New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-06-29

Ex-senator Breese has been elected Speaker
| OF the Illinois House of Representatives
The Last fashion among the nobility of Enn-
land is to eat fish with the aid of silver knife and fork
The carpenters in the employ Of the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Canal Company are on A strike for
| the ten hour system. "
Col. Morgan, President or the Cuyiurtpu ,.p,1
Lexington Railroad died of cholera Covingt6n KY on
| the 18th inst
Fifteen cases of sun-stroke occurred in New
York and vicinity the 10Th inst Two in the citv and
| two in Brooklyn terminated fatally.
| bachelor having advertised for n wife To
share his lot an Anxious Inquirer solicited informati
as to the size of said ct.
One hundred and eighteen thousand pounds
of butter recently taken into the CITY of NcwYor
in enc day by the Erie Railroad
meeting of the officers of the banks of Mas
sachusetts has been held in Boston to aid in tile etec
| tiou and suppression Of eounterfcitug.
When you hear a person say, after talkinr
half an hour well to make long story short atoH3
this time look out for one Of the intelmnabes
AT the May ,teie in Paris Louis Napoleon rode
dark bay horse which cost him in England S1o5oapd
sad to be cheap at that.
The number of military land warrants issued
to date is stated to be III 0OOof which - noa
were for 100 acres $1,000 50 acres and 81 400 for 10
acres. " ~
A thief in Glasgow jail, being desired to
6athe entered the bath with plaster his breast In
revealed to the eyes of the astonshed turkeys
trOye OF six gold watches.
Muggln3 says he never tried bark but snse.
and then it was 80 mixed with bite that it was question
able whether it did him much good 1t was recommended
by gardener for deprayed appetite for other
peoples cherries, INewYork Dutchman
estern editor, who heard Ole Bull at his
last concert in the eodeon says that bis execution
the most sublime conclusion Of horsehair against catru
that he ever listened to, that it would make even n
grizzly bear hug his enemy to his excited bosom
seyd Pacha, hereditary Prince of Egypt, and
eldest surviving son of Meheuet Ali has arrived at Mar
settles on board French ship of war Tho ostensbIe
cause OF his visit to recruit his health at the mineral
springs at Mont Dor.
The locomotive Sandusky on the Mad River
aud Lake Erie Railroad, into Cleveland (ohio) on
the I'm instant with sixty-wo heavily loaded four
Wheeled ears The precise weight of the train We did not
learn but 1t must have been enormous.
The NewIork Commercial Advertiser saws
mat within fourteen days sixteen corpses of unknown
adults have been drawn from the watariD city Some
Of them bore marks of violence Several were not reeor
n@et me Ferdct' OF the coroners jury generally
found drowned y
The most conspicuous effort to manufacture
capital Ion the advancement Of MIR Pierce has just been
made by the BatmoreSun 1t declares with treat gravity
and considerable yehemence that individual who was
Rife. 10y
In Madame De Stael's Considerations of the
IL@nGh Rrciioa she relates that the eldest Napoleon
Wheh fst Gosu turned abruptly to lady in the circle
saying: Madame do like women to talk politics
'ou are RICH citizen Consul, was the reor but in
is
for them to ask why"
The London Farmers Magazine disapproves
Of Guano as manure and shows conclusively that that
material Is only temporary and not permanent improyer
OF land We have tried it upon flowers. and found that
~ me emu u Gld The plants more injury than benefit
hS Is iast that should be generally circulated among
Ggricntturists,
IN able English writer is out in favor of the
terrestrial origin of mcteoric stones lie is of opinion
that they thrown by volcanoes to cousilerahe
distance and that the rotation of the earth Aaxis
me cause OF their apparent motion That they come
ron the moon or from comet formed in the upper
regions OF our atmosphere by certain compositions
considered ms unsupported and unteuabe and
given in favor Of their volcanic origin
In the year 1896, Samuel Baldwin, n gentle
man OF hampshire England died. and opening his
will it was found that he had ordered his BODY to be
thrown into the sea which he lived Ills reason for
making this extraordinary disposal of his remains was
that his wife who was much younger than himself and
not on good terms with her husband had frequently said
to him taat she would dance upon his grave
The American population Of Liberia is now
about 5000 inabitng territory stretched miles
OF coast They have built about twenty cities and towns
They have made treaties by which hundred thousand
natives are brought under their laws and nearly mil
lion have abandoned the slave traffic The money 10 ac-
comrish this good has not exceeded million and half
OF dollars.
The Worcester 1Egis says that Gen Pierce, a
year or so ago was trying insurance of the
New Hampshire courts in which witness that he
carried out OF house bureau which in fact heavy
enough to require two three mon to remove it The
General thought lie had him SIR said he approach.
ing the witness meuacngy, do you undertake to say
mat you carried out that bureau alone = Yes Gene
raj. and didn't faint eithcri
London papers describe an inquest held by
the Coroner, Elizabeth Vgors. aged five years The
body presented horrible spectacle being lump
flesh twisted and distorted Deceaseds father stated that
soon after her BIRTH girl threw deceased over her back
to the ground Since the occurrence. she assumed
curved position could eat nothing but bread and butter
and when touched her appeared to SNAP She had
been under medical treatment long time without deriv
ing the least benefit There bones in her body
the limbs purely grizze. It was an aggravated
case Of what is called ricketts,