The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-18
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Ex-senator Buckalew, of Pennsylvania,
thinks that Mr.. Tilden will be renominated In
1880.
"A gold nugget Is said 10 have been taken
from the Moose river gold mines, Nova SEQ
tia, the other day, which weighed twenty
Two pounds and was worth $3.50.
Democrats In the Twenty third Judicial
District Of Michigan have just elected Jona-
than b. futile Circuit judge although the
district has hitherto been Republican.
The authorities Of Hamburg think cast
iron makes the best and most durable pave
ment. In some laid In 1874 no wearing OF the
tiles Is perceptible, and IL gives rise to little
dust or noise.
Twenty-Five families Of Russian settlers.
In all two hundred persons, arrived DIT Sutton.
Nebraska. on the ID. They were met at the
depot by their eountrymen, and all taken to
their new homes further north
In America we rate an ounce of gold as
worth sixteen ounces Of silver. France,
which is the head Of the Latin union, allows
only fifteen and half ounces OF silver to
equal lii value an ounce Of gold.
The future leader Of the the Home Rulers
III the British Parliament Is looked for in Mr.
Journalist and impassIoned speaker, who has
just been elected TO represent Dungarvari.
High play is on the increase In London
At ono of the principal sporting clubs II you
take q hand at whist YOU muet be prepared, II
you loose. to pay your half of G500. At ecdrte
TOO. the stakes are much heavier than they
have been of late years,
The Hartford Cousunt intimates that one
uf those mules has been heard from. 1t says
that Senator Barnum liz suing the receiver oi
the indianapolis und.) Sentinel Company fol
$4,000, advanced TO IL during the presidential
campaign.
A boy. while fishing in Lake Butts des
Morte Wis. the other day, felt a nibble, ant
drew in half-gallon fruit can. In 1t he found
n large catfish that had taken up his abode
and lived there until his increased dimensions
did not admit of egress.
West Virginia cities are having very
lively fight over the location of the State
capital, which seems to be kept on wheels
and held az ready as u steam tire-engint
for transfer ut any moment. Charles
town. Clarlssburg and Martinsburg are espe
cially Interested.
The Governor OF Erzeroum states that thu
Russians greatly Cypress the inhabitants O
the districts through which they pass, ant
treat women and children particularly with
much cruelty, Having learned that the Gov
crnor of GAIA was at kars, they pillaged the
houses in the place, stripped the women and
children of their ciething and drove then
naked into kars, -
The Cologne Gazette publishes extracts
from the diary of a woman in Constantnoplt
relative to affairs In that city. 1t is scarcely
possible, she says, TO conceive the distress
that prevails among the Mohammedan popu
lation, or the patriotism with which it is
borne. All the able-bodied men are sent ava,
10 serve as soldiers without pay, and the
wives have to support themselves and the
families on two piastres day, whicl
il the current rate of the wages O
women, while the price of bread i
now four piastres for three pounds. Man,
families used to live ON the dividends of Turk
ish stock. These families are entirely ruined
and others. though not absolutely destitute
have suffered immense losses. There are il
Constantinople $4,000 officials, most of ther
with families, and they have not received an
pay since the beginning of the war, not eve
paper money, on which there Is a loss c
eighty per cent.