The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-21
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Nilsson has been appointed IMAM
Der singer to the Court OF Austria.
--"I'll do the best / cam" said the
new Governor OF Iowa, In his inaugural
Strauss new opera bcuffe, prince
Methusalem, has been cordially re-
ceived In Vienna.
Sixty thousand Cinnamon live In
Peru. Most of them are held In unlaw-
full slavery on sugar plantations.
Duluth, which was to be tho rival
OF Chicago, has 1900 inhabitants, and
most of them find 1t hard to make both
ends meet.
1T Is estimated that In Chicago
nearly 5000 children have been carried
away by scarlet fever and diphtheria
within three months.
"A son was born TO James Elliot, OF
Meriden, CT, on election day, and the
child will be nameless until the parents
know who Is to be President.
There is to be o great emigration to
Africa by Southern negroes within q
few years, so SAYS the Missionary, the
organ Of South Carolina negro Metho-
dists.
In York county, South Carolina, Gov.
Hampton's tax collector has receipted
for $37io, while Chamberlain treas
urer has been able to secure only $12
from his constituents.
Wells and Anderson should take
courage. The Illinois Legislature has
passed resolutions In denunciauion Of
the barbarous treatment which they are
said to have received.
Some of the English journals init
mate that the Earl OF Beaconsfield in
tends to advise Her Majesty to make
the head OF the English. Rothschilds a
peer OF Great Britain.
8" Blom," an opera In FIVE acts,
founded upon the Norwegian tale sup
posed to be the basis OF Macbeth"
has been recently produced In London.
but with only moderate success.
Queen Victoria keeps poetlaureate
In india as we'll as In England, and his
name is Kokkonda Venkattrathnamu
Pautulu. His meters are almost as
miraculous as Robert Browning's.
-Senator-elect Davis has q friend In
Bloomington, Illinois, who writes TO the
Salem (Mass.) Gazette, that the Senator
will pursue conservative course in
Congress and will not cast his fortunes
with either political party. - I, qis
Jacob Straub, naturalized citizen
OF this country, paid o visit to bis
parents in Germany, where he was
drafted into the Prussien army and
forced to serve. He finally escaped,
and now the attention OF Secretary Fish
Is to be called to the case. w ! i,,ostt
The Italian Parliamenthas passed
law making tia criminal offense for any
member OF the high or low clergy TO
criticise the laws or the government
doings. As this effectually cuts or Plus
TX. Is little speeches, that dignitary In
tends protesting in an encyclica, next
March. sHs#tHszEa ie
n. Duchartre, OF the Central Horti-
cultural Society, reports that. In these
districts of France in which the phyl-
loxera first began work. the vine has
utterly disappeared; no one would sus-
pect that they had ever been wine grow
ing regions. The spectacle, he says, Is
s'heart-rending. Tn many places
American vines are being introduced.
Providence, a little city OF 1oo,00O
inhabitants, has for thirty years fur.
nished all the Governors for Rhode
Island but two, and all the Senators and
Representatives in Congress. 1t now
has in addition the Secretary Of State,
the Attorney General, and the General
Treasurer. the Speaker Of the House OF
Representatives, with nine-tenths OF all
the minor State officers. Newport wants
% sight now.
= An alarming occurrence happened
at Wesleyan chapel at Ditton. in Eng
land, one Sunday recently. which shows
the danger of allowing heating appa-
ratus to get out OF order. Shortly after
the commencement Of service. several
"a the.oongregation. mostly youths and
Idrsn, we're observed ~ cioee thefr