New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-26
Something for Every Body.

The journeymen plasterers of Louisville have
struck for higher wages.
''Tll take your part as the dog said when
he robbed the cat of II portion of her dinner.
Cassus NJ Clay ia reported to be seriously i'll
at his resiaei,ae in Madison county, Ky.
Edwin Forrest Esq, the tragedian, was ex-
aea to the degree of Royal Arch Mason last week in
Metropolitan Chapter, No. 14O, OF NewYork.
The Sea Serpent after a tour to the eastward
to look after fishing interts has returned to Ma
hant.
The friends Of Gen. Scott are to hold mass
meeting at Pttsburg the 10th of September aud anoth
or at Louisville on the l4th.
The mining industry of Chill is in d high state
of development The yield of silver for 1862 is estimated
at a sum equal to e. 100000 sterling.
The American Tract Society, the month past,
acknowledge the receipt of S26o6S of which Sl0s65
in donations.
Among the notabilities in the county Jail of
ptsburg is Catharine aaysnot the vocalist yet, like
her. controlled by bars.
The name "Jerusalem Artichoke" arises
from corruption of the Italian words Grasele Artic
occo,n signifying sun-hower artichoke.
The late Jacob Bell, the extensive ship builder
of NewYork who died recently et fortune of $780, Ooo
for the disposition Of which be made no will
The Australian gold fever appears to have
broken out afesh in Network Two vessels are now IN
for Australia and 100 persons have engaged passage
A funeral sermon was preached at Proctors-
quest it written and read to him before he died.
The Countess of Eandsfeldt Lola Montez is
still in NewYork doing nothing in professional way,
but dashng On horseback occasionally down the Bowery
and Broadway.
Artificial rubies have been produced by M.
Ebemen directory of the mandatory of Sevres France
Alum zinc magnesia oxides Of iron and chrome dis
solved in boric acid
The Dahlonega (Ga.) Waterman, of the 18th
instant says it has been shown pair Of tass FROM wild
together form circle Of sixteen inches in circumference
A new paper has been started in Boston, called
the Boston Daily Chronicle devoted open and un-
shrinking advocacy of the repeal of the Massachusetts,
liquor law
The five slaves Of Mr.. Armstrong, who were
abducted from Louisville have been traced to Browns
town. thirty miles back of jacksonville in Indiana They
were in wagon with two white men.
Mrs G. F. Adams, the actress, who was ar
rested in Cincinnati charge of stealing bed quilts
sheets, from the New England House. in that city has
been honorably acquitted
A gentleman named Stewart, a young lawyer
from Mississippi had his leg broken in fight at Robbins
Restaurant in St. Louis recently, and most shamefuy
beaten.
Several kegs marked sLard'' but found to
contain spts were lately seized at Providence com
muncation from Mrs. Pattingon, through medium
This is rendering unto seser the things that
seiser's.n
William Lockridge, a well-known citizen of
Randolph county. Mo-. killed the 3lst hit at a
barbecue Roanoke by Fulton Barnes who beat and
kicked him to death The OF the difficulty was
Lockrdge using harsh Language about Barnes family
A woman named Catherine Butler, living in
alley leading from Watson street Baltimore found
DIT in her miserable hove few days the floor She
sixty years of age and died from poverty and
combined with old age.
A new hotel is proposed at Nashville, Tenn,
entitled the Metropolitan Commissioners have opened
books in that city receive subscriptions The amount
Of stock necessary is 100000 and the building designed
to be unsurpassed in magnfcence by any hotel in the
South.
Andrew Norris, soldier of the revolution
aged 90 years and five months who is still living near
Cincinnati was with Gen. Washington at the time of
the execution of Major Andre attached to the
I'd Regiment of New Hampshire Troops under Col Geo
Read
Daniel Finn, a convict to the Penitentiary.
while being conducted from the Criminal Court
the jail at ST. Louis drew from his pocket handful
lime which he dashed into the newly installed Deputy
Marshal Ogdens eyes, and started at full speed up
street. The marshal Mt first was half blinded but
aged to Keep the runaway in view and overlook him.
The Boston Courier publishes the following
under the head of Correction " Some errors occurred
in the price current table yesterday The remarks app-
cable to hemp' put under the head of hay " the
remarks applicable to hides - put under hemp
the hops comments applied to hides the hay'
to hops The figures in the quotations however were
correct.
Rice, we are told, was not known to the
Greeks and Romans. 1t made its appearance in Europe
about the middle of the fourteenth century Its cuiya
ton is said to have been first attempted in the low lands
adjoining Verona by patrician Of Milan named Theo-
dore Trivuz in 1922 Since then the cultivation this
plant which occasionally yields 100 bushels the
the nourshng description of grain furnished
an immense supply of food The consumption of Eurone
is now estimated Mt 100000 cwt. annually