The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-17
DAILY DEMOCRAT.
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Turtle eggs are retailed in Wilmington,
N. O., at ten cents dozen.
.-seventy-six thousand ordinary and two
hundred and forty-nino political offenders are
undergoing penal servitude In western
Siberia
Quebec has offered $4,000 In ten annual
installments TO the first beet sugar factory
that may be established there, In accordance
with published regulations.
George Bell, Of Camden. picked up roll
III bills amounting TO $780, and, instead OF ad-
vcrtising for tho owner, spent the money.
The owner prosecuted him, and he was sent
to iail for nine months.
French papers remark the fact that at the
banquet lately given 10 German Grown
Prince at Hamburg the menu was written In
French OF the fourteen different sorts OF
wina drank ten were French.
--Greenbacks are the favorite currency in
tho Black Hills. They are worth stt more on
the hundred than gold dust. Building lots
that sold for $500 last fall are now In active
demand at $500
"A Washington telegram reports that
President Hayes has requested the naval
officer at Baltimore TO appoint as his chief
deputy the son Of an eK-rebel, Aat whose house
Tho President was cared for when wounded ut
the battle of South Mountain.
Prince Bismarck is taking the water at
Kissngen. On his arrival he published
card to the bathers, begging them not TO con-
gregate for the purpose Of staring ut him,
and not to recognize or bow to him In public
II they did. he would be obliged TO ignore
their salutations and be condemned as an Ill
hammered man, or he would at every instant
be compelled TO take of his hat, catch cold'
and loose all benefit of the water.
In 1890 the range Of the American bison
extended across the whole width of the United
States territory into the British possessions
on the north and tho Mexican Republic on the
south. To the east 1t reached nearly 10 tlle
line Of the Mississippi Valley. to the west to
the great mountain chains. Now the last
!. refugees Of the animal are limited TO couple
of comparatively small circles One OF these
lies fat To the north, and Is distributed be-
tween the territories of Montana and Dakota
the other far to tho south, on the borders OF
New Mexico and Texas.
- A good many people are puzzled when
asked the reason why the. Presidents resi-
dence at Washington Is called the white
House, The origin of the name Is as follows.
When the British, In 1914. took Washington,
they destroyed the public buildings, fnclud-
ing the Presidents mansion, which, like the
Capitol; was built Of grayish sandstone The
burning OF the woodwork smoked and discol-
ored the stone walls, the natural appearance
OF which could not be restored. Uniformity
was secured by heapplication Of white paint.
The changed appearance from gray TO white
attracted attention, and gave II the appella-
tion of the White House," which 1t has
since borne
Scientific opinion in France is by no means
unanimous as to the desirability Of creating
an inland sea In Algeria M Naudin read
paper on tho subject at the last meeting OF
the Academy Of Sciences, in which he said It's
sanitary effects would be deplorable. He as
serts that to fill the basin with salt water
would be equivalent TO reproducing In Algeria
All the worst features Of the Pontine marshes.
Can't. Roudaire admits that even in the centre
there would not be more than eighty feet Of
water. and the whole coast line would hayeso
little water that il would be little better than
a sand bank, with an admixture of salt and
fresh water, upon which the strong solar
light and tropical heat would act In the most
dcetorious manner for two-thirds of the year,
causing rapid decomposition Of organic mat
ter and spreading contagion for miles in
every direction.
In tho Court OF Common Pleas, Dublin,
butcher named Knowles sued Mrs. Caroline
verschoyle, now Mulligan, for breach OF
promise of marriage They met on steamer
bound from Liverpool TO Dublin. She was
the mistress of fine residence Roebuck
Hall-and tho mother Of three children. The
plaintiff was a widower with one child.
Soon after their first meeting they be-
came engaged 10 be married. As they
were of different religions there was
difficulty about their being married In
Dublin, and they went to Liverpool, where
they had to remain fourteen days before the
Registrar would marry them, the expense Of
their stay, $3.50, being paid by Mr.. Knowles.
In the meantime the lady's friends induced
he to break off tho match and to return to
Dublin, where she subsequently married a
dealer in periodicals. After twenty minutes
deliberation the jury gave the plaintiff $1,000.
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MExICO's CONDITION.