New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-02

GOLDssuTH.i'
Spell mnrder backwards, and you have its
effects.
=. Mr.. Graham, the aeronaut, states, in refer
cnee to the late balloon accident that owing to the
treme ggness of the weather he refused to allow anv
stranger to encounter the risk of the The party
who accompanied him was only his wife.
1t is said that a lady residing in West Phila-
dephia on Wednesday gave birth to four children.
girls and two boys At the latest accounts both mother
| and little ones were doing well.
Charles Irving, Esq, formerly of Memphis
has been engaged TO assist in the editorial department of
the Nashville Union.
The cost of trying the Michigan Railroad con-
sprators amounted TO S31S61 49, This all legally
chargeabn to the county Wayne but the Company vol
unfairly assume to pay S27 :424 81.
In a recent law suit Mr.. Pipkins was called
on to mpeach the character of Mr. Blimnkins He was
asked whether he knew thelater to steal any thing
Nc SIR was the cautious reply of Pipkins. .
said Blimpkns stole things but do saw he's got way
Of finding things that no body has lost"
A Turkish merchant, of the name of Ed
wards brought the first bag of coffee to England and his
Greek servant made the first dish of English coffee in
1862 (under the Commonwealth 2
The taxes of the city of NewYork for the
present year according to Mayor Kingsands statement
| will be S350O00O
The Chief of Police and the Chief Engineer of
the Fire Department in NewYork, who have recently
made the frequent Of fires in that city
ter of investigation declare that system of incendi-
arsm has been going of the most alarming character
People, when they get married now days,
away the moment the ceremony is over lust as if
taking wife was equivalent to grand larceny
indulgence in the marriage subjected them to the
moose of the hangman.
| planter lost &40O and ten negroes in a nice
| little game Of faro, at Memphis few days since.
The sound of your hammer, says Franklin, at
five in the morning nine at night by creditor
makes him easy six months longer but if sees you at
the gambling table or hears your voice at the tavern
"h"n you should be at work he sends for his money the
next day.
The London Times says that one of the
schemes suggested in Paris for France bargain with
Russia for the cesson of the left bank of the Rhine as an
equivalent for the occupation Of Consantnope by Russia
A train Of ninety-fve cars, drawn by two
locomotives passed the Hudson River Railroad en-
| tine 10th nit 1t was more than mile in length
| Mr.. Rutler, of Brighton, eng has CON
strueted an electrical machine of great decacy and
made the discovery that its motion is stopped by all sub
stances capable of producing death Ift story true
| another wonderful invention is to bless the world.
Mrs Swisshelm declares that g the coil of an
anaconda would make better girde for young wonlans
whist than the arm of drunken husband.''
Dr. Wondcll has just invented new variety
Of pills to purge melancholy They made of fun
and fresh air in equal proportions and to be taken
with cold water three times day
| The San Francisco Picayune says: SO I'VE
wTs Yesterday shown specimen of petrifed egg The
clearly distngushabe This the only specimen the
| kind we have ever heard off,
| Mr.. John Jones, of Clyde Wayne county.
Network claims to have invented machine by which
any person can print with expedition and accuracy any
Kind VI communication The paper which the matter
Is TO be rintrd is placed upon cylinder which
to bring each letter its proper position as descepds
upon the paper 1t is operated by of levers. and
the mnchine is said to be- very Simple in its construction
aud operation The description of This machine answers
to that of one for writing letters about which considera-
BIZ stir was made few years since. We have not heard
however, of its successful application.
That Othello has severe cold in his head
the Lantern says is proved ly hi 'sty about that
handkerchief
The tomb of Washington's mother, in Fred
ercksburg Va, is said to be in dilaplaea condition.
\ large assemblage of both sexes took place
in Philadelphia the It'll inst ut the Ladies' Temper
atce Mass Meeting in favor of the Mainr liquor law
number Of eloquent speeches delivered and great
| nrhuSiasm prevailed.
| When the Grand Jury was being empaneled
at Cambridge Mass. last week Juror asked to be ex-
crsed on the ground that he deaf of ear and
could only hear on one side Judge Hoar replied that did
not appear to he sufficient excuse since. as Grand
Juror, he was only expected to hear side,