The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-04
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Prairie Ares are greatly damaging livestock
interests In Texas.
Over 1000 persons Id CLARK and Wayne oonn-
Ties, Miss, earn their living by the turpentine
Industry.
There ID such remarkable plague Ut mos
utiltoeA around Ternnndiua. Fla, that farmers
work In mosquito netting.
iii society, while ono should not talk too
much, neither should ono Garry silence to Nh
extreme. Sttl 1t Ia better to say nothing than
& tn talk nothinRs.
to blow the whistles upon Gen. Grant g ar
rival n Virginia CITY. because Frisco
tondyed and tatIled the Old IN too much"
Thomas j. Griffith, of Utica, N. Y, Ia sath
tin own tho frat Rrsenbapk Issued by the
United States government. He has refused
An offer Of 300 for 1t.
IAN the International show Mt Emerson.
Manitoba. last week. tho banner was awarded
To Dakota for the hest general display of
farn, products. A premium WAS awarded to
Manitoba for her wheat. Minnesota was COM
( plimented for her extensive display of grain.
Dr. Peters recently baERed another aste-
rold. I'hlsimukes 202. II Congress- does not
presently pass Ii law prohibiting the hunting
Mt asteroids nt certain seasons, Peters will
soon pat an end To that sort VI game. AL
bany Journal.
Dr. peteraen German tourist. lately
reached tho highest point Ut tho Jungfrau,
la.s2s feat. He was rewarded by an hour OF
clear sky. He declares TINT he could see tho
whole ohnin u the. Aps, from tho furthest
Tyrul To pauphine including Mont Blanc and
this other southern giants.
!. The Rev. Thomas X. Yeacher says of Sun
day laws: $50 much Of our Sunday laws Ms
Id iinvured with any distinctvrly religious
aliusiona or allowances, 1t would seem wlse
TO modify at once, because, for better or for
worse, II has been agreed that our govern
nent and our laws shnl not needle with the
subject OF religion, oIle way or the other"
One of London's greatest Catholic preach
orr. MunAlgnor Capel. the Catesby Of 'Lo-
thair," will.embark from England soon for q
tour In thia country and Canada. He hopes
to return with money sufficient To extricate
him from the pecuniary embarrassments into
which he plunged himself to establish the
Catholic University ut Kensington.
Samuel Sterrett, wel-known citizen OF
Baltimore, died on Sunday night, aged forty
nix years. He was Ron of the late Com
Hterrett, United States navy. During the
late war he WAS In the Confederate service;
death, bat the sentence p u the court va com
muted by President Lincoln to Imprisonment
during the war. IN Fort Warren, Boston har-
hnr.
Gen. Garlbaldi has returned TO his home Ia
the leland OF Capfera to settle fol- the re-
Inainder III his days. His health during the
trip from Rome was excellent. but his gem
eral condition IL one Of great feebleness, and
N y Thought that he cannot live much longer.
He has cabbage garden ON the island which
he cherlshes fondly, but he can't work 1t as
formerly, being lat on bis back half tho time
through rheumatism, and unable even to
hobble about on crutehes.
Al correspondent, writing from (iullford.
Conn, says the affairs there of the Rev. w.
III. H. Murray are terribly mixed up. Eight
oil the horses. Including a Valuable mare ara
claimed NV Miss Ida Hull. the slater II
Mr. Murray's wife, and both Mr.. Good Mr.. |
Murray's factottm. and Mr.. nutchman. a
workman on the farm, say they own d stal-
Hon apiece Ia the lot. These horses are all In
the Keeping Of the sheriff. and II 10 going to
ba y diiiicnlt matter to decide up "a the justice
q their claims In the absence or Mr. Murray.
he iarin is mortged Tor $4,000.
When William Pitt Fessenden became Sec
rotary oil the Treasury he conferred with the |
bankers of New York and St Louis on the |
financial situation. After his return To WASH |
tngton he received dispatch from the st. |
Louis bankers saying that, after considering |
the whole matter, they had decided that the |
views OF the New York bankers were nearer
correct than theirs. Gu the next day he re-
oeiyed dispatch from the New York bankers
sayinR tnat, upon second thought, they had