The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-24
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Gov. Robinson wants tho appropriations TO
public buildings reduced one-half.
Baltimore papers note the fact that coal /
cheaper In that market than at any time zinc
1861.
Geo. II. Pendleton, "dentleman George" il
talked of for the Greenback candidate for sena
tor In Ohio.
Hereafter the clei ks of the War Department
must buy their own soap. Thus do our vas
economies move ons
1T Ia proposed to submit 10 popular vote Tho
question of removing the capital Of Georgia from
Atlanta back to Milledgeville.
Baltimore reiuleeE in the prospect of re.
ducing her taxes 20 per cent on 300, and wpine
out million OF hoating debt
The indications in T exss point to more
abundant crop Of wheat this year than last. The
grasshcppers have mostly disappeared.
There Ia some talk in Pennsylvanis Of urging
the Hon. Wayne Macveagh te accept the Repub.
licsn nomination for Governor next year.
Five tons of maple sugar were made in Ora.
tiot county, Michigan, this spring. There are yet
a few hills remaining in the county which will
bear grading down.
A new race of prigands has lately been started
in Italy. A pretty heavy band of them was dis
persed by the police between the towns of
Caserta and Beneventa.
In the list Of last yeats French suicides,
twenty-nine were Of children, nine were Of fifteen
years of age, elk fourteens nine thirteen, one
twelve, two eleven, one ten. and one nine.
The Mobile tAla.) Register thinks the South
should take the speskee ship, the Northern Dem
ocrats as rule, not having shown liberal spirit
toward the South In matters relating to lie mate
rial interests.
The city OF Red Wing, Mimi, has compro-
mised the payment of her bonds issued TO aid the
construction of the river railroad from ST. Paul
to Winona. New bonds to the amount of s45, 900
have been issued in exchange for the original
$4,000.
There was rush Of gold hunters to the Leaf
Hills in Minnesota couple of weeks ago, In con-
sequence of report that the precious metal had
been discovered there in quantities that we're
sure to pay. Later developments proved it TO be
iron pyrites, or 'Fools' gold"
Irrigating the dry lands in Colorado from wells
by windmill power has been recently found prac-
iicable by farmer, near Evans, in that State.
With one small ii an acre Of vegetables was
watered, and the thirst of herd Of eighty head
of cattle, horses and sheep was quenched.
The Portland oregonian oomplaines grevi-
ously Of tho alledged results OF the Sandwich
Islands reciprocity treaty 1t says that it's bene-
fits accrue solely to planters at the ielands and 10
sugar monopoly OF San Francsco, and that this
combination is enabled by the act Of the Amer.
con Senate to make vast Gums Of money at the ex-
pense Of the people OF the Pacific ststes.
The great gold mine OF Los Christses, at
Cauquenes, in Chill, which has been lost for forty
years, has been found by three Englishmen. It
was abandoned at time when the Chilisns were
shooting each other and trying to overturn the
government. 1t then filed up with water. and
an avalanche slid into and over II, and confound-
cd oil the geographers for forty years in regard
to its whereabouts Now that it has been found,
II will be worked again by English capital.
The Paris Pat,'ie gives some particulars
about the treasures Of Islam." Ii says that all
the pilgrims who visit Mecca cast an Offering into
the three sepulchres for tho defense Of Islam.
The writer calculator that not less than So 600 900
q year are thus contr buted, and adds that from
one Of the sepulchres, which was opened in 1899,
immense sums were drawn. Another sepulchre
was opened during the Crimean war. and now the
Sheik-ul-Islam has gone to Mecca to draw funds
from the third, which has not been opened since
14l5. Taking the three sepuchres together. it is
computed that they must contain about $780,
100000.
Prince Charles of Roumania, one Of the Ho-
henzollerns, IL said to be an amiable prince, but
without any remarkable ability. He has civil
lst of about 100000 q year, which he spends
mainly at home, thus pleasing the Roumanians.
He lives in an unnteresting looking palace in tho
'red quarter" of Bucharest. except during the
summer, when he goes to the old monastery at
Oorocere, on the right bank of the Dunbovisza,
overlooking the capital. The statement that the
Prince lives in the ''red quarter" of Bucharest is
thus explained The city is divided into Eve great
wards, which are distinguished one from another
by colors. yellow is used to denote the aristo.
cratic or residence quarter. red the commercial
section, green the eastern, black the western,
and blue the southern wards. These respective
colors appear on the barriers which separate the
wards, on the uniform of the soldiers, on the col
lars and cuffs Of the policemen, and on the letter
boxes, lamp-posts, etc. Although the yellow
quarter is considered the mos. .ristoc1s.ic, the
red il more beautiful.