The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-05
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Providence, r. J., has over 300 stores am
1900 tenemonts vacant.
The City of Providence Ia 10 have Bhov
Of dogs next week. from June too.
The City Of Boston has hired ~ halls 70
children's entertainments on the 4th of July
Georgia reports rattiesnake, killed Il
Dade county, nine feet long and having D
,attles.
Nashville, Tenn according 10 recen
census has 1903 white and g5s2 coloret
citizens.
by new law In Indiana marriages be
tween persons nearer OF kin than second
cousins are forbidden
A rose bush Ia 10 be planted upon The
grave of every soldier In Monument Cemetery
Philadelphia
The new town hall which DIR. j. G. Aver
gave 10 the town Of Aver, 10 pay for The name
has been pronounced unsafe.
"A lot and buildings on tho corner of Aston
Place and Broadway, New York, which -four
years ago would have sold for 100000, re-
Gently for $4,000. Es...
IAN Associate Justice of tho Supreme
Court of the United States gets $4,000 year
A Judge of the Common Pleas, OF New York,
gets $4,000. .s.ss
There are no less than 100000 pear trees
of Bartlett, Duchess Sheldon and Vicar Of
Wakefield varieties now III vigorous growth
around about Hammonton, M. j.
Nine servants Of the Marquis de Saint
Maurice, in France, have been conveyed to a
hospital In a dying state. caused by too free
tad, Ia .xft
ready died.
Some amiable individuals IN England
have subscribed for The shipment of 1000
plum puddings to the nearest attainable Sec
ton of the Turkish army. The buildings
were sent in Theoretically sealed can.
Two Republican New York Legislatures
have had sessions since the State census of
1875, and each has neglected 10 reapportion
the State as directed by the constitution. Not
all the law-breaking is in the South.
A sergeant Of artillery at Fort Hamilton
died in commissions the other day. He was
In the habit OF drinking vinegar bitters, which
gave him a raveuous appetite requiring a
great deal OF food TO satisfy. Sixteen empty
bottles that had contained vinegar bittcrs
We're found in his quarters.
~ fANhNh ses1ottStdit, MI. DtlttAApit.
rlves at the curious result that Germany re-
mains stationary in wealth because it in
creases too rapidly in population, the annual
birth-rate being 40 per 1000 inhabitants.
France he says, grows rich because its popu-
lation remains stationary, the annual birth
rate being only 26 per 1000 inhabitants.
The chief engineer Of the government
railways in Australia recently reported that
the locomotives made In Australia were not
only poor ones, but an injury to tho roads.
He recommended that hereafter oil engines
be bought in the United States. He is right.
The American invention runs smoother, pulls
stronger lasts longer, and costs less to run
than any in the world
In Russia there is no such thing as civil
list properly so called, the Gar being sup
money raised for statepurposes in his denim
ions. As far as can be made out, he does ac-
tually dispose of something like 60, o0O, 900 for
the maintenance of his own imperial state
and dignity, The German Emperor has not
much less than ea.5Ooo00 at his disposal His
brother of Austria has a more modest but
nevertheless fairly substantial civil list OF
g935, 900 per annum. England's royal family
costs between e65o,0 and G700. 900, including
the revenues drawn by the Queen and the
Prince of Wales from the Duchies of Lancas-
ter and Cornwall respectively. The King of
Italy receives e57o, 600 a year.
The Hindoo pariahs throughout British
India continue to endure the contempt which,
for ages, the other castles have thrown upon
them, but in the French territory of Pondi-
cherry they have united, five thousand in
number, in an address to the government, de-
manding the same rights as the brahmins
we drag after us" they say. ''the heavy
chain. not only of bodily slavery, but of moral
slavery. We are regarded as impure beings,
not only essentially unelean in our natures,
but as cursed by contaminating power
which communicates itself by touch to any
one encountered" The petition concludes by
that the children of pariahs shall
he admitted into the College of Calvi-Soup-
on equal terms with the sons OF
or that an especial college shall
he founded for them, where the instruction
shall be the same
puv only the Singer; they were the first to re-
A~~s rral or