The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-30

McCIeilan's majority Is now put down ct
ID, 281.
The Alabama penitentiary is SAID 20 have
earned $35, 900 above expenses in September.
The municipal council of Paris have been
petitioned to name street after the late nj.
fhiers
The Supreme Court of the United States
has now about one Thousand cases on the
calendar.
The Mississippi penitentiary now has 953
c0nvicts. Number within walls 100, showing
793 working outside on plantations.
The Elmira Gazette comedies that rs per
cent of the greenback vote in Chemung coun-
ty came from the Democratic party.
Two German steamers have reached ST,
IBERIA by sea this year, and q sailing vessei
has made the passage from the mouth OF the
Jenissei to Norway, laden with Siberian
products.
Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, says that
six comets have been discovered this year,
nnd that two faint ones are now visible with
the telescope, one in the evening, the other in
the morning sky.
They are at work now on the Straits Of
Dover tunnel. The tunnel will belong to its
proprietors for thirty years; then the two
governments will be able to take possession
Df it on certain conditions.
Under the heading "Another Grand
Dukel" the London Times announces that
the Russian army In Bulgaria has been rein
forced by the sixth son OF the Emperor, the
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich.
1t is stated that the municipal authorities
OF Leipsic, Germany, have proclaimed 2 fine
OF ten marks on any woman who wears trall-
fng dressas tho streets Of that city. The
proclamation also orders the police to arrest
such offenders, and their names are to be pub
IShed In the local papers.
- An agent of the Russian government Is
endeavoring to make contract in Philadel-
phia for an iron bridge across the Danube, to
be 2100 feet long, 10 have @ single span, and
10 cost about So O00, 900. AS the tine for it's
construction is limited to the opening Of the
spring campaign no contract has been made
Christian missionaries have made their
mark In Japan to such an extent that some Of
the Buddhists Of that country are preparing
young men to go out as preachers to counter
act the teachings OF the missionaries num-
China and to India for thorough instruction
In the mysteries of Buddhism.
President Hayes doesn't find Washington
life 80 expensive as some of his predecessors
have He is reported as saying that during
the first six months of his term he has spent
and that he thinks of recommending Congress
TO reduce the Executives yearly salary from |
$50 900 to the old figure of $40, 900.
The famine in the northeast of Brazil |
continues to press severely on the energies of |
the government and the charity of the nation |
is calculated that about 100000 persons are |
now utterly dependent on charity Disease |
rs usual, is showing itself, and at the capital |
and port OF Ceara yellow fever is rather bad |
The lakes and canals are carrying the |
bulk OF Western produce this year, and If |
small reduction In tolls makes such change |
from rail to water-path in the cost may it not |
be fairly presumed that the difference of |
seven to ten cents per bushel in favor of the
Mississippi route over all other routes east
ward will win for the Mississippi the bulk OF |
this. carrying trade.
President Hayes has written the following
letter to Gov. Rice, OF Massachusetts: sit is
D great satisfaction to be able to congratulate
you on the gratifying result in Massachu-
lsetts. am glad of it on general reasons, on
had no doubt much to do with it.
1t is an example of what the Republicans can
DO when they unite, in spite of the plumbers of
President"