The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-22
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~-UU1nuHIleu uOBS HIe klHeu III FIllldu0l
ptia by being put in close room where q
charcoal fire is started, the carbnic acid
gas doing the business in about twominutes
Saturday 9th Of july came on tie seventh
day of the week. the seventh day of he month
In the seventh month of the year, tie seventh
year BIZ the decade and the seventhdeeade 81
the century.
Thomas Curlew, who is to be hanged oil
Norristown, Pa, on the 9th Of August, In his
confession admits that he killed Mary Whitoy
:" from the natural impulses of crtelty and o
desire to shed blood"
"A German correspondent state that Herr
Ehrbar the well-known piano maker al
Vienna, has invented mechanism rendering
it possible to prolong the sound O each note
ut the will Of the player.
AN Omaha (Neb.) dispatch says that the
Texas cattle droves which have nus far ar
rived on the Platte number G0,OO head, and
$1,000 head are yet to arrive. N, danger Is
now apprehended from the late chnge III the
river channel. The river Is clever feet stand.
Out Of seventy-one iron foundIes existing
In the German province Of Silesia, thirty-four
have stopped operations, and Throughout the
suffered serious losses last year, wing to the
general stagnation Of trade and commerce..
1T begins to look as IL our var vessels,
that is, If we shall have any, will all soon be
manned by the colored brother That element
is so large in our vessels now thaiwhite mem
of-wars men whose terms haveexpired will
not re-enlist IL they can get somthing else to
do.
The secret purchase OF ARM supplies ct
the West for the French government is sup
plemented by similar signs of preparation In
France tits said there is scent treaty be-
tween Russia and Germany which looks to
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Austrian Empire
as well as the Turkish power; and to prevent
the contingency Austria and FAnce have a
secret understanding, by which Germany Is
to be attacked on both TANKS simultaneously.
The New York Sun favors WV Eaton, Of
Connecticut. as the straight out Democratic
candidate for President In 1880, inlorsing him
as one of the first statesmen of he country.
Alone In the Senate OF the United States he
stood up and. denounced the Electoral Com
mission as q violation of the constitution, a
thing unfit to be touched. When all others
were deluded Mr.. Eaton remaind true and
wise When others were blind he was far
seeing. When others were terrified his cour-
age yielded not q whit.
- The splendors or the religious ceremo-
MES Of the Orthodox Greek Chufsh are being
expended in St Petersburg to inmate the
faithful in the prosecution Of thepresent Inn
perial crusade. Many TIE DeumI are gotten
off in chants whose beauty is uneeualed, COM
bining, as they do, German precision with
italian sweetness. The choir Of he Imperial
Chapel, which is superior to any In Europe,
is exercising very stirring AMI lively in
fuence upon the high aristocrag and court
society, several of whose scions lave put out
to the wars In the capacity of high privates
to fight for the faith.
During the first six months d this year,
according to the Rdil,cay Age, 3, railroads,
representing mileage of 1856 niles, have
been sold under foreclosure, of Which the in
debtedness amounted to $4,000 and the
capital to $49,O35, 600 In the sane period re-
ceivers were appointed to Is roads represent
ing 2422 miles, $S1O00,OO0 of deb, and $685.
100000 capital. Proceedings have been COM
menced on 2217 more miles, representing
$4,000, 600 of indebtedness and 100000 of
capital. Thus the total liquidation covers
7215 miles and $429, 100000, againstl1 ,422 miles
and SITS, 100000 for the whole BUSINESS Of 1876.