The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-11-20


gustingly dull, owing to the low water in Red
and Ouachita rivers and other tributaries.
State Consols ruled steady at 7G20177,
against 761aD7GS4 on Monday. Premium
Bonds were quiet at 291SoD2o2s, against goa
H 2oA On the previous day.
A company has been formed in New York
= for the purpose Of buying, selling and leas-
ing railroad cars, to be sold or leased to com
panies owning or operating railroads.
Gas stock still continues to decline in all
the great cities of the world. The electric
light is becoming widely popular, and Edison
Is securing patents on his invention in many
foreign countries.
Notwithstanding the outcry against the
elevated railways in New York, conservative
Boston has organized q company to build q
sirlilar road in that city, and even Phiade-
phia has commenced to agitate the subject.
A gentleman who made $780, 900 In the gold
mines this year, and Is buying library, sent
an order to O New York book store last week
for zone complete SGT Of Appletons Sancho
pedro!"
Baooned meats (od) ore now lower than
The cause Is that there is superintendent
supply at all the great centres of the trade,
and holders are anxious to get rid Of their
property at any price to make room for the
new meat that will come on the market during
the next month.
The steamship Morgan City left yesterday
for New York with 1850 barrels of molasses
The steamship Knickerbocker for the same
destination, cleared with 4551 barrels of mo
lasses as part Of her cargo making a total Of
84O1 barrels on the two ships The Morgan
City has also on board 1887 hogsheads Of
sugar Considering the season, these are
large shipments Of the sacCharine product
The St. Louis journal of Commerce says:
'The secretary Of our Merchants Exchange
has received telegram from New Orleans
stating that one hundred ocean steamers and
sailing vessels are in that city waiting for
cargoes of grain and Western produce, and
that great complaints are mado of M impos-
sibilty to get freight from this city. This is
an opportunity for our grain merchants to
ship South instead Of submitting to the OK
tortion OF the railroad pool"
People living in the small towns on the
jackson Railroad do not seem to put any
faith in the mere declaration Of our Board of
Health THAI the yellow fever has ceased to
exist in this city as an epidemic. They desire
to have the board announce, in most explicit
terms, that not only absentees, but all
unaccIimated persons can visit New
Orleans without running any risk
of taking tho fever, and that wooden
goods can be sent hence to the country with
r,ccuil,In nf tbnir 1D1 DpJn
ing the dread disease Last Saturday bun
die of clothing was sent by friend of ours to
Summit on the order Of an old customer. The
goods were returned, and the person ordering
tho same was fined $25. Our country friends
who have escaped visitation from Yellow
Jack are naturally timid and apprehensive on
the subject. The Board Of Health can we
think, alIay their fears and thereby do much
In restoring trade
That honesty is the best policy" even
where there Is no higher aCtuating principle
In business, the Manchester cotton manu-
facturers are demonstrating to the world.
Their policy of sizing their tlimsy cotton
goods to give them the appearance of stabil
ity and weight Is likely to cost them dearly.
The Edinburg Scotsman says:
American manufactures are of pure cotton,
as free from size as possible, while all the
lower classes of goods from Great Britain are
Heavily loaded with size; and this circum
stance, with the smaller cost of production
here, has thus far enabled our manufacturers
to put their goods on the China market at q
far lower price. Hitherto, as one Of the con-
suls dryly remarks 1.-THE Chinese have always
run after the cheaper modify, SO long as it
possessed sufficient adtesiveness to hold to-
gether under tho needle, and not to fell to
pieces In q shower Of rain But such q state
tinue Already the Chinese are beginning to
entertain q very natural prejudice against the
low priced but really costly rubbish sent to
them from the Manchester looms and sizing
vabs, and the feeling Is operating to diminish
the demand even for medium makes, which do
not merit the suspicion. The inevitable result
of the dishonest practices Of the British man
ufactnrers, If they are persisted in, will be to
with an evil name In the Chinese market, and
their American rivals will gain a position
from which it may become impossible to dis
lodge them.
Tho government officers In New York City
are continuing the investigation into the
aduteration Of refined sugars. On this sub
ject the New York Tribune has the following:
An old refiner, who has been driven out Of
the business because, as he claims, of the me-
cessity for using chemicals to compete with
other and successful retiners, said yesterday:
'This secret process for refining sugars was
introduced about six years ago, but came into
general use only recently. Some refiners
use the muriate of tin in both the vacuum
pans and the centrifugal machines, the gen.
eral custom being to employ it in the latter
only. The effect is to improve the
color and to cneapen the cost of whit
ening from u to u cent a pound,
according to the quality Of the raw material.
The tin is purchased both in the pig and in
liquid form. a Brooklyn chemical manufac-
tory supplying the latter to refners in large
inf nod iy-t1c tyxrTT
authority that the consumption of these ma
terials has increased largely since they have