The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-22
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The Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga Is said
to be entertaining gentleman named Pinch
back from Louisiana.
Mile. di Murska has taken fifth husband.
She takes husband at the close of every con-
cert tour, and IL her manager could stand 1t,
would have four concert tours year.
A swinder. passing himself Off as the
Sultan of Turkeys chief attendant deputed
to collect subscriptions FOR the war, has OBJ
tanned Glso from the Seyyid of Zanzibar and
his subjects.
A Frenchman says the annual value of
the products Of glass manufacture In Europe
and America has almost doubled within the
past twenty years, and now amounts to not
less than 8o0,ooO,oO0 francs.
Hereafter the Japanese will celebrate the
Fourth of July with Festivities because on
that day was fought the decisive battle of
uyeno IN the contest which resulted in the
establishment of the temporal power of the
Mikado.
Probably the youngest railroad directors
In the United States are James Blair Preston.
aged twelve, and William II. Blair ten years.
who are directors OF the PaulinsSill Valley
Railroad Company They are grandsons of
John |. Blair. who owns the road.
The Duke of Brunswick's mausoleum at
Geneva, to be erected In the Jardn dos Alpes
oil a cost Of 100000 francs, Is to include six
white marble statues of his ancestors, begin
ming with Henry The Lion, and ending with
his father, who foil at Quatro Bras.
1t Is proposed to bore a tunnel under the
Mediterranean from near Algeciras in Spain,
to point between Tangiers and Ccuta, in
Africa n distance of nine miles. The cost is
estimated at $4,000 900, and the promoters are
said to have already raised a considerable
sum.
An old silver mine in Peru, which was
abandoned on account of water, after having
been worked for two centuries, Is now being
drained by Henry Meggs, who is tunneling n
mountain to draw Off a troublesome lake. 1t
is seriously predicted the Peruvian bonanza
win be richer than the Comstock
The war correspondents of seventeen jour
nails, English French German and American,
including all the principal London morning
newspapers, with the exception of the Daily
Ne,cs, have signed a statement at Schumla
testifying TO the acts of cruelty committed in
Bulgaria against the inoffensive Mussulman
population,
The Pittsburg Chronicle urges that petro
leum should be taxed. The consumer would
in reality be the taxpayer, and as vast guam
titles of this oil is used outside of Pennsyva-
MIA tho additional cost would send stream
of money into the State. Something must be
done to eountcract the disastrous results of
Communism.
Bishop Gilbert Haven is in favor of an
nexing Liberia to the United States. He
thinks he saw a great deal in that sunny
land. while ON his recent visit there which
would make it very desirable addition to
our territory. Probably the next thing
Brother Haven would favor annexing would
be the rest of Africa.
The khedive's Nuhian railroad is being
rapidly pushed forward, and the arst section
from Wadi-Calfah. on the Nile twelve miles
from the second cataract, to Sigvaya, in
Wadi-Sarrap-ha been opened. Six thou
sand fellahs are at work upon the second sec
ton, the terminus Of which is Dongola. The
river is to be bridgcd at Rove.
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