New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-09
Something for Every Body.

Great Britain possesses 147 steamships and
50 iron steamers II of which 1900 tons burthen
Major VIM. Oliver, Postmaster of Cincinnati
died on the 2Sth ult, after short Illness
A proposition is before the Kentucky Lepis-
lature to remove the State Capital to Louisville.
Circus company has commenced operations
at Sonoma in California.
CONCEALED vapor is snow-but an awful noise
| in the night is a sno-er.
| Prince Albert is among this years subscribers
to the American Art Union.
Miss. Catherine Hayes will visit the South
| during the present season
| The local editors and reporters of Cincinnati
have formed themselves into association Good idea
If hotel keepers '' knew beanS'' there would
be more coffee on their tables
A few days ago, woman in San Francisco,
aged fifteen years birth to three children All do
ing wells
The police force of Philadelphia numbers 600
men, including Marshals police, watclmen and consta-
bes. Their annual salaries amount to $4,000
Mrs. Catherine Solder, who has resided in
frystown York county Pa for sixty years few days
ago. celebrated her one hundredth birthday
Port Spain, Trinidad, was visited by a severe
sh2ck Of an earthquake the morning the 18th of
November !
California Institute has been formed in San
similar in its character and objects to the Mcr
camille Library Associations in the Atlantic States
The Republic of Chill has issued two denomi
nations of gold coin One is called the Condor and
is worth $40 the other the Bo5oa, and is worth S.
William G. Darlington, Esq, editor of the
Richmond Times died in that city on the Both milf from
an attack of Pneumonia,
The So Almighty Dollar" a weekly paper re-
Gently started in NewYork says, at its head devoted
to Literature and Making Moasy''
The death of Hon. George S. Catlin, a cele-
brated democratic politician of Connecticut took plaee t
Windham, on the goth.
The best mode of suicide for ladies is 10 wear
thin shoes and lace with bed-wrenc and rope by this
means they kill themselves without being suspected
A petition is in circulation in the State of New
Jersey for the enactment by the Legislature of Maine
liquor law.
A young printer, named Daniel N. Bollinger
from Mddletown Md. died suddenly at Gettysburg Pa
on the 23d nit. from bleeding at the nose.
The loss of the Mechanics Institute and 9th
buildings by the recent fire in the Bowerv New York
will be fully 100000
The name of the Post Office in Coffee county.
Aa heretofore known Bentonyile has been changed
to Elba.'
John D. Bennett was executed at Versailles
in Ripley county. Ia the 9Th ult for the murder of
William Maddox by poisoning.
There are 800 policemen in the city of New
York and the estimated expense the establishment for
the current year is five hundred and forty thousand dol
lars
s'The San Francisco Chess Club has been
formed at the Bay. Mons St Amant who played the
great match between France England engaged to
play match of fifteen games with amateur.
Lola Monies is to have $1,000 and one half of
the receipts for each of her performances in NewYor
and many of the choice seats have been up $40
each.
A number of stores and dwellings in NewYork
have suffered sadly within few days in consequence of
the croon water pipes freezing and bursting several
houses have thus been completely inundated.
According to arrangements entered into by
NJ kossuth during his stay in England, military eng
neerng school has been established. to teach Hungarian
ofcers resident in London the art of military engineering
A stage driver was frozen to death on the box
OF his coach on the road Erie Pa during the intense
cold last Tuesday night lie was sitting upright when
found but was stone dead,
In a late work on suicide, it is said that mar
rage is to certain extent prevention of suicide 1t
has been satisfactorily established that among men two
thirds who destroy themselves are bachelors
An exchange paper says that g when David
slew olah with sling the latter fell stone dead and of
course was quite astonished such thing had never
entered his head before
When ladies waiting for offers from chaps
They should always be neat and well dressed
If their heads adorned with percussion cans
They go off in a crowd-f hard pressed
An insane man was frozen to death in the
Boonylle MOI Jail during the night of the 18th nit lie
had stripped himself of all his clothing, and laid himself
down in the cell.
counterfeit of the $40 gold piece has ap-
pearcd In Cincinnati In appearance, il is an excellent
representation of the genuine is only deficient in
weight. -
During the week ending December 81, the
General has established post
offices, discontinued eleven. and changed the names of
four No changes in Maryland
A ben belonging to an iron monger in Phila-
dephia recently made her nest in pile of pig iron and
sat upon thirteen eggs. The result scky look
ing chicken and twelve iron spikes
:" Abraham, my pet. where is your father ~
Don't know mother; but guess he's gone over to Dea
con Dlbeys pasture after his black sheep kase seed
Wilder Higgins goin over that way"
The Los Angeles Star says that the vine grow
ers in that county buss engaged gathering grapes
aud converting them into wine and brandy The ana,.
titles manufactured viii b. Immense,