The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-09
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--Garibaldi is said 10 be very Ill, and be.
yond hope of recovery.
Another colony of Bostonians has left for
Florida to look for homes.
Some Of the Virginia girls say Alexis
makes himself ''realIy quite too far more than
awfully agreeable.
Switzerland protects domestic art by levy.
ing duty on oil imported pictures OF 81 cents
hundred weight.
The increase In the production of beet
sugar In Europe is said to be causing great
loss to the oane.sugar planters in Cuba
AT Springfield, Mo-, last week, Fred.
Douglass was invited TO 60 TO the hotel kitchen
and prepare bis own breakfast. He declined
The Charleston News and Courier ia in.
formed that Pinohback, of New Orleans, 10 q
native of Charleston, and that bis real name
ID not Pinohback nor even Pinokbeck.
According TO the London Army and Navy
Gazette resulting has been so brisk, owing to
general depression in all trades, that no fewer
than $4,000 young men enlisted last year.
Some $4,000 has been subscribed OF
Boston toward buying the Moody and Sankey
Tabernacle after the meetings, and turning II
into "a model German beer garden, with Carl
Vosser % manager.
The large importations of American beef
have OF length sent down the price Of English
beef as much as Sd. in The pound in some
places. And yet in New York butchers
charge as much as in London. 4.
"A petty juror REQ emily got excused by
NJ "A ~ e -
because he was all undertaken with large
smallpox trade, and he felt sure that he was
carrying the infection about with him. The
judge was more reluctant than the other
Jurors, but finally let him go.
The Japanese Minister'S wife, Madame
Yashida, 10 said to be quite vel! known in
her native country az q writer. She has read.
lily adapted herself to the customs of Wash.
ington, but acquires the English Language
slowly. Her infant daughter Is named Stunt, |
which, in the Japanese language, signifies
I" Literature."
Homeopathy appears to be Masking
Roadway in France. From statistics just pub |
lished by The Academy of Science we learn
that there are seventy homeopathic doctors In
regular practice in Paris and over 800 in the
provinces Since 1869 three homnopsth
hospitals have been founded--two in Paris
and one at Lyons.
Toe phylloxera has made Ito appearance
in Madeira and already ravaged good many
vines, n fact which, added to the recent loss
by oidium, will go far to ruin the vine-grow-
era The production now is twelve thousand
or fifteen thousand pipes annually; it used
to be double this quantity. In the Canaxies
and Tenerine, however, there are no traces of
oidium left, and as yet the dreadful phylloxera
has not made Its appearance.
California will have no difficulty in ex.
porting every pound of her surplus produc.
lions thisIyear OF the cheapest sort of rates
for freight. There are now in port OF San
Francisco "a disengaged ships with tonnage
of 41,00o, and fleet having tonnage of
10000 is loading for that port, or already on
the way, one-thrd of this being at New
York and one-eighth at Liverpool. The Cal.
ifornians are puzzled to know what to give
them for return irsight. s
AT the same time that remarkable ship | {
ments of muskets and munitions of war ara
being made from this country to Turkey, the !
news comes frem Birmingham, in England, {
whose principal industry is the manufacture |
,f rifles, that never before ct time of i'm l
pending war was business so dull. In the {
United States the facilities for producing {
srms have been much improved and devel. {
,ped, and the arms are made SO oleverly and :
heap, that serious blow hos been given to >
his branch of England's commerce. t
The Rev. Joseph Cook, who has come +
INTO sudden fame as preacher in Boston, I
bus touched on New York politics in SER
non. eighteen or twenty thousand voters s
every municipal election in New York can G
ot read or write; and they are make-weight \
efficient, In the hands of few astute and = =
men, to determine the result of q
nv ordinary political contest in the city. c
,rop out her &c. 900 ignorant ballots, and New b
oyk city, politicians say, could, with no great ii
ificulty, Be restored TO the control of her In
ustrions and intelligent classes" Mr.. | I
ook's advice is that nobody be allowed to Is
,te who cannot reac. q