The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-03
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Cincinnati Ii paying $4,000 d day for Its
Cincinnati Southern Railroad now.
The degree of L. l.. ID. was conferred by
Harvard College, on the 9th, ON President
Hayes,
The iron ranges of Minnesota, be-
tween Duluth and Pigeon river, are being ex-
plored with view TO utilizing them In con-
nection with the blast furnaces at Duluth.
The police Of Trieste have ordered the
suppression Of the Journals HNuouo 7ergesteo
and the Cyttddino Haliano for publishing ar
ticles In favor Of the annexation of Trieste to
Italy.
Tho circulation and specie report shows
notes In circulation to be $40, 72s, 796 e. against
which there is held In specie "a. 7Oo,89O o5, be-
ing $3.50, 400 05 in excess Of the amount re-
quired by law.
=Congresslnan Beebe. of New York, has
commenced a suit for libel against George
Washington Robertson for publishing an ar
ticle charging that whlean Assemblyman he
took d commission ofEdtber cent on acclaim
of $1,000, allowed thr%e5Sf- his constituents for
nm, loss Of their farms through defective State
titles. -
1t IL asserted that more than two-thirds
OF the papers In Maine are not paying ex-
penses. Low-priced subscription is primarily
nj fault. The evil is greatly enhanced by the
failure to exact advance payment, and by the
uncollected subscriptions consequent upon 1t.
Ono thing the people OF Maine should bear In
mnd-tbey cannot afford to suffer their local
papers to languish.
The hotels of Maine have suspended the
publication Of their wine list on their bills of
fare In Difference to the new iiqnor law, which
makes such publication a hollow mockery or a
criminal offense. The Bangor House, one of
the leading hotels In the city of that name,
keeps up the headline. "Wine list" and pub
fishes beneath 1t the sadly suggestive line,
..We would IL we could"
--Twenty-seven, boxes Of Confederate ar
chives left at Union, S. G., by Jefferson Davis
were recently destroyed by fire. The Federal
troops were pressing Mr.. Davis SO hard dur
ing his retreat southwark that he was com.
PEELED to leave the archives with Col. Young
mt Union. The latter had carefully preserved
them, and was about to send them to the
Southern Historical Society ut Richmond
when they were destroyed.
There liz q church In the quarter of Berlin
called the Burg, where the hearts Of deceased
members of the Prussian royal family are
kept in silver urris. They are behind a rail
ing, and an inscription Is upon each urn, de-
noting the name Of the former possessor, his
birth, death, etc. Bodies Of royal individu
ais, according to the Prussian custom, are al
ways opened, the heart being placed in one
church, the entrails in another and the rest Of
the corpse In third.
49, England, whose Field Marshals had beer
reduced by death to the Duke of Cambridge
and the Prince of Wales has now three new
Field Marshals. They are Gen. Sir William
Rowan, an Irisman, SO years of age; Gen. Sill
Charles York. 81 years old, and Hugh Rose
Lord Strathnairn, who is only IA, and was dis
tinguished as commander of the forces il
Central India during the mutiny. He was
raised to the peerage in 1866 in reward chiefly
for his Indian services.