The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-23
GENERAL. NEW ~.

convention will DO divided between SneEluAil,
Blaine and Washburne
The New York police made a descent, on
the seventeenth instant, on n number of
dance houses In that city, capturing 400 prls-
oners
The explosion Of coal-gas on the steamship
Greece Ia the second accident OF ths KIND |
within a year. It would appear that greater
care should bs taken I'm selecting coal for use
on ships, and In storing 1t.
A story comes from Ohio that a movement |
has been started In that State. which has eX-
tended to the Ohio Democrats In Congress,
looking to tho nomination for President NJ
the National Convention Of Hugh j. Jewatt. |
Wisconsin has State Indebtedness OF only |
90 925, 600: but the indebtedness I cities. |
towns, villages and school distriet5 aREre- |
gates over St00DO.0 600, or with that OF The |
State, about 30 so per capita for the entire
population.
There IL increasing alarm In the Black Hills |
| towns In regard to the diphtheria, the deaths
| In January numbering twenty-four. Dead
woods exemption Ia claimed to result from
| It's publication by flames, while her Sister
eitltas are In bad sanitary condition.
Tho Secretary OF the Treasury, having been
officially notified that shipments OF iron ore
ara being made from Canada to Buffalo, In
amounts of less value than SiO0 without con
sular invoices. has render.d "a decision, In
which he holds that such action Is al Infringe
| meut OF tho customs laws.
Gen. Chas. Roome, grand master of Masons
| of New York. SAWS this dechvery Will be
great thing for Mpsonry That Com Cor
| hinge Ia right when he says he has found M
sonic embens cannot for II moment be
| doubted aud now savants will Continue To
| trace the order haek until they will find that
| it.began In the u .st thousands OF years be-
fore tho Christian era.
Macon and Charleston are desperately
striving to work up ~ boom for the knoxville
| route to the sCa. They arc both shouting at
! louisville aud Cincinnati In the hops OF In
/ dueng them to turn their forces towards
! Knoxville instead OF Atlanta. and, therefore,
| towards sCharleeton instead OF Savannah,
| towards Brunswick instead of Penaaeola.
dispatch from Charleston, s. O.. January
| II says: Ono Of the most renai kable Incl
DENTS In thie exceptional winter here Is The
| ripeninK Of Strawberries In tho vcinltynt tbls
city It Is expected that shipments of this
/ luscious fruit will 20 forward this week To
Nav York Another instance uf the cxtranr-
binary season here Is the hlossoming of Jes-
aumines In tho city gardens and on the coun-
try roads.
Railway circles In Tennessee were treated
To n colossal sensation on the seventeenth
instant hy the development OF tho fact that
the Cole system of roais, which had become
almost m accomplished fact, had been fore
stalled hy the purchase 10y the Louisville par
ty of n controlling interest In the Nashville,
Chattanooga aud st. Louis road-a rcheme
which Involves the consolidation OF $500 miles
OF track In the South.
Ia the cane growers convention, recently
held nj st Louis. Mr. Belcher, tho Oi1ielhl
anaSzer, reported that the tests ~ aofSnn ',1
had hopn encouraging aud surprising One
association III Psapody. Kansas, has Invested
$40 900 lii this industry, another, NJ Cfysthl
Inka. Ill, made $1,000 pounds Of excellent
sugar. this season, out ~ Inferior JUICE rom
largely unripo canes. Both Congress aud the
State Legislatures will doubtless be asked 70
give attention to this industry.
n In the Governors room, In tho city hall oil
New York, hangs the best portrait extant OF
Alexander Hamilton, In which SECRETARY
, Sherman his latest successor In the lreas-
, ury. seems to take o lively interest. He hhs
commissioned Miss r .neom to makea copy
OF the painting and New Workers are gfoWi'
/ Ing, not nnreaeonably, that she Is bedaubiha
the fine WOlk with CREASED tl5Sue pdpoe AZ vi
| der to make traclngs.
( Through the liberaIty OF the Astor family
I the Astor Library In New York IL about to
7 be enlarged by tho addition Of II new edifioe
/ to cost 100000 exclusive OF the lana recent
iy made over to the trustees. ana With en-
paetty for $50 600 more hooks-thnt OF Tue
! present buildings being 100000. When the
contemplated improvements are completed
the henefaction OF the Astor family to this
great intellectual charity will amount TO ST.
600 600 The original gilt WIS $1,000 whicl
was made by the founder of tho famiIy him
self
Ex-Gov. Young, of Ohio, Is meeting witt
Q unexpected encouragement III the prosecutor
of his scheme to have the fee system OF th'
United States courts investigated. He ha'
received numerous letters from attorneys a
diff Tent points complaining that they arr
. being continuously fireced by the officers o
the courts From DtsM Dimes, Ia, and Nash
s vIIe Tenn, in particular, he has received TN
e most damaging testimony against the cour
officials He has letters from Nashville law
Y yera ndorsed by Congress man Houk, alleg
S ing that the whole court Is rotten.
Ex-Gov. Bishop, OF Ohio, returned to nj
/. homo In Cincinnati on the ltteenth ihetah'
a and received quite an ovation. In which men Q
all parties Joined The Ex-Governor made
q speech, In which he traced his career as u cit
= councilman, mayor, member OF the cOnSlitu
!, tional convention, ana finally as governor
and declared that it had always been III
honest purpose to discharge his duty, ana b
y had done the best he could Having trans
8, ferred the reins of the State government !
d his successor, Mr.. Bishop has recent arkrd J
the wholesale grocery business. luis hhla III
q ex. Governor aspires to the vice presidenlla
3 nomination on the Democratic ticket.
o Among the many bills relating to the cul
rpncy now pending In Congress u one ihtft
It ducsd by Representation Caswell or Wiscot
r sim on the twelfth instant authorizing IN
st issue Of small silver certificates. 4 ne 81
provides for the issue of such certificates |
M dpn0minat ions OF one and Two doilhfS III
I quarters and half dollars, to the amount
~ sos 900 600; .and 50 fast rs such ceftlllcAle
are issued d corresponding amount OF ltgs
tender silver dollars shall be- set apart an
= retained III the treasury for the redemptio
- OF said certificates and they shall br receive
- BILE for cust oms, taxes, and all pnolic que
Y. and, when 50 received, may be relssuea.
N A Harrisburg Pa dispatch says the lates
" sWinala On the farmers Is the 'GpnSl9' tAf
- ing" A gentlemanly fellow drives up vii
% blanks Tor statistics Of the farm-bu-hris
wheat number OF cattle raised, acres und'
at cultivation, etc. Between the tables ana y
1T foot Or the page where the farmer signs >
70 name attesting the statement, Is hlal
y space, whose existence Is accounted Tor
e affordlng room for miscellaneous inform
p ton. In G. month more the farmer rtcelV'
notice from 4 neighboring bank hat his NO
at for $50 Is due. He knows nothing OF II
N note, Tut investigation shows that the zee
lie sas-takpr' has filled in the blank with
re- promise TO pay, which, being now III the tal
I'd of an Innocent holder, must pe paiu ny u
in unlucky dupe.
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re-, Opinion OF Eminent DIR. II. y. tteuar