New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-18
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the other day and percevipg impertinent fellow
ing him as he wrote. wound up thus ~ should
it not that an npudent puppy is looking
my shonbIerr Upon my honor. sir. 4. dad the nalr
have not read word yoe have written.''
The Cincinnati Commercial states the follow
ing shocking circumstance "A half drunken woman
was perambuating the streets on Thursjay night A
rowdy led her into paint shop on Fifth street aud
iaubed her face in mere blackguard wantonness and
The light disclosed the dsfgued face Of his mother
It is said that in Venice there are thousands
VINO never saw hill wood. or of corn grow
ing Or vineyard. green field, even horse and
carriage The canals tfversed by gondoas, species
OF canoe twenty-five feet long with cabin in the
sufcientiy capacous for the accommodation Of from FIVE
to ten persons. Al
The Metropolitan Hotel, located on the site of
Nbios Garden in me city Of NewYork cost half mil
lion Of dollars for the building aIona and the cost Of
furnishing it will be about 100000 It's front Broad
plated it will stand first among the public houses Of the
United States.
The aggregate value Of sne wines annually
brandy, s3O000G8. Of beer S175oO0 tobacco snuff
and cigara $1750e00. Total about 12900o00 gallouss
valued at say s7oooooo The ysas q tea annually i'm
ported is S5000Go0 of coffee $120000a and Of fruits
(raisins, figs almonds etc, sl0o0G0.
A very rich sulphur mine has been opened ut
Bohar. the Red Sea The sulphur be delivered
Egypt has imported yearly 1900 cwt at cost of
50 80 cents per cwt This mine will yield some 2500o cwt
for expectation during the present and will change
materially the price of the article in Europe
On Wednesday-eyening, the 28th ult., an at
tempt was made to throw the express train from New
Haven to Springfield off the Track at Waingford Con-
rails which the train IN con=ct with but without
doing injury The seounrei who thus endangered life
was tracked in the snow and arrested
Arnong the singular customs of the Island Of
Celebes eligible the highest Offices Of the
State that, at the present nix Of
the hereditary raiahs females Among the Huges
some men dress like women. and come like men
for their whole lives devoting themselves to the oceup
tion Of their adopted sex.
In the streets of Paris the shop windows dis
play all the mechanical operations their owners
fashionable hat store has nmer of hat blocks covered
with silk hats in its Windows These eeaeeSiy turned
with great velocity by steam engine while delicate
brush which seems scarcely to touch the surface of the
silk farts to it that exquisite gloss which eharaetezes
the Parisian hat.
| The production of silk in Europe has recently
undergone great improvements, owing to the introduc
tion Of Chinese methods. This is due to NJ Julien
eminent scholar Of Paris who translated into French
Chinese work the subject NJ. Julien has trans
lated Chinese manual the fabrication of porcelain
which is anticipated will be equally beneficial to that
branch Of industry. f'-f1 f9l
! Two printers in the Plymouth Rock office,
tired Of taking Impressions on the forms Of that
tried on the hearts of two fair damscls After
settings up they succeeded in taking such fair pycey Of
the matter that this reek the minister Of the place
called in and gorksd of the whole four tams III two folio
| circulate the documentsp 55t-55z.s5 .-.-
| A lawsuit OF thirty years standing, involving
the claim to the quarter section covering the Hot Springs
in Arkansas-aA the hot springs eighty in number
the little of Hot Springs also being included has
been gained by the heirs Of Lodovico Beldng Major
H. Gaines brother Of the Governor of Oregon who
ried of the heirs and conducted the suit to its
nation gets one-hf his wes share The property is
| worth at least saoo0O ls51-
| The pay of the Austrian army is to be inereas-
/ ed The young Emperor devotes his whole time and
attention to cultivating' his army No eye
has him since his Accession the throne, OF
uniform and he has deigned occasion to
wear the dress of private soldier He recently put six
generals under arrest in day. for appearing in the
streets out of uniform
| The new discoveries Of lead at Galena, ILL., T,
promise rich returns The mineral appears from
in thickness covering all sides of the and
adherng SO enacously the rock that it requires blast
inn to detach it The coal mines Carhondale Pa
also remarkably productive The mines remarkably
well ventilated and the yield Of the present year will be
very large indrances being in the Of steady labor
A little son and daughter Of the late MFR.
rhares Gregory. of Norwich Conn., went the ice to
side few days since when the little girl broke through
heir and the little fellow to assist her when he
fell in and both were drowned. Their mother is left
widow moor and cbldless Her husband was drowned a
few years since.
Married, at Rochester, Noble county, on the
18th of January, by the Rev Mr. Wolf Mr. Sias Lion t.
| Miss Edith Lamb f7
Our devil calls this beatly affair. but it reminds
rather of that miienniaera spoken ia the Holy Hrit
The Lion and the Lamb shall lie down together and
little child-our Bible is lost and We forget the remain
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