The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-21
NEW ORLEANS, MONDAY, MAY q, 1877
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We consume shout 100000 hogsheads OF mo
i4ssses every twelve months.
a.Iyoston aeonomcslly resolves 10 sguander
ouly 10000 on The next 'rFourth."
Tn The eastern townships of Lower Canada
the maple sugar yield hAs been the largest for
shirty years.
Inauguration Day In New Hsmhshire will be
of unusual splender this year. The entire mill
tary force of the state will bs present 1t Concord
Berkshire, Mass, farmers are talking Oh
cultivsling the sugar beet and uniting IN sugar
snanufsctory on q cooperative plan managed like
cheese factories.
The Dismal swamp Canal IL 10 bs sold by
auction to the highest bidder IN Norfolk. W.,
next August. The work cpst over $1,000 600, but
is not expected To bring mors than afsh part OF
shat sum. ~
The pineapple il cultivated very extensively
In the aAi Indies, where the leaves are converted
into Kind Of wadding. used For upho'sfering
purposes instead Of hair, and into o sort OF Ham
mel. of which substantial shirts and coats are
made. ."... ..
Secretary Sherman In recent letter. says
shat he feels quite sure that the good opinions OF
sita friends ef the presidenb's Boulhern policy
viii be justified by liz sncceses and by the bene-
aata II will confer upon both white and black He
pubiicans.
THE state Of leorgia has sold the labor OF the
epnvictH In i.s ttate prison for $4,000 year.
which ID at the rate III about tit year FOR each
convict. The slate appears to have been badly
swIndled, an The contractors are now successfully
s'sub.lettipg' the conyicts At $50 = year.
The Galveston { +, xas) Netrs calls upon tho
President TO make an appropriate climax TO bis
paciacatory policy by granting complete and
final amnesty TO president" Davis and the few
remaining es.rehels who, like him, by an unjust
discrimination are still POLITICALLY prescribed
THE Turkish paper money. called eutrne, has
deprecated more then 100 per cent. Bread costs
more than 10 did during the Crimean war. pe.
troleum, which 10 In gent raj tse, IN imported
from the United Batea refined, while tho native
oil. of which th5re Ia abundance In Roumana,
the Crinea and on the Caspian sea. IL marketed
in The crude state. Ii has risen from twenty TO
ijfty cents an 'oke.s
The re.discovery at CanqusneH Chi'i, OF the
once famous gold mine, "Los Oristaes," has
rrested somewhat Of sen sation. This mine,
whose yield Ia nuppoaed 10 have been almost
fabulous In the old colonial times, has been losl
for forty years. Having been abandoned NJ the
breaking out of The revolution, ID filed with
water, and then q landslide removed all traces
af II. $ 5.-.
The Orin,ean war cost England 40 600 soldiers
and s5ooo1e0oo IN gold. The expenditure o
men and money was TO "preserve the equilibrium
OF Europe Hhe Ia not certain as 30 whether she
desires 10 engage In the "equilibrium" business
again. and will not be likely 30 to do, unless abe
finds she win be q greater loser by Russian euc.
cese
An iron-riad war steamer for the Japanes q
government has been launched In London. The
Japanese Minister was present, sand ohristened II
You 30, from q mountain In Japan. At the no.
ssompanying lunch the Minister proposed toas
10 the success of the Japanese marine. The ves
se Ia 22o feet long, and has an armor nine inchet
thick.
The Austrian Grown Prince Rudolph who II
now completing his education, was examined or
the o4lh ult before the Emperor. In Hungarian
law. The examination was conducted In the
Hungarian lar guage, which the Prince speak,
with great fluency, and the Emperor expressed
much satisfaction at the result The priuce has
yes w NJ tuIHu&u NGotEe VI asluhH hhWs atptp
macy and navigatio before his studies will come
TO an end. .. ...- .....
In Germany press prosecutions continue with
unahated vfgor. The editor OF the Dresdet
polisseif,ap has been tinad for offending the
police two editura Of the Berlin Post have beer
fined, and h ox-editor Of the Mdrbuch To'ksblat
has been sentenced to one years Imprisonment
for similar offanses The responsible editor q
tho ksrger Pezndnssk Herr dazyler. has beer
condemned to four months imprisonment fol
having offended Psirce Bismarck by reprintine
the well known Reichslocke" article. 81
The royal department of agriculture, Prussia
regards potato bugs as synonym for famine. and
cautions captains, sailors and passengers Of ves
sells sailing between the United States and Ger.
many to be mest watchful In looking cut for the
bugs, their eggs and larvm. They can do 40 b,
thoroughly ex mining all vegetables brought or
board; even the earth which may be sticking te
the potatoes can become vehicle for eggs ant
laivm. Goods packed In potato herb must also
be searched. II il declared 10 be unlawful to i'm
port potatoes from America to Germany, or Il
take aahore potato peel or kitchen refuse Of any
Kind. 5-.