The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-15

last from fifty to sixty years, even longer WIFE
a little care, and be thrifty producers all Ems
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The London Observer 81 July % states that
] sp9 engineers are On strike at Bradford
!. Eng. have been offered employment BY the
, engineering firms To the United states, ana
] would erafgrate at once with their families.
IT mentions that the branches Of the Anal
, panated Engineers Society IN this country,
u CLEVELAND. Boston, New York, PhiladeI-
/. mia. st. Louis, San Francisco, Chicago,
BROOKLYN and New Haven have assured them
of prompt and remuneratiV5 employment.
: The strange feature about II IT, the Observer
, regards With cornplac4ncy the loss OF this val
nabIe and. as it would seem, Indispensable Ia
Dor The straits there must be great indeed
10 produce such feeling.
Concerning the San Francisco sugar mar
ket We take the following extract from Wheel
er's circular of August ):
Receipts In July .......-... =, go bags
Sandwich Islands -....4.=. ..5....@. / ,326 kegs
| Central American ....-s..-..s... 2f4 bags
China Observation-Disclosures. 543 mats
| Owing to a fairly active demand the large
stocks held by Tefiners at the close Of the first
/ six months have been considerably reduced
and FROM present appearances the Sandwich
Islands will De unable TO furnish sufficient
! supplies to carry us through the season; thus
far, however, we hear Of nothing Oh the way
from other sources. Notwith5t standing t1a r.
! cent advance In refined sugars i'll New York,
our refnaries still accept the reduction made
on the eighth uitimo. Present prices: Pow
dered 10c. cube cruahed and fine crushed nc,
dry graduated &c, yellow @ si4e. ID 78+e, ali
| in barrels, less Iae 70 dealers. Cash less ~
per cent.
The st. Louis commercial travellers have
ZELDA meeting to protest against the lav re-
Gently passed by the Texas Legislature tax
Ing drummers $500 year to do business III
the State. It vas agreed to test the law, and
q fund is to be raised to make the fight. Mr..
Dixon, travelling for a large s.. Louis house,
said At the meeting:
.'Texas passed law similar to the present
one once before, and it was not enforced He
was In Palestine once, and vas called upon
| by deputy sheriff, who demanded payment
I 81 the occupation tax. MIR. Dixon told him
that he had not sold any goods In Texas: that
he had only taken orders. He was ready,
however, to stay and stand a trial Of the case,
/ and, after a consultation with al attorney,
the deputy sheriff decided that he would pro-
coed no further la the matter Mr.. Dixon con
tended that q travelling salesman did not sell
! goods, he only took orders for them, and that
accepted tins orders. That position be had
| always taken in Texas, and had had NO trou-
| bic. The whole thing was unconstitutional,
| and drummefs should travel % and take nt,
notice OF it. The occupation tax OF Texas was
| a hambug and bugab1o. and If the drum
| rners would face It 1t would vanish. Hts house
would cooperate with the commercial men,
and, If necessary, would lend its assistance to
] contest the Law. He did not think that the
officials OF the State you'd allow the matter
/ to 60 TO the Supreme Court
The New York Express says OF the money
market In that city:
/ The circumstances surrounding the money
\ maFkey, not only this week, put last. were of
4 an extraordinary character, and hardly ever
occur more than once Ii the lifetime Of q na-
4 ton. Within the short space of two weeks
the New York city banks have paid into the
/ sub-trea5ury the enormous sum Of S55,G00.6G0
| In legal tender notes In payment for per
cent bonds. OF this amount naarty thirty
! four millions Of dollars were paid in during
August, or within the space Of nine days OF
course the payments On account Of called
bonds have been heavy within this period,
/ but at the commencement OF business
| this morning tie treasury had on
| hand about twenty-five millions Of legal
| tenders available for drafts, against which
some heavy checks have been drawn, and
which, iH the course Of business, Etil reach
this city next week. The fat N the matter
| is that the Treasurer of the United States at
| banks for an enormous amount If money
! within an unusually short space OF time and
| that he did not cause q great monetary dis
| turbance is one Of the miracles Of the age.
| Sound policy and conservatism would have
suggested q more gradual calling in Of money
| from the banks. As the matter now stands,
| the Treasurer has called In nearly al that y
due on account of subscriptions to the per
cent bonds, the remaining balance being only
a fag end. and Of no financial fmpOrtarxa."
From a long and elaborate article In the ST.
Louis Post We gather some interesting facts
regarding the -four trade of that city. st.
Louis manufactures more flour than any
other city In the United States. The mills In
that city produced 1915, 29o barrels for 1873,
and the city handled q total OF 3, 1882 bar
rels. The business amounts TO nearly s20,-
100000 per annarn, and gives employment TO
fully 1000 men. The -four trade Is probably
worth more to st. Louis than any other in
dustry, since 1t gives EN- pIoyment to SO many
persons and distributes such large amount
81 money. The production Of -four In ST
Louis has increased remarkably since the
war, and will continue to do 50 as new mar
kets are found. In the flush times OF 1863 the
receipts amounted to only 805836 barrels, as
against /, 3d.. 3336 barrels III 1873. The amount
manufactured In 1863 was s95.l54 barrels, as
against 1,916,23o barrels In 1873. The ship
ments OF 1863 amounted to 1,499,337 barrels,
while in 1873 they amounted to 1870 40 bar
rels. an increase Of nearly 100000 barrels,
Nothing except cotton and grain can show
more rapid growth in that market. The St.
Louis mills last year consumed 7,400,975
bushels of the II, 100000 b shells Of wheat that
went there, and the product in -four from this
was $4,000 barrels more than the amount
made the year before.
There are twenty-eight mills In st, Louis.
One Of these produces 1900 barrels II twenty
four hours, while another makes 1000 barrels Ia
~ At tirna- The total canacitu nf al 81 them