The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-22
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Col. Fprney ia convinced that 1.-THE army o
the United States cannot legally be used to s1s
tain one political party against the other"
4-den. Grant and Mrs. Grant will visit thu
Camerons In Harrisburg, and the ex-senator viii
accompany them on their European tour.
i Letters from prospectors In tho Black Hills tt
their friends at home are not encouraging, judg
| ing from many limitations given in our OK
slanges.
London journals joyfully chronicle the fact
that during tho last week III March the sun shone
on the metropolis between twenty-six and TWEEN.
| ty.seven hours.
| The betrothal Of the Princess Charlotte,
eldest daughter OF the Grown Prince and Princess
Of Germany. and therefore granddaughter Of
Queen Victoria, took place at Berlin on Sunday,
April L. Tho Ddtty Telegraph correspondent
says that IL will be matter Of satisfaction 70
TO know that her marriage with Prince Bernhardt
will be one Of mutual inclination.
ALI the recent theatrical casualties have 90.
cured while the "Two Orphans' was upon the
stage. The latest was ut Buffalo, New York. on
Saturday evening. where the boz Of paper used
to represent the snow took fire, and the flames
became visible to the audience. Prompt action
extinguished The fire, while the efforts OF the
usbers prevented panic in the auditorium.
New England owns one-third the number OF
sailing vessels OF the country and one-hals the
tonnage. Maine leading with 1913 vessels and
4g7, Id tonnage, Massachusetts, coming second,
with 2l63 vessels aud 450,720 tonnage, and Con.
neotiout third, with 22S vessels and 53,t01 ton
mage. II Ia estimated that New Englands in
vestment in shipping amounts to $40000000.
The wars OF this century have been the most
bloody and costly since the palmy days OF Rome
and Greece. For it's ten great bloody periods,
viz the Napoleonic, Grecian, Crimean. Italian,
Danish, Austrian tt568), Brazilian, American,
AbyHsinian and Franco.G German wars-leaving
odt minor expeditions and skrmishes--the fig
ures foot up s3s,oe7, 100000 expended, and H..
70S.60o men destroyed from 1900 to 1871. Two
thirds Of this aggregate outlay Of men and
money are to be charged on the ledger to Napo-
leon !. up TO his closing battle fought at Water
loo.
Progress Is reported at the Greenwich OBJ
servatory In reducing the observations made on
the last transit OF Venus. Two OF the most re-
cent calculations required the use Of 1900, 900
figures. The French attempts at obtaining new
figures for the SUMS distance by the study Of the
taken during the transit have been
reported ne turning out badly. II Is even doubted
whether the photographs can be used at oil for
this calculation. Better results are hoped for AZ
Washington from the photographs taken by the
American expeditions; but the work proceeds
very slowly, because the appropriations by Con-
gress were much smaller than had been OK
pected.
Mot long ago tho First Royal pomeranian
Regiment Of the prussian army celebrated In
stettin the two hundredth anniversary OF its Or
yaization. 1t IL, with the exception Of the First
Duirasaers, the Oldest regiment in the Prussian |
service. Ispassed through its baptism Of fire az |
he siege Of Stettin in 1877. The regiment fought |
It Oudensrde. Malplaquet, Prague and Liegnitz. |
1t the siege Of Leipsic, in 1918, it captured two
tandards and sixty-ibree cannon, and was es-
'ecially distinguished in 1915 at Belle-Alance or
Waterloo. More recently the regiment fought at
against the Austrians in 1866. aud ut
lravelotte, in the Franoo-Prussian war, besides
akng part in the battles near Paris and afterward
0 the operations against Bourbaki.