The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-29
Personal AND OTHERWISE.


three Of double the number OF baronets that
Lord Beaconsfis Id has made.
Six hundred colored militia attended the
| funeral Of the late Representative Hartrldge
at Savannah, Ga There was an insurance
Of $4,000 on Mr.. Hartridges lfe
The Illinois Senate, by q vote Of forty TO
| seven, has passed n resolution asking that the
silver dollar Of colonial times be restored as
unit of value, with unlimited coinage.
| Arkansas proposes to get rid Of almost It's
entire bonded debt by joint resolution repu-
dating every species Of public obligation con-
tracted between January. 1861, and April, 1874
bill has been introduced in the Ohio Senate
to provide that all executions by hanging
shall take place within the walls Of the
Penitentary aud be conducted by man APP
pointed for that purpose.
| General A. Pike is now engaged In organ
izing the Knights OF the Cactus" to be com
| posed Of the veterans OF the Mexican war,
| end the order to descend to their male child
/ rem.
| The Russians continue to dispatch troops
| I'm the direction OF the Persian frontier. More
| than two thousand workmen are stated to be
employed In constructing new line of fortifi-
cations round Kars.
Partly owing to the severe weather. and
partly owing TO the general badness Of the
times, there Is at present great distress
throughout Switzerland. In Geneva alone
six thousand people are reported to be out Of
work.
LastSeptember census was taken Of the
Japanese Islands. The total population Of
the empire was "a 1913, 404. OF these, ,03G,77t
dwell In Yeddo or, as the inhabitants name
IL, Toxic, In 236, 961 houses, being about 437
occupants for each house.
A careful mathematician estimates that IL
all the Judges I'm Utah should hold court for
every hour Of the twenty-four, and every day
of the year, and every year OF the century,
they could not begin to dispose Of all the
blgamous marriages OF the Territory.
The English labor strikes are destined to
have q wonderful effect on foreign emiRra-
ton this year, An association In North |
Wales has resolved to vote CT 1888 .ssl to every
member Of the union who desire to ernigrate
10 America, and GA 6776) TO emigrants |
to Australia
The will OF Mr. Alexander De Witt, OF |
Oxford, Mass. makes the following among |
other requests: Two thousand dollars to be |
held in trust, to furnish In each successive
year after his death to all inmates of the
local poorbouse on the fourth Of July and
Christmas Day fine dinner.
wedding nuptials' are spoken Of by the
companion for funeral obsequies" But
none Of them approach the'elaborate headlines
Of n Montreal paper about dozen years ago:
Funeral obsequies of late deceased Mill
tiary Officer"
The Cincinnati Commercial, discussing the
~,
Gen. Garfield, with all his good qualities, has
two or three very soft places In his record,
and is hardly the man to rally all the hosts
II there is to be q campaign OF great urgency
and emergency"
Electric carriage lamps French inventor
propos es to reduce. so that ordinary CARR
ages drawn by horses will be Illuminated by
electricity supplied by the rotary motion OF
their wheels, locomotives while In motion will
light up the trains they draw, and steamships
supply themselves with powerful lights
While France is deeply engrossed In politi-
cal struggles 1t will be q consolation for her
and all her friends to hear very satisfactory
item OF news In regard to her financial situa-
ton. The French revenue returns for 1873
show that the indirect taxes yielded nearly
sixteen million dollars more than In 1877; the
revenue for the expiring year amounting to
more than four hundred million dollars.
Representative Turner's bill to regulate the
charges for Pullman palace cars and other
sleeping cars patented by the United States,
provides that 1t shall be unlawful to charge
more than 81 for the use OF the same by one
person for twenty-four hours, under penalty
OF a fine Of not less than $500 nor more than
$4,000 imposed upon the corporation, and any
person violating the provisions Of the act
shall be liable to fine Of 500 and imprison-
meBt for three months for each offense.
Paris journalism is still improving. The
editor OF La COmeiie pOLitiqate announces that
he Is preparing series OF articles concerning
''the rapid and scandalous fortune OF the man
whose eye was put out In the Cafe Procope."
He requests M. Gambetta to attack him for
defamation should any Of his assertions be
without foundation, and promises, In order
that his victim may not feign Ignorance, to
send him q registered letter every Saturday
containing the attacks which are to appear In
the next number of his paper.
One of the saddest lingual mistakes ON
record occurred few evenings ago In local
prayer meeting. The bulk of the audience
k...l. II.
with more faith than oral rhetoric. arose to
speak. with the remark that he could not do
as well ''as the old hands about him" The
elderly females, being hard OF hearing, un-
promptly hustled ont. They didn't give him
time enough to explain that 1t was o typo
graphical error or lay 1t to the worst slug"
in the Office. Such Is life.-I Cleveland Plain
dealer.
According to Hubner's statistical Tables
of all the Countries Of the Earth" there are
In the German Empire Is, 5000 Evangelical
Christian II, 900. 900 Roman Catholics. 80 600
Orthodox Greek Christians, 512 900 Jews, 5000
OF ali other denominations or of none. In
Catholics, 100000 Evangelical Christians,
7,220,0OO Greek and other Christians, 1875, 900
jews, 5000 MahOmedans, and others. In
France there are 81, 3900 900 Roman Catholics,
100000 Evangelical Christians, l18, 900 Jews,
$4,000 Mahomedans and others. In Great
Britain and Ireland there are 26, 600, 900 Pro-
testants OF various denominations, 5000 900
Roman Catholics, $4,000 Grt eks, etc. 10000
Jews, GO00 Mahomedans and others.
Rich and rare were the gems she wore" is
q fashionable tune In San Francisco. There
is lady at one Of the leading hotels who
never appears in the dining-room with less
than from $4,000 to $4,000 worth of dia-
monds on her person. There is another lady
at another hotel who wears pair Of solitaire
earrings worth $4,000. They belonged to |
the collection OF Queen Isabella of Spain, and |
were purchased at auction in Paris These
two stones were bought for S24,600. Another
lady with brooch shaped like a fern leaf and |
glitteriDg with fifty or hundred diamonds is
estimated as having superficial value OF |
from $4,000 to $4,000. Some thieves recently |
crept into ladys room at hotel while she |
was dining with her husband. They ransacked |
trunks and drawers, and obtained watch |
and chain and some coin. But they got no |
diamonds. The lady had gone down to din |
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