The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-07

waited them more carefully. 1t would have
paid much better.
The clearinghouse returns OF seventeen
leading cities of the United States for two
weeks ending July 49, show loss as compared
with the corresponding weeks last year OF 81
per cent Out Of these seventeen cities fifteen
show loss from 1.3 to 30.1 per cent, while
New Orleans shows an increase Of Al per cent
and Milwaukee of 1911 per cent.
In the United States, in the month Of June
1878 there were q total Of AS accidents, where
by IL persons were killed and SO Injured
Eight accidents caused the death OF one or
more persons; 10 caused injury but not death,
while In SO, or 67.9 per cent, OF the whole num-
Der, there was no injury serious enough to be
recorded, AS compared with June, 1857, there
WAS an increase Of seven In the number OF &C.
cidents, O. decrease Of 4 In the number killed,
and decrease of 81 In the injured.
In the suit of Jacob against the First Ma
4ional Bank Of Cincinnati, recently tried in
ahe Superior Court Of Cincinnati, the court
decided that where bank receives on de-
nosit. as cash, drafts Of q depositOr, the bank
i'd bound to pay checks drawn against the
funds after q default in the payment Of the
drafts. The implied condition is that the
drafts are to be paid, and when the condition
is broken the bank has a right to Withdraw
itsicredit and this right Is superior to that OF
theidepositor to check against the credit
fund. ,|-1L. 49, - - 3D.
In various cities OF Georgia action has been
taken to- receive the Mexican dollar at only s.
cents. Yet al old law has been found, which
hDg never been repealed, and which makes
them legal tender for 100 cents on the dollar.
tits as follows .gThe, following silver coin
shall; be of legal value, and shall pass current
aarooney in the United States, by tale, for
tha paytnent Of all debts and demands Of the
rate Of one hundred cents The dollar, that
lis to say the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chill
and Central America Of not less weight than
AIS grains each, and those re-stamped in Bra
zil of the like weight OF not less than 10 ounces
rs pennyweights Of pure silver, in the Troy
mound of - ounces Of standard silver
The British Consul at Havrc writes: France
7s snguIarly free from the e1lgeHcles or trade
unions and the pernicious effects OF strikes.
THE great mass Of French workingmen, out
side of a class of cafe politicians in Paris, keep
no matter what their political opinions may
he. their attention fixed on the one main
sshance-that Of earning money. Their amuse-
ments are more simple, their habits and mode
of living less costly, and they are more say
ing than the British workmen. Nor are their
T,owers Of labor much inferior In anything
recurring muscular effort they cannot COM
pete with the Englshman; but in the man
agement OF machinery they are quite IL not
1.ore effective; for, while both intelligent and
neat In his work, the iron and cotton factory
hand will attend to two machines where the
Englishman, hampered by the rules of his
union, will refuse to look after more than one.
The Cincinnati Gazette describes q plan in
lse in that city for consuming the smoke of
furnace Of steam boilers. There are it says,
two fires, one under each end of the boiler, fed
fronnthe side. When one fire is fairly burn
ing the second fire is kindled, and by shifting
the draft the smoke from the new fire is car
ried over the live Goals in the furnaces first
started, and is consumed. The fires thereafter
are replenished alternately, and thus the con-
sumption of smoke is continued. The device
Is Id operation on q large scale In the steam
furnace Of heavy engine attached to one OF
the inelined-plane railways that lift Cincin-
natl people to the tops Of the surrounding
hills. The result, as vouched for by the pro-
prietor of the concern, is that the consump-
ton of smoke is complete, and the saving of
fuel about forty per cent.
s'The inventive genius Of some mechanical
person" says the st. Louis Journal Of Com
nnerce, 'mightw with advantage be turned to the
making OF a railroad passenger car-seat which
would be more comfortable than those now in
alse. For short ride the ordinary passenger
car is perhaps satisfactory, but for journey
of whole day the seats are not only unpleas-
ant, but absolutely wearisome. But one po-
sition can be taken in a seat that is at all COM
Portable, and after an hour or so that grows
tiresome, and 8 comfortable position seems
impossible There are a large majority of the
daily passengers who cannot afford to pay
A Tor parlor car seats, and yet they deserve easy
and comfortable seats. The introduction of
chair cars on few of the Western roads is a
step in the right direction, and it is to be
hoped that the managers of other lines will
put them into use.''
Al correspondent writing from Paris says:
ssThe French are SLOW; they are slow without
malice or aforethought, but that does not al
1er the fact, Commissioner Mccormack has