The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-13
Commercial and Financial Matters.

Commercial and Financial Matters.
The steamship Alice cleared yesterday for
Liverpool with 2ta52 bushels OF corn In bulk
besides $500 bales of cotton.
The ship Normandy arrived here yesterday
from Liverpool with s412 sacks of salt. LII the
duty was removed no ship would come 70 tnls
port In ballast. but fully ladened with salt.
Horsehesh eating. far from declining, has so
Increased In Paris that last year 1o,f69 horses.
asses and mules were cut up for food. In the
rapital there are upward OF sixty horsemeat
sbors besides many In provincial French cities.
A eomparison of the TO- 6e equine animals eaten
In 1877 with the 21s2 of 1907 illustrates the steady
progress of hippophagy. st. Hilaire and his
friends would no longer have to give horse
flesh banuuets for the sake Of introducing this
food: many people now are glad enough to
eatit, -
Mr.. A. A. Low read, in the New York Cham
her of Commerce, on the eighth instant. letter
relative to the almost unprecedented famine In
China. In which the writer calls attention to the
fact that after an adjustment OF United States
claims against the Flowery Kingdom some
years ago. there was surplus Of $4,000 which
the United States offered to restore to China.
that the money has been lying in the United
States Treasury and acoruing interest ever
since Mr.. Low asks Congress to apply this
s1boooo and interest toward the relief of the
famine stricken Chinese.
The Cuban insurrectton touches not only the
pride but the pocket of the Spanish planters
and the government. 1t is computed that the
sugar yield of the island will show diminu
a. e
plantations abandoned or burned. The tobacco
crop will be short. for the same reason. and en-
tail heavy deficit In the revenues of the tax
swamped and bankrupt Pearl of the Antilles. :"
But as 1t is an i'll wind that blows good to no
body the news will be of decided interest to
cultivators OF caae and tobacco In our own
Southern States.
Congress may find it an ipiudicious move to
make the sweeping reductions In the salaries of
foreign ministers now oontem plated. The
highest amounts proposed TO be paid .Dder the
new consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill Ia s15 600 and this amount is limited to the
governments representatives at the courts Of
st. James France, Germany and Russia. Tho
eonsulates to Spain Austria Italy. Brazil. Mex
loo. Japan and China each receive $4,000 After
this the amounts are graded some being ms low
as $780, The salaries now paid are lower than
those OF any respectable power. and. as a
rule. it costs a representative of the United
States at either of the four principal courts
twice as much as his salary.
The Cincinnati Price Current mentions as
peculiar fact. and one that we have never heard
accounted for that fires will sometimes start in
particular kind Of property and prevail cpl
demieally throughout the country. year or
two ago the frequency of fires In paper mills
became alarming. For a time it was difficult
TO get insurance on them. Then the run
was on shoe factories. but that was neither
severe nor long continued. Last summer
and fall barns were burning everywhere,
and the losses were numerous. Now it Is
among the retail liquor shops in cities. towns
and villages. Some certain disease will assume
an epidemic form and attack all that are
able TO resist IL. 1t will then give way to an
other. Thus measles will follow scarlet fever.
or rice versa. and go on. When fire has de-
stroyed all of any one kind of property that
can not resist 1t. It attacks another. and thus
goes on. The fact is a singular one, and it is
the result, no doubt. of some fixed natural law.
Where s the Newton to discover that aw2