The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-15
Commercial and Financial Matters.

Commercial and Financial Matters.
The uniform telegraphio rate between France |
and Germany IL now four cents word.
The British steamship Telesla cleared yes |
terday for Dunklrk Franee) with $4,000 bushels |
OF corn in bulk.
Railway travelling Ia safer In France than in |
Belgium or England there being not more than |
one death to forty Ave millions OF travellers.
In Berlin from II 900 to $4,000 apartments are |
to let, It ia said At all events, great many
people have had to Quit the capital Tor cheaper
quarters. ....a
There are now s5l manufacturing estapilsn-
ments In San Francisco, whose aggregate pro-
ducts amount to sg2,93s.ooo They employ over
2a.ooO persons. | |
The hriesuiine Watch. from Rio do Janeiro. |
has arrived with 1906 bags of coffee. We learn
That there are three sailing vessels and one
steamship on the way here from the same port.
The ateamship City Of Mexico cleared yester-
dav for Vera Cruz with sis bales OF cotton. and
with but tierces OF hams and - barrels OF po-
tatoes Of the produce OF this country. Queries
and comments are unnecessary.
Chicago authority states the Following as the
supply of wheat and corn In this country ana
Canada on January g, 1879 Toai bushels wheat,
e.e9o p42; previous week t0,3t8 i4s Total bushels
corn b.s4a, 0e3: previous week. E,sGl .T5o.
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Tho Anglo American Times says that the con-
sumption OF corn already large In Europe.
will new rapidly increase, since 1t Ia possible 10
chip from 81. Louis by river through the letties.
mt rates which wi give fair profit to the farm
or. and still leave the price in Europe much
below any oiher article Of tho same foodvalue
for man and beast 'ts Fl saE ia Is a
rsha deureaston In business in New York In
atrikipRly illustrated In the returns OF the
building trade In 1871 there were plans SUB
mitted 10 the authorities for asia new buildings
and for altering 1879 old ones-the former TO
cost s97 ,5so.oao and the latter st,sbbe in 1877
the plans submitted for new buildings were
only l432 and Tor alterations iaos--the former to
cost sl3,34p 600 and the latter s3,2iS,i25.
A abatement Of last yenrs business In the
Monongahela river, above P,ttsburg. shows as
follows: Goal and doke-s hipnents. 77.7o2 200
bushels: coke e,77B,l1s bushels. increase over
last year. IL ppa cts bushels. tolls. 300 o. o.
which si41 25l 60 was from coal, si.051 Al from
aoks s7a 400 10 from freight and boats. ss.2a5 81
from passengers, increase over last year. slb.-
ATS A. the increase on coal and coke being slo.-
74s W. .# ........-s.... tes &rt4I H+#
Some days ago we announced the reaignation
of our old friend Capt Coorer IA inspector Of
hulls Capt, H. s. Robertson has been appointed
to that position by the Board Of Underwriters
and nm excellent appointment 1t Ia. Capt
"Diclsi In thoroughly versed In oil the require
ments of the OIL %. and wa confidently predict
that he will prove n worthy successor to the vet
eran Cooper, who has 90 ably and satisfactorily
flied tho position for the last quarter of a
century. - -g
The st. Louis Republican. Of the 18th inst :.
SAYS: The "siver food" which the bankers
and moneyod men OF New York apprehend M
the result OF the passage Of the Bland bill. will
probably never take place. Tho notion that the
passage OF the bill ia going TO make silver
abundant and cheap is absurd. Our product Of
silver IL less than Of gold. and with the minis
running up to their ordinary capacity. not
more than s5o.oooooo would be coined. This
would not make a flood
The chief prelates Of the Church Of England
are well pnid, bus ii seems. from reports. they
do not realize in the end u large living from
receives $4,000 u year: York. 500 600; Durham
$4,000; Winchester. sos 600; the others between
1000 and SAC 600: but the claims upon them are
onerous, tho bishop being expected to head
every charitable undertaking in his diocese.
and to be-and, to do them justice. nearly all
are-"given to hospitality" There is very little
prelatical pomp in England nowadays.
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Philadelphia Quaker has been interviewed
l&s.a n,Eh hn tail u1utnr
about the prosperity Of tho City of Brotherly
Love. He says: Men Justly esteemed worth
s2ooo0op four years ago are now negotiating
mortgages on their family residences. Not
moro than rs per cont of the people IL forced to
settlement to-day. would be solvent This
fatty con,radicts tho Philadelphia papers.
which have been tiattering their city readers
with the assurance that while real estate In
ether cities had greatly deprecated in their
ease the prestige Of The exhibition had kept It
from shrinking.
We have had much to say concerning the ra-
moval OF the duty upon imported salt. and have
set forth the great advantages that would inevl-
tably accrue to the city and to the country west
of the Mississippi by such action on the part OF
our atona government We do not propose
to enlarge upon this subject at this time only
to state the fact that the largest salt establish
ment Of the kind in the United States. whose
offices are Mt Pittsburg and Philadelphia. have
forwarded memorial to Congress-, which will
be presented in the House by Representative
Bayne urging that no change be made In the
tariff relating to soda and alum. The company
makes the plea that the business of manufac-
turing salt Is in its infancy in this country. but
IL developing into an extensive business, and
ought not to be retarded by any legislation.
A committee OF gentlemen have waited upon