The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-19
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Tho Murphy temperance wave has reached
Canada.
Forty journals are published In Germany
devoted to Socialism.
First cousins are prohibited marrying i'm
Indiana by a new law.
There are upward Of 5000 churches In the
State of New York.
--Shin-loads Of Chinese laborers are expect
ed In London.
Ten thousand sheep lie dead around
Desert Spring, near Moiave, Cal.
The Emperor of Germany wears eighty
eight decorations on gala days.
The egg business reaches Ss,000,0o0 n year
In New York.
The old King Of Gaboon. Africa, is dead,
aged nearly 100. His son Adande is now king.
The Boston Herald claims an average
daily circulation for April Of fo3,773 copies.
Gen. Hancock is to be one Of three army
officers to go to Europe and observe The war
movements
Believers in new religion, called Norris
ism, are gathering In Wala Walla Washing
ton Territory, In expectation Of Christ
AT the recent meeting OF shareholders Of
The Bank of France 1t was stated that the
profits were nearly 100000 less than In 1875.
The mail facilities in Southern Florida are
SO imperfect that 1t requires ten days to send
n paper from Key West to Jacksonville
Australia Is about the only country that
gives subsidies to steamship lines now. Aeon
tract has just been given to new line to run
10 the East indies.
Cupid and Mars have met on the Golden
Coast. Gen. Maggie, of California, Is required
by q jury to pay. $27, 800 to woman named
Hants, who sued him for breach of promise
He has appealed the case
The annual congress Of German Journal
lists Is fixed for the 18th and Goth of August, at
Dresden. These congresses have only been
instituted within the last few years, but they
have proved very successful.
The Turkish Minister ut Washington Is
said to have on file over 1000 applications for
commissions In the Turkish service from
American officers in tho late Union and Con-
federate service.
The laying down OF underground tcle-
graph advances rapidly in Germany. The
line from Mayonce to Marbury is complete;
that from Cassel to Leipsic is In progress.
Two lines, each with seven wires, will run
from Berlin TO Hamburg.
"A Stockton, Cal, man claims that paper
of several varieties and Of superior quality
can be manufactured from the leaf of COM
mon flag. The Stockton Independent says
that the flag is prepared simply by being
boiled with lime. The inventor is building a
paper mill to make flag paper
-Mullett, the architect, is lying very i'll at
his residence at Washington. The falling of
the roof Of the New York Postof1ice was the
subject for 50 much criticism Of his knowledge
and responsibility, that he seemed to lose all
life and vigor, and is now reported to be In
very serious condition.
The Pacific coast Is coming forward con-
spicuously in the canning business. 1t Is
estimated that in Oregon alone there are
100000 cases of canned fish and G5O0OO of
canned fruit put up annually. The business
is constantly increasing, and the increase for
the present year, it is said will be so per cent
over last year.
An Advent preacher in Missouri, named
Harris, shaved his head so as to acquire the
venerable aspect that badness imparts. The
trick was detected by members of his congre-
grafton, and he was expelled on charge of
deception. He urged that to shave the head
was no more an offence than to cut the hair,
trim the beard, or in any other way to i'm
prove ones personal appearance; but there
was majority vote against him.
The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety has
made an estimate OF the stimulants used by
the race, from which 1t appears that coffee is
used in the bean and the leaves by &C, OOO, 900
of the human family. Tea of all kinds is
used by 5OO,00o,O 900, and opium by 400, OoO. 900:
alcohol in its various forms by 100000 900
Tobacco is probably used by 100000 600 or
S00, 100000. The figures show tobacco largely
i'm the ascendant which the total abstinence
people will probably be glad to know
Col. Hoffman, an ex-officer of the North
ern army, has published some interesting
memoirs of the late war between the States.
Referring to Beast Buffers infamous woman
ORDER in New Orleans, he says the staff en-
phatically disapproved of and condemned it
when it was read to them by Butler, and that
Butler replied to these objections by saying
that such an order would be hailed with great
applause in New England, and would make
him popular with the school marms of that
section who had great jealousy and hatred
OF Southern ladies'"