The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-15

shaNew Orleans Mint has been still further
advanced, 1t being now 81 16 1-5 per ounce.
Columbus, Georgia, ID live town. Its
tstest achievement Is q regular Cotton Ex-
change. Daily meetings are held and trans
sctlons made on the spot. But, the Times
H Axys ''spots" are not popular with the MEM
befs ID charge; they all believein the future
system. - -.
There was another advance yesterday In
sstats Consois, those securities closing firm
& III 425SD4a11S, against 4211sD42as on Friday.
Premium Bonds ruled at 26G12e1s, against 26
,naGA on the previous day. The sales Dit the
3 Exchange footed up $4,000 Of State Consols,
Ind $4,000 Premiums Outside the sales
we're s155 900 Of States
ECapt. Eads has an idea about the Isthmus
Il Canal which Ii worth considering. He says
that IL Ii idle to spend 15O,O00,0oO In digging
scanal through the Isthmus, when by the
expenditure oil one-third as much along the
y tfls of the present Panama Railroad, 1t will
Ne perfectly easy to take ships and their
sCsrgoes bodily over the Isthfnus. His plan
would be simply to dig ship canal with locks
111jBSlu5 bf0 Abhus Lie DCllbttS LII W D6
practicable, and, as compared with the plan
y lately recommended at che Isthmus Canal
i Conference On the other side Of the Atlantic,
very economical.
The Chicago Tribune's last crop advices are
summarized as follows: Tho crop situation In
Illinois appears to have become worse rather
than better. No crop presents average con-
AdiHons, and from many sections the reports
Sare very discouraging. In some few locali-
ties there have been no rains In six to eight
weeks. Ii Minnesota and Nebraska PROS
poets are fair. Iowa reports indicate me
dun condition. Wisconsin reports are to
The effect that the crops may be saved by the
lxte rains. Kansas advices state b mode
fataly fair condition, though OF some points
srasshoppers have made their. appearance IN
hrge numbers.
\ The question was raised at the Dairymen's
Association, recently held ut Utica, n. X,
whether the limits Of over-production ID but
\ vi and cheese had not been reached In this
country. The surplus Of American cheese
Above the needs OF home consumption the
past year was about 1SO, 600, 900 pounds. From
NoW York city alone the export for the year
preceding January /, 1879, was 134,O0O,OOO
pounds. The amount of cheese produced an
snually In Great Britain, according to compe-
TENT authority, Ii about a12,0oO,OoO pounds,
Sagainst an annual consumption Of 504,O0O, 600
pounds. The annual demand for cheese In
England ID about sixteen pounds head, while
ills considerably less In this country. Bread
and cheese, are astaplearticle Of diet there, the
benue as bread and butter here. Accordingly,
wv this country q great deal more butter 10
eaten In proportion to the population than In
Great Britain. The amount used at home In
i87a was estimated at about 800, 900, 900 pounds,
Or about sixteen pounds head, while In Eng
land only about seven and half pounds
we're the average Of each person. The ques-
Bton Of over-production may be q pertinent
one as regards profits, though there are no
PRODUCTS that are wasted less by those into
whose hands they fall than the products Of
I'M dairy