The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-03

Seven vessels cleared from this port yesterday
vith cargoes a9gregatng 1892 bales Of cotton.

seven vessels cleared from this port yesterday
with cargoes aggrega'ing 1892 bales OF cotton.
Quite dsmand for cork comes from Russia.
II Is cut into thin plates and used to line the
walls Of apartments
We understand that several of the prominent
insurance companies have already made settle
ments for their losses by the Magazine street
fire. Prompt work, that
The sales of Premium Bonds yesterday
amounted to only ss7 400. Mt from s4a' 10 sa'a.
OF State Consos there were $40 900 sold OF 4's 10
nk. Eleven shares Of Canal Bank stock we're
sold NJ %.
Mra m stewart has sued Jas. H. Bresltn to
receiver $50 600 arrears of rents for her Metro
politan Hotel and $4,000 Tor damages to the
hotel and furniture. Her complaint includes
15p items OF damage to furniture In various
rooms. to sny nothing Of deficiency of over
$1,000 worth OF house linen.
The steamboat Future City, with barges, will
arrive here to-day with n large cargo Of grain
from the Ohio river. Among the items we note
47ss bushels Of rye. 1905 bushels Of corn in
hulk and 4046 sacks OF corn. We are informed
that the bulk corn Is brought to this city from
the Wabash river at the low rate of seven cents
per bushel. -
The steamboat Detjhambre cleared hence
Yesterday for Liverpool with % 200 bushels OF
corn in bulk and the bark Antonietta cleared
for Rouen with 81 $40 bushels Of corn In bulk.
The steamship Tappahannock arrived yester-
day with sos hhds of sugar for Havana and
the bark Mstletoe from Matanzas with ell hhds
all consigned to Agar & Lelong.
Ia nod hat n rpnp pOmpNnV. COM
posed principally of English capital. Ia being
organized at least is ready for organization. to
assist in handling the grain trade Of the Mis-
siaaippi Valley, It Ia proposed by this new
company to begin at the bottom by building
and owning their own barges. IA well ~ en-
trely controlling tho steamships engaged In
the trans Atlantic carrying.
Mr.. John Bell. of Cornwall. England has just
arrived In New York to negotiate for the pur-
chase OF ono of the largest slate duarries In
Northampto county, Pa. The English slate
beds have greatly fallen off in quantity OF yield
within few years. Mr.. Bell says that the slnte
found in this country is equal to the best
English and Welsh slae and ia much cheaper.
His firm paid s2b0.OoO last year for American
slate.
II is q remarkable fact that miners who work
in the hot steaming regions OF the deepest
shafts seldom or never suffer from rheuma-
tism. Sufferers from the disease might try as a
cure this atmosphere, having themselves low
cred into the depths Of the mine. there to sit
during one shift per day But for the immense
quantities of ice water which the miners drink.
the men could not endure the great heat in
which they are placed or the floods ofEperspira-
lion pumped from their pores. They swallow
gallons on gallons of it without the least in
Jury. ---
The importation of lockwood. 80 largely en-
ployed by wood engravers. has been seriously
affected by the Eastern war. In 1876 over 10000
tons were imported, while during the year just
past only between 1000 and 5000 tons. large
proportion of the wood s produced in the for
ests of the Caspian Sea. Besides being used
for engravings, lockwood Is employed in the
manufacture of loom -shuttes. tool handles.
etc. OF late the wood of the cornell and per-
simmon trees has been found to answer many
purposes for which lockwood was originally
used. .
Oleomargarine Ia made from the fat taken
from around the heart Of q bullock. and Ia said
to be much better and more wholesome than
real butter. There seems. however. to be a dis
inclination on the part of the manufacturers to
cali 1t by its real name. and u desire to pass
n of as a genuine article which is often much
inferior to 1t. 1t has been already mentioned
that the bill of Mr.. Scharf requiring that oeo-
margarine shall not be sold as butter passed the
MARYLAND House Of Delegates In New York q
law has been enacted to compel the manufac-
turers to sell this article on its own merits, and
not "a the yield Of the COW. The courts have
been strict in furnishing the violation Oh the
law. ~