New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-14

gun was fired into the crowd and a son of Capt Je,re
Foster aged about 20 was fatally wounded Two others
were slightly wounded The affair to be investigated
Greene Of the Boston Post gives the following
account current for New Years day-Received five
hundred wishes for "a happy new year, and gold pen,
yesterday Expended five hundred wishes Balance In
our favor, gold pen.
On Thanksgiving Day, the 9th of November,
the descendants of Captain Isaac Lawrence of the
first settlers Of Canaan in Connecticut held meeting
the house built by him in that place precisely century
ago. There seventy-fve persona of different ages
present They wrote their names in book. which is
be preserved and exhibited at the next meeting in
teen hundred and ffty-one
One hundred and six vessels have been built
at NewYor during the year just closed which is thirty
more than were built in the year 1885, increase of
mage any former year twenty thousand OF these
vessels eighteen clippers and twenty steamers
The whole number of sidewhee steamships built
Newiork is now fifty-three.
| kossuth hats, with black feathers, and a
newly introduced chapeaux having been adopted by the
bucks of Broadway NewYork. those Of the Bowcry
to be outdone have also adopted the kossuh hat but
have substituted in place of the black ostrich plume.
three turkey -tai-feathers.
Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, is the
heaviest taxpayer in Ohio his bill for the past year
both city and county is nearly l7 o0S12000 of which
county pays S673s 81, and Henry Avery,
pays at Columbus city and county properly $335S IS
Dean Swift says he never knew a man to rise
to eminence who lay in bed of morning and DR. Frank
lin says he who rises late may trot all day but never
overtake his business Nevertheless it does not
srly follow that every man running around the
Common at daybreak every morning will rise emf
nence," or be successful in business
| A bill has passed the Indiana House of Re-
personalities. and will probably become law, allowing
the Masonic fraternity to erect monument the Tppe-
to the memory of the distinguished
members Of the Order who fell in that battle Among the
Masons who fell in that battle Coils 10 Davis Spen-
Ger and Warrick.
A woman, said to be a Mrs. Washington, an
American lecturer made her appearance lately
the English hunts in full Boomer costume. She wore
light brown polka jacket. richly lowered white
sky blue tuic with blue lowered pantaoons, tied with
ribbons She took the lead and kept it during the
hunt, amid the laughter and jeers of the spectators
The Directors Of the Submarine Telegraph
Company between Dover, England, and Calais. France
have several metallic cables making, which will
be submerged in addition that already in operation
one conductor being already insufficient to convey the
multitude Of dispatches exchanged between London
and the continent
The Liverpool Journal says the permission to
fire and lights board vessels in the Liverpool docks
is comforting all the advantages which its advocates anti
cpated Not the least is the improved social condition
of the already apparent Jack comfortable in his
| forecaste, is less tempted to rove.