The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-25
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Senator Morgan and Senator-eect Houston,
OF Alabama are both natives of Tennessee.
There is sect in India. the members of
which worship the late Brigadier General
John Nicholson, the hero Of Delhi, as a demi-
god. They are called the Nickelsens.
biography of Lord Beaconslield, which
calls him a "lying spirit" and man "desti-
tute Of truth, honor and principle" has at
! tanned in England sale OF 100000 copies.
The government of France at the request
Of the Porte, has nominated two custom
house inspectors for the Turkish revenue ser
vice. A similar request, addressed by the
Porte to the government of England, has not
yet been answered.
AT midnight on the last day Of the year the
normal hour is to be fixed throughout Sweden,
and all the government, railway and tele-
graph clocks will be set simultaneously. At
Stockholm the clocks will have to be put back
twelve minutes.
The largest proportion OF sugar consumed
here comes from Cuba-926 163, 900 pounds.
Porto Rico sends us 627330 900 pounds; the
other Spanish possessions 16l ,oS9,000 pounds !;
Brazil ~, 327, 900 pounds; British West indies
and Guiana 127,Ho,000 pounds; England &c.
11s,00o pounds; Germany l9,o65,000 pounds.
Murdered by j. W. Wade and William
Shafler," was the inscription placed on George
Worth : gravestone by his father, f. b. Worth,
of Platte county, Mo, whom they have sued
for libel. Young Worth was placed in their
custody on election day by the sheriff and
killed while endeavoring to escape.
The supervisors of election for the city of
Chicago, appointed by the United States, cost
the public $4,000 Their official oath re-
auired them to make true returns, yet they
We're so grossly inaccurate that it is proposed
to present them to the grand jury for indict-
ment for a willful violation OF the election
! laws.
DR.. A. gave dinner the other day; lots of
/ people at the tahle-conversatlon lively and
! spirituele At the dessert the tOasts and
/ speeches followed in rapid succession. Finally
! Lill the doctors daughter, six years old and
w-headed. got up to make her little speech.
Here's papas health, she says, "mammas,
| and everybodVS." But she reflects moment,
| and then amends her toast: Not everybody IS
/ though; because then papa wouldn't have
anybody to give medicine to or to cut up"
Kearney supplemented his first Sand Lot
speech by another one day or so later. In
this second speech he said Il notice that
/ President Hayes has ignored the Chinese
question, although he promised me when
was in the East that he would send special
message to Congress upon the subject. Con
gress can be bought by Chinese gold. On the
other side Of the Rockies all is rotten. Six
million families are starving there in the face
OF hard wint Let US purge California OF
the Chinese leper, even If we have to wade
knee-deep in blood to do It..
The work of fortifyipg the two lines of de
Tense of Constantinople proceeds with great
activity The government factories are occu
pied in the manufacture Of 10000 wagons and
barrows for the conveyance Of material, cart.
age of earth, etc. These Notifications will
when complete be armed with 500 guns OF
large calibre. The defensive works are con
structed In parallel lines, 80 that the first is
commanded by the second, the second by the
third, and 50 on. They are connected by
trenches, with embankments serving as shell
ter for the infantry. Since the armistice pre-
ceding the conclusion OF peace between Russia