The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-27
Commercial and Financial Matters.
The ship VIM. Tapscott arrived here yestsr-
day from Liverpool with $500 sacks Of salt.

The ship Wm. IhpscOTG aTTlVeu mere FesVSt-
day from Liverpool with $500 sacks Of salt
\ The brig John Wesley which arrived here yes
terday from Rio Janeiro. brought 512a sacks OF
coffee. ..-... ...
State Consols opened at 74sS and closed steady
at TA2S@74Ts. the same as on Wednesday,. Inc
sales ar the Exchange footed up only s23.5oc.
Premium Bonds closed firm at 32@32a. Sales
at the Exchange, $4,000
Statistics show that the annual CONSUMPTION
OF eggs In the United States Is about 1o.6oo,ooo
barrels The poultry marketed or consumed In
1877 is estimated at $50 100000 pounds, ut the
value of $6s,o0o.0oo.
There were exported from the port Of New
York. during the first seven months of the
present year. 1895 s22 pounds Of Lake Superior
copper. This went to Hamburg, Havre. Bre-
men, Antwerp. Amsterdam Liverpool and
Hong Kong.
There are 5000 900 900 of capital invested In the
national banks of the United States. An as
sassrlent of per cent on this sum for the Re-
publican campaign committees would yield
ss.eooooo. Is that enough to furnish CORPS
of efficient workers to operate In the last ten
days Of the campaign ?"
New syrup continues to arrive In small drih-
blete. Yesterday the steamboat st. Mary
brought here barrel and s half barrels new
syrup The barrel came from John Picou's
plantation Baton Rouge. ami was consigned to
Nessrs J. q. Harris Il CO.. The half barrels
came from sosthene Daigres plantation Man
ohac, and we're consigned to Messrs. 2. Maspero
& Co.. .-~.
The Charleston, s. G., News estimates the
business Of that city for the year ending Au-
gust 81 at s44,o36,s32 The receipts Of cotton
have been 429 292 bales. as compared with 445 677
bales In 1s7e-77. The South Carolina rice crop
shows d falling off OF 1857 tierees. The trade In
phosphate rock, which has become very i'm
portant amounted to 1so,e7s tons. an increase Of
about $500 tons. ...
The Director Of the Mint has grieved the souls
OF loyal and hungry Republicans In Philadel-
phia, by employing q number of Democrats In
his dollar factory. Speaker Randall's influence
is supposed to have procured these appoint
fnents. and Liuderman. the director.,is to be
called upon by the ravenous Republicans to ex-
plain his disloyal conduct
The banks of Philadelphia have rule that
they will not pay cheeks drawn to bearer for
over $780, and somB of the New York banks have
requested their depostors to draw all checks
over that amount payable to order This ID n
reasonable rule and ought to be generally
adopted as q precautionary measure against
forged checks. which are q source OF great loss
to the banks.
An Injunction has been asked for in st. Louis
restraining the board Of directors of the public
schools from having any language but English
taught in the schools and also requiring the
board to abolish all branches Of study outside
of the common English course. 1t is said If
the Injunction is granted the expenses Of the
schools will be reduced s25o,ooo per annum.
TFtt, hnar1 .f
late years In connection with public education.
and 1t requires discrimination now in dealing
with them. u-..
Under an act passed ut the late session of Con-
gress. the fire extinguisher patent has been ex-
tended till 1885, For many years after the first
attempt to utilize the principle Of the ex-
tinguisher the Patent Office refused to patent
the invention ON the ground that 1t lacked
patentable features, being only an adaptation
of the common soda fountain. The act Of Con-
gress above mentioned permitted the issue of a
patent to the original discoverer, whose applica-
zion was rejected In 1897. and several times
afterward and he and his associates will thus
have monopoly OF the manufacture for the
next seventeen years.
Japan is wonderful country. and she is at
present engaged In some very costly and i'm
nortant public works. She has just completed
two railways, one from Yokohama TO TOXIC, the
other from Pogo to Kioto Teegraphic lines
connect Rakodate with Nagasaki. The mineral
resources are being developed with better meth
DDS than before. while never was more atten-
tion paid to the soil and husbandry Of the coun-
try. The coasts are now lighted by thirty-four
lighthouses, three 1ight~ships. sixteen buoys
and FIVE beacons. Japanese steamers ply be-
tween the seaports Of Japan. and to China
Corea and the Rio Kiu Islands. and even make
an occasional trip to England Her postal sys-
tenn Is also marvel of practical utility. as is
shown by the Japanese Postmaster Generals
report for last year: Letters tordinary mailed)
% ,o5s 43o; letters Registered. eo6354; postal
cards, 6.764,272: newspapers. 7,37253G; books
patterns etc. 322.G42: free communications
s566S7; letters dispatched to foreign countries
140.631. -
The Cincinnati Price Current says:
The advces from the Northwest indicate that
been Il In
little attention has been given to corn until this
year, when the area planted was larger than
and far h Of i has
ready been cut. In Illinois the reports indicate
that there will be a full average CROP the favor.
able weather of the last six weeks s,9 bringing
less was looked for; In OHIO, Indiana. Iowa
Kansas and Missouri there Is little to com plain
of, but in some parts Of Kentucky the yield will
be unusually light; this is especially the case on
high ground where the crop suffers from
drouth.
During the past week there have been light
ffosts throughout the principal corn growing
States but no damage of consequence has re-
suited, for In many sections the corn was sc
far matured as to be beyond the power of 6
light frost to hurt it: and where this was no
the case. the frost merely stopped Its growth
giving it warming as it were that 1t was time tc