The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-02-18
NOTES.


The London Times pensions q re
porter after forty years service.
Boston ID now talking OF grea
union Merchants Exchange, to accom-
MEDIATE all the different commercial
organizations OF the city.
49, It is sremafkable,' says prejeval
sky, how seldom European dogs fra
fernize with their Chinese or Mongolian
brcshren. however long they may live
La company With them."
Oregon salmon are being exported
from San Francisco TO New York. sell.
ing lii the latter city at a5 cents pound,
retail, price which still admits OF a
fair profit.
The wife OF President Grant has
sent a basket of flowers to the bedside
OF Representative Alex. II. Stephens
almost every day since his present se-
we're Illness.
.ARev. Mr.. Denton, who has travelled
In European Turkey, says that In sixty
years the Mussulman population will
have perished, and that only the Chris-
tian will remain.
THE city of Washington has spent
$4,000, 900 for wooden pavements. which
now have TO be removed and are nearly
impassable-- fifty miles of soggy blocks,
hardly tit fer ilfewood.
Aimee owns d large quantity Of
valuable diamonds. having bought them
in Brazil as an investment; but the
Dramatic Neips says that she usually
wears limitations on the stage to avoid
risk of loss.
LIN case or an Eastern war, Germany
III said to have made up her mind fully
TO 90 west and take Holland. which IL as
much of an old German province as AL
Aace ever was. In such an emergency
it islsupposed that France would desire
to march her Kings army up the hill
into Belgium.
Austria Is keeping the tightest
watch on her remaining Italians In the
Tyrol Provinces, and the "Trentino"
heartily desires to join the brethren of
tho new kingdom. The Austrian pre-
parations are explained as looking
either to a return in her old possessions
or selling out Trent altogether for seve-
raj millions.
Lord Lytton recently laid the foun.
dation of Mohammedan college at |
Allyghur In India. 1t is designed to be |
a faithful copy Of an Oxford college,
with the exception OF certain Oriental
characteristics. such as the cooking and
eating regulations of caste and Muez-
zins. or Friday calls for prayer. The
honors and emoluments OF the college
are, In certain cases, open TO infidel
and Christians.
Fl regard Mississippi to-day as
politically where Massaohu.
setts stood thirty years ago. The
solored people have u future beforeI
thenl, but, as stated before. they have
made too much haste. T have never
the policy which has led
hem into the confusion OF politics
before they were prepared to take care
II their own interests. Report OF in
erview with Fred Douglass.
The Empress Eugene, it is said In
England, will not live ut Chiselhurstl
much In future. She Is going to Spain
% see her relatives, and will endeavor
o get o royal wife for her son. He
alks OF going to Russia in order to Z
sffer his sword to the Czar. 80, should
here be war, Napoleon w." will be !
lighting on one side and Charles yII.," ,
'etter known as Don Carlos, will be i;
lighting on the other ID
Zadkiel's almanac for 1877 predicts !
ear of discords and dangers of war and I
roe for England unless her people are
and prudent. The heavenly
'odies hardly pay as much attention to
he United States as might be desired,
ut in June, Cancer, who presides over
1e destinies of the city, is benignant,
nd trade is to receive great impetus
July. Mexico is TO be happier, but
the close OF the year physical and
olitical commissions will affect South !,
notably Patagonia.
The city of Salems in Oregon. has :,
lopted this model method of dealing
Ith drunkenness When any person :.
,somes intemperatelN given to STRONG q