The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-20
imercial and Financial Matters.

lmerCtaI and Financial Matters.
he steamship vnndyck arrived here yes
lay from Rio de Janeiro with 1904 bags OF
lee.
10 Steamship Tweed cleared yesterday for
. f5re with "a, 22j bushels Of wheat In bulk,
1000 sacks OF the same commodity.
lough gold continued throughout yester
to rule In New York ut par, IL Is still
ted here in New Orleans at par@l00'4.
1 American egg preserving company has
established Mt Shanghai for some time.
object is TO preserve eggs in such man
that they Will be useful for cooking at any
and In any climate. Tho business IS on
d y export, chiefly to England.
lring 1877. III German vessels were
,ked. and with them persisted vs. men be-
ring 10 their crews and seven passengers
VI loss Of life was, however, prOportionately
5slll tho total number " persons on board
he, lost vessels having been over 1900.
n q noticeable feature In our trade yestrr-
was the activity In tho -FOUR market.
Is sales amounted to 1879 bills, OF which
II bbls. were taken for export and 1893 bills,
he local trade On the previous day tho
for foreign account footed up 400 bills.
ding tho total sales for export during the
days to aggregate $4,000 bbls.
,e New York Evening Post declares that
bakers of that city have too high regard
the health Of their patrons to adulterate
fr bread with alum. Thisis woll-mertnd
b,1te to the bakers Of New York, who with
ian assurance of sufficient compensating
tlnary result to sanction It. would scorn
Iii6 with the health Of their patrons In
y such way.
Late Consols were stcadier and an i'm
| red demand was developed during The
They opened ut $685., and after
10 fluctuations closed steady at 7oM7H}a
inst co. 1885, on Wednesday Premium
Ids were steady, though offerings and do
ndlwere light They opened Mt ~ a125' :
closed Mt 25U25'a, against Fad6251s or
previous day. Sales yesterday Mt th'
elk Exchange footed up 100000 of STATE
soils. and $500 Of Premium Bonds.
he consumption OF GOllee IL on mo III
ase. both In this country and I'm Europe
/, total distribution for the first nine months
1873 being % ,o8l tons in excess Of that fo'
same period in 1877. In the United States
q consumption for the eleven months o
~ reaches 1865 tons. against 1929 tons
1877, and los, s73 tons in 1876 Tho distriiu
IN In November was tho largest recorded
Tim Gny, ton,
r, when IL reached 1886 tons, as agnins
147 tons last month, OF which $50 tons wcr
ported, leaving consumption for TIM
onth of 1866 tons. against nm average
onthly consumption for three years OF ~,
IN tons. Notwithstanding these encoursg
!, figures tho market has been q declining
0.
ror the past ten years the dog has been nj
ne before the Georgia Legislature. tn
,ep owners making vigorous effort =
n out the ours and protect their flocks b.
King the canine. Two years ago dog tn
ssed the House. but was killed In tho Son
on constitutional grounds. The constitu
tnal convention which met last year re-
owed that objection. and there Is goo'
t,s ,ect that the present session Of the Lrgia
tn o will add 100000 to the State revenu
saxing male dogs twenty-five cents am
males twice as much. Every man VIII
lis to return his dog for taxation, ACCORDING
the provisions OF tho bill, is liable to 8
10 or ten days In the chain gang and tn
ate will pay fifty cents for the scalp {
cry such cur.
/ Ia stated In the New York papers tina
ere appears to be q disposition on tho pai
foreign bankers to do MI they consistent
J 1 TO aid resumption. There arc some exccI
! ms but these arc few and have compare
'vely little influence. A transaction by on
L the largest OF the Canadian banks dom
.lsiness In New York illustrates this dispos
on to intarposo no obstacle to resumption
hey had q large amount Of gold falling du
n the thirty first Of this month. few day
.go they arranged with one party, from whor
about half Of this was coming, 10 close gu
the contract at 1907 !, which was below tn
market price on the day the agreement wa
made. On tho thirty-trst the contract will b
ettled simply by the exchange OF checks, an
the bank will doubtless pursue eimiln
course with all their gold balances maturing
on that day.
The aggregate receipts of ilous and grain q
he seaboard ports OF New York, Bosto1
Portland, Montreal, Philadelphia, Baltinoi
and New Orleans during the eleven month
ending November &c. 1873, were rs follows
Flour sS5e,dl3 barrels, wheat l.T9O3
bushels, corn 90. 404 ,0t3 bushels oats 23,0l1.2.
bushels, barley 5.9l4 $50 bushels, ryci %" n
bushels. As compared with the correspond
ing periods Of 1877. 1876 and 1879 the figure
given above represent gain. during TIL
year. OF more than leo per cent in the receipt
Of wheat, and an increase Of about 10 per cen
In tho average receipts OF corn the wheat r.
eipts of 1877 being i2,9ll, S52 bushels, OF ISL
20. 45s,a23 bushels, and of 1878 527o5, T.
bushels: and the corn receipts Of lS77 bein'