The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-26
News Items.

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der the umbrage of the Massachusetts Legislature
| We're held in Old Faneull Hail. Boston, on the 18th
| instant, commemorative of John Quincy Adams.
| o. During my visit, there was living on Woa-
| hoo, Sandwich Islands,) woman of twelve years
of age, who had already presented to an English
husband three thriving pledges of connubiaI love-
Simpsons Overland Journey Round the World.
School Burned.-The handsome Seminary build
ing, erected by the beraty Of the citizens of Can
bridge City, Ia, was destroyed by fire on Monday
evening, Sd instant.
Destructive Fire-One of the numerous build
ings in Ann street, New York, occupied by printers
and bookbinders, was pretty much burned out on
Thursday evening, 18th instant. +. W. Bell, book
binder, lost about $1,000; w. H. Clark, printer,
suffered severely; the entire stock of J. Bthill,
bookbinder, was destroyed, loss $1,000; and there
were several other sufferers.
m- The Germans in New York continue holding
meetings in behalf of freedom in faderland. "
They have raised $4,000 for the widows and Or
phans who fell IN the recent struggle in Germany
o. While a German woman, at Pittsburg,
mixing lime, it flew into her eyes, putting them both
out. The lime was dry, and she poured hot wa
ter on it.
o. Fewer shad have been caught in the Della
ware this season than ever before known.
o. Queen Victoria is now the mother of six
children, three sons and three daughters.
o. 1t is said that the wife of Louis Philippe
urged him to mount his horse, place himself at the
head of his troops, appear in front of the Tuile
ries and die like king, or save his throne.
o. The Cincinnati Enquirer has received a Mex
lean paper called the Monitor Republican,, which
contains an article styling Messrs. Clay, Calhoun,
Botts Webster, Holmes, Galatin etc., the illustr-
GUS defenders of the cause of Mexico.
or The laborers on the canal, near Syracuse,
N. Y, recently struck for an advance of wages to
q lo1 har Ioh
from working at less wages, serious riots took place.
serA bill to abolish Militia Trainings passed
both houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature. 1t
imposes tax of twenty five cents upon each indi-
vidual liable to militia duty, in lieu of personal
service upon training days.
o. Two thousand pounds offered by the
wife of Sir John Franklin, to any Of the whaling
ships which resort to Daviss Straits and Baffin Bay
for any information of the expedition under the
command of Sir John Franklin.
% The Albany Patriot states that the prospect
was never better in South western Georgia for cot
ton and corn than this season.
OF The wheat crop of Michigan is represented
as looking unusually well, even where few weeks
since 1t was deemed wholly ruined
Woman of Nerue-A German who attempted to
violently enter a house at New Albany, KY, on
Sunday night week, in which was only Mrs.
Roberts and four children, after Being fully warned,
was shot dead by the brave woman
Great Fire.-The lumber wharf of Chamberlain
& Son, Neponset, Mass was burnt, with two build
ings and large a amount Of lumber, at loss OF
o. In pulling down an old house, at New Ha-
ven, Conn, lately, stocking and an old cloth cap
were found filled with Spanish dollars.
Lumber Trade.-The Delaware, between Phila-
delphia and Trenton, is literally covered with RATS
of lumber.
o. A 'grand military and civic jubilee, in
honor of the progress of freedom in Europe" was
to have taken place at the Park Theatre, NewYork,
on the 25th Of April.
Hg- The Cherokees have got debating society
at Tahlequah, at which the members of the Ma
tional Council speak and in which they all seem
to take great interest. During Of their late
sessions, some of the Cherokee boys broke up the
Council in alarm, by throwing lighted balls of tow
and turpentine into their midst
o. A democratic Mayor has been elected in
Milwaukee, by 1888 majority,