The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-24
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favor biennial sessions Of Congress.
The citizens Of Newport, KY, want the
convict labor Of the State utilized In improv-
ing the rivers.
1t is singular coincidence that all of the
national ships lost In the last decade were
named after Indian tribes, viz: Saranac,
Saginaw, Idaho and Huron.
The huge granite monolith which sup
ports the equestrian statue of Peter the
Great at st. Petersburg Russia was rolled
from Finland on cannon balls.
An ecclesiastical authority estimates that,
in round numbers, there are now in England
and Wales 1880 church benefces, and that
their annual net value is $15,000,0OO.
San Francisco fishermen complain that
the sea lions, which are protected by law, are
increasing 50 rapidly and are SO destructive
of fish that they are endangering the needed
supply of food for the citizens.
The recent decision Of the Georgia SUI
preme Court that a murderer, in order ito be
too drunk to form the intent to kill, must be
too drunk to form the intent to shoot, knocks
the pins from under many homicide and
leaves him dangling without support.
-Durin 1876, 1Os771 Italians emigrated to
America. According to the statistics, $4,000
of this grand total are set down as temporary
tourists the rest as permanent settlers.
--Texarkana is on the borders of Texas and
Arkansas. The line separating the States
runs through the centre of the town or towns,
for there are two, with distinct, Independent
governments.
The total assessed value Of taxable proper
{xy md in thic
year is S14s, 564 $751; falling off of S3,981, 466
from last years valuation. The real estate
is now assessed at 81 $685. 4o1 less than last year.
A thrifty woman in East Boston had her
son, a dozen years of age arrested for steal
ing an armful of wood. He was sent to the
House of Industry for six months, and she
thus saves the expense Of keeping him during
the winter and spring.
-- Philadelphia Times: Blaine and Conk-
ling have tumbled into each others arms
after twelve years Of sullen estrane ement
that refused recognition of each other. Who
will say that the Hayes pacifcation policy is
failure now
-'' Let us-peaceably if we can or forcibly
if we indispensable Mexico to keep her
thieves at home; but whatever we do, let us
not link our fortunes and our fame with
race which seems to have all the vices of bar
barism and civilization and few of the virtues
of either.-[St. Louis Republican.
Lynchburg (Va.) Neus The skeleton of
a man supposed to have been drowned during
the freshet Of 1870 was washed up by the
freshet and found on the banks Of the Shenan-
doah, in Page county, last week. On the flats
of the same river, in Shenandoah county, a
Spanish coin of 1725 was washed up.
"A sensation is promised in the trial of
young Rothschild, of Cincinnati, accused of
numbering his mistress, Bessie Moore in
Texas. 1t is said that Bessie, alive, will be
produced in the Texas court when her lover is
arraigned for her murder. But the body
found was positively identified by relatives
and friends of the girl.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has received
the silver salver given him by Columbia
women" and in acknowledgment writes
''What of assistance have been able to con-
tribute to the relief of your State from the
evils of misgovernment, was rendered to a
people bound to those who sent me here by
every tie of kindred, of interest, of deathless
memories and enduring sympathies. shall
treasure this beautiful gift through life as q
memorial Of South Carolina's new birth, and
of the too generous tribute paid to me by her
daughters for the aid it was my privilege to