The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-06
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Extensively advertised excursions were al
adjunct Of hanging At Clarendon, AK.
-4Fiogging 10 sti permitted in the Britisl
navy, but In 1876 there we're only fourteen in
stances.
st. Petersburg has had an abnormally lone
winter. At the end Of March it showed no abate
snent, and the St. Petersburgers are heartily tired
OF A.
Princess Mary Of Hanover, Gays the Londor
World, after taking eight months to make up her
mind, has finally refused the hand OF her cousin
the Duke Of Oonnaught.
"A Covipgton (Ky.) physician has been COM
PEELED to pay $4,000 for using impure vaccine mat.
ter ON the arm Of child. The child died, but
another child, vaccinated at the same time, did
well.
Statistics show that more elderly marriages
take place in Kentucky than in any other State Of
the Union. Nothing is thought on either side Of
the house OF tying the knot at three score years
and ten. and alor & there.
The plague etil continues It's ravages at
Bagdad. Measures Of isolation and disinfection
have been taken, but the overflow of the Tigris
renders 1t difficult to carry out the orders given
by Che locsl sanitary authorities.
The whirlisig OF time is doing better thing
than bringing In revenges. Mr.. Watterson lie to
deliver memorial address on Decorate ton Day
over the graves of the Union soldiers buried in
She National Cemetery at Nashville.
Magyar lie the Language taught In s404 Hun
garian schools, German in 1884, Roumanian in
$780, Hovack In 2057, Russian in $40, Eervisn In
$50, Croatian In II. Iu $3.50 schools instruction
is given in two languages, In 532 in three lam
guages.
William Newell, convict In Reno, CAL,
made plan to kill keeper and escape. Then
he tossed cent to decide whether to make the
venture or to kill himself and the chance was
decided in favor Of the former course. The con-
vict failed to murder the keeper, aud was recap
tured. whereupon he killed himself.
The Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
offers to lay its wires underground in Philadel
phia, but for some inscrutable purpose the City
Council withholds It's authority. This would
Danish from the city fifteen miles of unsightly
poles, festooned with one hundred and twenty
five miles OF wires.
Five years hence. or in 1882. the st. oothard
tunnel 10 to be opened to traffic. and in prepare.
tion therefor Genoa is exertng to the utmost to
secure the bulk OF the continental trade with In
dia and the East at large. second line of
steamers to Asiatc boats will soon be iuauau- |
rated the first having succeeded, relatively, very
well.
The Modoc Indians, now numbering fifty -four |
males and eixtyt three females, are located on |
very fertile tract containing 1000 acres, in The |
northeast corner OF the Shawnee Reservation
Indian Territory. They have engaged energetic.
ally in labor during the past year, and, as q re-
suit, they have large and valuable crop on their
farm.
An exhibition Of horticultural products will |
be held in the Paris Palace OF Industry in the
coming month of May. The Ministers of Public
Instruction, of Agriculture and Commerce, also
the Project Of the Seine, have plsced at the dis
posal of the committee charged with the distribu.
ton OF the prizes to exhibitors works of art CON-
ang from the sevres mandatory, also number
OF gold and silver medals.
The business men of the Sandwich islands
are In CONSERVATION because the Pacific Mail ad-
vertisements have been ordered out of the pa
pers at the islands, The talk il now about form
ing company at Honolulu to buy and operate
two looo-ton steamships between that port and
San Francisco. The only objection to this, in
case withdrawal Of the Pacific Mail steamships
actually takes place, would seem to be the num-
Der OF sailing vessels now In the trade. We'll
managed steamships, however, would probably
drive nearly every sail out of the business.
Three shipments of agricultural implements
have been made from this port to Russia, under
The new arrangement for supplying the farmers
Of the northern provinces with the tools which !
have enabled the Americans to beat them in the :
sale Of grain in the markets of the world. These
shipments will be suspended by the war in ,
Europe. II will not pay to send these implements
10 the Baltic ports and freight them overland to |
their destination. The Russiaps engaged in this '
business, however do not think that further
hipments viii be long delayed. 1t is their opin- :
on that the war will be short.