The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-27
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Mr. Tilden will visit Scotland France an,
Italy.
marlborough, Mass, is shipping needle
10 Australia.
The Boston journal of Commerce suggest
nm export tax on beef and mutton.
Stones weighing two pounds and O hal
fell In Santa Cruz, Mexico not long ago.
The fermented essence of rice stea1nins
hot, Is the favorite drink at Japanese water
ing-places.
The Kansas authorities are thinking 0
introducing English sparrows to eat tn,
grasshoppers.
Two thousand American firms have an
nounced their intention of contributing to the
Paris Exposition.
The veto of o Mayor of st. Louis is final
The charter making null any vote of the City
Council upon an enactment that has been
vetoed.
Brigham Young fixes up the ward tickets
in Salt Lake City. In the language of resi-
dent: "The Lord moves the ticket and
Brigham seconds it.
In Ceylon, where there is no civil-service
reform. Alexander Barthoemeues de Zilva
Rajacaruna Wickremartue has been appoint
ed Atapattu Mudoliyar of Matara.
The money value of crops as given by
the Agricultural Bureau in its report for last
year, was in round numbers 1855 40O, 900 of
corn, S342 O0O 900 of hay, 1904 500 900 of wheat,
S272 100000 of cotton, and 1929, 600 of oats.
Potatoes are down for a value of 500, 900, GOO,
tobacco S3O000OO0, aud barley S29, $50 0O0
M About states that Marshal MacMahon
is the grandson of an obscure country doc
tor, who came from Limerick in TAT, took q
degree at Rheims, and settled at Autun. The
peculiar circumstances under which he be-
came domiciled there may be read in one
of the most famous suits of the last century.
A French newspaper explains that the re-
cent heavy purchases of provisions by the
MacMahon government are destined not to
feed an army in the field, but to complete at
the end of seven years, the revictualing of
fortresses, the supplies of which were con-
sumed by the French or the Prussans in the
war of 1870.
The Cinnamon in San Francisco have their
religious trial-that of the Rev. Swang Bung,
for heresy. He characterized his neighbours
joss as horse thief This excited the leaders
of the abused congregation, and, amid loud
explosions of fire-crackers and bombs, the
Rev. Swang Bung has been suspended from
the ministry.
Over half the delegates to the Virginia
State Convention have been selected and the
relative strength of the candidates is ar
ranged as follows: Daniel, 254; Malone, ISL:
Holiday, 81; Taliaferro, 81; Fitz Lee, 81;
Terry, 56. Besides these, thirty-eight unin-
structed delegates have been selected, From
the above it will be seen that Daniel starts
out with splendid showing, and behind it
there is good second choice strength that
augurs well for his success,
- In Thomasville Gas man who had be-sl
suffering with cancer in the mouth, and had
been pronounced incurable by his physician,
became much depressed, and determined
upon suicide. He went about his self-destruc-
ton in a very methodical and business-like
manner. All his creditors were conferred
with, and all paid up, even those to whom the
amounts were not due, He proceeded leisure
iy and deliberately to set his house in order
preparatory to taking the fatal step. He
even made his own coffin. After completing
all necessary arrangements he coolly cut his
throat
-Ihe Boston Advertiser gives some inter-
estlng statistics from forty-nine of the large
cotton mills of New England. They make
about thirty per cent of all cotton goods in
the North, and consume annually 3S5 1000
bales. In the first six months of the present
year they worked up s9,238942 pounds. AS
the quality of the crop of 1S76-'77 was much
better than that of the season before the Adj
rertiser thinks it safe to assume that. these
figures represent an increase lin pounds of
five per cent in the quantity of goods turned
out These goods have found a market, there
is no large accumulation on hand, and the de-
mand is perceptibly improving. If prices
can be kept down this summer, the Advertiser
thinks autumn will find the New England
mills unable to keep up with their orders.