The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

| The san Francisco Chronicle now statas the
value Of the estate of the late James O'BIien
to be SIG, $685. 50.
The city OF Baltimore has celebrated Its
one hundred aud iifteth anniversary, having
been founded January H. 1870.
The boys IN Portland. Me, have the adj
vantage of hill for coasting where they can
slide distance OF q mile and a half.
Mrs. j. j. Astnr has sent out recently from
the office of the Children's Aid Society u M w
! ear party of one hundred HON elesS chill
dren to homes in the West and South. at an
expense OF $780,
The Caledonian Club of Richmond, Va, will
celebrate on Monday, twHnty-siXth instant,
the anniversary Of the birth Of Robert Burns,
which recurs on Sunday twenty-tifth. Can't
John y. Wise will deliver the address.
A New York gentleman visiting Ireland
writes that the potatoes there are hope
lessly diseased, aud no sound crop can be
gathered this coming Year unless new, healthy
seed Is sent from America for distribution.
The snppy Of water for New York city IL to
be Increased about onellfth, although nearly
two years time will be required to acc lmplsh
this result. Tho water IS to come from the
Bronx and Brian rivers, their sources and
tributaries, and the quality Ia pronounced
good.
The United States Minister to Bolivia has
turned up at Washington without getting
leave Of absence from his post of duty. Hn
explains by saying that the Republic OF Bu-
ltva Ia In state Of anarchy. the President
having been bounced, and that there is moth
ing for him to do.
Elizabeth Hammond, a pretty white girl.
eighteen years old, passed through Lynch
burg. Va, on her way to the penitentiary,
under sentence OF three years for stealing q
horse In Russell county. She Is said to have
been of good family. 1t Is the first case OF
the kind In the State.
correspondent writes that military
1.ptr- bnt, a. balm faI ne ~
over the spot where Gen. Anthony Wayne
was buried, similar to the one in which he
died. It's second story is already nearly com
pleted and ready for the roof, upon which q
flag -statf forty feet in height will be reared.
The State convention OF milers MT Harris
burg, Pa. adopted proposition that a COM
mtttee, composed Of one member from each
county in the State, be appointed to agitate
among millers and farmers n movement look
ing 10 the Improvement Of the varieties of
wheat and the establishment OF an equitable
value Of the cereal at the mills.
The Washington Post says one effect or the
negro exodus has been the addition OF more
than q hundred penniless and homeless ne-
Rroes to the surplus culored population of
that city, where more than half OF the deaths
that occur among that race are occasioned by
their miserable poverty and the vices result
Ing mainly from their overcrowded and idle
condition.
Ex-Gov. Seymour has called the attention
Of the present Congress to the fact that on
the fourth day OF October 1777 Congress
passed r solution requesting that New
York erect, at continental expense monu-
mtnt of the value of $500 To the memory OF
BriRadier General Herkimer. No monument
has been built and Mr.. Seymour thinks the
appropriation should be made now.
The new constitution OF California took ef-
feet last New Years Day, and one defect was
discovered before 1t was half day old The
code OF civil procedure provides for the Issue
Of marriage liceAses by the clerk Of the coun-
ty court. The new constitution aboIishes the
county court. 1t there IL no court there can
be no county clerk, and II no clerk no mar
rages without punishment under the penal
code of the State.
The San francisco Chronicle says that the
last act OF the compromise between John III.
Lick and the other heirs of the Lick estate
and the trustees was performed on the third
instant by John II. Lick aud others giving
quit-claim deed to the trustees for all the
Lick estate In the city, the consideration be-
Ing $685.. 900, which is the amount OF the com
promise, including the S150000 lett to John Ii.
Lick by his father.
The Denver lCol.) Herald says that the
mines OF Colorado last year yielded S25, 1885,
ASS. and that the estimates of 1S7S adopted
BY the mint authorities in Washington,
placed the States gold and silver product for
that year at $S.75l. 344. to which Superintend-
ent Herman Silver. of the Denver Mint,
added $4,000 as the value OF shipments
sent East through private sources, thus
placing the highest reliable estimate Of that
years product at 9.25l,3 4A.
Ex-Minister Stoughton was a guest of the
Banks Club, Boston, at its last meeting, and
In his speech, said that while minister to
Russia he was put In the possession of facts
concerning q diplomatic scheme proposed by
England In 17S0,S1, to Queen Catherine OF
Russia. In which Eugand agreed to cede the
Island OF Minorca. III the Mediterranean Sea,
to Russia Ii she would combine with the
German Empire to force France to withdraw
her fleets from our shores. Catherine refused
what she considered bride.
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Young ladies in England have taken to
canoes for amusement, and the sport is very