The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-14
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riso Of silk being tho cause.
| Mayor Ely says the number Of office"
holders In New York should BIO reduced
one. half, and the pay Of tho necessary
officers cut down largely.
The Rev. Stuart Robinson. OF Lott
isvi1le, Ky, who recently obtained q
Judgment Of $780, 900 against the Mis-
court Democrat for libel. has declined
| TO receive more than $270s Of that sum.
| Cincinnati has six overseers Of the
poor, and the temperance leaders there
vigorously oppose giving the Offices to
saloon keepers, the argument being
that 1.-THE liquor business deadens sym
pathy for tho poor
Nearly 5000 people arc fed daily ut
tho Washington and Fulton MARKET
soup-houses In New York.
Tho Rotbsohilds arc said to be
worth--all Of them together-the agree
able sum Of III, 400. 900, 900. One Of them,
Baron Edward. hos just purchased ut
auction curious piece Of furniture,
covered with plates Of Sevres, for
| 1000 francs.
Some curious compiler Of statistics
and genealogies has discovered that
eighty.nine descendants of the Hugue-
nots banished from France by tho revo-
oation Of the Ediot Of Nantes, returned
to that country In 1870 rs officers In the
German army
gxF H. Il n h
out France has been 50 singular that
the storks have not yet emigrated, and
the wild ducks and geese have remained
In their summer quarters. The storms
also have brought TO tho coast creatures
freduenting different regions.
Tho London customs officers seized
twenty. seven gills OF peculiar fluid the
other day, and from examination found
IL to be nicotine. the product Of $500
pounds Of tobacco sweepings, mixed
with alcohol, which virulent fluid was
TO BIO used in transforming cabbage
leaves into tho finest Havana cigars.
The persecution Of the Jews in Rou.
mania has attracted fresh attention
from q recent mayors order to the |
Hebrews of one Of the towns to leave In |
three days. It has been tho practice of |
the Roumanian government 80 to con-
strue tho laws as to make oil native-born
Jews aliens. No Jew can be- Kouma-
MAN. As u result Jews are excluded
from the benefits Of the clause Of the
Roumanian Constitution which declares
that oil native.born persons shall enjoy
civil equality.
The Commercial Reporter Of r. G..
Dun IL Go. tells us that last year the
financial failures In the great cities
were In New York, $4,000 900; Boston,
$1o. 600, 600; Chicago, as quoted, $4,000
900; Philadelphia, $4,ooo,ooo; Cincin-
natl, $3.0oo,0oo st. Louis and San
Francisco. $2,ooo,ooo each,
Mrs. Darkly had been school
mate Of his mother. Mrs. Darkly con.
sidered the present generation very
dreadful affair; she lived In perpet-
ual atmosphere Of sombre regret that
the world should have degenerated
since she was u young girl; II she had
been the ghost Of some early Roman
come back to gaze upon the
atrocities Of the Second Empire, her
case could not have seemed much more
pitiable.
The st. Louis Republican claims that
he wheat belt Is shifting from the
Northwestern to tho Middle, Western
md Southwestern States, and that the
lour best suited to foreign commerce Is
made from wheat grown In Southern
illinois, Southern Missouri, Kentucky, i
Tennessee and Kansas, and to the list |
4 States there will be speedily added ,
Arkansas, Texas. Colorado, New Mexi.
o and the Indian country.
"A diver on the coast Of Queensland
ras the means last year Of recovering
rom q wreck, which was haunted by ~
harks attracted by the corpses, q box i
obtaining 10000. The Colonial Adj a
niralty Court awarded him about $4,000 -
q salvage, and the owners Of the gold, i
n Australian bank, appealed against b
his sum rs excessive. The judicial r
'ommttee dismissed the appeal. b
- A sharper was standing at n street .
orner In Cincinnati. A man who looked Q
approached with a ;,
called package, and asked the sharper /,
D read the address for him. On the p
ackage was written, $4,000 Government "
onds," with the name "James Har- i
err" and u number. I'm James Har- =
er-I'll take the PACKAGE" said the o
harper, thinking that he had q chance 3
. swindle. The other handed over the D
ackage, after Stimulating hesitation, i,
nd said that two dollars were due him Il
Or carriage. The money was paid, and y
ne package was subsequently found to u
ontain blank paper only. t,
-Pulverized diamonds are in some p