The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-22
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The Moscow Gazette ssys that there are 40,
600 men out Of employment In Moscow. Russia
may want them yet.
London is, perhaps more than any other cit,
Al the WORLD the city Of hospitals. There are no
less than 90 hospitals In that city
"A statement OF the dividends OF seventy-hree
leading mines In California sud Nevada dur pg
the past ten years shows that the disbursements
| among the stockholders have amounted to $685.
800, 900.
The citizens of Dubuque, Iowa, claim that
the first formal tender OF military services to
President Lincoln TO suppress the rebellion came
from the Governors arsys OF that city, and WAS
made on the 14th OF January. 1861.
THE prisoners OF England and Wales at
Brixton Prison have printed q list Of names aud
aliases OF the habiiual criminals Of the kingdom.
There are l2,l64 OF them, ono woman being
known to the police by fifteen different names.
The Missouri Legislature has passed q law by
which all able-bodied male persons between
twelve and sixty years OF age are to be drafted
for two days IN each week during the spring
months Of the year to fight the grasshoppers.
Some ci liens Of Ohio have forwarded TO the
President q rustic armchair made OF apple
branches, nearly every piese having cut upon 1t
such Inscriptions as "souah Carolna," Ell u
isiana," Demonstration, "Peace Policy" "Fif-
teenth Amendment" eto.
.-- There are now sixty-nine daily. weekly and
monthly periodicals printed in Bengalee and
Tamil, the two languages II Indis In which the
greatest literary activity Is ut present shown.
Twelve OF these are devoted to Musselman and
twenty to Christian interests, while the rest are
purely Hindoo.
The idea OF having the capital Of State
central is making trouble Georgia talks OF re-
moving her capital from Atlanta, in the upper
part Of the State, to Miedgeville. Az legis-
lators usually, II not alwaya, receive railway
passes, IL might be we'll TO have the capital In
the chief city, whore whisky is cheapest
The ignorance Of the Turkish troops IL dense.
but their officers are well educated. There are
military schools ut Constantinople. Broussa and
Monaslir, organized by French, atrpan and
British ulcers, and ths Porte has been sending
the most intelligent students Berlin, Vienna,
London and Paris for military in truction Many
Turkish officers speak French, German, Engl ish
and Italian.
--Herndon's herd of tame buffalo cows on the
South Platte, numbering twenty-five, have given
birth, since March 18th, to eighteen calves,
not one Of which has died, or eavorts as though
IL wanted 10. Some OF the cheese and butte.
manufactured from the product Of this herd, and
put upon the Sidney marke', compares favorably
with the Orange and Genesee county, New York.
manufacture. A stock dairyman, from Peoria,
ILL.,, is ut Sidney, and tells ms that he has nego-
ii tud u,rlion ~ tba hard In feko hnu1a th
him.
On May 16 an international exhibition OF
newspapers and autographs will be opened at
Prague, and will last for one month. Fresh
specimens Of newspapers are arriving daily The
following have already been cstalogued: From
Bohemia, Biesia, and Morava, 633 different
papers, from Hungary, $50: from Germany, 1915;
from Russia, 235; from Turkey, AZ; 5ervis and
Montenegro, 81; Roumania, IL; Greece, 50; Italy,
90; swi zerland, 2G4: France, 235; Spain, 1884,
Great Britain and Ireland, 800; Holland, 45;
Portugal. 81; Belgium, 80; and from Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark, 81.
Abdul Kerim Pasha, the Turkish C1mman.
der-in-Chief, is n genuine Turk OF the old school
such as are nowadays seldom to be found, owing
his advancement as much to his thorough
honesty and straightforwardness as to his mill
tsry talents. He resided for many years ut
Vienna o. military student under the care Of
Fsldzeugmeister Won Hauslab, and he possesses
many OF the solid qualities OF the German ma
ton; he also writes and reads the German
language with facility. His sunburnt face, with
| white hair and beard, ia calm and steady, and
4 faithfully reflects his we'll balanced mind, which
| 10 rather that OF Fabius than Bonaparte.
Sierra Leone has been hitherto.reckoned a
sort Of charnel house for Europeans but IL 10 now
stated that during last June, the month deemed
the most unhealthy in the year. the deaths at
| Freetown, which has over 10000 inhabitants,
were only twenty-three in the thousand, and that
the large mortality hitherto has been mainly due
TO the grossly bad sanitary arrangements, which
were recently greatly ameliorated by Gov. Pope
Hennessey, and the persistence Of many OF the
Europeans in drinking sprituous liquors in eli
mate totally unsuited to their consumption. Half
the complaints about bad climate may be really
put to the credit Of bad whisky.