The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-04
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Tho Richmond Wing predicts that not
yirpinian will be elected 10 the State Legisla-
t,re who takes the position that the rate OF
taxation should be increased to pay In full
the interest upon the State debt.
The restoration of Strasburg Cathedral
will soon be completed. Fourteen statutes
of emper org and kings who have ruled that
part of Germany from King Pepin down to
Henry ". have been added to the sculptural
embellishments
The French reserve force will not be sum-
moned this year until September TO- and their
period of training will be limited to twenty
DAYS. instead Of twenty-eight as before.
Consequently they will be free for political
work and voting by the 10th of October.
The crop of cabbages is 50 enormous this
year that 1t does not pay the Long Island
farmers to bring them TO market, where they
only get 81 q hundred, instead Of SS@l0. The
catbages are consequently rotting In the
field and becoming q horrid nuisance from
their smell.
Only two of tho great nations will not be
represented at the Paris Exposition next year.
Germany and Brazil, the abstention OF the
latter being caused, IL 1t believed by tho En-
peror's dsincination to compete till the
manufactures Of his realm have beena more
thoroughly established.
A railroad ballasted with silverl That is
partly true of one in Nevada. over which ore
trains run. Silver dust has been sprinkled
along the road bed until the earth assays $50
% ton. The gathering of this metal would
cost more than IL would be worth at present.
but In time the accumulation will repay the
trouble.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman, Mrs. Thomas Lay
ton, of New Orleans. and Mrs. Winifred Pat
terson of st. Louis, are the American ladies'
to whom the Pope has sent bronze medals
acknowledging their tilial gifts and many
good works. 1t is again rumored that the
Pope will bestow the Golden Rose upon Mrs
Sherman.
There Is to be a Southern educational
conventionin Atlanta on the 18th of November,
for ''the purpose of considering the difficulties
of the educational situation, and of devising
the most effective means of surmounting
them, and establishing in every Southern
State a wise and efficient system Of public
education
The Watertown Dispatch says that Chair
man Daniel Magone Jr., Is in correspondence
with the various members OF the Democratic
State Committee to ascertain the views as to
the time when the committee should be called
together at Saratoga TO fix the date and place
for holding the next State convention, and
that 1t is understood Mr. Magone has already
received several letters from Albany and else
where urging q late convention and q three
weeks campaign.
The Spanish steamer Colon fell in with
the John w. Welt of Waldeboro, Maine, o
large three-masted schooner, near Cape Fin
isterre, and lowed her into the port of Ferrol.
There was not soul on board, nor were there
any papers found that could give clue to the
owner name. The consul, however, ascer-
tanned that the owners of thasohooner are A.
A. Reed Il Co., of Waldeboro, Maine and that
tho cargoe belongs to British subjects The
authorities of Fcrrol have taken possession Of
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