The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-06
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New Oh territory has been discovered ut
East Titusvile Pa. and one well, which only
cost St3 TO sink. Is pumping twenty barrels
a day.
THE BlulIton Chronicle IL m Indiana jour
mi. and has attained sudden notoriety by
nominate ng Secretary Richard W. Thompson
for President in 1880.
Boston expects nbout 10000 persons TO
narade in til procession on the 18th OF Sep
TENDER, when the Army and Navy Monu-
ment on the Common is to be unveiled
The Virginia Democratic State Committee
has nominated Gen. james q. Field Tor At
torney General, to fiji the vacancy In the State
ticket caused by the recent death OF Hon.
Raleigh +. Daniel
At Nieara, near Samos in the Grecian
Archipelago, father wishing to dispose Oh
his daughters hand selects as the bfide-
groom the man who can swim forthe longest
time under water.
NM. Monchcz and Lowry, OF the Bureau
dos Longitudes. viii represent France iof tlie
first time in the International Congress tor
measuring the figure of the earth, which is TO
sit ut Stuttgart about the end OF September
( The ruins Of an ancient Babylonian city
have inst been discovered by nj. DE Safzee,
The French consul at Bosrah In the course
of his excavations he found several slabs and
bronze figures. The ruins are not fur from
the river Hui.
Marshal NIacMahon is alleged to be de-
sendant of Fitz Urse, one OF the four knights
who murdered Thomas Beckett In ITO, Ut the
bidding Of Henry III. Fitz Urse setted SUD-
seuuently In tho north of Ireland, and chang
ed his name to MacMahon.
- The Vicksburg Herald mentions q negro
magistrate who sentenced negro TO DC
hanged for stealing a hog, and says that the
negro constable kept the prisoner confined In
his house, and would. no doubt, have hanged
him II the white people had not interfered to
prevent 1t.
Accord ng to MINI sotas Commissioner
of Statistics, there were 10,S1o boys ana 1851
girls born in that State last year. The deaths
numbered 7Oa5, Of whom 3739 were males ana
33os females. The number of twins born was
$50, there being 274 boys and 276 girls. There
were eight sets of tripets and one of quadru-
plets.
- Among the passengers on the Pacific ex-
press train of the Chicago Burlington and
Quincy railroad yesterday morning were
Gen. james NJ Comfy, the newly appointed
Minister to the Sandwich Islands, his family,
A. II. Francisco, of the Ohio State JoWaat,
and Annie Louise Carey. Gen. Comfy sails
from San Francisco September IL.
The telephone is now coming into praeti-
cal, every day use to supcrsede speaking
tubes in large buildings and to connect resi-
dences and offices. The instruments are rent
ed ut S35 year, and over 400 Of them are now
in USE Prof. Bell, who has now gone to
Europe, will soon make the interesting exper-
iment of talking across the Atlantic cable.
The French steamer Frigoritique lately
landed a cargo of freshly preserved meat at
Brest, brought from South America. Chem
cal tests were applied to the meat, and it was
found to be in a perfect state of preservation
although much Of it consisted OF inferior
pieces OF the slaughtered animals. Hereafter
only the first and best pieces are to be shipped
and the speculation is now assured OF sue