The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-23
profitable one. The cost OF the passage Out
and back will be $500.


and back will be $500.
The Washington Post, OF the twentieth In
slant, has this to say about the latest conn-
terfeit received from this city:
Another counterfeit ten-dollar legal-tender
note, done with pen and ink, was received
yesterday at the Treasury from New orleans.
This Is the@hird note OF the kind that i has
come to light recently in New Orleans. Inc
accuracy of the work, especially when 1t is
considered that it Is done by hand, IS SIMPLY
wonderful. AS an evidence OF the excellence
of the imitation. q cashier In n New Ofleans
bank has been imposed on three times ~ ne the
geometricaI lathework on the back Is OF
course miserable, but it requires careful
scrutiny by an expert to detect the dllleren n.y.
From the rapidity with which these nQtes
feiter works with great rapidity, ana is ape o.,
to complete one note In day., Ii TINS ~ ny
case he certainly deserves the PAIN as tlie
champion penman ofSthe age. 1t would 90
good idea for some one 70 o1er D DelC ~
Championship contest In pen and ink work.
The committee on trade Of the New YORK
Produce Exchange have issued report on
the progress made towards introducing tne
GENITAL system ii the sale Of produce now &C
tually sold by weight In this country. Favor
able responses to the circular sent out last
December by the committee have been re-
cnived from associations In the following
cities: Albany, Baltimore, Bangor, Boston,
Rridaeport, Buffalo, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Kansas City, Milwaukee, New York, New
Orleans Peoria, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, San
Francisco, st. Louis and Wilmington, N. O..
The Chicago Board Of Trade, the committee
state expressed itself ready to cooperate
when the new measure shall have been found
to work successfully In Great Britain, and
whenever there shall be fair prospect OF Its
going into general use here. The Chicago
board also suggests that in the meantime
such congressional action as Is practicable be
secured In aid Of the harmonious establish
ment Of the system throughout the country
The Toledo Produce Exchange was the only
association applied to which declined to join
In the proposed movement, but no reasons for
such decision were given.
A curious insight may be had into the sup
ply Of food necessary for England by reading
some Of the later publications, and the facts
obtained may be of great interest to us who
are the makers of great deal OF that food.
Between 1857 and 1876, the value OF Imported
and cereal food consumed In Great Britain
rose from G35.000.000 to G11O,OOO,OO0, about
half being represented by wheat; In fact,
1t seems that the half Of every loaf eaten In
England Is made of foreign wheat. Onepoint
which has not been fully noticed before, is
that to-day the use of food derived from ami
NAL sources has very much increased In Eng
land. Thirty years ago not more than one
third of the English people consumed animal
food even once In the week. To-day nearly
all of them use 1t at least once every day.
Now, ten years ago the United Kingdom pro-
duced nine-tenths Of the meat and dairy pro-
duce which was eaten, but last year three
| fourths only were made, the other fourth
coming from abroad. The calculation made
lately seems to show that every Englishman
In his own country eats an amount Of foreign
| food which costs G3. 1t is this fact which,
when taken In all its bearings, causes the
English politico-econOmist to ponder gravely
! over the future. Let this demand be kept up
| for series Of years, and ii the English ex-
| ports do not increase, there must be a ggan-
| tic debt for food alone. Still, England is not
50 badly off. With her immense resources,
her capital and her skill, should England be
at war with Russia, or even with the United
States, her wheat harvest, by extra manuring
and by growing successive crops, would quite
suffice for her maintenance