The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-31
N lnercial and Financial Matters.
The customs Offices at this port will be
adued tomorrow, New Years day.

I'D m0Tcl0l anu Z InunOeaA MatC0Ibs
The customs Offices at this port will be
ided tomorrow, New Years day.
From the first u November to the twenty
d4th Of December there were 1880 600 hogs
p4eted in the six great Western cities, against
1,N6, 900 in 1877.
y Is said that orders upon the United
Bt1tes treasury. at Washington, for the new
'1ilver dollars are Increasing daily. They
Indw average about $780, 900 day.
q II nine years insurance companies have
~ losses In st. Louis to the amount OF
16s18, $50, and It is estimated that for the year
5078 the loss will not be less than 100000
vNts - :.
. ut Ia now believed In Washington that all
Lfhe appropriate bills will have passed the
SUnited States House OF Representatives ana
ZONE TO the Senate by February 20 at the
nrthest.
Philadelphia comedies that she has not
vrown much this year. During 1878. 1881
.buildlngs have been erected In that city--a
1afling of Of 1884 from 1877. There were 1893
two-story dwellings, 1067 three-story and
10 Of four stories.
extreme inclemencv OF the weather
yesterday, together with the near approach
Ia the end Of the year, caused business to be
1Almost entirely stagnant. After the first OF
january we fondly hope and expect to see
trade, ia all departments, active and boom
S1ng."
The st. Louis papers are jublant over the
remarkable increase in the whisky trade 81
thAt city during the last two years. Accord
ling to the returns made to the internal reve-
)nue collectors Office, the amount OF whisky
FnCtually gtiaged In st. Louis In 1876 was y
l,571 gallons, and In 1878, II, SGT ,0H gallons,
1showing an increase Of nearly 50 per cent.
The debt OF Tennessee is at present
as 100000 and bears 80 heavily on taxpayers
that actual Reputation has been suggested as
possible. It Is said that the Governor, when
| the Legislature meets, will recommend that
the debt be scaled at sixty cents on the dollar
with per cent interest, or forty cents on the
dollar at per cent, which will probably be
accepted by the Legislature and the bond
holders.
The official report OF the business OF the
New York canals for 1878 shows the total
tonnage carried during The year to have been
6i70. s22-an increase Of $4,000 over last year
rsche total amount OF tolls collected was $685.
>nl2-an increase OF $112,447 over last year.
HE most important freights carried were:
lumber. 1.179,si9 tons; wheat, 841, 573 tons /;
orn. 1874, 994 tons; coal, 6s1, 400 tons; stone.
Ime and clay. ,675 tons; iron ore, 2lO,O66
tDns salt, 1874
4 State Consols yesterday closed dull at 67a4,
AGAINST 691s069A on Saturday. Premium
bonds opened at 261s, but, under the influence
u the decision OF the Supreme Court In the
matter Of the Consolidated Bonds published
{ Il another part Of this paper, they went up
70 80. closing at 291.029s4, against 251s 026M
on Saturday. The sales ut the Stock Ex-
change footed up 100000 Of State Consols and
1885, 900 OF Premium Bonds. At the IL O'Clock
call $1,000 Of City (Crossman) Consolidated
Bonds sold at So; at 8 80 o'clock call $4,000 OF
enc same bonds sold down as low az 81.
s During eleven months Of the present year
ire receipts Of grain at the Atlantic ports
have been 235071,6 18 bushels, which Is more
chan 80 per cent greater than those OF any
previous year, the largest previous receipts
: Tor any one year being 154,9330li In 1876. The
! great bulk OF this grain was shipped from the
west and It is to retain this vast trade that
New York money is used to prevent the sue
cess of the efforts being made to send West
ern grain to Europe by the way OF New Or
leans and the ietties.
The Paris Debats says the produce OF the
-s-airect taxes In France for November Is very
satisfactory. It presents an excess OF $685.
DOOR. on the estimates, 367 0OOf. OF this sum be-
inr under registration duties and stamps,
ASST lOOOf under customs, and 2,482,0 00f. under
other rubrics. This excess OF produce over
the estimates added to that OF the first ten
months raises the total excess for the past
eleven months to 61,750,00of. The Debats
thinks there can be no doubt that the current
year, like the preceding ones since 1875, will
wind up with surplus, Notwithstanding the
considerable amount Of the supplementary
credits.
According to the Galveston News, Texas
had In January Of the present year 1914, 700
sheep, ranking as the third wool-producing
So in the Union, although having only
abS6t 100 900 head less than Ohio, and about
half the number Of California Nueces coun-
ty alone has 656,OOO sheep; and here the re-
markable fact is presented that the most
southerly county OF the United States Is the
banner sheep county Of the Union. The adj
1oining county, Starr, has $4,000 sheep, and
these two counties have more sheep than
Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Louisi-
ana together--more than the conjoined States
OF New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts
and Rhode Island.
The number Of paper mills In the United
States In 1878 was s12; in 1877 the number
had increased to 934, and In 1878 to 94S. Fol
the year ending June 80, 1869, the imports OF
.rd cAa%iororv into tho TTnfted States