The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-20


RET, and have caused an advance In bacon |
sides Of 11a0s4c per pound.
The receipts during the week have been as
follows: Pork, IA bbls.; bacon and dry salt
meats 81 casks and $40 boxes lard 43S tierces
and 500 kegs; hams, 413 tierces, and 6O,126
Ibs bulk meats.
In grain small business has been done In
consequence Of the small supply, and prices
axe ruling In favor Of holders.
The demand for sugar end molasses has
Been small, and confined to the wants Of the
local trade
Texas produced the past year $3.50 hogs
heads OF sugar and 1900 barrels Of mo-
Iasses.
Thirteen hundred pieces OF property were
DoId on one day recently in Charleston, s. O.,
Tar State taxes.
Oyer 100000 gallons Of petroleum or earth
OIL are brought to the surface every day In
the oil regions Of Pennsylvania alone.
State Consols yesterday ruled at 3722493sA,
xRatnst 37M on Thursday Premium Bonds
were quoted at 261a0265s against 2614@26n
on the previous day.
The steamboat Future City, with barges,
from st. Louis, viii arrive here to-day, with
fa5. 1854 bushels OF wheat and 1925 packages
OF merchandise.
Cotton futures In New York yesterday ad-
vanced SO points on September deliveries and
from to points On subsequent months, the
market closing barely steady, with sales Of
$4,000 bales. ..=a
L., Horo q
failure, but little peach brandy will be made,
and the internal revenue collector anticipates
u considerable revival Of moonshine whisky
distilling. .+-z...-....s=. .-5
Messrs. Small & Co. have received the fol-
lowing telegram from Rio:
Rio DE JANE1Ro. September II. 1879
Purchases Of coffee since Sept. TO- bags. 1000
Cleared for Gulf ports, bags. .......'....' -..-
Loading bags oa-oc
Price, reis. 9l5OO
Stock OF coffee. bags ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 900
Exchange pence. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 21h
Average daily receipts. bags. 10000
A New York letter says that one of the sure
signs OF the return Of plenty Of money to the
rnoney-spending class, is the increased i'm
p0rtation OF champagne. The cases imported
In August numbered 1851, against 7611 cases
imported In August, 1873, being an.increase OF
1U7e cases, and an Increase OF 1885 cases
since the first OF January as compared with
the same period last year.
The term "bucket shop" originated In
Chicago, where these establishments were
fret started for the purpose Of facilitating
speculative transactions In grain to such
small amounts as few hundred bushels, the
hoard OF trade limit being 500 bushels. TIE
name was applied In derision by members OF
the board Of trade, who asserted that In these
establishments grain was sold by the bucket
ful.
Since the passage of the arrears of pension
act the government has, In obedience to its
provisions. paid out $16,OoO,0oO. The entire
amount appropriated by Congress for this
purpose was $25,0O00OO, SO that there still re-
mains $9,OOO,O 900 in the treasury subject to the
requisition OF the Secretary Of the Interior.
OF this sum $4,000, 900 was asked for Monday
by the Commissioner Of Pensions, and 1t is
thought that before November the residue OF
the appropriation will be distributed.
The New York Herald, Of the sixteenth
instant, says In It's financial column: "An-
0ther stock resuscitated into speculative life
was the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans
Railroad, which from no quotable figure at
all was In demand at 161a to-day. As q
Southern outlet to the Illinois Central road,
by whom most OF the stock Is held, 1t could
not otherwise than be benefited by the adj
vance which has lately attached to the latter
property"
An Exchange says: producers are gradu-
ally beginning to use petroleum as fuel
under boilers, aud they find It cheaper by far
than coal One large producer In the lower
oil country, who Is trying It, says that one
barrel Of oil day, with gas from the wells,
gives him sufficient fuel under q boiler that
Is pumping three wells. Before using petro-
ieum ne was burning 50 worth of coal day.
80 me Bradford region the petroleum burner
LIS helng introduced successfully, as well as In
manufacturing establishments
On account Of the large accumulations 81
gold In the treasury an order will soon be 1s-
sued, II is said, exchanging gold coin for
greenbacks at the several sub-treasuries il
such sums as may be required At present
only gums Of $50 are paid out, though our
banks have been very liberal with their Gus
toners, and have given their gold in almost
any quantity. The stock of standard silver
coin and bullion now 10 the treasury is about
$4,000, 900, q portion OF which together with
the $40 silver certificates, is soon to be added
to the legal tender Of the country.
The figures Of the Postal Savings Banks Of
Great Britain for the year ending December
81. 1878, afford some interesting suggestions.
From the establishment OF those banks to
that date the deposits foot up 1856, 900 900
The amounts drawn out sum up $4o3 600, 900,
leaving balance on hand OF s152, 600, 600, and
interest due depositors. During the year
is77-1s7s the deposits amounted to S1s5. OO0,-
600. Of which ss5,oOO.ooO were drawn out
again. Another item OF interest Ia the re-
port or the British postoifice is that referring