The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-09
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THE alleged ill-treatment of two German
officers at Nancy, France, was nothing more
than abuse by drunken men
"A petition has been sent to Wade Hamp-
ton, asking that South Carolina set apart
$4,000 toward immigration to the State.
The new Cotton Exchange at Galveston
will be built of Philadelphia pressed brick,
with Austin marble trimmings, and cost
about $4,000.
The New York Produce Exchange has
changed the mode of delivery on graded grain
from 5000 bushel lots TO boat loads, or 5000
bushel lots, to accommodate receipts by canal.
A singular case of death by lightning re-
Gently occurred at the Thames gold field New
Zealand, where man was killed at the bot
tom Of shaft 900 feet deep.
There is a rumor in California that Sena-
tor Sargent and Representative Page intend
to have the De Youngs. OF the San Francisco
Chronicle indicted for libel in every county OF
the State
Only fifteen years ago China held the mo-
nopoly of tea production; now India is prov
ing formidable rival. From 100000 pounds
In 1861. the export from Calcutta advanced to
25, OOD, 900 in 1876.
"A French paper has figured up the cost of
the daily dinner of the Parisans to be 1858, 800
francs, or about $255,0OO being an average of
twenty five cents head for oil the popula-
ton. OF this amount, $4,000 is expended for
bread and $4,000 for wine and other liquors.
King Kalalsaua has bought an interest In
sugar estate of twenty seven thousand
acres on one of the Sandwich Islands, and is
going extensively into the cultivation of
sugar. II will be remembered that his Ma
jcsty was over in this country not long since,
engaged in negotiating reciprocity treaty.
Elk Secretary Bristow has implicit faith In
the President, and believes he will succeed In
restoring the whole country TO peace, har-
mony, and prosperity. AS for the opposi-
ton, he expects to see that fade out entirely,
and thinks the President will leave his Office
much stronger than when he entered it.
Certain hotel keepers in Philadelphia re-
fuse TO obey the order of the authorities, to
place fire-eseapes on the outside of their
buildings, and threaten TO test the issue i'm
the courts. Travellers can, meanwhile, go to
other houses where regard is chad for their
safety.
The manufacture of Chartreuse brings
the convent of Chartreuse, in France, in mil
lions Of francs % year. Out of the profits be-
tween Gt2,O0O and 100000 q year is sent to the
Pope. The secret of making Chartreuse has
now been known for the last three centuries
to the monks. Tho receipt is kept carefully
sealed up under the chief altar and the stone
Golfer In which II is contained is opened only
when new General is elected.
Referring to the new Capitol appropria-
ton, the Rochester Union says Gin view 0
the maturing judgment of the people Of the
State that its Capitol should be removed to
and established in it's great metropolis the
metropolis of the country--it will probably
not make much difference whether the $780,
600 is expended in tearing down or building
up. In either case the Albany hucksters will
he satisfied, as all they care for is the ex-
pendituro Of the money in their midst"