New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-28

Of the goods is equal to eleven sufficient
the stowage Of forty thousand tons a the wheels of
a the belonging to the company made into
great Wheel that great wheel would be seyentytwo miles
in circumference.
A short time since we published an account of
IN Phaap T hn 6y the %
per minute The Hartford Courant is informed that the
Griswodvile Knitting Company in Wethersfeld, have
three hundred d sixty stitches per minute nearly
double what the Philadelphia machine will do.
A patent for safety paper has been granted
ton to manufacture paper that will indicate by disco
loration of its surface when attempt has been made to
extract written characters thereon thereby aordng
bankers and protection against forgery Iodine
Of promne together with errocyanid ferrcyanid Of
| potassium and starch, used in its preparation
| Gen. Tarver, recently deceased, was the rich
est man in Georgia owning some 1900 slaves. He was
moral benevolent, and temperate and universally
esteemed. Yet his last words were After all, have
spont my life in no important purpose in the pursuit Of
should be devoted to the study of the Bible to prayer
to preparation for the life to come The things of this
world will do to live by, but will not do to die by"
| A NewYork correspondent of the Boston
Transcript tells good story while giving account of
the Kossuth reception in that city Says he gen.
temany old man, who stood near me, while the crowd
We're rendng the welkn with their shouts for Kossuth
and Hungary. exclaimed Hurrah for your country.
you damned fools Hurrah for your own Government.
whose blessings you enjoy every day of your ives!'
The Atlanta (Ga Intelligencer gives the fol-
lowing account of attentions paid to individual for
plauking down the s'pewter'': Last Monday a man.
who looked he might have been in better business
detected at the bar of the Alhambra buying liquor
with pewter dimes, with which he well supplied
whereupon, some of the boys took his into their
own hands and placing him astraddle rail- rode him.
in rather summary manner, beyond the corporation"
A short time since says the Pesth .Napla, a
vener Of engravings made his appearance in the Capital
of Hungary and peddlcd his through the streets
with very little Among his stock the repre-
sentation of a steam vessel anchored in quiet cove
and discouraged with his indifferent CUSTOM the dealer
boldly named the picture The steamer Mississippi in the
harbor of spezzia In an hour two the whole batch
gone at prices ranging from one to three forns'
| In Iowa there are five hundred and eighty zone
public schools, taught by about the same number of
township of the State one square mile Of land has
set apart to remain forever devoted to the support
public schools The number of thus reserved in the
whole state is about one million which, with other lands
devoted to the same purpose, are now worth
increasing at the rate of at least ten per cent
| every year
In Bern township, Berks county, seven miles
above Reading Pa on last Sabbath, young lady named
Miss Miller aged 20 years met with an untmey DEATH by
breaking through the ice the Schuylkl For long
time kept her head above water by holding to the
edge the ice and although the neghbors to the
had boat at their command had the
age to enter it her Those shore looked
for more than hour, when the poor girl becoming
hausted and frozen slipped off and disappeared under the
| ice.
March in his 9th year, and his wife died few days ago
aged IoS years and months 1t is said they lived
simple vans almost entirely on the products of their
own farm Mr. Pinson for the last thirty years of his
life used neither spirituous liquors tea coffee Mrs.
Pinson never used sprtuous liquors but used tea very
| moderately. They both habtually accustomed them
selves to constant though moderate labor until they
| were than ninety years of age
| A very curious case was tried recently in the
| Irish Court Of Exchequer The plaintiff, young man
Matthew who with distinction at Trinity
College was brought up by the defendant Iary, re-
| spectacle medical practitioner in Dubhn-but he has
never known who his parents lie complained that
DR. Harty had subjected him to long course OF ill usage
and had finally confined him in lunac asylum for the
purpose of breaking down his health During the trial
DR. Uarty came forward and confessed that he his
son The jury gave him verdict of 9looo.
GA good wife," says western editor, g is
one who puts husband at the side of the bed next
the wall and tucks him up to keep him in the
ter splits the wood makes the fire in the morning washes
her and draws his boots for him
scods never suffers rent to remain in her husbands
small clothes keeps her shoes up at the heel and her
stockings arned wonders what her husband secs
interesting the young who lives across the
never slams loud when her husband is speaking
and always reproyes the chdren when they eat their
| fathers supper