The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-09
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The oldest ex-member of Congress now
living Is the Hon. Artemus Hale of Bridge
water, Mass. He 95.
1t is reported from Egypt that the Khedive
has incurred $22OoO,Ooo OF new debt in less
than nine months.
The Indian famine cost the government of
Great Britain about $55,OOO,OOO in money, to
say nothing of the lives lost by starvation.
The Swiss government announces that the
st. Gothard tunnel will be finished by 1881,
fully year in advance of the period origin
ally set.
The Papal blessing has been forwarded in
advance to the King Of Spain upon his ap-
preaching marriage with Duke Montpensier's
daughter.
During his long reign the Pope has found
ed 100 bishoprics. In Europe there are 595
prelacies; in America, u; In Africa II in
Asia, 10; and in Australia, 81
"A telegram from Madrid says the Spanish
government has paid the American Minister
red by American citizens in Cuba through the
revolution.
= The number of deaths, up to last dates,
by yellow fever in Port Royal has been thir-
teen out Of one hundred and twenty-five
cases, including negroes, but none of the lat
ter succumbed to the attack.
The center of population of the United
States is said to have Travelled westward,
keeping curiously near the thirty-ninth par
allel of latitude, only 400 miles, and is still
found nearly fifty miles eastward of Cincin-
natl.
A correspondent of the Montreal Witness,
who has visited Guibord's grave writes 1.-THE
marble tablet inserted in the large stone has
been hammered at with stones and totally
spoiled. In short time the inscription will
be totally illegible, and when saw it it could
not be read, being covered with filth
1t is proposed to carefully foster in the
vineyards of France dipterous insect of the
genus Surplus, which has been found to de-
YOUR phylloxera most voraciously when in
the larva stage. M. Laliman saw no fewer
than 95 of the vine pests disappear before the
attack of this worm in about 10 minutes.
Gas is being rapidly superseded by kero-
sene all over the world, Exeter, Bristol, and
other leading cities in England having de-
clined any new contracts with gas companies
mating fluids and electric light, the latter
being deemed still the cheaper Of the two.
Mighty indeed, Is the peanut crop. In
the years 1876 IT the State of North Carolina
produced 125, 600 bushels of peanuts, Virginia
100000 bushels and Tennessee BOT, 666 bushels.
The United States can "point with pride to
the fact that in the last four years, within
their borders, 100000 bushels of peanuts
were harvested.
The subterranean telegraph wires in Ger
many have proved highly satisfactory. The
conductibility of the buried wire, instead of
decreasing, has, on the contrary, somewhat
increased, and no fault In the insulation has
made itself apparent. 1t is believed that in
the long run the buried wires will prove the
cheapest. Posts and insulators, constantly
demanding renewal, are thus dispensed with.
1t appears from the annual report Of the
Commissioners in Lunacy, just Published,
that on the first of January this year there
were 66,636 "lunatics, idiots, and persons of
unsound mind-registered as such-in Eng
land and Wales. This number, however, is
exclusive of 252 lunatics, so found by inquisi-
ton, who reside in charge of their commit
tees. Therefore, all told the insane on the day
named amounted to 66, 1888.
ireland and Scotland are only separated
at one point by twenty-five miles of water,
and one hundred and twenty-five years ago 1t
was proposed to divert the water from the
narrow part of the English Channel. near
Portpatrick, and join the countries together,
when, it was contended, every objection
against union would cease, The proposer
was of opinion that sit might be completed
in one summer by few regiments Of SOL
diers."
The Pope's annual income Of S645,OO0, al
lowed by the Italian Parliament in it's bill
of Guarantees, has annually since Deem
Der, 1870, been rendered him in a single bill
engraved especially for that purpose and as
regularly been declined. The bills were then
placed on deposit in the bank of Italy, at the
Popes order, being covered into the treasury
if five years elapse without their being
claimed. The first two have thus returned to
the nation, but whenever the Pope dies his
heirs will find S3,225,OOO awaiting their dis
position.