The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-14
numerical and Financial Matters.

numerical ana Fl1lanclal MattfFs'
no elevated railways in New York having
used some oH the street car companies to
reduce their fares to three cents, some Of The
Philadelphia people are crying for an elevated
railway also.
Tho Manchester Guardian publishes statiE-
tics showing that about 80 per cent OF the
looms and epindles in the Lancashire anu
Cheshire cotton districts have stopped or hre
working Oh short time.
The State debit of Illinois now amounts to
but S725.000 OF this sum S225,ooo is TO be
paid on the first Of the year, The remainder
of the debt will be pnid during the next two
years Twenty years ago the state had
debt Of about twelve millions
There ,yas n slight Improvement in State
Oonsols Yesterday md they closed steady at
775s007p against 77taG1775s on Tuesday. Pre-
MUM Bonds were firm ut 3o1S0l3OH, against
gD01goll on the previous day. At the Ex-
change the sales amounted to only $4,000 Of
State Consols.
The steamboat Grand Lake. with bnrges,
from St. Louis. will arrive here to-day with
large cargo Of Western produce, consisting, in
part Of $4,000 bushels Of bulk corn, 5000
bushels Of bulk wheat. 54l3 barrels flour. 20N
sacks oats 100 sacks of bran and 1880 bales
Of hay.
The San Francisco Call says Of the wheat
crop in that State that it is enormous. AL
lowing t0,000DO0 bushels for seed and home
consumption, the table shows q surplus Of
neatly 100000 tons. This may be In excess
of the ultimate yield, but careful analysis
of the statement warrants the expectation Of
at least 75o, 900 tons surplus. even should the
yield In the worst counties fall to bottom es-
Inmates
Yesterday the steamboats, Belle and Whis-
per arrived here, the former having. as part
of her cargo, tG7 barrels Of sugar. md the lat
Ter tGS barrels Of the same product. These
shipments come from the plantation of Mr. J.
W. Gotbery, near Bonnet Carre. and were
consigned to Mr., l.. T. Stockmnynr, of this
city. We understand that Mr. Gndbery in
tends to put III this season all of his sugar in
barrels. as an eEperiment-the first, we be-
iieve ever made in Louisiana.
This question Is thus answered BY the But
ter. Cheese and Egg Reporter: Nominaily an
American car load is 1000 pounds. 1t Is also
200 barrels Of salt, 7G Of lime. 90 Of flour, 70 Of
whisky. 200 sacks Of nour. 6 cords of soft
wood, Is or 20 head of cattle, 80 or 60 head Of
hogs, 80 to 100 head Of sheep GOOO feet Of solid
boards. $40 bushels Of wheat 400 Of corn, $50
OF oats. 400 of barley. 3G0 of flnxseed, 3G0 Of
apples. 43o OF Irish potatoes, 800 Of sweet DO
tatoes. 1000 bushels Of bran, 1870 to 100 barrels
OF eggs and $4,000 to 10000 pounds Of butter.
The Supreme Court Of the District Of Co
lumbia has decided that newspaper is not
manufacturer or tradesman in the meaning
Of the bankrupt net, and Is, therefore. not
subject to the bankrupt law. and not capable
OF being declared a bankrupt. A newspaper
publisher, said the court Is no more manu-
faoturer or q tralesman in the eyes of the law
than Is on artist. and newspaper Is no more
an article of manufacture or trade than d
painting. No deiipitIorl Of the words manu-
facturer or tradesman has ever included The
publisher Of newspaper, and the common
understanding excludes him.
The recent robbery Of the Manhattan Say |
ings Bank in New York has led to an inveGti- |
cation Of the condition In safety Of banks In
other large cities It is shown by experience
that banks, to secure the greatest possible
safety, should be located in buildings where
there are no other tenants, and which arc
protected by impregnable iron and stone
walls. This robbery will also be a lesson to
other banks to teach them that 1t should re-
tIure the knowledge OF at least two persons
to open the combination locks. A suspicion
has been given out that some Of the bank
officials had something to do with this rob
berry, but there seems to be no cause for such
d belief Tho IooseneEs Of tho management |
certainly gave opportunity for easy work for |
tho robbers, and they had an easy job Of It.
Tho Board Of Managers Of the Now York |
Cotton Exchange on the ninth instant adopted
al amendment to tho bylaws by striking out |
the sixth paragraph. which roads as fol |
lows:
The samples Of the first bale shall be drawn !
before weighing and returned to tho same
bale after weighing. and In this order the
whole lot shall bo weighed and sampled.
For this paragraph was substituted the
following:
Cotton shall be weighed before being sam
nled, and all loose cotton aud top samples
made or taken from bales in the process OF
baling shall be the property Of the buyer. and
In lieu Of the set Of samples received by the
seller For the purposes Of comparison and
arbitration he shall. upon his bill to the
buyer, make an allowance Of six ounces for
each and every sample SO received by him.
The freight charges on grain from Califor-
nia to England are lower this season than
they have ever been before. This is due, not
TO the absence of wheat to be shipped, for the
surplus crop is this year enormous, but to
the want Of n competitive market for ships
which havo in consequences of tho known de-
mand al San Francisco flocl&ed to that port
In great numbers. Last year ship-owners
complained of the unsatisfactory state OF
their h,1siness which comDelInd them to aC-