The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-04-26
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There are already two or three claimants for
Tho lannnr of naming Eyarla for 1890.
The Denver Netrs wants Grant to head one
Presidential ticket In 1880 and Wade Hampton
the other.
The Ncelson Pavement Company made
s775. 900 out OF Philadelphia on contract Of
si,bco.ooo.
The Chicago Tribune proposes to call the
new party "rhs Liberal" All right produce the
party and Il shall be chrstened accordingly.
The city Of Paris owns seventy ak edihees
eonsecrated to religious services. Notre Dame
and the Pantheon are the property of the State.
A bill has passed the Common Council of
Nashville requiring all barber shops to be closed
on Sunday. This was done at the request Of the
BARRIERS themselves.
At the laat election in Utah Canyon, the
Mormon candidate for Congressional delegate.
received seven times as many votes "a Deekin,
anti.poygamist, but the gentle Gentle will never
thelese contest the seat.
There are at present in the German Reich
stag 1873 titled parsonages and 900 untitled.
Among the titled there ia prince of the blood. a
duke: there are ak other princes, thirty.three
counts, twenty mine barons, and sixty-eight gem
tlemen with the simple prefix "von."
Late returns from India show the number OF
people employed on famine relief works in the
Bombay Presidency to be 22s,sb5. The numbers
employed on famine relief works in Madras ag-
Igregate $4,000. II 10 estimated that upwards OF
1000 people have migrated to Bombay from the
famine districts.
The will OF Commodore Vanderbilt Is regis
tered for probate in Bennington, Vermont, in
consequence Of the mortgage on the Harlem Ex-
tension Railroad, which was owned by the Com
modore The Banner, Of Bennington, says that
the fees OH the will will more than pay the whole
expenses Of the court this year.
The bee pastures of California embrace q
very large area Of country, extending from South
Barbara, in a narrow belt to Lower California.
This land 10 very precpitous, and the bee keepers
are in no danger CT being encroached upon by
civilization for many yeara. San Diego county
alone shipped last year 100 tons OF pure honey.
South America is subject TO mysterious dis
in ocean freights. Freight from
England ia landed In Brazilian ports for from 40
to 25 shillings per ton, but Ia sent around TO
Callao and other west coast ports, 5000 miles
farther, fer IS shillings n ton. The difference in
the ability to get return freights does not seem
to explain this fully.
A large part OF the business Of some Of the
Western railroads this dull year has been the
trsnsportationof emigrants to Texas. The move
ment to this failure empire of the Lone Star ia
very great. Hundreds of families are going
down to occupy tho rich Ian ds and pastures of
the State This is better than going to Australia.
May the work prosper.
M. Blanc, the celebrated gambler Of Monte
Carlo, pays the Prince OF Monaco, who owns the
property which he employs, $4,000 per annum
and yet, in spite of the vast sums which he
spends in addition in improving the attractions of
100000. Much OF his income, however, he de-
all the industries Of the place.
The present French University is probably
to be divided soon into a number of local univer-
stiles. Eight places claim the right to having
branch. institution-Psrs, Nancy. Lyons, Bor-
deaux, Lille, Marseies, Montpelier and Tou-
louse.- The competition between the two last
named has been 80 sharp that 1t has been sug-
gested to divide between them the coveted boon.
More of the existing faculties, in q large number
Of provincial towns, will be suppressed, but they
viii become affiliated to the nearest university.
Each university will Be governed by special
senate orcoupoil az under the direction Of the
Minister q Public ntraftion. Fellowships will
be created by the government, and viii b dis
tributed according tomerit 1ftef examination.
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Theworst elements in the Republican
party are opposing Hayes Southern
policy in advance. OF its development.
This leads aus to suspect that the real
trouble u that Hayes civil policy, or, in
other words, his mode Of distributing
the patronage, does not suit them.
Il - CANNOT contrOIs the patronage. thew
M valuable tO themselves