The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-30
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The inner channel ways Of the harbor o
Norfolk, Va, which Is one of the finest in thu
world, are gradually filling up.
The city registrar of Boston reports thai
there have been only two deaths from hydro
phobia In that city for 25 years past.
An English company with large capital Is
now organizing for the purpose Of shipping
beef and mutton direct from Norfolk, Va.
All the persons convicted of crime at the
recent term of the Fairfield county, s. c.,
Circuit Court, were negroes.
] Seven railway survey parties are prepar-
| ing to leave Victoria, British Columbia. Re-
cent events point to the Frazer river route as
the choice for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
| Some graeeless scamp has created great
excitement in Santiago, Chilli, by forging bulls
permitting Roman Catholics to eat meat on
Fridays and to do other forbidden things, and
selling them to the faithful for large sums
The cost Of the ball given by the Lord
Mayor of London to the Prince of Wales on
his return from India, cost the enormous sum
of s135, 7g5, and was the most expensive ever
given. The supper cost 1000, besides S9855
for the wines and $39DOfor flowers
There will be no class day at Harvard
this year in consequence of discussions
among the college societies. The failure Is
deeply deplored among the young people Of
Boston, by whom class day is considered the
most important social event of the year.
Chicago, mortgaged and rickety, has
another complaint The Tribune, of Monday.
says, something like 100000 people In the
west division were driven from the cool air of
their porches Saturday evening, and forced to
take refuge in the heated interiors on account
OF the perfect avalanche OF stencil which the
south wind brought from Bridgeport"
Facts are rapidly coming to light which
prove undeniably that Monsieur MacMahon's
revolutionary coup detat is the result of de-
liberate reconciliation and preparation. No
less than sixty-three projects of Republican
politicals views were dismissed or "shelved'
within twenty-four hours after the arbitrary
dismissal OF the Jules Simon cabinet. The
London Times Paris correspondent says that
no such list could have been prepared within |
twenty-four hours.
There is still great suffering from famine
in some of the northern provinces of China. |
and people are said to be dying by thous- |
ands. The distress in Shantung has reached |
such pitch that the unfortunate people are
throwing themselves down wells and poison
ing themselves with arsenic, unable any
longer to bear their sufferngs. At Tsi-nan
Flu they are bringing their children to the
Roman Catholic Bishop, saying that if he will
not take them into his orphanage they will
kill them.
Germany has acquired 81 commanding
position in Europe, but the same time has lost
nearly all the little liberty she ever had
Press prosecutions on what seem most trivial
grounds are more frequent and rigorous than
,ver. The editor Of the Kuryer Posnanski
las gone to prison for four months for having
offended Prince Bismark," by reprinting an
lrticle his Highness didn't like. The editor
If the Yossische Zeitung, one of the oldest of
herman journalists, has been fined for an
article inserted during his absence. The
,ditor of the Dresdener Volks-Zeitung has
,een find for offending the policy. Two Of
he editors of the Berlin Post have been fined
md the former editor of theMwback Votkstaat
to a years Imprisonment for similar
,ffences. For stating that the paymasters Of
he War Department are badly paid, the
,ditor of a Berlin journal gets fifteen days