The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
CURRENT MATTERS.

40, 1910.
81 CURRENT MATTERS.
North Carolina has 2st turpentine dstil
, leries.
The local indebtedness Of Illinois amounts
to ISL, 942.691.
, The day schools Of San Francisco employ
eighty-fcur teachers.
The personal property Of Red Wing, MINI.
as assessed, Is $3,279343
Two Mormon preachers have raised quite
an excitemnt at Webster, Neb.
Atlanta, Ca, has this year appropriated
over $4,000 to her 1870 miles OF streets.
Wade Hampton received eleven wounds
during the war. one OF them sabre thrust.
California has eight national banks reprei
senting about $5,0O0,000 capital and surplus
The estate OF the late Matthew Baird, oil
Philadelphia, has been appraised at So, 1896, 474
Mrs. +. w. Lander has bought coy resi-
dence in Washington and will reside there
| hereafter.
Figaro says M. Hayes, President OF Amer
lea, has forbidden the sale Of wines at public
banquets.
| The Chicago sub-treasury on Monday last
disbursed $4,000 In currency, $1,000 In silver
and $4,000 In gold.
/ It is said Of two negresses who died In Bal
| timore last week that one was 101 years old
and the other 103.
| Ship-building in Maine this year has been
only about 50 per cent OF the average Of the
previous three years.
The Governor OF Virginia pardoned two
convicts for gallantry in lighting the recent
| fire In the penitentiary.
There are about 1400 Indians atBerthold,
Dakota, and they occupy snug quarters
erected by themselves.
| The Minnesota Legislature will convene at
| st. Paul, January 7, aud the Wisconsin Legis-
lature at Madison, January8.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, OF Roanoke county,
| Va, died December at the age OF 103 years,
Ii the local chronicler Is correct.
California has this year produced enough
to support 10000, 900 Of people for year. Her
soil rivals her mines in richness.
| 1t takes six hours to read Mr.. Tennyson's
new play. It could be acted In about three
nights by an industrious company.
The imports Of Philadelphia for November,
1878, show an increase of 1851, 900 as compared
with the imports OF November, 1877.
Lord Falmouth's winnings on the English
turf this year amount to $4,000. His horses
have won for him in all about 100000.
| SplaD, the horseman, ran mile In Califor-
mia on December Ia 6m. Sos, winning q
wager that he could not run it In seven min
utes.
Gen. Robert Patterson, OF Philadelphia, Is
said to have entertained at his table every
President OF the United States since Maidstone
| time.
| The Scott rolling mills In Erie, Pa, are to
resume operations about the first OF January,
and will give employment to many now idle
hands.
PEELED to re-enter the Freshman class for
hazing. Poor Freshmen-insult added to in
jury.
| The Alabama Legislature is composed OF
seventy-se planters, forty-four lawyers,
four physicians, one miller and one insurance
agent.
A. J. Davis, formerly at Fairchild, Iowa,
has made 100000 In the silver mining busi-
ness at Butte, Montana, within the last TWEEN
ty-two months.
The Indiana Supreme Court has decided, In
the suit Of church against member, that
subscriptions made on Sunday cannot be col
lected by law.
which amounted to 100000 bushels In 1875.
hat increa sed to 27,060,O60 this year, and Is
still augmentfng.
The Legislatures OF Tennessee, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas
and West Virginia meet during the first two
weeks Of January.
The jackson Democratic Association OF
| Harrisburg, Pa, proposes to revive the OBJ
servance OF the eighth Of January as Dem
ocratic anniversary.
| Late adviees from the Minnesota pineries
represent the work OF hauling as unprece-
dentedly active, and all lumbermen hope to
secure large crop OF logs.
The Children's Aid Society OF New York has
provided homes among the farmers OF South
ern Virginia for more than 400 boys between
the ages OF IL and IS years.
The acreage OF wheat In the United States
in 1873 was 81 $4,000. The total yield was
about 400, OO0, 900 bushels, which Is consider
1 oh lxyi In cya pf no vic ri
The 1900 Georgia convicts are divided into
| fourteen camps. Under the twenty-year
lease, which begins the first of April, the num-
Der OF camps Is to be reduced to three
Nurch, the Maine. congressman who beat
Eugene Hale. was formerly 10 the logging
business on the st. Croix, above Tay lor's falls
Mimi, the firm being Minman d Mureh.
Twenty dollars column is said to be the
| amount paid by the members OF the constitu-
| tional convention OF California for getting
their speeches In the Sacramento papers.
The electric light will make valuable
saving OF coal in England. According to
| very careful estimate made few years ago
| the quantity consumed In gas-making was
| set down at 1850, 600 tons, against o produc-
| ton OF coal OF 100000 tons.
The Boston Traveller complains that the
| streets Of that city are not swept, and says
that there are men and women, too In the
city who are wearing old clothes because the
streets are not Ia suitable condition to allow
them to wear better garments.
Bayard Taylors remains will be inferred at
Longwood, Chester county, where his first
wife, Lydie Agnew Taylor, Is buried. The
aged parents Of Mr.. Taylor received the news
OF his death on Thursday night, and the blow
was a terribly severe one to them.
well-dressed man entered the Bank OF
England, threw down a penny and asked for
check. When it was handed to him he filled
it up to "self' for E100, signed it, and receiv-
ing the money, withdrew. AS he had no &C
count at the Bank Of England that institu-
tion lost E100 by the transaction, while the
government gained one penny.
In the list Of converts to the Roman Catho-
lie Church published In the Whitehall Reuiew
there are 200 from Oxford, $50 from Cam
London University, jointly, only 10; IS OF the
army, "A of the navy. As Of the bar, 10 peers,