The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-08
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In May 1877, ga77 immigrants arrived at
Castle Garden, against 10, 1t6 In May, 1876.
There are nearly 1000 convicts in the Ken
lucky State Prson-more than ever before.
The Iowa Greenbackers are to hold State
Convention in Des Mones on Wednesday,
July IL.
Mr., Monier Williams, Sancrit professor at
Oxford, considers that civilization has ex-
listed In India for 5000 years.
1t is said that Clerk Adams completed
roll of the new House of Representatives
shows Democratic majority of II.
Omaha will have TO build dyke to pre-
vent the Missouri from making a short cut
across point of land, which would leave the
city out in the cold
Presiding ut the dinner of the Licensed
Victuallers' Asylum the other evening, the
Prince of Wales said that he had received as
many rs two hundred petitions from tenn
perance societies begging him TO attend. The
Prince gave $500 Subscriptions of this kind
are heavy drain on his resources. He is ex-
pected TO give to everything.
Quite number of Frenchmen who went
to Manitoba from Nashua, N. H., some time
ago, have had quite enough of IL, and are
anxious TO return. but as the railroads. which
took them out for S13. charge $500 TO bring
them back, most of them have been effectually
exiled. Some, however, by dint of walking
two hundred miles and paying $50 after that,
have succeeded la getting back to Nashua.
Railroads have done wonders in India.
The garrison of Peshawar, 1900 miles from
Calcutta, can be relieved and strengthened
with greater certainty and speed than places
only n tenth of that distance 80 or 40 years
ago, and British rule is considered more Sc
cure with $4,000 European troops and the
railroad than with double that number before
II was made
"A substitute for gunpowder, invented in
England, is called powder paper" 1t is
paper impregnated with mixture of potassic
chlorate, nitrate, prussiate and chromate
powdered wood charcoal and little starch
1t leaves no greasy residue on the gun, pro-
duces less smoke and less recoil, and is less
impaired by humidity, and it is 5-16ths
stronger than gunpowder
the upper classes Of Strasburg didn't
smile ON the old Emperor William when he
visited them lately, but the rest were very
cordial. The cathedral was exquisitely
illuminated, and standing out amid the dark
ness, with black sky above, presented
splendid spectacle At Metz there was no
enthusiasm, but, though the Town Council
refused money for illumination, the cathedral
caught on fire, and Emperor, Crown Prince,
and Moltkc tried toput 1t out. The roof was
destroyed.
The election in Pennsylvania this year is
for Supreme Judge, State Treasurer and Aud
ditor General The Philadelphia Times says
of the prospect: There will be no local issues
to call out the vote of either party, and be-
You'd the political power that is presumed to
attach to the control of the treasury, there is
nothing immediately at stake that is likely
to summon the reserve resources Of the polit-
zeal leaders. Indeed, by some inexplicable
sort of general assent, the result for Novem-
Der has been discounted Oh the Republican
side, and those who have hitherto been ready
to sound the roll when the loss of the State
seemed possible, look on the present struggle
with the most sublime indifference, and
smile complacently as they tell how the DEM
ocrats are likely to sweep the State