The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-31
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President Diaz told French enginee
that he wouldn't object to a railway runnin,
across Mexico.
"A rain Of fine sand fell last month a
Venice. 1t is supposed to have passed owe
all the way from Africa.
People ut Exeter N. H., who have beel
sickened by eating eggs attribute 1t to tn
hens eating potato bugs.
The New York Herald thinks it YER,
probable that Ohio, New York, New Jerse,
and Pennsylvania will go Democratic in thu
fall, but fails to see how that can better Mr.
Hayes
An organ grinder from New York says
that Bridgeport and Hartford are the best
cities in Connecticut for his business. People
like q solemn organ with monkey, accord
ing to his statement.
Prince Louis of Battenberg, q cousin OF
the husband Of Alice of England, is named as
likely to be made Governor of Bulgaria by
the Russians. His father, Alexander Of Hesse,
a brother of the Empress of Russia. is gen
cral in the Austrian army.
Burlington, Iowa, is trying to get rid OF
the tramp harvester nuisance by prosecuting
the steamboat officers who land them. 1t is
said that fine of $500 was imposed on q
steamboat company for putting them ashore
at that point, charging the company with
illegally landing paupers.
The mails last received from China state
that American cottons are now about the only
article of that class which are fairly salable
and ut paying rates 1t seems that the Eng
fish merchants In China pretty much have to
give their goods away. They have ruined the
reputation Of them by frauds and adultera-
tions
Treasurer Rentfroc reports the whole
bonded debt of Georgia S10,646,000. The
State Is also indorser Of first mortgage bonds
of the South Georgia and Florida Railroad
for the amount of Saga The other rail-
road Endorsements Of the State are included
in the sum first mentioned. The floating or
temporary debt of the State is 100000.
The working class of Roumania live al
most entirely on vegetables and peculiar
preparation of maize, supplemented by
little cheese, buttermlk, salt fish and salt
meat This diet does not produce an endur-
ing constitution, and the population is for
the most part an easy prey to fever, espe-
cially in childhood. Inferior corn brandy is
the most ordinary drink, and it is not whole
some.
A Professor" Arco gave an exhibition of
spiritual phenomena the other evening in
Louisville, Ky, and a committee from the
audience discovered and exposed his tricks.
The rest CT the spectators, indignant at the
swindle, forced him to give up the receipts of
the entertainment, which they voted should
be given to the Widows and Orphans Home.
Afterward they gave him back enough Of the
money to pay his hotel bills and buy ticket
to Chicago.
Henry Meigs will have the line of the
Cuyco Railroad, in Peru, finished as far as the
ancient capital Of the Incas by the end of the
year. He is still continuing his three-mile
tunnel into the Cerro Pasco mines, situated
on the side of one of the highest peaks of the
Andes, and is pushing his railroad to the
head Of navigation on the Amazon, so that it
is probable that in short time Lima will be
within three weeks of Liverpool, instead of
being from six weeks to two months
A few years ago sailing vessels were
numerously built on the coast of Genoa and
Spezia. The Italian papers now lament the
absence of ships on the stocks-only |
thirty being now under way-and assert |
mat this shipping decadence is due alone to |
the greediness of ship owners striking for |
trade, to fraudulent practices among the |
shp-bullders and the connvance Herewith |
OF insurance societies-not at all to steam. |
Italy was recently building boats for other |
countries; now these countries prefer to buy |
wood in the peninsula and to build for them
selves. The almighty. government is in
Voked to bust up the rings.
Another anti-tramp association has been
formed near Philadelphia. About twenty
residents of Montgomery county met at
Jenkinstown, on the North PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad, last Wednesday, and took measures
to protect their property and families against
tramps and professional thieves. Thomas
Smith, a Philadelphia banker, directed atten- |
ton to the magnitude of the tramp nuisance
which had grown to such dimensions that it |
represented nearly every phase of crime from
petty larceny to murder. The crime of child !
stealing, in his opinion, should be punished |
with death, swift and summary.
"A practical entomologist, who has given |
much attention to the potato pug, expresses