The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-06
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1t Is announced that professorship oi
Chinese has been established, though not yot
fully endowed, at Yale college.
| Lust year In England t249 persons were
killed on the railroads, while 1923 were killed
by carriages and wagons.
| About six hundred Ponea Indians from
Nevada Territory passed through Columbus.
Kansas, lately. on the way to their new home
in the Indian Territory.
| Turkish soldiers are taller than the Rus
slams, and will average at least five feet ten
inches. They wear full boards, but have their
heads shaved, or the hair cut very short.
The Lone Star Rifles. of Galveston, Texas,
have intimated to Gov. Hubbard, of that
State, their readiness for active duty in case
of further trouble along the Mexican border.
Alexander H. Stephens says of the political
situation that the President has done what
J'lden could not have done without civil war,
because he has revolutionized sentiment In tho
North.
The Atlanta Constitution says that the
negroes Of Ebert county are firmly convinced
that the constitutional convention will put
them back into slavery, and several of them
were in Elberton the other day for the pur-
pose Oh DlthlIR OUT bnelE ilHStbTS.
One of tho iurymen who condemned the
Tichborne claimant to Imprisonment has pub
licly recanted. He has informed the Queen
that he has changed his mind about the case,
and now thinks that the prisoner should be
released. Tho Tichborne leagues are iubilant
Charles T. Locke, of Boston, who com
mitted suicide in San Francisco recently
wrote to his brother kiss your children,
and your wife and your sstcr-in-law for me-
and so FORTH Mrs Locke will probably ask
for Il definition of the $50 FORTH
The French Ministry of War announces
that number of soldiers will this year be
placed at the disposal Of agriculturists for
the purposes Of the harvest. The persons
employing them will have to pay a sum va
rying in different parts Of the country from
twenty-five to fifty cents.
An ardent adherent of Count Chambord,
the Marquis Francleu, has declared against
the electoral manTuvring now going on in
France in behalf of another Bonaparte savior,
urging as duty incumbent on all Royalists
of both branches, to do all they can for the
defeat Of official candidates set up by the I'M
perial MacMahon clique.
A bill has been introduced in the House of
Commons to put an end to the further creation
of Irish peers, who, by the terms of the union,
were to number 10O exclusive of those hold
ing seats as English peers in the House of
Lords. Nowadays nobody cares to be peer
without a seat in the legislature. At the
union there were 224 Irish peers, but in 1874
the number had fallen to 1885, of whom so were
peers of the United Kingdom
-Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, is sum
mering at Cornwall, Ct, Gen. Beauregard at
White Sulphur Springs, and Minister Wash
burne at Carlsbad. Longfellow is visiting
his native city, Portland. Hamilton Fish is
at Newport. Cardinal McCloskey is living at
Seton Hall, South Orange. The Emperors
William and Francis Joseph are to meet on
August s. The Queen of Sweden is at Hidel-
berg, under electric treatment for heart dis