civil cation.
The old church OF 81 GERMAN rAuxsrroin
Ia 10 BIO repaired. II IN one OF the moHt enotoat
of church edifots In Paris, having been be-
gun In tho twelfth century. IL was not fu.
iahed until The sixteenth, which accounts 70,
some of The sroh eotural singule,iies.
The iron trade In England, especially that
branch oil 1t which ID nlost interested In th.
manufacture of rails, IN 10 n very low state
with the probability OF its continuing 30 In.
definitely, unless a mtanH Of producing q bet
Ter quality of iron can be devised.
Ca account Of tho wholesome dread of the
phyloxera entertained in France, no vines sre
TO bs admitted TO the Paris Expedition next
year. nnd those who desire to exhibit method,
OF training and oultivating vines will have TO
resort TO drawings, eugravings or photographs
The peach was originally poisonous
almond. In olden timos Ito teshy parts were
used to poison arrows, and IL WINS for this pur
pose introduced into Persia. The transporta.
ton and oul ivation not only removed ito
poisonous properties but produced The
delicious frut which we now enjoy In its
season.
Something now in tho wey of strikes 10 re-
ported from Brdgend, England. where tho
pauper Catholic children at tho woskhouse OBJ
ioct to the time set apart for religious ins.ruo-
ton "a being too long, and have given the
master to understand that unless tho hours
are reduced they will ehjure the tonets OF the
church and vow thems selves Protslants.
The Russian police have discovered In
Austrian Poland the existence OF press
agency with immense pocuniary resources 10
be used In circulating dsparaging accounts of
Che military and political standing of Russia.
M de N ,vikoff, tho Russian Ambassador 20
Vienna. has received orders to request Count
Auarassy 10 suppress this new use Of the
press
The la est remarkable industry is reported
rom Indiana-hog resurreotipg. The hog
soour the country 20 find the
bodies of porkers that died of oholera. which
.re made into soap. A petition to tho iegisla-
ure recites hose facts, and asks the prohibi.
ion of the business on the ground thet 1t 10
liable to scatter and extend Tho disease. and
hat the soap made from such diseased meat
. unfit for use. II
Finn seth, the ineligible Republican cleo 1
nr from Minnesota, now claims 10 have taken |
Mt his tittt naturalization papers year ago,
Mt that the clerk of the court did not !
,ake n record OF the fact, because he, Lin /
nh. feared to attract attention to his having c
scleo,ed the meter while he wes holding .
1iee for years. Democrats suspect that his !,
,rors were really arplied for within the few b
ssrs past and fraudulenhy dated back.
The following advertisement appearedin
! Bnenos Ayres Herald, of December IL,
III !. - - y - - ~
youro men with small salaries can find se
Il board and comfortable bedrooms for 81