The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-25
thus appear that the test between sopriety
a ~ ineorigty ts the effect produced In each
Individual by the use Of alcoholic liquors."

According to the New York correspondent
"a the Cincinnati Enquirer, the question
whether JAY Gould's new Central Union Tele-
graph Company ID d bona fide rival
OF the Western Union, or simply
stoekjobbing concern to depress The
price Of Western Union md Atlantic
and Pacific, 10 attracting much atten-
tion In that city Contracts have been let for
the building Of lines throughout New York
State, which are to pass through the chief
Giles. Last week the concern gobbled up IN
entire local line Id Connecticut, and there ore
indications on every hand of the eompany's
Intention to push things in all directions. The
officers say that all their capital OF $40, 900, 900
- subscribed. They boast that they will
cover oil tho points now reached by Western
Union wires for quarter Of tho cost OF West
ern Union construction. That. OF course, Is
TO include every city OF Importance In the
Union. Particularly in tho Western States lis
their project being pushed, they say, adding
that the line from Chicago to Ogden ID almost
completed. They point to their support by
the Baltimore and Ohio Company as evidence
that soon they will have complete commune
cation with the South. The Western Union
folks laugh at Oil this, and say that the sole
object OF the new company Is to depress West
ern Union stock.
We learn from the New York Chronicle that
9 little more than year ago d law was passed
IN Massachusetts requiring the mayor and
aldermen In every city, and the seleetmen In
every town, to furnish to the insurance COM
missioner, each year, on set Of blanks pre-
pared by him, D statement of the number of
fires occurring during the previous year,
the name OF owners, character OF the
property, cause of the fire, amount of
insurance, ETC. This information Is to be
tabulated and included III the commissioners
report. and the first specimen OF 1t ID iii his
report for 1878. There were 1928 fires, causing
q loss of S3,6s3,2e5, for which s2,525, 1872 was
paid by insurance. The largest number, 74B
occurred In dwellings,; the next, Bib, In barns
and private stables. Incendiarism Is given as
the cause Of SOL; Exposure" as causing 24D;
defective chimney, 1873; unknown, 351; aeel-
DENTAL IS. The Chronicle says: "The point
of these novel statistics ID that only about
8 per cent Of the fires seem to be attributable
to causes not preventable, and that consider
ably more than one-half the fires In Massaeht-
sets occur In the classes of property usually
regarded no among the preferred. The ex-
ample set by that State ID worth following,
that the cost Of insurance may be brought
more clearly within the field Of actual knowl-
edge, and that, furthermore the practices OF
builders may be- reformed. The Massachu-
sets commissioner remarks that defective
chimneys' and other building defects which
produce fires exist because "the people do not
yet realize that they pay the losses by fire.
they have an idea that the insurance com
panies pay Them Low rates and "easy"
insurance are sure to stimulate the careless
ness which ID at the bottom OF the enormous
annual destruction by fire.
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