The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-18
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consisting Of 67,479 bushels OF corn In bulk,
Q7 254 bushels Of wheat in bulk, and 1850 sacks
OF corn.
The revival In the iron trade 30 confidently
predicted for some time past seems to have
begun. The prices Of all descriptions OF mer.
chant iron have just been advanced per cent
by the Philadelphia Iron Merchants Associa.
ton.
State Consols opened Mt 49,, went down to
ga and closed weak ut 477z014s1S, against
4sI649 on Saturday. Premium Bonds closed
easy at 250D25l4 Saturday rates The sales
at the Exchange footed up 900 OF States
comprised 100000 States ana $4,000 Pre-.
miums.
IL Is announced that competent persons es-
innate the total sugar crop Of Cuba Mt 100000
toDs-an excess OF 10000 tons over the last
crop. The quantity Of the tobacco crop IA the
Yuelta Abaio region is difficult to estimate.
The leaf Is middling large and Of fine quality.
The Remedies crop has been secured, and
amounts to about 30, 900 Guintals
A bill has been introduced in tho New York
Assembly. the design of which Is the estab-
lishnent at the lower end Of Manhattan Island
OF an underground railway depot OF terminus,
and to tunnel the Hudson river 50 that the
great trunk lines could bring their freight
right into the city Of New York, instead Of
discharging IL on the New Jersey shore.
The value Of our exports of bread and
breadstulf5 In 1873 Was $2OG, 100000. The value
OF the imports Of sugar, coffee and tea was
$4,000. 0O0 fruits and nuts, $10,00O,0oo; to-
bacco and Wines 81 100000, breadstutfs, &c.
00O0o0; fish, $5,000,OOO; sundrles Of the same
class, s20,0OO,OOO; total, $l98O000O0. The
breadstuff exports in 1873 were much the
largest on record, but after all, they simply
paid our foreign grocery bills.
The Broadway Railroad, as proposed In
New York. Ia commanding much attention In
that city, as Invaluable franchise which should
not be granted except ut large pecunlary ad-
vantage to the city. The Herald publishes an
open bid from citizen of 81 100000 cash for
the franchise up to seventeenth street, and
an additional 81, 25O. 900 for It up to Central
ParlS That paper declares this bid 10 be bona
fde from party whose own means are equal
to carrying out the whole project. but who, In
comply with any other reasonable conditions
The American Cable Company has secured
the right to use a new invention by which ten
messages of TIVE nty words each will be sent
every minute between Paris or London and
New York. The process, 1t Is said will also
enable the company to send in thirty minutes
from London to New York the entire contents
nf tly,,t tto I
will make submarine telegraphy tolerably
cheap and multiply the business Of the cables.
The new rates are to DO from three to five
cents word, and at that price everybody can
afford to talk to Europe
Speaking Of gravel gold mining, p Califor-
nlan said recently, In an interview with d
reporter OF the New York Tribune: 1.-The
director of the mint estimates that Califor-
MAS gold product for 1873 was about $780,
0000GG. / think 1t was fully that, and that
two-thirds II not three-quarters, was from
gold gravel One claim Of the Dutch Com
pany got 50 10 cubic yard from ~ 600 cubic
yards, and another got 500 81 per yard from
1000 cubic yards. Craigs Flat and Norris
town got over S5,COO0OO from about % acres,
and from about AZ acres Of the Conly& Gowell
ground over $1,000, 900 has been taken. This
company divided $2S4.O0O profits In one year
from q total expense Of $500"
An account of Christmas dinner at the
United States consulate ut Bangkok, Siam,
indicates how widely distributed are Amerl- |
can preserved viande In distant lands. Ar
American may go to the ends OF the earth and |
yet subsist OH tho products Of his own coun- |
A hn I'm oY,H1 ~
miles away, N addition to turkey and chicken
md eorned beef, Were American mlnce and
pumpkin pies. salmon holsters, mackerel and
,lams, with California potatoes, Philadelphia
tomatoes, Schenectady asparagus, California
peaches, Baltimore rasFberries, New Jersey
pears and Connecticut Elackberries. 1t may |.
seem remarkable to the average reader that Il
Ill this American fish, flesh and fruit should
% proeurable a. Bangkok. but he must re-
member that or ediblss OF almost every kind
90 IN cans TO ever part of the world, the ma
,ional enterprise in dslGacies prepared for
ne table following, II net preceding, the {
American wherever he may stray
The cost and yslue OF thc Suez canal are
interestingly stated In a communication to
he State Department fronl Mr.. Farnlan. ]
United States consll at Cairo, Egypt. The :
'ntire cost of the canal, it is stated, was sq2-
73,9OI livestock o. the company consists of !
10000 shares at par value of 800 each
which have sold as low as SO and Mt tha
pening OF the canal IN advanced e. ONLY 500 D
hey are now squoted at Sl49 40, and are !
robably worth morn. The l7G COZ shares 4
urchased by the British government I
'ere bought at SL13 GO. This great purchase. +
side from its political and commercial adj 2
antages, thus yields clear profit Of So q
5000 at present prices. The balance Of the y
.ook Is held by large number OF persons. 4
ostly in France. The revenues have i'll D
'eaSed from 81 100000 in 1870 to Sf,OO0,e0O in
s77. The expenses, including sinking fund u
I'd land have been little over 100000 Der b
ear, the actual expenses, drducting +
terest and sinking fugd, being about Z
100000 annually. The small com 4