The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-15


State Consols were weak yesterday at 1874 |
6D741S. against 7401744 on Saturday. Pre-
MUM Bonds were easy at Blast 4, against
3l16a3t1s OH Saturday. The sales ut the
Stock Exchange were $4,000 Of State Consols |
and $4,000 Of Premiums. Ten shares Of the
Gas Light Company were sold at 80 per
share.
Up 10 inc twenty ninth OF f5sptsIufbBI III
even hundred cargoes Of this years wheat
have passed out through the Golden Gate. |
Tho aggregate is 1896 tons, worth se+037,-
407 This Is the largest export movement Of
the great staple during the first quarter OF
any harvest year In the history of San Fran
cisco, and the work Is but fairly begun.
The coal production OF the Sehuylsill region
for the week ending October was 1G3,284
tons, as against 1GG,426 tons for the same
week OF last year. The total production was
427,0t4 tons. against 1904 tons for the
week OF last year. The production Of the
year 90 far foots up 13,060,501 tons, against
14,52e,7o8 tons for the corresponding period
of last year. A decrease Of 2.4G6, 1877 tons.
At the Beekeepers' Convention, In session
ton of honey was under discussion It was
asserted that the bees were fed with grape
sugar or glucose. and that much of the honey
offered In market is adulterated. The Legis-
Iat,1re Of New York Is to be asked to enact q
law making the adulteratiCn of honey pun
ishahle offense.
For small Island. santa Cruz has pro-
RI iten vio nd Inctf nj 4ynD
too. The population Ia about $4,000, largely
negroes. The planters are Americans, Danes
and Englishmen. It Id to protect the inter
estg OF the American planters that United
States man-of-war has been ordered to the
Island. The riot has now been queled, nfter
tho destruction of large amount Of property.
including the capital, Fredrickstad and the
slaughter Of $50 persons. The government Of
Denmark may be willing to sell that island
oheaply, and it is rumored that our own gov
eminent Is DESTROYS Of making q trade, but
such purchase would not DO sanctioned by
Congress-. and, on tho whole, considering the
disposition OF the negroes to apply the torch
1t will be wise to let Denmark keep her island
The recent negro outbreak was caused by tho
repeal Of the law fixing compensation to the
negroes who had been slaves and leaving the
planters to fix the pay. They reduced 1t to
fifteen cents day, and the darkeys revolted.
Kearney should take trip down there.
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The famous Eddystone Lighthouse still
stands; at least the recent report OF its de-
struction Is oontradcted The Eddystone
rocks form a reef in the British Channel off
the coast of Cornwall AS in the Bay of Bis
cay, there is In the neigbborhood coptinu
Gus chop-sea which sailors have to fight. The
rocks are covered at high tide. The first
lighthouse built ON these rocks was COM
pleted In 1899. Tt was Of stone and timber.
This was burned In 1855. linn ediately fol-
lowing this catastrophe, the famous engineer,
John Smeaton, commenced the construction
OF the present etlitice The material employed
was Portland stone encased In granite quar-
red from the reef, into which the founda-
lions were dove-tailed. The tower ID sixty
eight feet high, surmounted by a lantern fur
nished with sixteen powerful organd burners,
with refectors Of silvered copper The vio-
lence OF the swell rendered communication
with the shore very difficult, even during
calm weather, and the SEQ has often risen
above the light and broken the glass Of the
lamp-house with Its stormy lashlngs.
Concerning the Cuban tobacco crop the
Veguero of Consolation del Sur Vuelta
Abaio. of September 49, says:
The protracted drouth castigating this Sec
ton, especially tho tobacco seedlings, was
fortunately relieved by copious showers since
the twenty-fourth. The majority of the seed
lngs were suffering greatly for lack OF rain,
were predicting and bewaing q prospective
loss of tho crop, so that the welcome rains are
q perfect God send. All the seedlings through
out may be said to be just budded.
The Governor General Of the province had
issued call to tobacco planters to convene
ut o meeting at his residence on the fifth In
slant for the purpose OF selecting commit
tee Of experts from their midst to proceed to
Havana and act rs q board Of inspection at
the custom-houee upon all tobacco leaf i'm
ported under the gufse of hailing from Puerto
Rico, to test 1t and act as check to the ruin
GUS practice of overlooking the market with
leaf grown in Santo Domingo, Hayti and
., snqr Ganco vam
to uproot the evil and afford the planters a
fair chance to protect their interests In the
future against this gigantic fraud, heretofore
carried on with IMMUNITY The market In
Havana Is fairly active. Spanish gold, 1888
per cent.
A CLERayMEN's INSURANCE LEAGuE.-Ten
years ago, in the diocese OF New Jersey, the
Protestant Episcopal Church was Incorporate
cd for the purpose OF providing 81 simple, in
expensive and sure pr9svisson, for the families
of the clergy In case OF the death OF g mem
Der. It had few members at first, but the
plan worked we'll, the small assessment
required to be paid when @ member died
proving not burdensome, while the he bene,
Its were exceedingly opportune II many
death of a Clergyman entitled to benefits As
the league Increased in numbers the assess
ment was reduced and now the families l. 80 O
members dying receive not less than slVVo
treasurer reported that during the existence
of the organization it had paid to the bene
ticiaries S253,Os2, and that OF this, amount
S31, 136 had been paid during the last year
nounced that friends Of the league are depos