New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-17
Something for Every Body.

There were 432 deaths in NewYork last week,
% died of consumption II of smallpox and 81 of fevers
There were fifty deaths in st. Louis dur
ing the week ending on the 9TH inst.
A painter in Cincinnati has painted an earle
so natural that it lays two eggs day.
A Geographic message of 90 words, from Lon
don to Paris by submarine telegraph costs about So
The wires continue to work well.
A gentleman in Louisville had his horse killed
under him few days since by coming in contact with a
cab while riding in the streets
Petitions are in circulation in Buffalo for
communication of the sentences of knckcrbocker the muir
derer, to Imprisonment for life,
A newspaper is a law book for the indolent, a
for the thoughtless library the poor Itmay
stimulate the most Indifferent it may instruct the most
profound.
The Knickerbocker is responsible for the fol-
lowing Two voters on election night fell into open
drain; what were their politics They weee Semerpl
men.
The first daily mail ever established in Arkan-
SAG, commenced running on the 23d ult. between Van
Buren, and Fort Smithdisancc between the two places
four and a halt miles
The N. Y. Evening Post announces the inten-
ton of Russell Smith, democrat the of f.
Snow returned from the Sixteenth Assembly District of
that city.
A man by the name of Zeey, while intoxica-
ted Thursday the 1st inst fell across the railroad
track at Fonda. n. Y, and before he discovered a
train passed over him killing him instantly.
A country paper says: In a mans pro-
gress from the plough the Presidency the speakershp
of the House of Representatives is the halfway houses
Hence the six weeks struggle for it last year
A man named Vincent Smith, who was mar
ried few months since in Lawrence county, KY was
fined S25 at St Louis on Friday week for cruelty to his
wife.
Francis Hens, sailor on board the British
ship Ashley. was killed at Savannah Wednesday. by
falling from the top-gaant yard the deck of the ship
His skull fractured and he died instantly Hens was
native of st. Boschs in Sweden.
The Philadelphia Bulletin states that some
ninety thousand letters remaining in Bood's Dispatch
Office at the time the fire We're consumed It is sup
posed that large sums of money have been destroyed in
them.
Barclay & Perkins, the great London brewers.
have clear annual profit of one million of dollars This
brewery is the largest in the world They manufacture
about thousand barrels per day England expends
more money for beer than for bread consequently the
business of the brewers is larger and better than that
the bakers.
The Boston Herald of the I'd inst. saws: &c A
large number of citizens RECALLED on Saturday
afternoon with the spectacle of fifteen or twenty
Young ladies. in the Boomer costume, skating on Back
Bay The ladies' proved henseves to be most excellent
| go it, ladies, while you're young"
| Rev. Geo F. Haskins, of the Roman Catholic
Church. has purchased the Dickinson estate in North
Square, Boston. for charitable institution of his own
founding the object of which is to maintain and educate
destitute children furnish them with trades and provide
| for their general welfare
| Aninteresting work has appeared in England,
entitled the Passions of Animals by Edward r Thomp
son. Animals says the author exhibit reason Judgment
memory imagination casualty hope love hatred terror
and fidelity The volume is devoted the illustration of
these faculties possessed by animals and abounds in
extraordinary and most interesting anecdotes.
! From the crowd of people at Kean's funeral,
there difficulty in getting out of the church.
medan who had been intimate with him. whispered as
he went out. while tear glistened in his eve This
then. is the end of kean poor fellow but dre,c
| ero,rded house 10 the last
| sMynheer Won Schmitz, if may be allowed
the question. how long have you been married? "Yaw
s you shall say how long time ish when saws to
the minister dat shall pcong mine vrow and tell me
no questions :" Yes that is what mean which is the
same as asking how long you have been married Vel
dis ting vot scdum don't likes to tink apout but ven
1 does it seems to pc so long as never vas
4 EARLY on Thursday morning, the Onion river.
Vermont set back against the Vermont Central Railroad
near Bolton Bridge and made breach of rod or more
in length Two three minutes afterwards wood train
came along and pitched into it. and the engineer. Mr.
Aiyrick. killed The breach would soon be repaired
MI Myrick leaves wife in Waterbury,
The Nashville Gazette states that Mr.. Theo
Noel of Memphis Tenn has just patent for an
improvement in winding watches He claims the app.
cation to watches of the machine KEYS substantially as
described and illustrated which keys and their boxes arc
enclosed by the watch and form part the watch
rendering the of ordinary watch KEYS unnecessary
without the expense and great friction of the complicated
machinery heretofore used
: According to an article in the Philadelphia
Inquirer insanity said to prevail considerable
tent in California Nearly every physician in the State
has patients and hardly vessel leaves the Atlantic
States which does not carry away sufferer. TIL,
Judge OF one Of the lower courts of Francisco
have come under his observation in that city in
six months and the Editor of the Courier thinks Their
have been Mt least four hundred victims since the settle
ment OF that place by the Americans.